The Church's One Foundation
words by Samuel J. Stone, music by Samuel S. Wesley

Original key: Eb, guitar capo @ 1st fret


Verse 1:

    D        G/D  D   D/A  A    D/F#  G     A7sus  A7  D
The Church's one  founda - tion is    Jesus Christ her Lord,

Em7  D/F#   G7+5  G7    A/G  G    D/F#  Em7  D/F#  Bm/F#   Em7/A  A7
She  is His new   cre - a -  tion by    wa - ter   and the word;

     D      Em  D/F#  G          D/F#   Bm     B/D  Em
From heaven He  came  and sought her to be His holy bride;

A/C#  D       G/D   D  Gmaj7  G6       Em7     G/A  A  D
With  His own blood He bought her, and for her life He died.


Verse 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.

Verse 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.

Verse 4:

Yet she on earh 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.


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