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

Which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his owne right hand in the heauenly places,

That at that time yee were without Christ, being aliens from the common wealth of Israel, and strangers from the couenants of promise, hauing no hope, & without God in the world.

And to make all men see, what is the fellowship of the mysterie, which from the beginning of the world, hath bene hid in God, who created all things by Iesus Christ:

From whom the whole body fitly ioyned together, and compacted by that which euery ioynt supplyeth, according to the effectuall working in the measure of euery part, maketh increase of the body, vnto the edifying of it selfe in loue.

1611 marginal noteCol. 2.19.

Hauing the vnderstanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindnesse of their heart:

1611 marginal noteOr, hardnesse.

1611 marginal noteRom. 1.21.

Let all bitternes, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and euill speaking, be put away from you, with all malice,

Wherfore hee saith: Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall giue thee light.

1611 marginal noteEsai. 60.1.

Not with eye seruice as men pleasers, but as the seruants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart:

Peace be to the brethren, and loue, with faith from God the Father, and the Lord Iesus Christ.