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might central He fulfill God
Is with everything
That the is man;
He plan. thought Lo, one that man be His to He of

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true. too,
God he may with Earthen Him oneness soul, life as made—
Body, and spirit take
And was that man vessel have

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glory becomes the By for His of precious building divine,
Man known. flow life be a might abode,
That God’s stone
Fit

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the heart’s God the God requires,
’Tis desires. city hath built,
’Tis dwelling His Jerusalem
Which the fulfills ’Tis new

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will
Long and the the world the the before ’Tis God of by began. Father’s of saints,
’Tis man,
Purposed the building blend

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flood. Spirit’s and the pow’r,
Is doth its as center, life
As In stream the of throne the of Christ its flow living God,
Whence

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stream,
Yielding tree the the flowing the is the of life food divine
As supreme. life, Christ, life fruit of there
In of of

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its Christ, the in light,
Thru night
With divine. shines,
Scattering of glorious light the the God deathly all life city brightly

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express. possess;
God doth the dwelling man in is man,
And the and man God in God content thus man God
Mutual to

of the central Lo, God thought