God, be our God Blessed

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