LYRICS
| Meter: | 8 7 8 7
| | Writer(s): | Robert Robinson
| | Transl/Adapt: |
| | Dates: | 1758,1759
| | Bible Refs: | 1 Sa 7:12
| A Collection of Hymns (Methodist)
| 1889
| 866
| Anglican Hymn Book 1965
| 1965
| 17
| Australian Hymn Book/With One Voice
| 1977
| 152
| Baptist Hymn Book
| 1962
| 494
| Baptist Hymnal
| 1956
| 313
| Believers Hymn Book
| 1981
| 43
| Church Hymnal (Church of Ireland) 1919
| 1919
| 684
| Church Hymnal (Church of Ireland) 1960
| 1960
| 656
| Common Praise (Anglican C. of Canada)
| 1998
| 354
| Common Praise: Hymns Ancient & Modern
| 2000
| 406
| Hymns and Psalms with SA Sup.
| 1983
| 517
| Hymns for The Little Flock
| 1981
| 354
| Hymns for Today's Church 2
| 1988
| 337
| Hymns for Worship and Celebration
|
| 2
| Hymns of Faith
| 1964
| 426
| Methodist Hymn Book - Hymns
| 1954
| 417
| Presbyterian Hymn Book
| 1990
| 356
| Sacred Songs & Solos: Revised and enlarg
|
| 1048
| STELBAP
|
| 673
| The Church Hymnal for the Christian Year
| 1917
| 2083
| The Hymnal 1982
| 1982
| 685
| Trinity Hymnal
| 1961
| 400
| United Methodist Hymn Book
| 1989
| 400
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MUSIC
| Name: | NETTLETON
| | Meter: | 8 7 8 7 D
| | Writer(s): | John Wyeth
| | Dates: | 1813
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Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary
| 42
| No key
| American Catholic Hymnbook
| 149
| No key
| Hymns for Worship and Celebration
| 2
| D
| Baptist Hymnal
| 313
| Eb
| Hymns and Psalms with SA Sup.
| 517
| Eb
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Alternate Tunes
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| 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.
2. Teach me some
melodious measure,
Sung by flaming tongues above.
O the vast, the boundless treasure,
Of my Lord's unchanging love!
3. Here I raise my Ebenezer,
Hither by Thy help I'm come,
And I hope, by Thy good pleasure,
Safely to arrive at home.
4. Jesus sought me when a stranger,
Wandering from the fold of God;
He, to rescue me from danger,
Interposed His precious blood.
5. Not alone hath grace redeemed me,
Bought me with Christ's precious blood,
Sought me out when I, a stranger,
Wandered from the fold of God;
6. But beyond this great salvation
God hath shown me wondrous grace--
Called me with a heav'nly calling,
Ever to behold his face.
7. O to grace how great a debtor
Daily I'm constrained to be!
Let that grace, Lord, like a fetter
Bind my wandering heart to Thee.
8. I will tread the way appointed,
Rough and thorny though it be;
In the steps of thine Anointed;
'Tis my privilege, I see.
9. 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 from Thy courts above.
10. O that day when freed from sinning,
I shall see Thy lovely face;
Clothed then in blood washed linen
How I’ll sing Thy sovereign grace;
11. Come, my Lord, no longer tarry,
Take my ransomed soul away;
Send thine angels now to carry
Me to realms of endless day.
12. ***alt verses*****
13. 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,
14. Jesus sought me when a stranger,
Wandering from the fold of God;
He, to save my soul from danger,
Interposed His precious blood.
15. Teach me some melodious sonnet,
Sung by flaming tongues above;
Praise the mount! I'm fixed upon it,
Mount of God's unchanging love.
16. Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,
Prone to grieve the One I love:
Yet Thou, Lord, hast deigned to seal it,
With Thy Spirit from above.
17. Rescued thus from sin and danger,
Purchased by the Saviour's blood,
May I walk on earth a stranger,
As a son and heir of God.
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