A warm concern for Jesus’ name

Verse 1
A warm concern for Jesus name
Is not to one estate confin’d:
People and priests may all proclaim
The dying Saviour of mankind:
The ministerial Spirit may rest
On men who want the character,
With graces, gifts, and talents blest
To preach the heavenly kingdom here.

Verse 2
The company of faithful men
Should such with willing hearts embrace,
And suffer God himself t’ ordain
The chosen vessels of his grace:
Th’ Apostles Successors below
With glad alacrity should join,
Not to impart, not to bestow,
But recognize their call Divine.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘And when he was disposed to pass into Achaia, the brethren wrote, exhorting the disciples to receive him.’—[Acts 18,] v. 27." 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 354.
Publishing: Public Domain