The gospel by our Saviour bless’d
Doth efficacious prove,
The loaves a thousand fold increas’d
Communicate his love:
We banquet on the heavenly Bread,
When Christ himself imparts,
By ministerial hands convey’d
To all believing hearts.
The gospel by our Saviour blessed
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He blessed and brake and gave the loaves to the disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.’—[Matt. 14,] v. 19.” 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 282.
Publishing: Public Domain