There
Is A Fountain Filled With Blood
Words by William Cowper,
new musical setting by Ted Huddleston and Darwin Jordan
©2002 Rocks
Cry Out
The word “fountain” here refers to a pool or a spring where one can swim or bathe - like an oasis in the desert or a fresh-water spring in the mountains.
This is a new musical setting
of another hymn that has been around for hundreds of years.
William Cowper wrote the words, and various melodies have been used with it.
Psalm
36:9
For You are the fountain of life, the light by which we see.
Zechariah
13:1
In that day [the Day of the LORD - the fullness of God's judgement of the
world and the final salvation of His people], a fountain will be opened
for the dynasty of David and for the people of Jerusalem, a fountain to cleanse
them from all their sins and uncleanness.
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.
Dear
dying Lamb, Your precious blood shall never lose its power,
'til all the ransomed Church of God be saved, to sin no more.
Ever
since, by faith, I saw the stream Your flowing wounds supply,
redeeming love has been my theme, and shall be 'til I die.
When
this poor lisping, stamm'ring tongue lies silent in the grave,
then in a nobler, sweeter song, I'll sing Your power to save.