Can a minister complain

Verse 1
Can a minister complain,
Can he ever want success,
If by each repulse he gain
Peace confirm’d, abundant peace;
If the peace which sinners spurn,
Heavenly, inconceivable
Into his own breast return,
There with Christ forever dwell?

Verse 2
Profit every way we find,
We, from whom our gracious Lord
Only asks a willing mind
Simply to declare his word:
Jesus, if employ’d by Thee,
Thou shalt teach us what to say,
Bid us prove our ministry,
Give both will and power t’ obey.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘If it be not worthy, let your peace return to you.’—[Matt. 10,] v. 13.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” 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 1977/577, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 235.
Publishing: Public Domain