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O thou, before the world began 
O thou, before the world began, ordained a sacrifice for man, and by the eternal Spirit made an offering in the sinner's stead; our everlasting Priest art thou, pleading thy death for sinners now. 
Thy offering still continues new before the righteous Father's view; thyself the Lamb forever slain; thy priesthood doth unchanged remain; thy years, O God, can never fail, nor thy blest work within the veil. 
O that our faith may never move, but stand unshaken as thy love, sure evidence of things unseen; now let it pass the years between and view thee bleeding on the tree: my Lord, my God, who dies for me. 
as altered in Supplement to Hymns Ancient & Modern, 1889