Jesus, dost Thou not ordain

Jesus, dost thou not ordain
Us to go, and fruit to bear,
Fruit that always shall remain,
Souls that may thy praise declare?
Sinners whom for Thee we win
Rescue then, and still defend,
From the world, and hell and sin
Save: and save them to the end.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘I have ordained you, that you should go, and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain.’—[John 15,] v. 16." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, 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. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 28.
Publishing: Public Domain