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Text: | The Church's One Foundation |
Author: | S. 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 '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 soon the 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: | S. J. Stone (1866) |
Meter: | 7 6 7 6 D. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1930 |
Topic: | The Means of Grace: The Christian Church; Processionals and Recessionals: General; Processionals and Recessionals: Trinity |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | AURELIA |
Composer: | Samuel S. Wesley (1864) |
Meter: | 7 6 7 6 D. |
Key: | E♭ Major |