The church's one foundation
Key = D (1st note: F#)
Time = 4/4
Tempo = 100
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1. The
[Verse 1]
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The church's one foundation, is Jesus Christ her Lord,
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She is His new cre-a- tion, by water and the Word.
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From heav'n He came and sought her to be His holy bride;
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With His own blood He bought her and for her life He died.
[Verse 2]
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Elect from ev'ry nation, yet one o'er all the earth;
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Her charter of sal-va-tion, One Lord, one faith, one birth;
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One holy Name she blesses, partakes one holy food,
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And to one hope she presses, with ev'ry grace en - dued.
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Though with a scornful wonder men see her sore oppressed,
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By schisms rent a-sun der, by heresies distressed,
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Yet saints their watch are keeping, their cry goes up, "How long?"
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And soon the night of weeping shall be the morn of song.
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The church shall never perish, her dear Lord to defend
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To guide, sustain and cherish, is with her to the end
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Though there be those that hate her and false sons in her pale
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Against a foe or traitor, she ever shall pre-vail
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Mid toil and tribulation, and tumult of her war,
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She waits the consum-ma-tion of peace forevermore;
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Till, with the vision glorious, her longing eyes are blessed,
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And the great church victorious shall be the church at rest.
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Yet she on earth hath union with God the Three in One,
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And mystic sweet com-mun-ion with those whose rest is won.
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O happy ones and holy! Lord, give us grace that we
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Like them, the meek and lowly, on high may dwell with Thee.