Cantique : body the As the is fulness

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

body the As the is fulness