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It was a garden
in the primal age,
But at the end
it is a city square;
Creation’s center
in the garden was,
God’s building issues
in the city fair.
Both in the garden
and the city fair
A river and the tree
of life are seen,
Christ typifying
as the life supply,
The Spirit showing
as the living stream.
Both in the garden
and the city bright
Three kinds of precious
substances are found;
There are the gold, the pearls,
and precious stones
Which for the building work
of God abound.
But in the garden
all these precious things
Are just materials
lying in the earth,
Yet in the city
all are builded up
And form that dwelling
of transcendent worth.
Man in the garden
of the clay was formed,
In nature as the Lord
created him;
The tree of life
was then without the man,
Not having yet become
his life within.
But in the city glorious
the tree
Within the corporate “man”
doth grow, thereby
Revealing Christ Himself
as life divine
Being to man his
inward life supply.
’Tis for the city man
is wrought upon,
Therefore regenerated
and transformed
To purest gold, to pearls
and precious stones,
As Christ’s own Body,
to Himself conformed.
Within the garden
also was a bride,
Who was to Adam
as his counterpart;
Lastly, the city
is itself the bride
As Christ’s own fulness,
precious to His heart.
The city is God’s
building work replete,
A composition
of the justified;
A habitation
it affords to God
And is to Christ
His own beloved bride.
’Tis God’s expression,
ultimate and full,
Corporate and universal,
marvelous;
God’s glory it
completely manifests,
And is Christ’s counterpart
most glorious.
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