For this apostacy he besought the pardon of Pope Eugenius IV.
Whoever abjured his errors gained nothing by his apostacy but at farthest a milder kind of death.
Nay, it is even said, that he is about to bring this highly offensive conduct to a climax by apostacy to the Church of Rome!
Slowly and insidiously he was stepping into the position rendered vacant by Ananda's apostacy to the faith of his fathers.
Their apostacy would not be felt by their families.
These Epistles contain admonitions against the approaching Apostacy, and therefore relate to the times when the Apostacy began to work strongly, and before it prevailed.
And therefore I refer the Epistles to the seven Churches unto the times of the fifth and sixth seals: for they relate to the Church when she began to decline, and contain admonitions against the great Apostacy then approaching.
She began then to decline, and to want admonitions; and therefore is admonished by these Epistles, till the Apostacy prevailed and took place, which was at the opening of the seventh seal.
The first was an address to his well-beloved children in England, whose apostacy he knew to have been forced upon them, and who now were giving noble proof of their fidelity in taking arms for the truth.
The disappointment of the Roman ecclesiastics led them so far as to anticipate a complete apostacy on the part of Charles.
Blasphemy against God or any of the Great Prophets, whether repented or not, is instant death: on the ground that apostacy or infidelity is but ignorance and misjudgment, while blasphemy shows utter depravity.
Apostacy from the faith is death if not recanted on three warnings.
A new test of the church of England's loyalty;" both, especially the latter, bitterly reproaching her members for their apostacy from former professions.
In vain the pamphleteers, on the side of the court, upbraided the clergy with their apostacy from the principles they had so much vaunted.
We shall now turn to the second point in our chapter, namely, the apostacy of Israel after the flesh, and the divine judgment thereon.
And, to crown all, we have the prophetic record of humanapostacy from amid all the splendors of millennial glory.
Early in 1837, during a period of apostacy at Kirtland, the Prophet said: "Something new must be done to save the Church.
The child of a Moslem, even though the mother be a Christian, is held in Mohammedan law to be born a Moslem, and apostacy has always been punishable by death.
The style of apostacy was necessarily fashioned by the condition of men's minds, their advance in civilization, and their understanding of physical laws.
In the former land, Nimrod was one of the first leaders in apostacy and wickedness.
In Egypt the apostacy began, and an unauthorized priesthood was established as early as the days of the grandson of Ham.
These words seem to carry in them, repentance for the apostacy that before was mentioned.
These words are to be understood, as still respecting the apostacy that we read of in the first and second verses, and are (in my thoughts) to be taken as the effect of their degeneracy.
A right resemblance of the degenerators' course in the days of general apostacy from the true apostolical doctrine, to the church of our Romish Babel.
The apostacy of one of his companions alarmed him; and his confessor telling him that his going in quest of martyrdom was an illusion, he determined to return to Spain.
While he was prisoner in the Bass he wrote a most excellent letter to some friends, wherein he not only bewails and laments the apostacy of these lands from God, &c.
So far was he from that, that the apostacyand treachery of others (viz.
After which he continued with Mr. Renwick for some time: In which time he ceased not, both in public and private, to give full proof and evidence of his hearty grief and sorrow for his former apostacy and compliances.
The primitive history of man's apostacy contains, then, the very key to the plan of redemption.
So when the establishment of Christianity was a novelty in the empire, and men were not assured of its permanence, Julian's accession was accompanied by an apostacy to paganism; and later aspirants to the purple promised to follow his example.
Then follows the account(402) of the ingratitude and apostacy of Joash and his people.
The tempters who had seduced the king into apostacywere a special mark for the wrath of Jehovah: the Syrians destroyed all the princes, and sent their spoil to the king of Damascus.
Sin like Asa's has been the supreme apostacy of the Church in all her branches and through all her generations: Christ has been denied, not by lack of devotion, but by want of faith.
Such apostacy was not merely an ecclesiastical offence: it involved immorality and a falling away from patriotism.
Abrupt transitions within the limits of the individual lives of Asa, Joash, and Amaziah bring out the contrast between piety and apostacy with startling, dramatic effect.
With its lamps extinguished, its sacred vessels destroyed, its floors and walls thick with dust and full of all filthiness, it was rather a symbol of the apostacy of Judah.
But the king's apostacy was not confined to the milder forms of idolatry.
The narrative is very obscure, but it seems that either during the apostacy of Amon or on account of the recent Temple repairs the Ark had been removed from the Holy of holies.
But the worship of images was no improbable apostacyon the part of an Israelite king.
The Mohammedan apostacy and the Roman apostacyare now seated in the midst of wildernesses.
Apostacy stalked through the land in the garb of patriotism, and the torch of treason blinded for a while the flame of liberty.
As to the licentiousness of the papers calling themselves Federal, a name that apostacy has taken, it can hurt nobody but the party or the persons who support such papers.
Were it possible a people could sink into such apostacy they would deserve to be swept from the earth like the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah.
But ought a people who, but a few years ago, were fighting the battles of the world, for liberty had no home but here, ought such a people to stand quietly by and see that liberty undermined by apostacy and overthrown by intrigue?
All the apostacy and profanity that hath been vented in these days, was all shut up within the corners of men’s hearts at the beginning.
Would you know the original of many a public man’s apostacy and backsliding in the cause of God, what maketh them so soon forget their solemn engagements, and grow particular, seeking their own things, untender in seeking the things of God?
General corrections of the land hath made general apostacy from God, not a turning in to God; so that we may say, we never entered a furnace, but we have come out with more dross, contracted dross in the fire.
Though the Romish apostacy was permitted, yet who can tell how far the Church of God was culpable in not using extensively enough for its prevention, Covenanting--one means directly adapted to that purpose?
Official Declaration of the Sublime Porte, relinquishing the practice of Executions for Apostacy from Islamism.
I applied to Rifaat Pasha on the 24th instant, in concert with the French Minister, for an answer to your Lordship's requisition on the subject of the executions for apostacy from Islamism.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "apostacy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
