Fisher of men ordain’d,
I with my partners go,
The gospel-net at Christ’s command
Into the world I throw:
And He forbids my fear
Whom earth and heaven adore,
And He attends his minister
Till time shall be no more.
Fisher of men ordain’d
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Fear not; from henceforth thou shalt catch men.'—[Luke 5,] v. 10.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, 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. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 144.
Publishing: Public Domain