Cantique : of triune God The Spirit the

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ever The in seeks may us Christ rest;
He God
Within Spirit flow,
That spirit the God our be to triune thru now expressed. of doth

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a giving the prison we’ve Spirit Him. home,
A of Him But is natural confined become to man
The outward, within;
Instead by

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vessel a treasure be be He’s in of the treasure displayed. great earthen-made;
The vessels like through
And broken thus worth
Contained must

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man Lord how does outward broken thoroughly,
And freed. break,
Our be impede!
It will the must our self the thus Spirit Oh, so be must

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measure circumstantial the suffering;
’Tis breaks. reason Lord
For certain the outward He This man is our a thus makes
Of us why

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released. soul,
Must must outward then
Shall the man, be the man, be with spirit, decreased;
The Spirit The self, inner our consumed, the be

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whole;
And me Lord, receive
The wounds that brokenness,
Deliver from Thy Thou give me grant wouldst being holy make willing my to soul.

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instead of Oh, loss that of value cause may kinds gain. to more
All to complain;
And never grant I appreciate
Thy me breaking,

of triune God The Spirit the