Thou, Triune God, eternally

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Thou, Triune God, eternally Distinctly three, insep’rably one; A realm divine and mystical, Art formed as an incorporation.

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By Thine indwelling mutually Thou doth exist essentially; Thy will to bring humanity Into this sphere economically.

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Through incarnation in the Son This realm was first seen in the flesh; Within Christ’s body physical The Godhead’s fullness manifest.

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His human life did manifest Coordination beauteous: One acted, Three did operate In harmony so marvelous.

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Through death and resurrection was This life divine in full released To form Thy Body mystical, This realm divine to thus increase.

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This habitation’s Thine abode, Thy Body mystical, divine, Enlargement of our Father’s house, The Spirit’s child, Son’s spreading vine.

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Thy final form the Spirit is, The realization of the Son; With Thee we’re blent, divine-human Incorporation to become.

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Thy Spirit into ours has come, One mingled spirit formed, become The Body, Father, Spirit, Son— An entity that’s Four yet One.

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By Thine own glory, life, and word Here we are all thus one in Thee; Such oneness doth reflect Thine own, The oneness seen among the Three.

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God’s love, Christ’s grace, the fellowship Of Holy Spirit, reaching man As living water, issue from The throne of God and of the Lamb.

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This fellowship of life divine Our Father and His Son have shared; We’re called into this fellowship, Which the apostles have declared.

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The Spirit with our spirit is The factor for us to be one, The key to live the Christian life, And secret of our salvation.

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The ministry of Christ in full Within this realm is carried out, And God’s complete salvation too Within this sphere is brought about.

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In all their living and their work This mingled life th’ apostles sought, The Triune God to manifest In character and service wrought.

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In all our living and our work So we must also do the same, In daily life, we would make this Our top priority and aim.

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As therefore we have thus received, So in all things we walk in Thee; Thine all-inclusiveness to grasp, We call and pray unceasingly.

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We live in Thee and Thou with us In two-way traffic mutually: In Thee we live, exist, and move, Abide uninterruptedly.

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Thy name which Thou hast given us Denotes Thy Person as our sphere, Sum total of Thy Being, Lord, Into which we’ve been gathered here.

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Thou art in us Thy kingdom too; With joy and peace and righteousness. Eternal life’s totality, The church life, sphere in which we’re blessed.

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The New Jerusalem will be This realm’s domain perpetually; Thou in the Father, we in Thee, And Thou in us eternally.

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O, may we see, experience The realm of Thine economy In all the details of our life To practice living one with Thee.