{
  "title": "The Church's one Foundation",
  "author": "",
  "tune": "Aurelia",
  "number": "270",
  "lyrics": "The church's one Foundation\nIs Jesus Christ her Lord;\nShe is his new creation\nBy water and the Word:\nFrom heav'n he came and sought her\nTo be his holy bride;\nWith his own blood he bought her,\nAnd for her life he died.\n\nElect from ev'ry 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 ev'ry grace endued.\n\nThough with a scornful wonder\nMen 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.\n\nThe church shall never perish!\nHer dear Lord to defend,\nTo guide, sustain and cherish\nIs with her to the end;\nThough there be those that hate her,\nAnd false sons in her pale,\nAgainst or foe or traitor\nShe ever shall prevail.\n\n'Mid toil and tribulation,\nAnd tumult of her war,\nShe waits the consummation\nOf peace for evermore;\nTill with the vision glorious\nHer longing eyes are blest,\nAnd the great church victorious\nShall be the church at rest.\n\nYet she on earth hath union\nWith the God the Three in One,\nAnd mystic sweet communion\nWith those whose rest is won:\nO happy ones and holy!\nLord, give us grace that we,\nLike them, the meek and lowly,\nOn high may dwell with thee.",
  "first_line": "The church's one Foundation"
}