833--The Church's one foundation

The Church's one foundation

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	1.	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.
	2.	Elect from every nation,
		Yet one o'er all the earth,
		Her character 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 endured.
	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,
		In love may dwell with Thee.