The Church's One Foundation

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The church's one Foundation

Is Jesus Christ her Lord;

She is his new creation

By water and the Word:

From heav'n he came and sought her

To be his holy bride;

With his own blood he bought her,

And for her life he died.

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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.

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'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.