God be our Blessed God,

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