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

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