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

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