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[A priest corrupt whom avarice blinds]

He . . . sought opportunity to betray Him unto them. —xxii. 6.

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.

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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.