Unworthy of the ministry

Verse 1
Unworthy of the ministry,
Most unqualified is he
Who doth not life despise
For Jesus and his church below,
And freely to the mountain go
Where his Redeemer dies.

Verse 2
Jesus, if Thou my Master art,
Bless me with the martyr’s heart,
The ministerial grace;
I then thy ready servant am,
And all the virtues of thy name
In life and death confess.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Men that have hazarded their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.’—[Acts 15,] v. 26.” 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 307.
Publishing: Public Domain