God to apostolic men

Verse 1
God to Apostolic men
An holy freedom leaves,
By some secret way unseen
The true direction gives,
Oft his servant’s heart inclines
To that or this distinguish’d place,
Answers thus his own designs,
And manifests his grace.

Verse 2
By the Spirit’s instinct led,
And not by flesh and blood,
Let the minister proceed
As call’d and sent of God:
God who joins his witnesses,
Doth each from each far off remove:
All things work t’ ensure the peace
Of those that Jesus love.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘They were let go in peace. Notwithstanding it pleased Silas to abide there still.’—[Acts 15,] v. 33, 34.” 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 369. Verse 1 was 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 309.
Publishing: Public Domain