哦 万善之源，
为这恩赐中的恩赐，
我当如何回报您？
您所爱的、亲生的、
不是被造的儿子，
我的救赎主、
代理、中保、代赎，
祂的虚己
超越人的理解，
祂无限的爱
是人心不能及。
这里有奇妙中的奇妙：
祂降卑，
为了把我升高，
像我一样出生，
以致我能像祂。
这里有爱；
当我无法触及祂时，
祂带着恩典的双翼
靠近我，
把我带到祂那里。
这里有能力；
当神与人无限分离，
祂联合造物主
和受造物
成为不可分的整体。
这里有智慧；
当我不愿降服，
不愿回转归向祂，
没有智慧自行恢复，
祂就来，
神成了肉身，
救拔我去至高之处，
作为人代替我死，
为我洒下
令神满意的血，
为我行出
完美的公义。
哦 神哪，
把我的灵带到
警醒的牧人那里，
扩张我的心智；
让我听见
大喜乐的潮声，
聆听、相信、
喜乐、赞美、崇拜，
我的良心沐浴在
安息的海，
我的眼仰望
与我和好的父；
把我安置在
牛、驴、骆驼
和山羊中间，
和它们一起瞻仰
我救主的脸，
并在祂里面
我得从罪中释放；
让我和西缅老人一起
将那位新生婴孩
紧扣于心，
以不朽的信心
拥抱祂，
欢欣鼓舞
因祂属我，我也属祂。
藉着祂，
您赐予我如此多，
天堂不过是这样。
THE GIFT OF GIFTS
O SOURCE OF ALL GOOD,
What shall I render to thee for the gift of gifts, thine own dear Son, begotten, not created,
my Redeemer, proxy, surety, substitute,
his self-emptying incomprehensible,
his infinity of love beyond the heart’s grasp.
Herein is wonder of wonders:
he came below to raise me above,
was born like me that I might become like him.
Herein is love;
when I cannot rise to him
he draws near on wings of grace,
to raise me to himself.
Herein is power;
when Deity and humanity were infinitely apart
he united them in indissoluble unity,
the uncreated and the created.
Herein is wisdom;
when I was undone,
with no will to return to him,
and no intellect to devise recovery,
he came, God-incarnate,
to save me to the uttermost,
as man to die my death,
to shed satisfying blood on my behalf,
to work out a perfect righteousness for me.
O God,
take me in spirit to the watchful shepherds,
and enlarge my mind;
let me hear good tidings of great joy,
and hearing, believe, rejoice, praise, adore,
my conscience bathed in an ocean of repose,
my eyes uplifted to a reconciled Father;
place me with ox, ass, camel, goat,
to look with them upon my Redeemer’s face,
and in him account myself delivered from sin;
let me with Simeon clasp the new-born child to my heart,
embrace him with undying faith,
exulting that he is mine and I am his.
In him thou hast given me so much
that heaven can give no more.
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