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                      The Church's One Foundation


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 ev'ry nation, yet one o'er all the earth, Her charter of salvation,
     one Lord, one faith, one birth; His saints their watch are keeping; their cry
     goes up, "How long?" And soon the night of weeping shall be the morn of
     song.

3.   'Mid toil and tribulation, and tumults of her war, She waits the
     consummation of peace forevermore; Till with the vision glorious her
     longing eyes are blest, And God's true Church victorious shall be the
     Church at rest.