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Hymn 582

Come, thou Fount of every blessing

Meter: 8.7.8.7.D.

1

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 celestial measure

Sung by ransomed hosts above;

O the vast, the boundless treasure

Of my Lord’s unchanging love!

2

Here I raise my Ebenezer;

Hither by thine 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.

3

O to grace how great a debtor

Daily I'm constrained to be!

Let that grace, like a fetter,

Bind my wandering heart to thee.

Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,

Prone to leave the God I love;

Take my heart, O take and seal it,

Seal it for thy courts above!