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The Church's One Foundation
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The church's one Foundation
Is Jesus Christ her Lord;
She is his new
creation
By water and the Word:
From heav'n he came and sought her
To
be his holy bride;
With his own blood he bought her,
And for her life he
died.
Elect from ev'ry nation,
Yet one o'er all the earth,
Her
charter of salvation
One Lord, one faith, one birth;
One holy Name she
blesses,
Partakes one holy food.
And to one hope she presses,
With
ev'ry grace endued.
Though with a scornful wonder
Men see her sore
oppressed,
By schisms rent asunder,
By heresies distressed,
Yet saints
their watch are keeping,
Their cry goes up, "How long?"
And soon the night
of weeping
Shall be the morn of song.
The church shall never
perish!
Her dear Lord to defend,
To guide, sustain and cherish
Is with
her to the end;
Though there be those that hate her,
And false sons in her
pale,
Against or foe or traitor
She ever shall prevail.
'Mid toil
and tribulation,
And tumult of her war,
She waits the consummation
Of
peace for evermore;
Till with the vision glorious
Her longing eyes are
blest,
And the great church victorious
Shall be the church at
rest.
Yet she on earth hath union
With the God the Three in
One,
And mystic sweet communion
With those whose rest is won:
O happy
ones and holy!
Lord, give us grace that we,
Like them, the meek and
lowly,
On high may dwell with thee.