Every gospel-minister
All his gifts from Christ receives,
Nothing have they to confer
But what first to them He gives:
Christ it is who breaks the bread,
Gives the word by faith applied:
Then the multitude is fed,
Then our souls are satisfied.
Every gospel-minister
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He brake, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.’—[Matt. 15,] v. 36.” 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 295.
Publishing: Public Domain