Where are the venerable men, who Paul

Verse 1
Where are the venerable men,
Who Paul for an ensample take,
Their living by their labour gain,
Of none expence the gospel make,
Their uncontested right forego,
And freely ministring the word
Nothing desire, or seek below
But souls converted to their Lord!

Verse 2
Worthy of double honour they,
Who dare with sweating brows appear,
Walk in the Apostolic way,
Nor shame, nor degradation fear!
Gladly their all to Christ they give;
And when He in the clouds comes down
Shall surely in his smiles receive
A larger joy, a brighter crown.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought.’—[Acts 18,] 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 382. Verse 1 was 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 346.
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