Where shall our wondering souls begin?

1 Where shall our wond'ring souls begin?
How shall we all to heaven aspire?
As slaves redeemed from death and sin,
As brands plucked from eternal fir,
How shall we suited triumphas raise,
Or sing our great Deliv'rer's praise?

2 Oh how shall we the goodness tell,
Father, which Thou to us hast showed,
Children of wrath, and doomed to hell,
But children now redeemed to God?
On earth we know our sins forgiven,
Blest with this antepast of heaven.

Source: A Few Hymns and Some Spiritual Songs. Selected 1856, for the Little Flock. Revised, 1881 #24