The pastor good with pious care
Doth still his flock defend,
Exhorts to faithfulness and prayer,
And warns them to the end:
Thus may I imitate my Lord,
The people’s pattern be,
Obey, inforce thy warning word,
And live and die like thee.
The pastor good with pious care
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Watch, and pray, that ye enter not into temptation.” —[Matt.] xxvi. 41. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). 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 404.
Publishing: Public Domain