Still every faithful minister
Meets with the treatment of his Lord,
The priests detest, and scorn to hear,
The people hang upon his word.
Still every faithful minister
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘The chief priests sought to destroy him ... the people were very attentive to hear him.’—[Luke 19,] v. 47, 48.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, 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. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 269.
Publishing: Public Domain