Christ is the one Foundation laid

Verse 1
Christ is the one Foundation laid
In the deep counsels of the Lord,
In promises to sinners made,
In the inspir’d, Prophetic word,
In welcome news of peace divine,
In all his people’s hearts, and mine.

Verse 2
Him Prophet, Priest, and King we own,
Essential God, and real Man;
The church is built on Christ alone,
Its doctrines, discipline, and plan,
Its duties, and its blessings rise
On Him, the Lord of earth and skies.

Verse 3
Rock of eternity, He stood
Immoveable in stedfast grace,
Beneath the utmost wrath of God,
Beneath the sin of Adam’s race:
And still my faith’s Support remains,
And still He all my load sustains.

Verse 4
Sole Basis of our faith and hope,
We on his life, and death rely;
His death from hell shall lift us up,
His life shall bear us to the sky,
Intitled, fitted for the place
By Jesus blood, and righteousness.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Other foundation can no man lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.’—[1 Cor.] 3:11.” This hymn appears in the 1783 manuscript “MS Scriptural Hymns.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/576, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 13 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1872), page 26.
Publishing: Public Domain