God our God, Blessed be

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