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Poem by Augustus Montague Toplady


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What though I cannot break my chain
Or e’er throw off my load,
The things impossible to men
Are possible to God.

Who, who shall in Thy presence stand,
Or match omnipotence;
Unfold the grasp of Thy right hand
And pluck the sinner thence?

Faith to be healed I fain would have,
O might it now be given;
Thou canst, thou canst the sinner save,
And make me meet for Heav’n.

Bound down with twice ten thousand ties,
Yet let me hear Thy call;
My soul in confidence shall rise,
Shall rise and break through all.

Thou canst o’ercome this heart of mine,
Thou wilt victorious prove;
For everlasting strength is Thine,
And everlasting love.



Augustus Montague Toplady


Augustus Montague Toplady's other poems:
  1. Encompassed with Clouds of Distress
  2. Bowed with a Sense of Sin
  3. When Languor and Disease Invade
  4. Thee, Father, We Bless
  5. O Thou That Hear’st the Prayer of Faith


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