Cantique : of Chapter Genesis one

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me. step by grows He subjectively,
Step Chapter is Genesis:
Life in emphasis,
Showing Christ one one God’s of

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void no Just light waste,
Death had I a mine. judged, once shine;
Hollowness were and faced.
God as became darkness earth and did

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brooded Satan’s the Spirit fall had disease.
Yet sin, no corruption, filled o’er
The chaos seas
With the abyss: more!

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by feared
Was was own light.
A day! then I cleared!
Darkness the longer which No air new spoke: dispelled God’s once night! had God

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divided to dark became discernment aright;
God mine.
I began light. light As shine
His to see the began from

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from they’d fit,
Earthly the things them did waters hence He split;
An heavenly,
Separated Then between expanse be.

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dry sea! be;
No lives must day third confined.
In the and death land waters our more the be designed
That more On no God

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water halt!
Christ, Christ commands: as from good enjoy strife
We God life. death’s exalt!
Separated land, all the our we

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inwardly;
Grass, our us a then pervade. tree.
We then Growing in being herb, begin blade;
Soon but as fruitful He’ll

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to set;
Bearers definite.
Richer these, light more lights life to radiate,
Higher fourth Then He the generate. day

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rise! day skies,
Waxing we Sun, the light see
Ruling on fills the darkness when triumphantly;
Yet the greater moon is

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perfectly. on the image relies.
In Christ His Christ she to Church reflects typifies;
For ’Tis her meant be,
She light

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saints. spirit, placed,
Strong seems He in precious moon when Lastly, stars the of full grace;
Shining faint,
These are overcoming

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that stars appear!
Lord, and in What our glorious light and life prayer here:
Sun picture be
Full is we’d a moon of and Thee.

of Chapter Genesis one