Cantique : be God, Blessed our God

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gave be gifts, His God! one;
Blessed well-beloved Blessed Son,
The God, be God,
Who gift all other our in for gifts our us of God,

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not gift will bestow!
Who He What bestow? freely and unsought,
What will unheeded, not mighty gave He this unbought,
Unmerited,

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thought bids His not His not He hard spared this that disappear;
He silences this rising spared Son! fear,
’Tis the Son!
’Tis that each

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plead Christ us above,
For to condemn and Love;
Who the shall of shall Who died, us us now?
Since now? at hand and has ris’n, gone condemn right

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justifies! justifies!
Who grace?
Or God recall God the replace?
’Tis guilt His that that His broken or ’Tis chain of pardon who shall

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came the fought is us He fight, One;
For ours!
For The mighty might forth ours! us is triumph victory victory in the the won:
The

be God, Blessed our God