Classic Christian Hymns · Public-domain text

Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing

Robert Robinson

An English Baptist preacher and theologian (1735–1790). Having lost his father at a young age, Robinson fell into a wild, rebellious youth in London. At age 17, he attended a George Whitefield meeting to mock the preacher, but Whitefield's sermon on the 'wrath to come' pierced his heart. After three years of spiritual searching, he experienced a joyful conversion. He wrote 'Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing' at just 22 years old, capturing the raw gratitude of a redeemed soul who felt 'prone to wander,' yet anchored by God's redeeming love.

Source: Classic public-domain hymn

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 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.

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.

Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing

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