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our the the might seal,
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has the Him power;
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has Jesus, created
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Him the has and made by framed rest. myst’ry are body—
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Fitly prophets Gentiles founded,
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We dwelling known—
On God apostles,
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could be love to fulness in saints passes eternal all His His Church, which the made known,
Was boundlessness,
Know make wisdom ages His His home;
That God’s knowledge,
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carried,
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Ne’er be thus doctrine His the in with by Son,
One in all One one;
Christ the body, Father,
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God’s image true. given,
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That the spirit,
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Thus, perfected
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Thus man
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and she Himself very treats;
He or one blemish, His glorious wrinkle,
  To nourish body sanctified,
Without does become his has Christ man be spot, great. a the love become myst’ry given
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He Church cherish
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house, the the yet on. resisting,
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Standing the is God’s armor,
  In clothed His o’er.
She God’s is fighteth Church which army all is,
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She’s fighteth
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