7282. What Though I Cannot Break My Chain

1. What though I cannot break my chain
Or e’er throw off my load,
The things impossible to men
Are possible to God.

2. Who, who shall in Thy presence stand,
Or match omnipotence;
Unfold the grasp of Thy right hand
And pluck the sinner thence?

3. Faith to be healed I fain would have,
O might it now be given;
Thou canst, thou canst the sinner save,
And make me meet for Heav’n.

4. Bound down with twice ten thousand ties,
Yet let me hear Thy call;
My soul in confidence shall rise,
Shall rise and break through all.

5. Thou canst o’ercome this heart of mine,
Thou wilt victorious prove;
For everlasting strength is Thine,
And everlasting love.

Text Information
First Line: What though I cannot break my chain
Title: What Though I Cannot Break My Chain
Author: Augustus Toplady, 1740-1778
Meter: CM
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: ARLINGTON
Composer: Thomas Augustine Arne (1762)
Arranger: Ralph Har­ris­on (1784)
Meter: CM
Incipit: 13332 11123 54332
Key: F Major
Copyright: Public Domain



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