A gospel-minister disdains

A gospel-minister disdains
Dangers, or bonds, or death to fear;
Jesus, he knows, the cause maintains,
And, conscious that his call is clear,
Prevents the morning-ray, and flies
To preach the life that never dies.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘And when they heard that, they entred into the temple, early in the morning, and taught.’—[Acts 5,] v. 21.” 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 300.
Publishing: Public Domain