196 - 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 Heaven 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 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.

      3. 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,
          On high may dwell with Thee. A-Men.