4. Христос - основа церкви (The Church's one foundation) (Christos asnova tserkviy)

1 Христос-основа Церкви, лишь в Нем стоит Она.
Его бессмертным словом Онф возрождена.
С небес Ее взыскал Он, за жизнь Ее страдал,
Омыл Своею кровью м к святости призвал.

2 Рассеяна повсюду, но духом скреплена.
Единым хлебом свыше питаема Она.
Одно святое Имя сливает все сердцл,
Ведином упованьи претерпят ло конца.

3 Терзаема раздором, грехом угнетена.
Неверностыо пред миром теперь посрамлена.
Но глас святых взывает, Не смолкнет их мольба.
Доколе светлым утром сменится ночи тьма.

4 Средь скорби и томленья и битвы со врагом,
как жаждет наступленья покоя со Христом.
Когда виденье славы узрят Ее глаза.
И торжество победы наступит навсегда.

5 И здесь Она в общеньи с Отцом м со Христом,
и облаком объята свидетелей кругом.
Велико их блаженство! О, дай, Господь, и нам,
подоюно им, в смиреньи стремиться к небесам!

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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 ev'ry grace endued.

3 Though with a scornful wonder we 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 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
First Line: Христос-основа Церкви, лишь в Нем стоит Она (Christos asnova tserkviy) (The Church's one foundation
Title: Христос - основа церкви (The Church's one foundation) (Christos asnova tserkviy)
Author: Samuel J. Stone (1866)
Translator: Unknown
Language: English; Russian
Publication Date: 1999
Tune Information
Name: [The Church's one foundation]
Composer: Samuel Sebastian Wesley
Key: E♭ Major



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