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Contains JSON data on the Trinity Hymnal
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{
"title": "Not what these hands have done",
"author": "",
"tune": "Leominster",
"number": "403",
"lyrics": "Not what my hands have done\nCan save my guilty soul;\nNot what my toiling flesh has borne\nCan make my spirit whole.\nNot what I feel or do\nCan give me peace with God;\nNot all my prayers and sighs and tears\nCan bear my awful load.\n\nThy work alone, O Christ,\nCan ease this weight of sin;\nThy blood alone, O Lamb of God,\nCan give me peace within.\nThy love to me, O God,\nNot mine, O Lord to thee,\nCan rid me of this dark unrest\nAnd set my spirit free.\n\nThy grace alone, O God,\nTo me can pardon speak;\nThy pow'r alone, O Son of God,\nCan this sore bondage break.\nNo other work, save thine,\nNo other blood will do;\nNo strength, save that which is divine,\nCan bear me safely through.\n\nI bless the Christ of God;\nI rest on love divine;\nAnd with unfalt'ring lip and heart\nI call this Saviour mine.\nThis cross dispels each doubt;\nI bury in his tomb\nEach thought of unbelief and fear,\nEach ling'ring shade of gloom.\n\nI praise the God of grace;\nI trust his truth and might;\nHe calls me his, I call him mine,\nMy God, my joy, my light.\n'Tis he who saveth me,\nAnd freely pardon gives;\nI love because he loveth me,\nI live because he lives.",
"first_line": "Not what my hands have done"
}