The sheep with meek docility

Verse 1
The sheep with meek docility
Expect, the Shepherd’s voice to hear,
Jesus, by faith they cleave to Thee;
Obedience is their character,
Obedience doth their faith approve,
And tender fear, and humble love.

Verse 2
Saviour, on me the faith bestow
Which joins a sinner to the sheep:
And when thy pardning voice I know,
To Thee and thine united keep,
Till in that awful day I stand
Among the sheep at thy right-hand.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Ye believe not; because ye are not of my sheep.’—[John 10,] v. 26." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, 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. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 463.
Publishing: Public Domain