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3 of which number we all have formerly been, leading our dissolute lives in gratifying the desires of our sensual imaginations: and were indeed obnoxious to the divine displeasure, as other. Gentiles were:
4 then it was that God, who is rich in mercy, thro' his great love, wherewith he loved us,
5 did raise us all, who were in that deadly state of sin, to life by Christ, for by grace ye are saved:
6 he hath raised us up together, and made us partakers of his heavenly kingdom.
7 that in the ages to come, he might shew the immense riches of his gracious kindness towards us, through Christ Jesus.
8 for by grace are ye saved, thro' faith (and that not from us:
9 it is the gift of God) but not by works, so that no man can boast:
10 for he hath made us a-new, and form'd us by Christ Jesus to do good works, for which God had before prepared us, that we might live in them.