175. Not What My Hands Have Done

1 Not what my hands have done
Can save my guilty soul;
Not what my toiling flesh has borne
Can make my spirit whole.
Not what I feel or do
Can give me peace with God;
Not all my prayers, and sighs, and tears
Can bear my awful load.

2 Thy grace alone, O God,
To me can pardon speak;
Thy power alone, O Son of God,
Can this sore bondage break.
No other work save Thine,
No other blood will do;
No strength save that which is divine
Can bear me safely through.

3 I bless the Christ of God;
I rest on love divine;
And with unfaltering lip and heart
I call this Saviour mine.
'Tis He that saveth me,
And freely pardon gives;
I love, because He loveth me;
I live, because He lives.

Amen.

Text Information
First Line: Not what my hands have done
Title: Not What My Hands Have Done
Author: Horatius Bonar (1862)
Meter: S. M. D.
Language: English
Publication Date: 1937
Topic: Church Year: Trinity Season; Trinity, Sixth Sunday; Names and Office of Christ: Savior (2 more...)
Tune Information
Name: LEOMINSTER
Composer: George William Martin (1862)
Harmonizer: Arthur Seymour Sullivan (1874)
Meter: S. M. D.
Key: D Major



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