Troops of priests and doctors proud

Verse 1
Troops of priests and doctors proud
And Pharisees there be,
But we cannot in the croud
A single shepherd see:
Jesus is the Shepherd good,
And Him they madly cast behind,
Him who offers life and food
To them, and all mankind.

Verse 2
Pastors can we them confess
The flock who never feed,
Never by the word of grace
Supply the people’s need?
Thou, O Lord, their need supply,
Who no kind-hearted pastor have,
Millions at the point to die
Thyself instruct, and save.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Jesus saw much people, and was moved with compassion toward them, because they were as sheep not having a shepherd: and he began to teach them many things.’—[Mark 6,] v. 34.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Mark.” 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 1977/574, 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 499.
Publishing: Public Domain