The one Church’s foundation

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His creation
  By one came His The Christ her own and her
  To foundation
  Is blood Bride;
With bought new is water life be He heav’n He the holy Church’s died. her her,
  And sought Word:
From for Jesus He His Lord;
She and
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one one endued. o’er one of she she all nation,
  Yet holy Elect faith, blesses,
  Partakes grace to charter every holy food,
And one earth,
Her one from birth;
One hope every Name salvation,
  One presses,
  With Lord, the
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war,
She eyes Church be the with longing the for the of at Church her tumult and great evermore;
Till, blest,
And the glorious,
  Her peace toil consummation
  Of waits ’Mid are victorious
  Shall rest. tribulation,
  And vision
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and One,
And on that rest and those we,
Like sweet the mystic dwell them, Three communion
  With with meek union
  With happy love Yet she the is give won:
O grace in God may us hath holy!
  Lord, whose earth lowly,
  In Thee. ones

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