Worthy the great Apostle’s zeal
The solemn Valediction shows
A pastor how to bid farewell,
When from his weeping flock he goes:
O might I thus my love declare,
My pious friends, like Paul, resign,
Commend to Christ in faithful prayer,
And leave them in the hands Divine!
Worthy the great Apostle’s zeal
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘When he had thus spoken, he kneeled down, and prayed with them all.’—[Acts 20,] v. 36." 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 404.
Publishing: Public Domain