Verse 1
Who avarice with religion veil
Our Saviour’s indignation raise,
Who trade in spirituals, and sell
And buy, as in the holy place;
The altar touch with hands impure,
Present, collate, resign, restore,
Imployments in the church procure,
And change and barter less for more.
Verse 2
Servants of souls, they take the pay
Rapacious, but the work refuse;
They steal, (while meaner hirelings pray,)
And rob the church, whose goods they use:
We read their sacrilege profane
Recorded in the sacred leaves,
Who make the house of God a den
Of R[everend] and R[ight] R[everend] thieves!