Ye upstart priests, your sentence know,
The marks you can no longer hide,
Your daring deeds too plainly shew
The loathsom leprosy of pride;
And if ye still your crime deny,
Who lepers live, shall lepers die.
Ye upstart priests, your sentence know
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Uzziah was a leper unto the day of his death.”—[II. Chron.] xxvi. 21. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 216.
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