The Church's One Foundation

Verse 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

Verse 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 endured

Verse 3

'Mid toil, and tribulation,
And tumult of her war

She waits the consummation
Of peace forever more

'Till with the vision glorious
Her longing eyes are blessed

And the great church victorious
Shall be the church at rest

Verse 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