After our ministerial toil,
Retir’d with Christ we rest a while,
For farther toil prepare,
Our works before his flaming eyes,
Our words, and thoughts we scrutinize
With shame, and praise, and prayer.
After our ministerial toil
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘The apostles, when they were returned, told him all that they had done. And he took them, and went privately into a desert place.’—[Luke 9,] v. 10.” 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 108.
Publishing: Public Domain