Hymnal: A Selection of Christian Hymns
Date: 1818
Compiler: Rice Haggard
Publisher/Printer: John Norvell
First Line: The Lord is the fountain of goodness and love
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Hymn Number: 356
Page Number: 353, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsTHE Lord is the fountain of goodness and love,
Thro' Eden once flowing in streams from above,
Refreshed every moment the first happy pair,
"Till sin stopped the torrent and brought in despair.
O wretched condition I what anguish and pain!
They thirst for the fountain but cannot obtain;
To sin's bitter water they fly for relief,
They drink but the draught still increases their greif.
Glad tidings, glad tidings! no more we complain,
Our Jesus has opened this fountain again,
Now mingled with mercy, enriched with free grace,
From Zion 'tis flowing on all the lost race.
How happy the prophet, how pleasant his road,
When led down the stream by the angel of God,
Tho' shallow at first, yet he found it at last
A river so boundless it could not be passed.
Come sinner, poor, sinner, tis boundless and free,
Your welcome, take freely, 'twas opened for thee:
The Spirit invites you, the bride calls you too,
Come call all your neighbors they're welcome with you.
Come all ye dead sinners, here life you will find,
Come all ye poor beggars; ye halt and ye blind;
This water has virtue to heal all complaints,
Come drink, ye diseased, & rejoice with the saints.
Say not "I'm a sinner, and must not partake,"
For this very reason, the Lord bids you take;
Say not "too unworthy, the vilest of all,"
For such, not the righteous, the Lord came to call.
Make not your complaints an excuse to delay,
Let not your transgressions affright you away;
The worse your condition the welcomer here;
Come, come on dear sinner, & cast away fear.
Come christians let's venture along down the stream,
The shallows are pleasant, but O let us swim;
Let's bathe in the ocean of infinite love,
And wash & be pure as the angels above.
Too long have we dreaded to launch the great deep,
And lvoed near the threshhold of Zion to keep;
But Jesus now calls us; arise let us go,
O glory trnsporting - 'tis heaven below.