Where can we now a city see

Verse 1
Where can we now a city see
Not given to idolatry?
Altars the world to idols raise
To Pleasure, Power, and Wealth, and Praise;
Whate’er they fear, desire, esteem
Is a false deity to them:
But few th’ almighty Jesus own,
The God supreme the GOD Unknown!

Verse 2
A zealous servant of the Lord
Will surely feel his spirit stirr’d,
With zeal and just abhorrence mov’d
To see the creature serv’d and lov’d,
Set up in their Creator’s place
By a poor blind, apostate race,
By all the superstitious croud
Who self and pride prefer to God.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘While Paul waited at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.’—[Acts 17,] v. 16." This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). 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. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 335.
Publishing: Public Domain