A pastor good in God’s esteem

Verse 1
A pastor good in God’s esteem
Who enters in by Christ the Door,
Inwardly call’d and mov’d by Him,
Obeys the Spirit’s secret power,
And for his awful charge design’d
By Heaven, he casts the world behind.

Verse 2
He only at God’s glory aims,
And lives to serve the Saviour’s will:
The love of souls his heart inflames;
He tends the sheep with fervent zeal,
Himself to this one thing applies,
And gives his life in sacrifice.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “But He that entreth in by the door, is the shepherd of the sheep.’—[John 10,] v. 2." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, 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 454.
Publishing: Public Domain