God, be God our Blessed

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