A casual unexpected guest

A casual unexpected guest
Who seems at first, may yet be sent,
To execute his Lord’s behest,
T’ interpret the Divine intent:
Wondring we then the Master own,
The messenger with joy embrace,
Design’d to make his Saviour known,
And fill our hearts with heavenly grace.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘And he desired Philip, that he would come up, and sit with him.’—[Acts 8,] v. 31.” This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). 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. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 227.
Publishing: Public Domain