How can a child of God

Verse 1
How can a child of God
His innocence maintain,
At feasts assembled with the croud,
Where mirth and pleasures reign;
Where thought and reason yield
To appetite and sense,
Truth for impertinence is held,
And God is banish’d thence?

Verse 2
In riotous excess
They with each other vie,
Their irritated passions please,
And modesty defy:
Their joy in sin they seek,
They glory in their shame,
And never of their Maker speak
But to blaspheme his name.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘When the daughter of Herodias came in, and danced, and pleased Herod &c.’—[Mark 6,] v. 22, 23.” 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 496.
Publishing: Public Domain