be our God Blessed God,

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