The Church's One Foundation

**Chords:**
C  G  Am  F  
C  G  C   

C                G  
The church's one foundation  
        Am           F  
Is Jesus Christ, her Lord;  
C                G  
She is His new creation  
         Am          F  
By water and the word;  
C                G  
From heaven He came and sought her  
       Am           F  
To be His holy bride;  
C                G  
With His own blood He bought her,  
        Am          F  
And for her life He died.  

C                G  
Elect from every nation,  
        Am           F  
Yet one o'er all the earth;  
C                G  
Her charter of salvation,  
         Am          F  
One Lord, one faith, one birth;  
C                G  
One holy name she blesses,  
        Am           F  
Partakes one holy food;  
C                G  
And to one hope she presses,  
         Am          F  
With every grace endued.  

C                G  
Though with a scornful wonder  
        Am           F  
Men see her sore oppressed;  
C                G  
By schisms rent asunder,  
        Am          F  
By heresies distressed;  
C                G  
Yet saints their watch are keeping,  
        Am           F  
Their cry goes up, "How long?"  
C                G  
And soon the night of weeping  
        Am          F  
Shall be the morn of song.  

C                G  
Mid toil and tribulation,  
        Am           F  
And tumult of her war,  
C                G  
She waits the consummation  
         Am          F  
Of peace forevermore;  
C                G  
Till with the vision glorious  
        Am          F  
Her longing eyes are blessed,  
C                G  
And the great Church victorious  
        Am          F  
Shall be the church at rest.  

C                G  
Yet she on earth hath union  
        Am           F  
With God, the Three in One,  
C                G  
And mystic sweet communion  
         Am          F  
With those whose rest is won.  
C                G  
O happy ones and holy!  
        Am           F  
Lord, give us grace that we,  
C                G  
Like them, the meek and lowly,  
         Am          F  
On high may dwell with Thee.