"Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing" by Robert Robinson

"Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Ebenezer, saying, 'Hitherto hath the Lord helped us.'" So reads 1 Samuel 7:12 in the King James Version of the Bible. Robert Robinson (1735-1790) wrote the words of the following hymn in 1758:


COME, THOU FOUNT OF EVERY BLESSING

Come, thou Fount of every 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 thy redeeming love.

Here I raise mine 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,
   Wandering from the fold of God;
He, to rescue me from danger,
   Interposed his precious blood.

O to grace how great a debtor
   Daily I'm constrained to be!
Let thy goodness, like a fetter,
   Bind my wandering 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.

Robert Robinson

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