The Churchs One Foundation chords by Indelible Grace

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Verse 1:
    D MajorD      D MajorD  A augmentedA
The church's one foundation
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Is Jesus Christ her Lord,
  D MajorD      A augmentedA  G+G
She is His new creation
  E minor 7Em7       AsusAsus A augmentedA
By water and the Word.
    D MajorD         G+G   D MajorD
From heaven He came and sought her
  B minorBm      E minorEm
To be His holy bride;
   D MajorD        G7G7
With His own blood He bought her,
  E minor 7Em7   A7A7    D MajorD
And for her life He died.

Verse 2:
 D MajorD        D MajorD A augmentedA
Elect from every nation,
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Yet one over all the earth;
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Her charter of salvation,
   E minor 7Em7           AsusAsus A augmentedA
One Lord, one faith, one birth;
D MajorD         G+G   D MajorD
One holy Name she blesses,
  B minorBm       E minorEm
Partakes one holy food,
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And to one hope she presses,
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With every grace endued.

Verse 3:
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Though with a scornful wonder
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Men see her sore oppressed,
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By schisms rent asunder,
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By heresies distressed,
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Yet saints their watch are keeping;
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Their cry goes up, "How long?"

   D MajorD        G7G7
And soon the night of weeping
  E minor 7Em7   A7A7   D MajorD
Shall be the morn of song.

Verse 4:
      D MajorD      D MajorD A augmentedA
The church shall never perish,
   G+G   A augmentedA    D MajorD A augmentedA
Her dear Lord to defend
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To guide, sustain and cherish,
  E minor 7Em7       AsusAsus A augmentedA
Is with her to the end
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Though there be those that hate her,
  B minorBm      E minorEm
And false sons in her pale
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Against a foe or traitor,
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She ever shall prevail

Verse 5:
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Mid toil and tribulation,
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And tumult of her war,
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She waits the consummation
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Of peace forevermore;
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'Til, with the vision glorious,
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Her longing eyes are blessed,
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And the great church victorious
   E minor 7Em7   A7A7    D MajorD
Shall be the church at rest.

Verse 6:
   D MajorD        D MajorD A augmentedA
Yet she on earth hath union
   G+G    A augmentedA    D MajorD A augmentedA
With God the Three in One,
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And mystic sweet communion
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With those whose rest is won.
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O happy ones and holy!
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Lord, give us grace that we
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Like them, the meek and lowly,
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On high may dwell with Thee.