Cantique : As the the fulness body is

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

As the the fulness body is