Come to Calvary’s holy mountain

Come to Calvary’s holy mountain. James Montgomery* (1771-1854). This was included among the ‘Original Hymns’ in Montgomery’s The Christian Psalmist (Glasgow, 1825), where it was entitled ‘A fountain opened for sin and uncleanness’: Come to Calvary’s holy mountain,   Sinners, ruin’d by the fall; Here a pure and healing fountain   Flows to you, to me, to all, In a full, perpetual tide, - Open’d when our Saviour died. Come, in poverty and meanness,   Come, defiled without, within; From infection and uncleanness,   From the leprosy of sin, Wash your robes, and make them white; Ye shall walk with God in light. Come, in sorrow and contrition,   Wounded, impotent, and blind; Here the guilty free...

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