Two and two, not one and one

Verse 1
Two and two, not one and one,
He sends his messengers,
Makes by them his coming known,
By them his way prepares:
What shall part whom God hath join’d,
Or break th’ indissoluble cord?
Two are one in heart and mind,
When Jesus is the third.

Verse 2
Pleas’d He is, who cannot need
The help of feeble man,
Instruments to use and speed,
And ministers t’ ordain;
Thus their need of concord shows,
And makes them each with each agree,
Union on his church bestows,
And founds the Hierarchy.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘The Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face.’—[Luke 10,] v. 1.” 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), pages 116-17. Verse 1 was 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 190.

Publishing: Public Domain