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Play “The Church's One Foundation”

Free same-meter accompaniment for The Church's One Foundation (S. J. Stone): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ELLACOMBE (Wurttemberg, 1784 from Gesangbuch der Herzogl. Hofkapelle) in four-part harmony, 5 verses, with the words on screen. Choose the key and speed, add an introduction, project the words on a TV, or practice your own choir part. Made for churches and home groups without a musician.

Sung here to ELLACOMBE (Wurttemberg, 1784 from Gesangbuch der Herzogl. Hofkapelle), a 7.6.7.6 D tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.

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  1. 1The Church’s one foundation
  2. Is Jesus Christ her Lord;
  3. She is His new creation
  4. By water and the Word;
  5. From heav'n He came and sought her
  6. To be His holy Bride;
  7. With His own blood He bought her,
  8. And for her life He died.
  9. 2Elect from ev'ry nation,
  10. Yet one o'er all the earth,
  11. Her charter of salvation
  12. One Lord, one faith, one birth;
  13. One holy name she blesses,
  14. Partakes one holy food,
  15. And to one hope she presses,
  16. With ev'ry grace endued.
  17. 3'Mid toil and tribulation,
  18. And tumult of her war,
  19. She waits the consummation
  20. Of peace forevermore;
  21. Till with the vision glorious
  22. Her longing eyes are blest,
  23. And soon the Church victorious
  24. Shall be the Church at rest.
  25. 4Yet she on earth hath union
  26. With God the Three in One,
  27. And mystic sweet communion
  28. With those whose rest is won;
  29. O happy ones and holy!
  30. Lord, give us grace that we,
  31. Like them, the meek and lowly,
  32. On high may dwell with Thee.
  33. 5Amen.

About this music

ELLACOMBE — Wurttemberg, 1784 from Gesangbuch der Herzogl. Hofkapelle. Setting: Presbyterian Hymnal, 1911.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from Presbyterian Hymnal, Revised, 1911 Hymn 364.; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the The Church's One Foundation page.

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