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There Is a Fountain Filled with Blood

William Cowper
(1731-1800)

In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.

Zechariah 13:1

…the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin.

1 John 1:7c

There is a fountain filled with blood
Drawn from Emmanuel’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 may I, though vile as he,
wash all my sins away!

I do believe, I will believe
That Jesus died for me!
That on the cross He shed His blood,
From sin to set me free.

O dying Lamb, Thy precious blood
Shall never lose its power
Till all the ransomed church of God
Be saved 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 power to save,
When this poor lisping, stammering tongue
Lies silent in the grave.

Lord, I believe Thou hast prepared,
Unworthy though I be,
For me a blood-bought free reward,
A golden harp for me!

’Tis strung and tuned for endless years,
And formed by power divine,
To sound in God the Father’s ears
No other name but Thine.

 

Editor’s note: This song, for many decades, was the first-night opening hymn at the ten-day-long annual camp meeting of the Iowa Holiness Association, and that tradition has now been revived.

 

To discover more hymns, visit our growing list of Powerful Poetry.

 

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