563. Come, Thou Fount

1 Come, thou fount of ev’ry blessing,
tune my heart to sing thy grace.
Streams of mercy, never ceasing,
call for songs of loudest praise.
Teach me some melodious sonnet,
sung by flaming tongues above.
Praise the mount, I’m fixed upon it,
mount of God’s unchanging love.

2 Here I raise my Ebenezer,
hither by thy help I’m come,
and I hope, by thy good pleasure,
safely to arrive at home.
Jesus sought me when a stranger,
wand’ring from the fold of God.
He, to rescue me from danger,
interposed his precious blood.

3 Oh, to grace how great a debtor
daily I’m constrained to be!
Let that grace now, like a fetter,
bind my wand’ring heart to thee.
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,
prone to leave the God I love.
Here’s my heart, O take and seal it,
seal it for thy courts above.

Text Information
First Line: Come, thou fount of ev’ry blessing
Title: Come, Thou Fount
Author: Robert Robinson (1758)
Meter: 8.7.8.7 D
Publication Date: 2020
Scripture: ; ; ;
Topic: Atonement; Baptism; Children: Appropriate for (4 more...)
Source: A Collection of Hymns [. . .], 1759
Tune Information
Name: NETTLETON
Meter: 8.7.8.7 D
Key: D Major
Source: American traditional (USA), in John Wyeth’s Repository of Sacred Music, Part Second, 1813



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