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The United Methodist Hymnal · No. 622 · Words: William Cowper · Tune: CLEANSING FOUNTAIN
There Is a Fountain Filled with Blood
Create PowerPoint slides from this hymn →A beloved 18th-century hymn by William Cowper (ca. 1771) drawn from Zechariah 13:1, portraying the blood of Christ as a fountain that cleanses sinners of guilt. One of the most enduring hymns of evangelical piety, it moves from corporate proclamation to intensely personal confession of faith.
Verse 1
There is a fountain
filled with blood
drawn from
Emmanuel’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
The dying thief
rejoiced to see
that fountain in his day;
and there may I,
though vile as he,
wash all my sins away.
Wash all my sins away,
wash all my sins away;
and there may I,
though vile as he,
wash all my sins away.
Verse 3
Dear dying Lamb,
thy precious blood
shall never lose its power
till all the ransomed
church of God
be saved, to sin no more.
Be saved, to sin no more,
be saved, to sin no more;
till all the ransomed
church of God
be saved, to sin no more.
Verse 4
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.
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 5
Then in a nobler,
sweeter song,
I’ll sing thy power to save,
when this poor lisping,
stammering tongue
lies silent in the grave.
Lies silent in the grave,
lies silent in the grave;
when this poor lisping,
stammering tongue
lies silent in the grave.
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