God before the world’s foundation

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

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