They always, Lord, who money love
Thy bitterest persecutors prove:
The Pharisees thy life pursued,
The traitor bargain’d for thy blood:
The soldiers, to conceal thy rise,
For money sold their current lies;
And worldly priests their malice spend
On Thee and thine, till time shall end.
They always, Lord, who money love
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘So they took the money, and did as they were bid.’—[Matt. 28,] v. 15.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/577, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 439.
Publishing: Public Domain