A preacher should with freedom use

Verse 1
A preacher should with freedom use
The food which poor or rich prepare,
Nothing reject, and nothing chuse,
The better, or the meaner fare
With equal thankfulness receive,
Nor live to eat, but eat to live.

Verse 2
Detatch’d from every earthly good
The servant should on earth appear,
Hard labouring for immortal food,
Content with Christ, his portion here,
Of that one needful Good possest,
And nothing want of all the rest.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Eat such things as are set before you.’—[Luke 10,] v. 8.” 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), pages 117-18. Verse 1 was 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 191.
Publishing: Public Domain