God before the world’s foundation

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

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