A bishop primitively good

Verse 1
A bishop primitively good
Deals to his flock their needful food, (John 21:15-17, Acts 20:28)
And feasts them with the word sincere: (I Pet. 5:2, I Pet. 2:2, Matt. 4:4, Luke 4:4)
Loos’d from the world, he bids them sit
As listning at their Saviour’s feet (Luke 10:39)
The great, eternal Truth to hear:
He first partakes the heavenly bread, (John 6:51)
And lifts his soul with manna fed (John 6:31-33, Ex. 16:4, Ex. 16:15)
In humble praises to the skies:
By prayer he brings the blessing down
The evangelic feast to crown,
The bread of life which never dies. (John 6:35, John 6:48)

Verse 2
He breaks to all the mystic bread, (Matt. 26:26, Mark 14:22, Luke 24:30, I Cor. 10:16, I Cor. 11:24)
The word to each, as each hath need, (Acts 2:45)
By ministerial hands conveys:
Pastors subordinate he sends, (Eph. 4:11)
The people to their care commends
To stewards wise of gospel-grace. (I Cor. 4:1, I Pet. 4:10)
The truth from Christ deliver’d down, (Jude 1:3, II Tim. 2:2, John 17:8)
And made thro’ his apostles known (Eph. 3:5)
Their genuine successors receive,
And if our Lord his love imparts,
We feed on Jesus in our hearts, (John 6:53-58)
And fill’d with God forever live. (Eph. 3:17-19)

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Make them sit down &c.’—[Luke 9,] v. 14–16.” 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), pages 108-09.
Publishing: Public Domain