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In whom we haue redemption through his blood, euen the forgiuenesse of sinnes:

Who is the image of the inuisible God, the first borne of euery creature.

And hee is the head of the body, the Church: who is the beginning, the first borne from the dead, that in all things he might haue the preeminence:

1611 marginal noteOr, among all.

And (hauing made peace through the blood of his crosse) by him to reconcile all things vnto himself, by him, I say, whether they bee things in earth, or things in heauen.

1611 marginal noteOr, making peace.

In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy & vnblameable, and vnreprooueable in his sight,

If ye continue in the faith grounded and setled, and be not moued away from the hope of the Gospel, which yee haue heard, and which was preached to euery creature which is vnder heauen, whereof I Paul am made a Minister.

Who now reioyce in my sufferings for you, and fill vp that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh, for his bodies sake, which is the Church,

Whereof I am made a Minister, according to the dispensation of God, which is giuen to mee for you, to fulfill the word of God:

1611 marginal noteOr, fully to preach the word of God, Rom. 1.19.

To whom God would make knowen what is the riches of the glory of this mysterie among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

1611 marginal noteOr, amongst you.

That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in loue, and vnto all riches of the full assurance of vnderstanding, to the acknowledgement of the mysterie of God, and of the Father, and of Christ,