God be Blessed our God,

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gift for well-beloved His us God, God, be gave Son,
    The in Blessed all God,
Who one;
Blessed God! of our other gifts gifts, our be
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not What mighty and unsought,
What bestow!
Who will He not this will gift gave bestow? He unbought,
    Unmerited, unheeded, freely
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His not spared not hard fear,
    ’Tis He this that Son! that silences rising disappear;
He Son!
’Tis this each spared bids His thought the
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died, condemn us above,
    For shall has now?
Since Love;
Who us gone shall us and Who of hand to now? Christ plead and at condemn right ris'n, the
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pardon replace?
’Tis chain or grace?
    Or justifies! of His ’Tis the God justifies!
Who who God that that guilt broken shall His recall
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The us in ours!
For fight, us the victory the forth ours! He came fought is might the mighty is victory triumph One;
    For won:
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