There is a Fountain Filled with Blood

A great hymn of the Church. The 1975 and 1991 Baptist Hymnals did not include the final verse, I expect because they didn’t want to invoke “bloody Christianity”. I would have disagreed, but they chose not to include me on the committee!

 

William Cowper’s text first published in 1772. Now THAT is an ‘old song’…

 

There is a fountain filled with blood,
Drawn from Immanuel’s veins,
And sinners plunged beneath that flood
Lose all their guilty stains.

The dying thief rejoiced to see
That fountain in His day;
And there have I, though vile as he,
Washed all my sins away.

Dear dying Lamb, Thy precious blood
Shall never lose its pow’r,
Till all the ransomed church of God
Are safe, to sin no more.

E’er since by faith I saw the stream
Thy flowing wounds supply,
Redeeming love has been my theme,
And shall be till I die.

Then in a nobler, sweeter song,
I’ll sing Thy pow’r to save,
When this poor, lisping, stamm’ring tongue
Lies silent in the grave.