Consecration
Come Thou Fount Of Every Blessing
- Words:
- Robert Robinson, 1758. Music: 'Nettleton' Asahel Nettleton, 1812.
- Setting:
- "The Evangelical Hymnal", 1921.
- Metre:
- 8 7 8 7 8 7 8 7
- 1Come, 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.
- 2Sorr'wing I shall be in spirit,Till released from flesh and sin,Yet from what I do inherit,Here Thy praises I'll begin;Here I raise my Ebenezer;Here by Thy great help I've come;And I hope, by Thy good pleasure,Safely to arrive at home.
- 3Jesus sought me when a stranger,Wand'ring from the fold of God;He, to rescue me from danger,Interposed His precious blood;How His kindness yet pursues meMortal tongue can never tell,Clothed in flesh, till death shall loose meI cannot proclaim it well.
- 4O to grace how great a debtorDaily I'm constrained to be!Let Thy goodness, like a fetter,Bind my wand'ring 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.
- 5O that day when freed from sinning,I shall see Thy lovely face;Clothèd then in blood washed linenHow I'll sing Thy sovereign grace;Come, my Lord, no longer tarry,Take my ransomed soul away;Send thine angels now to carryMe to realms of endless day.
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- The words are in 2,467 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
- The tune, Nettleton, is in 1,121 hymnals. The tune →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project (Brian J. Dumont), which places its own work in the public domain. Further sheet music is from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.