We in His ministers and word

Verse 1
We in his ministers and word
To Christ alone attend,
Our Master, and our only Lord,
Who did from heaven descend:
That Prophet sent of God we hear,
The true eternal Light,
Who gives to souls the hearing ear,
And always speaks aright.

Verse 2
Jesus, the Word, the Life, the Way
The Truth itself Thou art:
Thy quickning voice with power t’ obey
Inspires the willing heart;
The strength to walk in all thy ways
Thou bring’st us from above,
And thro’ the Spirit of thy grace
We serve the God we love.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ.’—[Matt. 23,] v. 10.” 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 The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 359.
Publishing: Public Domain