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SDAH 334: Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing

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SDAH 334

Come, thou Fount of every blessing,
Tune my heart to sing thy grace;
Streams of mercy, never ceasing,
Call for songs of loudest praise.

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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 ever to adore Thee,
May I still Thy goodness prove,
While the hope of endless glory
Fills my heart with joy and love.

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Here I raise mine 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 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 thy goodness, like a fetter,
Bind me closer still 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.

Hymn Info
Hymn Info


Biblical Reference
(a) Ps 36:9; 1 Sam 7:12; Matt 18:11 (c) 2 Cor 9:14

Author
Robert Robinson (1735-1790)

Year Published
1758

Hymn Tune
NETTLETON

Metrical Number
8.7.8.7.D.

Tune Source
John Wyeth’s Respository, 1813

Theme
SALVATION & REDEMPTION

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The fount of every blessing we need is Jesus. He is the spring of endless love that quickens our hearts to love Him in return and be obedient to His will. (Lesson 7, 2nd Quarter 2021 -Monday, The Pattern of Salvation, 5/10/2021)

As we grow older we sometimes struggle to provide for our basic needs–for shelter, food, an education, work, and family. God promises that when we seek Him first, all other blessings will be added unto us for our very best.  (Lesson 8, 1st Quarter 2023, Managing for the Master – Sunday, “First Things First” 3/2/23)

These words were written by Robert Robinson in 1758 while he was the preacher at a Calvinistic Methodist church in Mildenhall, Suffolk, England. It expresses his own feelings after his conversion three years previously. Robinson was born in Swaffham, Norfolk, England, on September 27, 1735. When he was 8 years old, the family moved to Scarning, a small town nine miles to the east. His father died shortly after, and the family was left in poor circumstances. His mother wanted him to train for the ministry of the Anglican Church, but they had no money for the expense of study. So when he was14 years old Robinson was apprenticed to a barber in London, but he spent much time in reading and lived a careless life. When he was 17, his conscience was awakened after hearing a sermon by George Whitefield, but he was not really converted until three years after. He continued to attend services conducted by Wesley and others, and in 1758 he was invited to be a preach at a Calvinistic Methodist Church in Mildenhall. Shortly after this, he moved to Norwich and establish an independent congregation. In 1759 there was a vacancy in a Baptist church at Cambridge, and he was invited to be a preacher there. He was baptized by immersion and was so much liked in the church that he was urged to become the pastor, even though he was untrained. In 1761 he accepted this responsibility but managed a farm to balance his expenses. Though uneducated in the schools, he learned French and Latin and wrote four books that were very acceptable to his contemporary preachers. He was an eloquent orator and often wrote hymns to conclude his sermons. He retired to Birmingham in 1790 and died there on June 9 of that year at Showell Green.

     NETTLETON is named for Asahel Nettleton of Connecticut, who was an itinerant evangelist but not a composer. He was a Yale graduate (1809) and became a preacher for the Congregational Church. He compiled Village Hymns, 1824, which contained no tunes. The composer of the tune could have been John Wyeth, who included this tune, named HALLELUJAH in his Supplement to the Repository of Sacred Music, 1813. The Repository itself was published in 1810. Wyeth, born March 31, 1770, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, was not only a printer but also a music publisher and a musician. He was appointed postmaster of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, by George Washington and edited a Federalist paper, Oracle of Dauphine, for 35 years. He died January 23, 1858, at Philadephia. NETTLETON is a very simple AABA tune, for the first score is repeated in the second and again in the fourth.

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