The Army and Navy Hymnal/Hymns/The Church's One Foundation

by Samuel John Stone(Aurelia by Samuel Sebastian Wesley)

For other versions of this work, see The Church's One Foundation.

Layout 2

The Church's One Foundation

176

(AURELIA. 7,6,7,6,D.)

Samuel J. Stone, 1866

Samuel S. Wesley, 1864

1. The Church's one foundation
   Is Jesus Christ our 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.
   
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 for evermore;
   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 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. Amen.