How Free The Fountain Flows

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How free the fountain flows Of endless life and joy

Author: Philip Doddridge
Tune: BRIGHTON (Mason)
Published in 7 hymnals

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1 How free the fountain flows
Of endless life and joy!
That spring, which no confinement knows,
Whose waters never cloy!

2 How sweet the accents sound
From the Redeemer’s tongue!
"Assemble, all ye nations round,
In one obedient throng.

3 "The Spirit bears the call
To all the distant lands;
The Church, the bride, reflects it back,
While Jesus waiting stands.

4 "Ho, every thirsty soul,
Approach the sacred spring;
Drink, and your fainting spirits cheer,
Renew the draught, and sing.

5 "Let all that will, approach;
The water freely take;
Free from Mine opening heart it flows,
Your raging thirst to slake."

6 With thankful hearts we come
To taste the offered grace;
And call on all that hear to join
The trial, and the praise.

Source: The Cyber Hymnal #13052

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Author: Philip Doddridge

Philip Doddridge (b. London, England, 1702; d. Lisbon, Portugal, 1751) belonged to the Non-conformist Church (not associated with the Church of England). Its members were frequently the focus of discrimination. Offered an education by a rich patron to prepare him for ordination in the Church of England, Doddridge chose instead to remain in the Non-conformist Church. For twenty years he pastored a poor parish in Northampton, where he opened an academy for training Non-conformist ministers and taught most of the subjects himself. Doddridge suffered from tuberculosis, and when Lady Huntington, one of his patrons, offered to finance a trip to Lisbon for his health, he is reputed to have said, "I can as well go to heaven from Lisbon as from Nort… Go to person page >

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First Line:	How free the fountain flows Of endless life and joy
Title:	How Free The Fountain Flows
Author:	Philip Doddridge
Meter:	6.6.8.6
Copyright:	Public Domain