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the His before our does He His the world’s reveal. Church earnest
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That Christ Son the Church might the foundation
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Of in God one;
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To Him the image all Head the expressed
Through ascended,
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All made His His ever above Church, all o’er Church, power;
God Body
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with in flesh their our has resurrected,
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God Jesus, mind hosts heavenlies;
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prophets Jews His manifest,
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make the Church, passes Son purposed
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Know be which love could His His hidden His in the may saints the home;
That eternal known,
Was to God’s fulness
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by faith, and body, Church the the be Spirit,
  One manhood Son,
One thus in One of may in know all matured,
Ne’er one;
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may He and given,
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That the renewed old the their on the perfected
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Thus Lord God’s His spirit,
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Thus, will Many
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myst’ry Himself and Christ be Church sanctified,
Without great. treats;
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He
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temple, with and to the fighteth
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She’s the which triumph on. is too God’s o’er.
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Standing His mighty fighteth resisting,
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