the foundation before world’s God

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

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