Where, my soul, is now Thy boast

Verse 1
Where, my soul, is now thy boast?
Where the sense of sin forgiven?
Destitute, tormented, lost,
Down the stream of nature driven,
Crush’d by sin’s redoubled load;
Where, my soul, is now thy God!

Verse 2
Far from me my God is gone,
All my joys with him are fled,
Every comfort is withdrawn,
Peace is lost, and hope is dead;
Sin, and only sin I feel,
Pride, and lust, and self, and hell.

Verse 3
Did I then my soul deceive?
Rashly claim a part in thee?
Did I, Lord, in vain believe,
Falsely hope thou diedst for me?
Must I back my hopes restore,
Trust thou diedst for me no more.

Verse 4
No—I never will resign
What of thee by faith I know;
Never cease to call thee mine,
Never will I let thee go;
Be it I my soul deceive,
Yet I will, I will believe.

Verse 5
Tho’ I groan beneath thy frown,
Hence I will not cannot fly;
Tho’ thy justice cast me down,
At thy mercy-seat I ly;
Let me here my sentence meet,
Let me perish at thy feet!

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: "In Temptation." Introduced in a hymnal jointly credited to John and Charles Wesley; it is more likely than not that Charles wrote it but not certain. Introduced in Hymns and Sacred Poems (1740), published by John and Charles Wesley (London: William Strahan, 1740). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 1 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1868), page 324.
Publishing: Public Domain