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Praise For Faith.

By William Cowper

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Of all the gifts thine hand bestows,     Thou Giver of all good!     Not heaven itself a richer knows     Than my Redeemers 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 distemperd 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 more,     To thee our all we owe;     The precious Saviour, and the power     That makes him precious too.

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William Cowper

About William Cowper

William Cowper (1731–1800) was an English poet and hymnodist whose work bridges the gap between the Augustan age and Romanticism. His poems "The Task" and "John Gilpin" were enormously popular, and his hymn "God Moves in a Mysterious Way" remains widely sung.

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