be Blessed God our God,

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