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899.
[How can a child of God]
When the daughter of . . . Herodias came in, &c.
—vi. 22, 23.
How can a child of God
His innocence maintain,
At feasts assembled with the crowd,
Where mirth and pleasure reign?
Where thought and reason yield
To appetite and sense,
Truth for impertinence is held,
And God is banish'd thence.
His innocence maintain,
At feasts assembled with the crowd,
Where mirth and pleasure reign?
Where thought and reason yield
To appetite and sense,
Truth for impertinence is held,
And God is banish'd thence.
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.
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.
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