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Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: O thou Fount of every blessing (FL)

Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book

Date: 1882

Compiler: Fillmore Brothers

Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers

First Line: O thou Fount of every blessing

Topic: Christ/Saviour

Writer: R Robinson

Composer: Anonymous

Meter: 8s and 7s double

Tune: Nettleton

Hymn Number: 653

Page Number: 261, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

O 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 ever to adore thee:

May I still thy goodness prove,

While the hope of endless glory

Fills my heart with joy and love.



Here I'll raise my Ebenezer;

Hither by thy help I've come;

And I hope, by thy good pleasure,

Safely to arrive at home.

Jesus sought me when a stranger,

Wandering from thy fold, O 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 me closer still to thee.

Never let me wander from thee,

Never leave thee, whom I love;

By thy Word and Spirit guide me,

Till I reach thy courts above.