A minister of grace,
Soon as his work is done,
Should quickly vanish from the place,
Amusements vain to shun;
Should hastily retire,
From human converse flee,
Nor stay, to hear the croud admire
His prosperous ministry.
A minister of grace
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip.’—[Acts 8,] v. 39.” 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 323.
Publishing: Public Domain