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The Church's one foundation
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.
She is 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.
The Church shall never perish!
Her dear Lord to defend,
To guide, sustain, and cherish,
Is with
her to the end:
Though there be those who hate her,
And false sons in her pale,
Against or foe or traitor
She ever shall
prevail.
Though with a scornful wonder
Men 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!
’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.
Yet she on earth hath union
With God the Three in One,
And mystic sweet communion
With those
whose rest is won,
With all her sons and daughters
Who, by the Master’s hand
Led through the deathly waters,
Repose in Eden
land.
O happy ones and holy!
Lord, give us grace that we
Like them, the meek and lowly,
On high may
dwell with Thee:
There, past the border mountains,
Where in sweet vales the Bride
With Thee by living fountains
Forever shall
abide!
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