For we have no other armour in these evil times but prayer, now when wrath from the Lord is gone out against this backsliding land.
Her Husband hath a mind to sell her for her horrible transgressions; and heavy will the hand of the Lord be upon this backsliding nation.
I know that your Ladyship thinketh upon this, and how you may be humbled for yourself and this backsliding land; for I avouch, that wrath from the Lord is gone out against Scotland.
The Council of Toledo under Sisenand, Visigothic king, and Isidore of Seville, forces backsliding converts back into Christianity.
Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the Lord, and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you.
Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the Lord, and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon thee.
The backsliding of the bride, though painful, was not final; for it was followed by true repentance.
IN the second and fourth sections of this book we found the communion of the bride broken; in the former by backsliding into worldliness, and in the latter through slothful ease and self-satisfaction.
For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.
And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.
With God all things are possible, and your backsliding wife may yet be the brightest jewel in your crown.
And you, my dear and honour'd pastor, will feel for me when I tell you how I am tormented by ye fear of backsliding in this soul which I have promised to restore to ye fold.
The Fitzgeorgians had been, therefore, especially on the alert to detect any sign of backsliding in the dentist.
Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord, for I am married unto you.
Let the Galatians be convinced of this, and they will understand what Paul is going to say directly; they will perceive that Judaic conformity is for them a backsliding in the direction of their former heathenism (vv.
For the Galatian Churches had been founded five, if not seven, years before this time; and the backsliding of recent converts is less, and not more, surprising than of established believers.
The Judaistic practices of the Galatians were, Paul declares, a backsliding toward their old idolatries.
Will there be special danger of backsliding in the last days?
Admonitions and Warnings Pride Selfishness Covetousness Debts Respect Of Persons Backsliding Unbelief Judging Gossiping And Backbiting Envy, Jealousy, And Hatred Hypocrisy Danger In Rejecting Light The Just Recompense Part XVI.
Solomon’s backsliding had this false principle, he thought to retain his integrity, and his wisdom should abide with him, though he would try folly and madness, Eccles.
Albeit our way seem right in our eyes, yet because it is a backsliding way, and departing from unquestionably right rules, the end will be death, and we will be filled with our own devices.
Backsliding cometh on as gray hairs, here and there and is not perceived by beholders.
Would you know the original of many a public man’s apostacy andbacksliding 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?
Rebellion and backsliding have been so characteristically the story of Ephraim's career that we can scarcely conceive that it could be otherwise and yet preserve the unities of that people's history.
And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.
The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done?
Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings.
And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah.
They will make a mockery of religion and will deride their parents: "Thine own wickedness shall correct thee; and thy backsliding shall reprove thee!
Apostasy and backsliding is a state that is more easily prevented than cured; and therefore I shall desire those that stand, to use these following directions, lest they fall.
Directions for declining or backsliding christians: and about perseverance.
Either thou hopest to recover from thy backsliding by a second repentance, or else thou purposest to go on.
And so is it with many a backsliding wretch, that is cut off, not like Zimri and Cozbi in the act of their sin, yet quickly after; and enjoy the pleasure which they forsook their God for but a little while.
If you find yourselves in a backsliding case, by all means endeavour the awakening of your souls, by the serious consideration of the danger and misery of such a state.
Or, if thou be restored to life, thou wilt hardly ever be restored to thy comforts here; if thy backsliding should be very great.
By all this you may perceive, that those are no signs of a backsliding state, which some poor christians are afraid are such.
So in men's backsliding from the practice of religion: 1.
How sad is it to hear but such a one as Spira, especially at his death, crying out of his backsliding in the horror of his soul!
Understand well wherein backsliding doth consist, the sorts, and the degrees of it, that so you may the more certainly and exactly discern, whether it be indeed your case, or not.
In the man's backsliding into positive sin, (as sensuality or worldliness,) the heart being prepared as before.
Deborah the wife of Lapidoth, the judge, as well as the prophetess of that backsliding people; Judges iv, 9.
It is not rebuke or reproach that lies in that designation, 'backsliding children.
For the backsliding of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
The penalty of backsliding is not something unreal and vague, some unknown quantity which may be measured out to us disproportionately, or which perchance, since God is good, we may altogether evade.
Each member lives exclusively on its own account, an isolated, indolent, selfish, and backsliding life.
The backsliding of any of his converts caused him the most extreme grief; "it was more to me than if one of my own children were going to the grave.
He is deputed with others to visit and remonstrate with backsliding brethren, and fulfil other commissions on behalf of the congregation, as if he were in the full enjoyment of his liberty.
It needs the minutest attention to the details of conduct and circumstance, and a steady front against discouragement from the backsliding of the wavering will.
