A pastor fraught With Jesus’s grace

Verse 1
A pastor fraught with Jesus’ grace
In Jesus’ steps proceeds,
Teaches the way of righteousness,
And then performs the deeds;
From practising to teaching good
Betakes himself again,
By both instructs the multitude
Eternal life t’ obtain.

Verse 2
My heavenly Lord, I would from Thee
The double grace receive,
With true, divine simplicity
The gospel preach, and live;
Inform the souls whose good I seek,
And do the Christian part:
Words to the understanding speak,
But actions to the heart.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Now when he had ended all his sayings in the audience of the people, he entred into Capernaum.'—[Luke 7,] v. 1.” 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 The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 160.
Publishing: Public Domain