Our Pattern if we rightly know

Verse 1
Our Pattern if we rightly know,
In seeking souls we cannot rest,
Like Him, whose whole delight below
Was, calling sinners to his breast;
Scatter’d throughout the desart wide,
In quest of wandring souls we run,
Our thirst is never satisfied,
Our work of love is never done.

Verse 2
Employment for our active zeal
We gladly find in every place,
Our meat, to do the Saviour’s will,
And please, by ministring his grace:
The end of one accepted deed
Beginning to another gives;
And thus in all his steps we tread,
Till Christ our spotless souls receives.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘When Jesus had finished these sayings, he departed from Galilee, and came into the coasts of Judea beyond Jordan.’—[Matt. 19,] v. 1.” 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 321.
Publishing: Public Domain