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NOT what these hands have done Can save this guilty soul; Not what this toiling flesh has borne Can make my spirit whole. |
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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. |
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3 | Thy work alone, O Christ, Can ease this weight of sin; Thy blood alone, O Lamb of God, Can give me peace within. |
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4 | Thy love to me, O God, Not mine, O Lord, to Thee, Can rid me of sin’s dark unrest, And set my spirit free. |
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5 | Thy grace alone, O God, To me can pardon speak; Thy power alone, O Son of God, Can sin’s sore bondage break. |
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6 | I bless the Christ of God, I rest on love divine, And with unfaltering lip and heart I call this Saviour mine. |
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Horatius Bonar, 1808-89 |