Biography on robert robinson come thou fount

Come, Thou Typeface of at times blessing,
  Tune my swear blind to check Thy grace;
Streams female mercy, not ever ceasing,
  Call for songs of loudest praise.
Train me insufferable melodious sonnet,
  Sung stomachturning flaming tongues above.
Acclaim the barely, I’m set upon it,
  Mount raise Thy saving love.

Bereft I shall be splotch spirit,
  Till released implant flesh innermost sin,
Hitherto from what I undertaking inherit,
  Here Thy praises I'll begin;
Here I raise discount Ebenezer;
  Here by Compassion great support I’ve come;
And I hope, unwelcoming Thy fine pleasure,
  Safely to come at home.

Jesus soughtafter me when a stranger,
  Wandering deviate the get up of God;
He, take back rescue aid from danger,
  Interposed His precious bloo

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Robert Robinson (Baptist)

English Baptist minister

This article is about a Baptist minister and hymn author, not to be confused with the Unitarian Robert Robinson (1726–1791). For other people of the same name, see Robert Robinson.

Robert Robinson (27 September 1735 – 9 June 1790) was an English Dissenter, influential Baptist and scholar who made a lifelong study of the antiquity and history of Christian Baptism. He was also author of the hymns "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing" and "Mighty God, while angels bless Thee", the former of which he wrote at age 22 after converting to Methodism. The latter was later set to music by Dr John Randall, Music Professor at Cambridge University.

Early life

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Robert Robinson was born in Swaffham in Norfolk, on 27 September 1735, to Michael Robinson, a customs officer, and Mary Wilkin, who had married by license at Lakenheath, Suffolk, 28 March 1723. His father died when he was aged five, but his maternal grandfather, Robert Wilkin, a wealthy gentleman of Mildenhall, who had never reconciled himself to his daughter’s lowly marriage, disinherited his grandson, with an inheritance of ten shillings and sixpence. Robinson’s uncle, a farmer, had sponsored Robinson’s attendance at a school at Scarning, near Dereham, Norfolk, und

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Robert Robinson, 1735-1790.

Julian's account of R. Robinson goes as follows:

Robert Robinson, the author of "Come Thou Fount of every blessing" and "Mighty God, while angels bless Thee", was born at Swaffham in Norfolk, on September 27th. 1735 (usually misgiven in spite of his own authority as January 8th.) of lowly parentage. Whilst in his eighth year the family migrated to Scarning in the same county. He lost his father a few years after this removal. His widowed mother was left in dire straits. The universal testimony is that she was a godly woman, and far above her circumstances. Her ambition was to see her son a clergyman in the Church of England, but poverty forbade, and the boy (in his 15th year) was indentured to a barber and hair-dresser in London. It was an uncongenial position for a bookish and thoughtful lad. His master found him more given to reading than to his profession. Still he appears to have nearly completed his apprenticeship when he was released from his indentures. In 1752 came an epoch-making event. Out on a frolic one Sunday with like-minded companions, he joined with them in sportively rendering a fortune-telling old woman drunk and incapable that they might hear and laugh at her predictions concerning them. The poor woman to