Cantique : the As the body fulness is

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

the As the body fulness is