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1650.
[More odious than the birds and beasts]
Take these things hence.
—ii. 16.
More odious than the birds and beasts,
Creatures required for sacrifice,
Are careless crowds and worldly priests
Who now provoke Thy glorious eyes,
Profane the temple of the Lord,
And sell the prayer, the psalm, the word.
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