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[The world exult to see pursued]

Now Caiaphas was he, which gave counsel, &c. —xviii. 14.

The world exult to see pursued
Their counsel to destroy the good,
And God permits them to oppress,
And curses with their own success:
When priests against His church conspire,
Accomplishing the fiends' desire,

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Their triumph doth their fall portend,
Their joys in endless sorrows end.