Text: | Not What These Hands Have Done |
Author: | Horatius Bonar |
Tune: | LEOMINSTER |
Composer: | George William Martin |
1 Not what these hands have done
can save this guilty soul;
not what this toiling flesh has borne
can make my spirit whole.
Not what I feel or do
can give me peace with God;
not all my pray'rs and sighs and tears
can bear my awful load.
2 Thy work alone, O Christ,
can ease this weight of sin;
Thy blood alone, O Lamb of God,
can give me peace within.
Thy love to me, O God, not mine,
O Lord, to Thee,
can rid me of the dark unrest,
and set my spirit free.
3 Thy grace alone, O God,
to me can pardon speak;
Thy pow'r alone, O Son of God,
can this sore bondage break.
I bless the Christ of God;
I rest on love divine;
and with unfalt'ring lip and heart,
I call this Savior mine.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Not what these hands have done |
Title: | Not What These Hands Have Done |
Author: | Horatius Bonar (1861) |
Meter: | SMD |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2017 |
Topic: | Salvation |
Notes: | Alternative tune: TERRA BEATA, no. 41 |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | LEOMINSTER |
Composer: | George William Martin (1862) |
Meter: | SMD |
Key: | D Major |