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Ephesians 1

After his salutation, 4 He sheweth that the chief cause of their salvation standeth in the free election of God through Christ. 16 He declareth his goodwill toward them, giving thanks and praying God for their faith. 21 The majesty of Christ.
1.Paul an Apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, to the *Saints, which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:
2.Grace be with you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
3.*Blessed be God even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which hath blessed us with all aspiritual blessing in heavenly ^things in Christ,
4.*As he hath bchosen us in him, before the foundation of the world, that we *should be cholie, and without blame before him in love:
5.Who hath predestinate us, to be dadopted through Jesus Christ unto himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
6.To the epraise of the glory of his grace, wherewith he hath made us accepted in his beloved,
7.By whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins, according to his rich grace:
8.Whereby he hath been abundant toward us in all wisdom and understanding,
9.And hath opened unto us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he had purposed fin him,
10.That in the dispensation of the fulness of the times he might gather together in one gall things, both which are in heaven and which are in earth, even in Christ:
11.In whom also we are chosen when we were predestinate according to the purpose of him, which worketh all things after the counsel of his own will,
12.That hwe, which first trusted in Christ, should be unto the praise of his glory:
13.In whom also ye have trusted after that ye heard the word of truth, even the Gospel of your salvation, wherein also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with the holie Spirit of promise,
14.Which is the earnest of our inheritance, iuntil the redemption of the possession purchased unto the praise of his glory.
15.Therefore also after that I heard of the faith, which ye have in the Lord Jesus, and love toward all the Saints,
16.I cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers,
17.That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ the Father of glory, might give unto you the Spirit of wisdom, and revelation through the knowledge of khim,
18.That the eyes of your understanding may be lightened that ye may know what the hope is of his calling, and what the riches of his glorious inheritance is in the Saints,
19.And what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us, which believe, *according to the working of his , mighty power
20.Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and lset him at his right hand in the heavenly
21.Far above all principalitie, and power, and might, and domination, and every Name, that is named, not in this world only, but also in that that is to come,
22.*And hath made all things subject under his feet, & hath appointed him over all things to be the head to the Church,
23.Which is his body, even the mfullness of him that filleth all in all things.

Notes

1-*.
1 Cor. 1.2
3-*.
2 Cor. 1.3, 1 Pet. 1.3
3-^.
Or, places.
3-a.
As with the knowledge of God in Christ, with faith, hope, charity, and other gifts.
4-*.
2 Tim. 1.9
4-*-1.
Col. 1.22
4-b.
This election to life everlasting can never be changed: but in temporal offices, which God hath appointed for a certain space, when the term is expired, he changeth his election, as we see in Saul and Judas.
4-c.
When Christ’s justice is imputed ours.
5-d.
Where as we were not the natural children he received us by grace, and made us his children.
6-e.
The principal end of our election is to praise and glorify the grace of God.
9-f.
That is, in Christ.
10-g.
By this he means the whole body of the Church, which he divides into them, which are in heaven, and them which are in earth: also the faithful which remain in earth, stand of the Jews and the Gentiles.
12-h.
To wit, the Jews.
14-i.
Though we be redeemed from the bondage of sin by the death of Christ, Rom. 6.23, yet we hope for this second redemption which shalbe when we shall possess our inheritance in the heavens, whereof we have the holie Ghost for a gage, as Chap. 4.30.
17-k.
Or, Christ.
19-*.
Col. 2.12, chap. 3.7
20-l.
Made in him Governor of all things both in heaven and in earth so that Christ’s body is now only there, or else it should not be a true body and his ascension should be but a fantastical thing and only imagined.
22-*.
Psal. 8.6, Ebr. 2.8
23-m.
This is the great love of Christ toward his Church that he counts not himself perfect without us which are his members: and therefore the Church is also called Christ, as 1 Cor. 12.12.