By faith I to the fountain fly,
Open’d for all mankind and me,
To purge my sins of deepest die,
My life, and heart’s impurity:
From Christ, the smitten Rock, it flows:
The purple and the chrystal stream
Pardon and holiness bestows:
And both I gain thro’ faith in him.
By faith I to the fountain fly
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin, and for uncleanness.”—[Zech.] xiii. 1. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 123.
Publishing: Public Domain