Religion

Luke 22:6: A Priest corrupt whom avarice blinds

by Charles Wesley 1707–1788

From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 11 (1871)

Religion

A Priest corrupt whom avarice blinds
For no mature occasion stays,
But goes, and seeks it out, and finds.
Truth, justice, innocence betrays,
No conscience, no remorse he feels.
And to His foes the Saviour sells.

Saviour shut up my feeble heart
Against the direful lust of gold,
Which always takes the murderer's part,
Which Thee ten thousand times has sold,
Millions of hoary traitors made.
And peopled hell with Satan's aid.

MLA

Wesley, Charles. “Luke 22:6: A Priest corrupt whom avarice blinds.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/5365/.

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Wesley, Charles. “Luke 22:6: A Priest corrupt whom avarice blinds.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/5365/.

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