{"id":56864,"date":"2016-12-28T01:23:59","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T01:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/charles_wesley_on_christmas-beings_source_begins_to_be_and_god_himself_is_\/"},"modified":"2016-12-28T01:23:59","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T01:23:59","slug":"charles_wesley_on_christmas-beings_source_begins_to_be_and_god_himself_is_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56864","title":{"rendered":"Charles Wesley on Christmas&#8211;Being\u2019s source begins to be And God himself is born!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/126333683&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;visual=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Glory be to God on high,<br \/>\nAnd peace on earth descend:<br \/>\nGod comes down, He bows the sky,<br \/>\nAnd shows himself our friend!<br \/>\nGod, the invisible, appears,<br \/>\nGod, the blest, the great I AM,<br \/>\nSojourns in this vale of tears,<br \/>\nAnd Jesus is his name.<br \/>Him, the angels all adored,<br \/>\nTheir Maker and their King;<br \/>\nTidings of their humbled Lord,<br \/>\nThey now to mortals bring;<br \/>\nEmptied of his majesty,<br \/>\nOf his dazzling glories shorn,<br \/>\nBeing\u2019s source begins to be,<br \/>\nAnd God himself is born!<\/p>\n<p>See the eternal son of God<br \/>\nA mortal son of man,<br \/>\nDwelling in an earthly form,<br \/>\nWhom heaven cannot contain!<br \/>\nStand amazed, ye heavens, at this!\u201d\u00a6<br \/>\nSee the Lord of earth and skies!<br \/>\nHumbled to the dust He is,<br \/>\nAnd in a manger lies!<\/p>\n<p>We, sons and daughters of men rejoice,<br \/>\nThe Prince of peace proclaim,<br \/>\nWith heaven\u2019s host lift up our voice,<br \/>\nAnd shout Immanuel\u2019s name:<br \/>\nKnees and hearts to Him we bow,<br \/>\nOf our flesh and of our bone,<br \/>\nJesus is our brother now,<br \/>\nAnd God is all our own!<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Glory Be to God on High, Charles Wesley [Hymns for the Nativity of Our Lord (London: Strahan, 1745)]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glory be to God on high, And peace on earth descend: God comes down, He bows the sky, And shows himself our friend! God, the invisible, appears, God, the blest, the great I AM, Sojourns in this vale of tears,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56864\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,575,186,187,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-christmas","category-church-history","category-church-year-liturgical-seasons","category-liturgy-music-worship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}