Can one of the soft, gentle kind

Verse 1
Can one of the soft, gentle kind,
With tim’rous bashfulness indued,
Her joy in hellish murther find,
A prophet’s head that swims in blood
View with unnatural delight,
And feast her vengence on the sight?

Verse 2
Who with the smallest act begin
May still go on from bad to worse,
Rise to the most gigantic sin,
The sin his nature most abhors,
And one who can his God forget
Can every other crime commit.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘And brought his head in a charger, and gave it to the damsel, and the damsel gave it to her mother.’—[Mark 6,] v. 28.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Mark.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/574, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 497.
Publishing: Public Domain