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474 | Glory to God#475 | 476 |
Text: | Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing |
Author: | Robert Robinson |
Tune: | NETTLETON |
Media: | Audio recording |
1 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 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,
wandering from the fold of God;
he, to rescue me from danger,
interposed his precious blood.
3 O to grace how great a debtor
daily I’m constrained to be!
Let that grace now, 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.
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First Line: | Come, thou Fount of every blessing |
Title: | Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing |
Author: | Robert Robinson (1758, alt.) |
Meter: | 8.7.8.7.D |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2013 |
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Topic: | Baptism; Christian Year: Pentecost; Confession(4 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | NETTLETON |
Meter: | 8.7.8.7.D |
Key: | D Major |
Source: | Wyeth’s Repository of Sacred Music, Part Second, 1813 |
Written for Pentecost by a British Baptist pastor, this text is full of biblical terms like “Ebenezer” (1 Samuel 7:12), Hebrew for “a stone of help” set up to give thanks for God’s assistance. The tune name honors hymnal compiler Asahel Nettleton, who probably did not compose it.
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