Hymns and Devotions for Daily Worship ‎#278

278. Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing

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 thine unchanging love.

2. Here I raise my Ebenezer,
Hither by thy grace I've come;
So I hope by thy good pleasure
Shortly 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 constrain'd 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;
Take my heart, oh, take and seal it,
Seal it for thy courts above.

4. Oh, that day, when freed from sinning,
I shall see thy lovely face;
Cloth'd than in the blood-wash'd linen,
How I'll sing thy sov'reign grace;
Come, my Lord, no longer tarry,
Take my ransom'd soul away;
Send thine angels now to carry
Me to realms of endless day.

Text Information

• First Line: Come, thou fount of every blessing
• Title: Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing
• Author: Robert Robinson (1759)
• Meter: 8.7.8.7 D
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 2024
• Scripture:
  James 1:17
• Topic: Ordinary Time: Week 17
• Notes: Text by Baptist pastor Robert Robinson, from A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the Church of Christ Meeting in Angel-Alley (1759).

Tune Information

• Name: NETTLETON
• Meter: 8.7.8.7 D
• Incipit: 32113 522
• Key: D Major
• Source: Wyeth's Repository of Sacred Music, Part Second, by John Wyeth, 1813; arr. Hymnal of the Methodist Episcopal Church with Tunes, 1878