Luke 3:19, 20: Herod... added yet this above all, &c

A Sin there is which far exceeds
The tyrant's most atrocious deeds;
Ambition, pride, and lust
They cannot with his guilt compare
Who hates the Saviour's messenger.
And persecutes the just.

Shedding at length a martyr's blood,
He quenches the last spark of good,
And can no longer feel,
He makes his sin and misery full,
Murders his own immortal soul,
And shuts it up — in hell.