Religion

Acts 19:27: Not only this our craft is in danger, &c

by Charles Wesley 1707–1788

From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 12 (1872)

Religion

As for religion's cause
The slaves of Mammon fight;
"Our craft indeed may suffer loss,
But that we seem to slight
The church in danger is!

The vagrants undermine
Our pomp, magnificence, and ease,
And government divine!
Their heresy they spread
By day and night employ'd;
The church, if farther they proceed,
The church will be destroy'd!
T is thus religion's name
We use our ends to screen
But when the temple! we exclaim,
We our preferment mean."

MLA

Wesley, Charles. “Acts 19:27: Not only this our craft is in danger, &c.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/6586/.

Chicago

Wesley, Charles. “Acts 19:27: Not only this our craft is in danger, &c.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/6586/.

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