Hymn of the Week

This week, I have chosen to post Caleb's favorite Christmas song, "Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing."

Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing
Text: Robert Robinson (1735-1790)
Music: Wyeth's Repository of Sacred Music, Part Second

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 mine 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. 

According to Songsandhymns.org, it was common during this time period for ministers to write a song poem to sing/recite at the end of their sermon. Robert Robinson wrote this hymn for that reason when he was 23.