See the heavenly Shepherd’s zeal

See the heavenly Shepherd’s zeal,
Saviour of the sinful kind,
Pity doth his heart compel
A lost sheep to seek and find!
Love constrains him to draw near
To the soul redeem’d of old,
Claims the thoughtless wanderer,
Brings her back into his fold.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He must needs go through Samaria.’—[John 4,] v. 4." 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 226.
Publishing: Public Domain