The Church's One Foundation
Text: Samuel Stone Tune: Samuel Wesley 

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
One Holy Name she blesses
partakes one holy food
and to one hope she presses
with ev'ry grace endued.

3. Through toil and tribulation
and tumult of her war
she waits the consumation
of peace forevermore
Till with the vision glorious
her longing eyes are blest
and the great Church victorious
Shall be the Church at rest

4. Yet she on earth has union
with God, the Three in One
and mystic sweet communion with those whose
rest is won
O blessed heav'nly chorus! Lord, save us by
your grace
that we, like saints before us,
may see you face to face.