# “The condescending love of God” by Thomas Brooks

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- Published: 2013-12-09T15:00:14-06:00
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“Doth the Lord give the best and greatest gifts to His people? Then you that are
His people, sit down and wonder at this condescending love of God.

Oh! What is in thy soul or in my soul, that should cause the Lord to give such gifts
to us as He hath given? We were all equal in sin and misery; nay, doubtless, we 
have actually outsinned thousands, to whom these precious gifts are denied.

Let us therefore sit down and wonder at this condescending love of God.

Oh! We were once poor wretches sitting upon the dunghill, yea, wallowing in our 
blood, and yet behold the King of kings, the Lord of lords, hath so far condescended
in His love, as to bestow Himself, His Spirit, His grace, and all the jewels of 
His royal crown upon us.

Oh! What heart can conceive, what tongue can express, this matchless love! ‘I will
be thine forever,’ says Christ, and ‘My Spirit shall be thine forever,’ and ‘My 
grace shall be thine forever,’ and ‘My glory shall be thine forever,’ and ‘My righteousness
shall be thine forever.’ ‘All I am and all I have, shall be thine forever.’

O sirs! What condescending love is this! Oh! What a Christ is this!”

–Thomas Brooks, “[The Unsearchable Riches of Christ](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0851513026?tag=toletaupanre-20),”
[_The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks, Volume 3_](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0851513026?tag=toletaupanre-20),
ed. Alexander Balloch Grosart (Edinburgh; London; Dublin: James Nichol; James Nisbet
and Co.; G. Herbert, 1866), 117.

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