The Church’s one foundation

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.

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.

’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.

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.