TO Church of God Anthem
The [Christ's] Church has ["only"] 1 Foundation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQv4EAwMFoQ
1 The church has 1 foundation,’Tis Jesus Christ her Lord;
She is
His new creation, through water-by 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 every nation,Yet 1 o’er all the earth,
Her Charter of
Salvation: 1 Christ, 1 faith, 1 birth.
1 Holy name
she blesses, partakes 1 Holy food;
And to 1 hope
she presses, with every grace endued.
3 Long with a scornful wonder, men saw her sore oppressed,
By
schisms rent asunder; By heresies
distressed.
Yet saints their watch were
keeping, to hail a brighter day,
When God should stop their
weeping, take their reproach away.
4 Through toil and tribulation, and tumult of her
war,
She waits the consummation, of peace forevermore.
'Till with the
vision glorious, her longing eyes are blest,
And that small church
victorious, shall be the church at rest.
5 Yet she on earth has union, with Father and His Son,
And mystic sweet
communion, with those whose rest is won.
O blessed Heav'nly chorus! Lord,
save us by Your grace.
That we, with saints before us, may see You face
to face.
6 The evening sun is shining, the cloudy day is past;
The time of
their repining is at an end at last.
The voice of God is calling, to
unity again;
Division walls are falling, with all the
Creeds of men.
7 Back to the 1
foundation, from sects and Creeds made
free,
Come saints of every nation, to blessed unity.
Once more
the ancient glory, shines as in days of
old,
And tells the wondrous story— 1 Christ, 1 faith, 1
fold.
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