An envious, proud, and selfish man
Will partners in his work disdain:
But holy, humble Paul,
The gospel every where to spread,
Doth faithful fellow-labourers need,
And asks the help of all.
An envious, proud, and selfish man
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Receiving a commandment unto Silas and Timotheus, to come to him with all speed, they departed.’—[Acts 17,] v. 15." 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 335.
Publishing: Public Domain