God employs whome’er he will

Verse 1
God employs whome’er he will
To spread the joyful sound,
Fills some private men with zeal
An infant-church to found:
Outcasts, his Apostles, rise,
And vagrants poor, by all abhor’d,
Fools, they proselyte the wise
By preaching Christ the Lord.

Verse 2
Jesus, still with favor see
The meanest of the croud,
Scorn’d by man, but sent by Thee
To preach thy saving blood:
Let the faithless world disown;
So Thou thy pardning grace reveal,
Make by us salvation known,
And thus our mission seal.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, which when they were come to Antioch, spake unto the Grecians, preaching the Lord Jesus.’—[Acts 11,] v. 20.” 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 345.
Publishing: Public Domain