Each presents the officers,
And makes the choice his own;
All unite in faithful prayers
To bring the Spirit down:
Presbyters their hands impose,
The whole collected Church approve,
But the Grace Ordaining flows
From our High-priest above!
Each presents the officers
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Whom they set before the Apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.’—[Acts 6,] v. 6.” 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 308.
Publishing: Public Domain