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1. When first the God of boundless grace (a)
Disclosed his kind design,
To rescue our apostate race (b)
From misery, shame and sin; (c)
2. Quick, through the realms of light and bliss,
The joyful tidings ran; (d)
Each heart exulted at the news,
That God would dwell with man. (e)
3. Yet midst their joys they paused awhile
And asked with strange surprise,
But how can injured justice smile,
Or look with pitying eyes?
