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Grace be to you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Iesus Christ.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Iesus Christ, who hath blessed vs with all spirituall blessings in heauenly places in Christ:

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According as he hath chosen vs in him, before the foundation of the world, that wee should bee holy, and without blame before him in loue:

That we should be to the praise of his glorie, who first trusted in Christ.

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And hath put all things vnder his feete, and gaue him to be the head ouer all things to the Church,

That the Gentiles should be fellow heires, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ, by the Gospel:

To the intent that now vnto the principalities and powers in heauenly places, might be knowen by the church, the manifold wisedome of God,

That he would grant you according to the riches of his glory, to bee strengthened with might, by his Spirit in the inner man,

May be able to comprehend with all Saints, what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height:

And to know the loue of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that yee might bee filled with all the fulnesse of God.