Cantique : God is Christ the mystery of

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never God;
God hath seen,
But invisible, made Christ hath Him is of mystery the image known. man unshown,
His Christ is Son the

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to God’s is Word is true;
God’s brings God,
He image explanation He
And is the embodiment of very view. God’s full own Christ

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Image fair;
God’s God ever invisible,
Effulgence God’s of dwells fulness bear. testimony He glory in Him,
God’s of doth

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Christ,
For earth to man of He thru unshown;
No Church Church now the is He now,
But is the man The made known. myst’ry Him see may is on

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her is bodily;
She in His The her dwelleth expression duplication may Himself true,
And Christ Church man full,
In see. Christ’s is

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to increase The her
The Church image the Christ found is has very Body, His spread;
Christ’s she, His of Christ,
She in Head. the and is self

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in Father Spirit of one. is,
And with now and Son triune Thus, the Son;
The the the the God
Is Spirit is the Church her in the

God is Christ the mystery of