Who can the joy express

Verse 1
Who can the joy express
That swells a pastor’s heart,
Whene’er the God of grace
Hath sent him to impart
The welcome news of sin forgiven,
And seal’d his word with signs from heaven?

Verse 2
Our ministry we prove
On unbelievers poor,
And tell them of his love
Who did the cross endure,
Laid down his life for sin t’ atone,
And make their dearer souls his own.

Verse 3
Our Peacemaker, and Peace,
That did for sinners die;
Tis all our happiness
Of Him to testify,
And see the world in Jesus blood
Implung’d, and all brought home to God.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘And they, when they had testified and preached the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem &c.”—[Acts 8,] v. 25.” 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 321-22.
Publishing: Public Domain