God be God, Blessed our

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