“Apply to Jesus’ minister”
Is the first lesson given
To one who doth his Maker fear,
By an express from heaven.
Apply to Jesus’ minister
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Cornelius, one that feareth God, was warned from God by an holy angel, to send for thee into his house, and to hear words of thee.’—[Acts 10,] v. 22.” 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 247.
Publishing: Public Domain