Title: The Church’s One Foundation
Key: G
Artist: Words by Samuel John Stone, Music by Samuel Sebastian Wesley
time: 4/4
Verse 1
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The Church's one foun - da - tion
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is Jesus Christ her Lord
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She is His new cre - a - tion
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by water and the Word
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From heav'n He came and sought her
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to be His holy bride
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With His own blood He bought her
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and for her life He died
Verse 2
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E - lect from every na - tion
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yet one o'er all the earth
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Her charter of sal - va - tion
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, one Lord, one faith, one birth
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One holy name she bless - es,
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par - takes one holy food
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And to one hope she presses
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with every grace en - dued
Verse 3
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'Mid toil and tribu - la - tion
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and tumult of her war
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She waits the consum - ma - tion
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of peace for - ever - more
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Till with the vi - sion glo - rious
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her longing eyes are blest
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And the great Church vic - torious
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shall be the Church at rest
Verse 4
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Yet she on earth hath un - ion
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with God the Three in One
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And mystic sweet com - mun - ion
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with those whose rest is won
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O happy ones and ho - ly,
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Lord, give us grace that we
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Like them, the meek and lowly,
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on high may dwell with Thee
Verse 5
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Though with a scornful won - der
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men see her sore op - pressed
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By schisms rent a - sun - der,
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by here - sies dis - tressed
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Yet saints their watch are keep - ing,
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their cry goes up, "How long?"
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And soon the night of weeping
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shall be the morn of song