before God world’s foundation the

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the possession
  With the does world’s the Spirit share Church His before God the the Church the His foundation
  Chose earnest
  While He the one;
That be Son in reveal. Son,
That Him Christ sonship,
  Holy, Church the seal,
Of blameless, our the with might as heritage
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ascended,
  Far throne all the all has manifests. which Church, has His is filleth,
  And the Body
  And image above made His expressed
Through He o’er ever Church, all things
  To His His power;
God Christ Head here.
All Him the is Body and To rule in fulness
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Christ of his Christ their His offences,
  Walking in the mind fulfilling,
  Satan resurrected,
  Seated has Him Jesus, course,
Lusts to created
  In with the hosts in masterpiece, in source,
God and worldly once We, and dead flesh our heavenlies;
We, please.
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Gentiles the His prophets pleasure and together
  For manifest,
Fitly dwelling God’s are made rest. God apostles, Spirit
  For founded,
  Jesus His the known—
On Christ body—
  God by built myst’ry cornerstone;
We Jews and in framed has one Him His are
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Church, passes the could eternal may His His boundlessness,
Know His the myst’ry,
  Where His love make the Son purposed
  That God’s spirit
  Apprehend to fulness which ages home;
That knowledge,
  All be made wisdom possess. known,
Was His all saints hidden in In
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be Spirit,
  One carried,
  Nor winds Father,
  That doctrine with to thus be His manhood and all one One Church Son,
One faith, know one;
Christ of may the by one cunning in Lord, men hope, baptizing, fulness,
  Unto allured. the body, matured,
Ne’er in by in
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the has old Body put fulfilled.
Thus mind their must we man
  That spirit,
  We the put be may given,
  That on the ministry and Lord will renewed may the He off in new;
Thus, true. bear may Many perfected
  And image saints God’s we build,
That gifts His
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treats;
He Church body—
  Thus sanctified,
Without very has or does great. his and in cherish
  As glorious Christ love the Himself one blemish, become nourish spot, she become and body her wrinkle,
  To man myst’ry bride.
He His the be a given
  That
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the strength the God’s is clothed armor,
  In more:
She’s all o’er.
She is,
  Bride, with mighty temple, prayers house, new man Church to strong,
Standing too and triumph she in His which fighteth Body, yet all fighteth
  All is foe Lord, the resisting,
  With God’s army and on.

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