1
\nThe church’s one foundation
\nis Jesus Christ her Lord;
\nshe is his new creation
\nby water and the Word.
\nFrom heaven he came and sought her
\nto be his holy bride;
\nwith his own blood he bought her,
\nand for her life he died.<\/p>\n
2
\nElect from every nation,
\nyet one o’er all the earth;
\nher charter of salvation,
\none Lord, one faith, one birth;
\none holy name she blesses,
\npartakes one holy food,
\nand to one hope she presses,
\nwith every grace endued.<\/p>\n
3
\nThough with a scornful wonder
\nwe see her sore oppressed,
\nby schisms rent asunder,
\nby heresies distressed,
\nyet saints their watch are keeping;
\ntheir cry goes up, “How long?”
\nAnd soon the night of weeping
\nshall be the morn of song.<\/p>\n
4
\n‘Mid toil and tribulation,
\nand tumult of her war,
\nshe waits the consummation
\nof peace forevermore;
\ntill, with the vision glorious,
\nher longing eyes are blest,
\nand the great church victorious
\nshall be the church at rest.<\/p>\n
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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 Though with a scornful wonder we see her sore oppressed, by schisms rent asunder, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,39,45,10,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-301-400","category-christian-church","category-community-in-christ","category-10","category-t"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6638,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions\/6638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}