A preacher full of faith and zeal,
Warn’d from above their snares to shun,
Will leave the souls he loves so well,
And swiftly from the danger run:
Not struck with unbelieving fear,
But trusted with the gospel-word,
He others seeks who gladly hear,
And joyfully embrace their Lord.
A preacher full of faith and zeal
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Make haste, and get thee quickly out of Jerusalem: for they will not receive thy testimony concerning me.’—[Acts 22,] v. 18." 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 397.
Publishing: Public Domain