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The love of money is a rock
Which causes care and trouble,
And he that hasteth to be rich,
He makes his sorrows double.

Money's a most alluring bate,
Conducive unto evil,
For this, base Judas sold his God,
Himself unto the devil.


When our Lord was instituting his last snpper, he said unto his disciples, I have chosen you twelve, but one of you is a devil. And again, Verily I say unto ye, one of ye this night shall betray me, & he it is unto whomsoever I shall give a sop: then giving a sop unto Judas, he said unto him what thou dost do quickly. With the sop the devil entered into Judas, and he went out from amongst them. Judas then went to the chief priests, & received the thirty pieces of silver; so taking with him an armed band, telling them that whomsoever he should kiss, the same was he, hold him