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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.

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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.

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'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.

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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,

   In love may dwell with Thee.