The Church The Body

	  		


verse 1 
     D           D/F# 
The Church's one foundation 
   G                D 
Is Jesus Christ her Lord; 
    D          D/F# 
She is His new creation 
   G             A 
By water and the word: 
       D                       D/F# 
From heav'n He came and sought her 
   G           A 
To be His holy bride; 
      D                      D/F# 
With His own blood He bought her, 
     G      A          D 
And for her life He died. 


D          Em7 
We are the body 
A             Bm7 
Bought by His blood 
D          Em7 
We are the body 
A             D 
Bathed in His love
 

verse 2 
Elect from ev'ry nation, 
Yet one o'er all the earth, 
Her charter of salvation, 
One Lord, one faith, one birth; 
One holy Name she blesses, 
Partakes on holy food, 
And to one hope she presses, 
With ev'ry grace endued. 

verse 3 
'Mid toil and tribulation, 
And tumult of her war, 
She waits the consummation 
Of peace for evermore; 
Till, with vision glorious, 
Her longing eyes are blest, 
And the great Church victorious 
Shall be the Church at rest. 

verse 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.