CHRIST, from whom all blessings flow, Perfecting the saints below, Hear us, who...
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CHRIST, from whom all blessings flow, Perfecting the saints below, Hear us, who thy nature share, Who thy mystic body are.
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Join us, in one spirit join, Let us still receive of thine; Still for more on thee we call; Thou who fillest all in all.
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Closer knit to thee, our Head; Nourish us, O Christ, and feed! Let us daily growth receive, More and more in Jesus live.
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Jesus, we thy members are, Cherish us with kindest care, Of thy flesh and of thy bone, Love, for ever love thine own!
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Move, and actuate, and guide: Divers gifts to each divide; Placed according to thy will, Let us all our work fulfil;
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Never from our office move, Needful to each other prove; Use the grace on each bestowed, Tempered by the art of God.
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Sweetly may we all agree, Touched with softest sympathy; Kindly for each other care; Every member feel its share.
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Wounded by the grief of one, Now let all the members groan; Honoured if one member is, All partake the common bliss.
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Many are we now and one, We who Jesus have put on; There is neither bond nor free, Male nor female, Lord, in thee!
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Love, like death, hath all destroyed, Rendered all distinctions void; Names, and sects, and parties fall: Thou, O Christ, art all in all!