Text: | The Church's One Foundation |
Author: | Samuel J. Stone |
Tune: | AURELIA |
Arranger (last stanza setting and choral ending): | David T. Clydesdale |
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 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 has 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.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | The Church's one foundation |
Title: | The Church's One Foundation |
Author: | Samuel J. Stone |
Meter: | 7.6.7.6.D. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1997 |
Topic: | The Living Church: Nature and Foundation |
Notes: | Optional last stanza setting |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | AURELIA |
Composer: | Samuel S. Wesley |
Arranger (last stanza setting and choral ending): | David T. Clydesdale |
Meter: | 7.6.7.6.D. |
Key: | D Major |
Copyright: | Arr. © 1997 by Integrity's Hosanna! Music and Word Music (a div. of WORD MUSIC) |