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 the world sees her 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.

'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 bless'd,
and the great church victorious shall be the church at rest.

Yet she on earth hath union with God the ThreeinOne,
and mystic sweet communion with those whose rest is won.
Oh, happy ones and holy! Lord, give us grace that we,
like them, the meek and lowly, on high may dwell with thee.

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Title: The church's one foundation
Text: Samuel J. Stone, Lyra Fidelium, 1866, alt.
Tune: AURELIA
Music: Samuel S. Wesley, Selection of Psalms and Hymns, 1864
Key: E-flat major
Meter: 76.76D
Date Added: 2026/07/31