I recently bought a download copy of an album called Fragments of Grace produced by City Hymns under the leadership (I think) of Karl Digerness.
One of the tracks is a reworking of the lyrics of the hymn There Is A Fountain Filled With Blood.
That hymn has copped a fair hammering because the notion of ‘a fountain filled with blood drawn from Immanuel’s veins and sinners plunged beneath that flood lose all their guilty stains’ is a metaphor a bit too confronting for those without much appreciation for either poetry or scriptural allusion.
The reworked tune allows those lyrics to be simply expressed and then invites us along to the rest of this lovely hymn.
The lyrics:
1.
There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Immanuel’s veins.
and sinners plunged beneath that flood loose all their guilty stains
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
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
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
Here’s the song and a link to a page where it can be purchased.
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