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

401. The Church's One Foundation

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
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
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)



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