Cantique : As the is the fulness body

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

As the is the fulness body