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First Line: Of all the gifts thine hand bestows
Last Line: That makes him precious too.
Subject(s): Faith; Belief; Creed


OF all the gifts thine hand bestows,
Thou Giver of all good!
Not heaven itself a richer knows
Than my Redeemer's blood.

Faith too, the blood-receiving grace,
From the same hand we gain;
Else, sweetly as it suits our case,
That gift had been in vain.

Till thou thy teaching power apply,
Our hearts refuse to see,
And weak, as a distempered eye,
Shut out the view of thee.

Blind to the merits of thy Son,
What misery we endure!
Yet fly that hand from which alone
We could expect a cure.

We praise thee, and would praise thee
To thee our all we owe; [more,
The precious Saviour, and the power
That makes him precious too.





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