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3074.

[Made by the Father's gift and grace]

Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us, &c. —i. 30.

Made by the Father's gift and grace
Our Wisdom true, O Christ, appear,
Our meritorious Righteousness,
From guilt and curse and wrath to clear;
Our Holiness, Thyself impart,
Absorb whate'er is I in Thine,
And stamp the image on our heart,
The nature, and the name Divine.
Then, then our full Redemption be,
Exerting all Thy power to save,
And swallow up mortality,
And raise our dust out of the grave:
Author, and sum of heavenly bliss,
Thee let our souls and bodies prove,
Implunged in that unknown abyss,
That ocean of redeeming Love.