Cantique : body the is the fulness As

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

body the is the fulness As