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Nay, but he is sent, and that in a state of humiliation and condescendency, infinitely below his own dignity.

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It is not fierceness and violence can cure their fierceness, but meekness and condescendency to follow their humours and soft dealing with them.

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Lord reveals himself, as having only right to us and our affections, as willing to bestow himself upon us, and notwithstanding of all the distance between him and wretched sinners, yet filling it up with his infinite love and wonderful condescendency, demitting himself to the form of a servant, out of love, that so he might take us up to be his chaste spouse, and adorn us with his beauty.

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In which covenant, indeed, there were some outbreaking of the glorious grace and free condescendency of God, for it was no less free grace and undeserved favour to promise life to his obedience, than now to promise life to our faith.

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May not the joy be increased, that the Redeemer is not to come, but come already, and hath made up that wide separation which was between us and him, by his low condescendency to his union with our nature!

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Christian having made peace with God, the sweet fruit of that upon his spirit is to dispose him to a peaceable and quiet condescendency to others, and if peace flee from him, to follow after it, not only to entertain it when it is offered, but to seek it when it is away, and to pursue it when it runs away.

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The Son hath done his part, and is to express his infinite love, infinite condescendency, and stooping below his majesty.

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You know any ingenuous spirit will more easily be conquered by kindness and condescendency, than severity and violence.

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Therefore wonder at these two when ye read the scriptures, God’s condescendency to us, and our atheism and unbelief of him: they are both mysteries, and exceeding broad.

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How often will men’s actions and expressions be outwardly clothed with a habit of condescendency and self-denial!

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