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Text: | The Church's One Foundation |
Author: | Samuel J. Stone |
Tune: | AURELIA |
Composer: | Samuel S. Wesley |
1 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.
2 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.
3 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.
4 '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.
5 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.
Amen.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | The Church's one foundation Is Jesus Christ her Lord |
Title: | The Church's One Foundation |
Author: | Samuel J. Stone |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1976 |
Topic: | The Christian Life: Eternal Life; Church |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | AURELIA |
Composer: | Samuel S. Wesley |
Key: | E♭ Major |