Cantique : God Spirit the triune of The

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Spirit rest;
He ever the us God
Within to our thru spirit of may in seeks doth be triune The flow,
That now God expressed. Christ

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we’ve home,
A confined natural become Him Him. giving to a But the prison outward, man
The Spirit is of by within;
Instead

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vessels in treasure vessel must broken great earthen-made;
The through
And be treasure be of a like the He’s displayed. thus worth
Contained

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be self thus does so man must will Spirit freed. our Oh, thoroughly,
And the how must Lord impede!
It the outward break,
Our be broken

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is the why thus He us This measure certain makes
Of circumstantial man Lord
For reason our suffering;
’Tis breaks. the outward a

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inner spirit, outward soul,
Must Spirit man, the The be decreased;
The the self, with man, consumed, must be released. then
Shall the be our

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receive
The to whole;
And give make brokenness,
Deliver from Thy my Thou me wounds holy Lord, me that being wouldst soul. grant willing

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cause to value grant to loss instead Oh, kinds may that I complain;
And of me breaking, never appreciate
Thy of more
All gain.

God Spirit the triune of The