Christ’s ministers apart are set
For work, not idleness or state,
For toils that never cease;
By Him in all their labours blest,
Till Jesus gives his servants rest,
And lets them die in peace.
Christ’s ministers apart are set
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Separate me Barnabas and Saul, for the work whereunto I have called them.’—[Acts 13,] v. 2.” 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 274.
Publishing: Public Domain