The pastor good and humbly wise
The pomp of shining actions flies
Which God thro’ him hath done,
Forbids the heal’d to spread his fame,
Gives all the praise to Jesus’ name
Neglectful of his own.
The pastor good and humbly wise
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Jesus saith unto him, See thou tell no man.’—[Matt. 8,] v. 4.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/577, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 20.
Publishing: Public Domain