Should we not on our labour live

Verse 1
Should we not on our labour live,
Sufficient sustenance receive
Who minister the word?
Should we not seek the souls of men,
And whom our happy labours gain
Present unto the Lord?

Verse 2
Master, they are not ours but thine,
Caught in the net of love divine,
The captives of thy grace
A willing multitude receive;
And while their joyful hearts believe,
Their mouth shall speak thy praise.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Jesus saith unto them, Bring of the fish, which ye have now caught.’—[John 21,] v. 10." 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 119.
Publishing: Public Domain