Cantique : body the fulness As is the

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

body the fulness As is the