Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing

Hymn 457 - Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing - Robert Robinson, 1758

Come, thou fount of ev'ry 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 God's unchanging love.

Here I raise my 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, wand'ring 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 that grace now, like a fetter, bind my wand'ring 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.

Oh, that day when freed from sinning, I shall see thy lovely face,
full arrayed in blood-washed linen, how I'll sing thy sovreign grace.
Come, my Lord, no longer tarry; bring thy promises to pass,
for I know thy pow'r will keep me til I'm home with thee at last.

Raising an Ebenezer - reference to 1 Samuel 4-7 - where Samuel raised a stone which he called Ebenezer, (stone of help) as gratitude to God who had just given the Israelites the victory. A reminder of how God helped them. (thank you, internet - http://www.housetohouse.com/BibleQuestions.aspx?Letter=all&Question=4234)