On Worldly Prelates

I asked about some lines which I thought were quoted from a hymn by Charles Wesley on the words of Jesus in Luke 20:45-47.
A friend of mine has managed to track them down. They are not from a hymn but from a poem by Charles Wesley entitled “On Worldly Prelates”. A Prelate is someone who holds high office in the church who today would be called a religious leader. If we think that a preacher sometimes says controversial things these days, then read these words of Charles Wesley!
The poem is here:

On Worldly Prelates

Alas, for us, who need beware
Of men, that sit in Moses’ chair,
And should to heaven the people guide!
Men with the pomp of office clad,
In robes pontifical arrayed,
But stained with avarice and pride,
The love to be preferred, adored,
Affect the state and style of lord,
And shine magnificently great;
They for precedency contend,
And on ambition’s scale ascend,
Hard-labouring for the highest seat.

The church they call their proper care,
The temple of the Lord they are,
Abusers of their legal power;
Greedy the church’s goods to seize,
Their wealth they without end increase,
And the poor widow’s house devour.
O what change they soon shall know
When torn away by death, they go
Reluctant from their splendid feasts,
Condemned in hottest flames to dwell,
And find the spacious courts of hell
Paved with the skulls of Christian Priests!