Text: | The Church's one foundation |
Author: | Samuel John Stone, 1839-1900 |
Tune: | AURELIA |
Composer: | Samuel Sebastian Wesley, 1810-1876 |
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 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.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | The Church's one foundation |
Title: | The Church's one foundation |
Author: | Samuel John Stone, 1839-1900 |
Meter: | 76 76 D |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2000 |
Scripture: | ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; |
Topic: | Baptism; Hope and Consolation; Redemption and Salvation(8 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | AURELIA |
Composer: | Samuel Sebastian Wesley, 1810-1876 |
Meter: | 76 76 D |
Key: | D Major |