Bishop of souls, where shall we see

Verse 1
Bishop of souls, where shall we see
A bishop that resembles Thee,
Who trav’ling hard from place to place
Proclaims the power of reigning grace,
And dares by copying them approve
Thy zeal, and vigilance, and love!

Verse 2
The evangelic Spirit give,
That they who now in honours live,
May humbly track their humble Lord,
May freely minister the word,
And simply poor advance thy cause,
And spread the kingdom of thy cross.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He went throughout every city and village, preaching, and shewing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God.'—[Luke 8,] v. 1.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 103.
Publishing: Public Domain