Text: | The Church's one foundation |
Author: | Samuel John Stone, 1839 - 1900 |
Tune: | AURELIA |
Composer: | Samuel Sebastian Wesley, 1810 - 76 |
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. A-men.
3 '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.
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 |
Author: | Samuel John Stone, 1839 - 1900 |
Meter: | 7 6, 7 6. D. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1958 |
Topic: | The Church: The People of God; The Church: The House of God |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | AURELIA |
Composer: | Samuel Sebastian Wesley, 1810 - 76 |
Meter: | 7 6, 7 6. D. |
Key: | E♭ Major |