Backsliding
The failure of our virtue on great occasions is but an announcement to the world that we have been habitually coming short in our more private behaviour. [JJTP]
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It is in his gospel and church alone that Christ can now suffer at the hands of men. When any important principle of evangelical truth is forsaken and renounced; when gospel obedience is persistently neglected; when men begin to believe other things than what it teaches and do not live as the gospel requires, then we have a partial apostasy. [AFTG]
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It is very rare that God doth leave his beloved ones frequently to relapse into one and the same gross sin. [PRASD]
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Every step forward in sin, is a step backward from God. [TDOR]
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A declining spiritual state and solid spiritual peace cannot exist together. So by the lack of spiritual joy and peace you may know your true condition. [TGOC]
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There is no grace that fills the hearts of believers with more gratitude and joy than being delivered from backsliding. [TGOC]
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There is good reason it is called backsliding and not backjumping. It is relinquishing our hold on little things that we lose the ground we once held.
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Whenever a man begins to slide with respect to orthodoxy, he generally attempts to break, if not conceal, his fall, by declaiming against creeds and confessions.