Text: | Not What These Hands Have Done |
Author: | Horatius Bonar |
Tune: | ST. ANDREW |
Composer: | Joseph Barnby |
1 Not what these hands have done
can save this guilty soul;
not what this toiling flesh has borne
can make my spirit whole.
2 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.
3 Thy work alone, O Christ,
can ease this weight of sin;
thy blood alone, O Lamb of God,
can give me peace within.
4 Thy love to me, O God,
not mine, O Lord, to thee,
can rid me of this dark unrest,
and set my spirit free.
5 Thy grace alone, O God,
to me can pardon speak;
thy power alone, O Son of God,
can this sore bondage break.
6 I bless the Christ of God;
I rest on love divine;
and, with unfaltering 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: | S.M. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1990 |
Scripture: | ; ; ; |
Topic: | Redemption in Christ: Christ's Saving Work; Jesus Christ: Power of; Confession(6 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | ST. ANDREW |
Composer: | Joseph Barnby (1866) |
Meter: | S.M. |
Key: | f minor |