The pastor good and wise
Doth hindrances remove,
And every just expedient tries
Of condescending love:
He gives his freedom up,
(Yet pure from guile or sin)
All things becomes to all, in hope
Some precious souls to win.
The pastor good and wise
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He took and circumcised him, because of the Jews which were in those quarters.’—[Acts 16,] v. 3.” This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). 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 312.
Publishing: Public Domain