Cantique : fulness As the the body is

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

fulness As the the body is