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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