our God, God Blessed be

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