Was He Too Prone to Wander?
I have long had an interest in hymnody an hymnwriters. Here is a piece I wrote on Robert Robinson (1735-1790), who wrote the famous hymn, “Come, thou fount of ev’ry blessing.”
“Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it.
Prone to leave the God I love.
Robert Robinson wrote these words as a young man in his twenties, a few years after his conversion. They appeared in 1758 in one of the stanzas of his now classic hymn, “Come, thou fount of ev’ry blessing.” The hymn as a whole is a great testimony to the grace of God that had saved him, notwithstanding a heart that was “prone to wander.”
By the time of his death at 54 years of age, however, some wondered if Robinson had indeed wandered, at least theologically . . .”