PhiloSophia
Flitch (AS) – Deus31 (II. 48)
GOD IS KNOWN IN THE CREATURE
| The hidden God becometh known And general to mankind In the created World of Things Which He hath fashioned and designed. |
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32 (V. 214)
GOD IS ALL IN ALL
| God in the Christ is God; In angels, Form Angelical; In men is Man; and in the rest Is what thou wilt, the All in all. |
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33 (V. 65)
GOD CANNOT HIDE HIMSELF
| God cannot ever hide Himself—if hid He seem, ’Tis thou that hast devised a hiding-place for Him. |
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34 (V. 91)
IN WHAT YEAR THE WORLD WAS CREATED
| How date the year when God created Heaven and Earth? Not otherwise than thus: The First Year of God’s Birth. |
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35 (II. 40)
GOD IS THE SMALLEST AND THE GREATEST
| My God, how great is God! My God, how God is small! Small as the smallest thing, great—needs must be—as All. |
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36 (V. 75)
NAUGHT EXISTETH WITHOUT JOY
| Naught that is joyless can endure . Even the Being of God would pass, Had He no pleasure in Himself, And wither like the new-mown grass. |
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37 (V. 189)
GOD IS ETERNALLY IN LOVE WITH HIS OWN BEAUTY
| God is so super-beautiful That He beholdeth in a trance Of rapture from eternity The Splendour of His Countenance. |
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38 (II. 190)
OF GOD
| God joyeth in Himself. Himself He cannot cloy. For in Himself alone hath He the highest joy. |
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39 (V. 50)
GOD IS NOT VIRTUOUS
| God is not virtuous. Out of Him virtue streams, As water from the Sea and from the Sun sun-beams. |
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40 (V. 93)
GOD CANNOT BE WRATH
| God is not ever wrath with us. His wrath is but our dream. It were a thing impossible That wrath should be in Him. |
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41 (I. 137)
GOD DAMNETH NO MAN
| Dost thou complain of God? Thyself thyself dost damn. Damn thee He never would—of this full sure I am. |
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42 (V. 103)
GOD DIED NOT FOR THE FIRST TIME ON THE CROSS
| Not first upon the Cross God let Himself be slain, For see! He lieth dead there at the feet of Cain . |
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43 (V. 43)
HOW GOD IS SO VERY JUST
| Behold, God is so just, were there aught higher than He, He’d honour it above Himself on bended knee. |
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44 (I. 207)
THE FINEST INN
| Inn most delectable! God is Himself the Wine , Music and Feast and Servant too of them that dine. |
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45 (III. 142)
GOD DWELLETH IN GENTLENESS
| Have quiet in thy heart; for God is sought in vain In Fire, in Earthquake, in the roaring Hurricane. |
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46 (IV. 177)
ASTONISHMENT AT GOD’S FAMILIARITY
| It is a wonderment that I, Who am but dust and ash and clod, Should dare to make myself the friend And very hail-fellow of God! |
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47 (I. 279)
I-HOOD SHAPETH NAUGHT
| Now this, now that, thou striv’st to shape With thine own I for instrument. Ah, wouldst thou but let God shape all Accordingly to His intent! |
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48 (IV. 143)
THE LOVELIEST TONE
| In all eternity there is no lovelier Tone Than when man’s heart soundeth with God in Unison. |
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49 (IV. 133)
MAN IS A COAL.
| Man, thou art like a piece of coal; And if thou liest not in Him, Who is thy Fire and thy Light, Then art thou black and cold and dim. |
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50 (I. 79)
GOD BEARETH PERFECT FRUIT
| The Vine of God bears perfect fruit. If any man bid me resign. God-perfectness, he first must break Me, branch-wise, from the Vine. |
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51 (II. 4)
THE ETERNAL YEA AND NAY
| God’s everlasting word is Yea, Nay is the Devil’s counter-cry: To be all Yea and One with God His own denial doth deny. |
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52 (IV. 126)
THE INSCRUTABLE CAUSE
| God hath all things within Himself—His Heaven, His bliss. Why then hath He created us? We know not this. |
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53 (I. 67)
THE CHILD CRIETH AFTER THE MOTHER
| As for his mother’s breast a weaned child maketh moan, Crieth the soul for God, crieth for Him alone. |
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