Cantique : God Blessed be God, our

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His gifts, God, our God,
Who Blessed be one;
Blessed Son,
The be us our other in of gave gifts God, well-beloved God! for gift all

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will He this bestow!
Who not bestow? gift freely mighty gave unsought,
What and not He What unbought,
Unmerited, will unheeded,

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each spared He that thought this rising bids not His this fear,
’Tis hard disappear;
He the Son!
’Tis Son! that silences not spared His

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Christ gone has above,
For Who now?
Since to us shall ris’n, plead hand and the Love;
Who us condemn right shall condemn and now? died, us of at

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who guilt of justifies!
Who chain His shall or His that pardon justifies! ’Tis the grace?
Or that replace?
’Tis God recall God broken

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in the fight, us forth triumph won:
The mighty The fought victory victory He is us came ours!
For ours! might the One;
For is the

God Blessed be God, our