The Church’s One Foundation

1 Verse 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 Verse 2. Though with a scornful wonder,
Men see her sore opprest,
By schisms rent asunder,
By heresies distrest:
Yet saints their watch are keeping,
Their cry goes up “How long?”
And soon the night of weeping
Shall be the morn of song.

3 Verse 3. ’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.