THERE IS A FOUNTAIN FILLED WITH BLOOD


By William Cowper ("Kooper") - 1731-1800

Based on Zechariah 13:1

William Cowper was a famous English writer, his father was a minister, and his mother from royalty.

As a child he was "physically frail and emotionally sensitive." His mother died when he was 6; he later remarked that there was never a day he had not mourned his mother's death.

William studied law; but when facing the bar exam, he had a nervous breakdown, attempted suicide, and was commtted to an in insane asylum for 18 months. While there, at age 33 (1764), he read Rom. 3:25 and realized forgiveness.

In 1767 Cowper moved to where John Newton (author of "Amazing Grace") pastored, and established a long friendship, collaborating in the "Olney Hymns" in 1799.

THERE IS A FOUNTAIN FILLED WITH BLOOD

Verse 1

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

Verse 2

Dear dying Lamb, thy precious blood
shall never lose its power,
Till all the ransomed Church of God are saved, to sin no more.
Are saved, to sin no more, are saved, to sin no more.
Till all the ransomed church of God
are saved, to sin no more.

Verse 3

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

Verse 4

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

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