Cantique : body the fulness the is As

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

body the fulness the is As