Cantique : As fulness the body the is

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

As fulness the body the is