Text: | The Church's One Foundation |
Author: | Samuel J Stone, 1839-1900 |
Tune: | AURELIA |
Composer: | Samuel S Wesley, 1810-1876 |
1 The Church’s one foundation
Is Jesus Christ her Lord;
She is His new creation
By water and the word:
From heaven He came and sought her
To be His holy bride;
With His own blood He bought her,
And for her life He died.
2 Elect from every 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 every grace endued.
3 'Mid toil and tribulation,
And tumult of her war,
She waits the consummation
Of peace forevermore;
Till, with the vision glorious,
Her longing eyes are blest,
And the great Church victorious
Shall be the Church at rest.
4 Yet she on earth hath union
With 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.
AMEN.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | The Church's one foundation |
Title: | The Church's One Foundation |
Author: | Samuel J Stone, 1839-1900 |
Meter: | 7 6 7 6 D |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1999 |
Topic: | The Living Church |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | AURELIA |
Composer: | Samuel S Wesley, 1810-1876 |
Meter: | 7 6 7 6 D |
Key: | E♭ Major |