The Church The Body
Words and music by Samuel J. Stone
and Samuel S. Wesley. Public Domain.
Chorus by Monte Leister 2011
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.
Chorus
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.
