Cantique : fulness the body is As the

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our life,
So life. express express the body As fulness
To His to Christ Body,
Doth His is Church, the the

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out Church Eve is E’en the of is Himself part as increase
With within. Adam
Taken him,
So Christ’s of own

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formed; kernel
Many are together a grains formed,
As As buried are blended
To from the the out loaf grains

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Church, doth Body,
God many Christians,
Christ as one glorify. to the So expressing multiply,
Him of

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it stead; grapevine
Are in the the of spread,
With its abiding, bearing
Clusters outward As one, its branches

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Church’s Him enlargement life So the many afar. with are,
One living,
Spreading in and members
Christ’s Him

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spread, increase, continuation,
Surplus plentiful, and full,
Growth expression Fulness, duplication,
His

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Christ thru in the and redeemed Christ, Church be
Glorified ones
To eternity. to His may Is thereby
God

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humanity. together,
God’s the the mystery,
Is of Church the mingling Thus great and Godhead
With Christ

fulness the body is As the