So easily are Bishops made

Verse 1
So easily are Bishops made
By man’s, or woman’s whim?
W[esley] his hands on C[oke] hath laid,
But who laid hands on Him?

Verse 2
Hands on himself he laid, and took
An Apostolic Chair:
And then ordain’d his Creature C[oke]
His Heir and Successor.

Verse 3
Episcopalians, now no more
With Presbyterians fight,
But give your needless Contest o’re
“Whose Ordination’s right.[”]

Verse 4
It matters not, if Both are One,
Or different in degree,
For lo! ye see contain’d in John
The whole Presbytery!

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “Epigram.” This hymn appears in the manuscript “MS Ordinations.” 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 1977/157, in the John Wesley papers JW V.III). 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 3 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1992), page 89.
Publishing: Public Domain