Each precious opportunity

Each precious opportunity
A zealous minister improves,
To publish grace divinely free,
To preach the Man who sinners loves,
Sinners with open arms receives,
And grace to every beggar gives.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘We went out of the city by a river side, where prayer was wont to be made; and we sat down, and spake unto the women which resorted thither.’—[Acts 16,] v. 13.” 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 314.
Publishing: Public Domain