{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/sil/scw/scw07.htm","path":"chr/sil/scw/scw07.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/sil/scw/scw07.htm","text":"167 (V. 250)\n THE SPIRITUAL AND ETERNAL BIRTH ARE ONE\n| The Spiritual Birth within my soul is one With that whereby the Father doth beget the Son. | \n168 (VI. 132)\n GOD'S SOLE FELICITY\n| There's joy in giving birth. God's sole Felicity Is that He bringeth forth His Son eternally. | \n169 (III. 175)\n WHAT GOD WROUGHT FROM ETERNITY\n| What was God's deed, ere Time began, Established on His ageless throne? He loved Himself, and thus He wrought The generation of His Son. | \n170 (I. 201)\n WHY IS GOD BORN?\n| O Mystery! God's lost Himself, and therefore He, To find Himself again, would be new-born in Me. | \n171 (I. 135)\n WITH GOD IS ONLY HIS SON\n| Man, be thou born of God! for standeth by His Throne His own begotten Son\u2014and other standeth none. | \n172 (II. 102)\n THE EXTERNAL COMFORTETH ME NOT\n| \"Hail Mary!\" so thou greetedst Her: Yet, Gabriel, what doth this avail To me, unless thou likewise come And greet me with the self-same \"Hail!\" | \n173 (VI. 134)\n TO BE BORN OF GOD IS TO BE WHOLLY GOD\n| God doth engender naught but God. If He engender thee, His Son, Then thou becomest God in God, And Lord upon the Lord God's throne. | \n174 (I. 17)\n A CHRISTIAN IS GOD'S SON\n| I also am God's Son. I sit beside His knee. His Spirit, Flesh and Blood are known to Him in me. | \n175 (III. 4)\n A SIGH\n| When God became a man, swaddled in straw He lay\u2014 Alas, that I have never been that straw and bay! | \n176 (II. 53)\n THOU ONLY ART WANTING\n| Could but my heart become a manger, God would then Become a Child upon the earth yet once again. | \n177 (V. 9)\n EVERYONE MUST BE CHRIST\n| The true-born Son of God is Christ and Christ alone, Yet must each Christian be this Christ, this selfsame Son. | \n178 (I. 208)\n BLESSED GLUTTONY\n| Too much is never good. I hate all Gluttonies\u2014 Yet wish I were as full of God as Jesus is! | \n179 (VI. 236)\n NAUGHT IS HIGHER THAN TO BE GOD'S SON\n| God's Son is God with God, rules from the selfsame Throne: Naught standeth higher than I, if I am this same Son. | \n180 (IV. 49)\n THE SPLENDOUR OF CHRIST IN THIS WORLD\n| The Sceptre is a reed; a branch of thorns the Crown; Nails are Regalia; a deadly Cross the Throne; The Purple Robe is blood; Bodyguard, murderers; Hangmen and the dastard crowd, the train of Courtiers; The Wine is bitter gall; the Music, mocking mirth: Such the Magnificence of our Lord God on earth. |","title":"VII SONSHIP","type":"page"}