English Lyrics [The Church’s One Foundation] [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 over 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 endured. [3] Mid toil and tribulation, and tumult of her war, She wants the consummation of peace forever more; Till, with the vision glorious, Her longing eyes are blest; And the great Church victorious shall be the church at rest. [4] 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, on high may dwell with Thee.
English Lyrics VERSE 1Christ triumphant, ever reigning,Saviour, Master, King!Lord of heav’n, our lives sustaining,hear us as we sing:REFRAINYours the glory and the crown,the high renown, the eternal name.VERSE 2Word incarnate, truth revealing,Son of Man on earth!power and majesty concealingby your humble birth:REFRAINYours the glory and the crown,the high renown, the eternal name.VERSE 3Suffering servant, scorned,…
English Lyrics 1 O God, our help in ages past,our hope for years to come,our shelter from the stormy blast,and our eternal home:2 Under the shadow of your throneyour saints have dwelt secure;sufficient is your arm alone,and our defense is sure.3 Before the hills in order stood,or earth received its frame,from everlasting you are God,to…
“And Can It Be That I Should Gain?” is a Christian hymn written by Charles Wesley in 1738 to celebrate his conversion, which he regarded as having taken place on 21 May of that year.[1] The hymn celebrates personal salvation through the death and resurrection of Jesus, and is one of the most popular Methodist…
“Be Thou My Vision” (Old Irish: Rop tú mo baile or Rob tú mo bhoile) is a traditional Christian hymn of Irish origin. The words are based on a Middle Irish poem that has traditionally been attributed to Dallán Forgaill. The best-known English version, with some minor variations, was translated in 1905 by Mary Elizabeth…
“Love Divine, All Loves Excelling” is a Christian hymn by Charles Wesley on Christian perfection. Judging by general repute, it is among Wesley’s finest. Judging by its distribution, it is also among his most successful. Like many hymns, Love Divine is loosely Trinitarian in organization: Christ is invoked in the first stanza as the expression…
“O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go” was written on the evening of Matheson’s sister’s marriage. Years before, he had been engaged, until his fiancée learned that he was going blind—that there was nothing the doctors could do—and she told him that she could not go through life with a blind man and broke…
