This hymn text from 1758 focuses on God's grace and mercy. It expresses the desire to sing God's praises through melodious songs. It talks about pausing in life's journey to give thanks for God's guidance and for being brought safely home. It also discusses how Jesus rescues those who have strayed from God and binds wandering hearts to his love.

1. Come, O Fount of Every Blessing Words: Robert Robinson 1758, alt. Music: John Wyeth, Wyeth’s Repository of Sacred Music, Part II , 1813.

2. Come, O Fount of every blessing, tune my heart to sing your grace; streams of mercy, never ceasing call for songs of endless praise. Teach me some melodious sonnet, sung by flaming tongues above. Praise the mount; I’m fixed upon it, mount of God’s unfailing love.

3. Here I pause in my sojourning, giving thanks for having come, come to trust, at every turning, God will guide me safely home. Jesus sought me when a stranger, wandering from the fold of God, came to rescue me from danger, precious presence, precious love.

4. Oh, to grace how great a debtor Daily am I drawn anew Let that grace now like a fetter Bind my wand’ring heart to you Prone to wander I can feel it Wander from the love I’ve known Here’s my heart, oh take it, seal it Bind it for thy very own.