Ye sordid slaves of avarice,
Who most of earth possess,
Who money love, and riches prize
As certain happiness;
Your bliss ye may a moment hold,
But know, if God be true,
Ye curst idolaters of gold,
There is no heaven for you.
Ye sordid slaves of avarice
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “No covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of God.”—[Eph.] v. 5. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 13 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1872), page 73.
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