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137.

[While faults in others I reprove]

Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of, &c. —vii. 5.

While faults in others I reprove,
If my own sins I cloak and love,
I may with self-importance swell,
And boast the bold reformer's zeal;
But God denominates me aright
A blind, censorious hypocrite.