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

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:

Hauing predestinated vs vnto the adoption of children by Iesus Christ to himselfe, according to the good pleasure of his will:

To the praise of the glorie of his grace, wherein he hath made vs accepted in the beloued:

In whom wee haue redemption through his blood, the forgiuenesse of sinnes, according to the riches of his grace,

Wherein hee hath abounded toward vs in all wisedome and prudence:

Hauing made knowen vnto vs the mysterie of his will, according to his good pleasure, which he had purposed in himselfe,

That in the dispensation of the fulnesse of times, he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heauen, and which are on earth, euen in him: