apostatizing

After leaving her husband and apostatizing from the LDS Church, she went on a national speaking tour that lasted more than a decade.

David Ebershoff - An interview with author 2010

Even these children, however, became positive examples of true faith: "One of the above-mentioned clerics whom the caliph bought for his household faithfully recounted that he heard of absolutely none of the above-mentioned infants apostatizing from Christianity."

A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

There is not any thing in the world that we ought to be more afraid of than of a church's scattering in an apostatizing condition.

The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

And it is to no purpose to expect but that as apostatizing churches grow by continuance, they will grow in wickedness; they will grow more and more wicked every day, and the times shall be more and more perilous every day.

The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

First, Because they provoke unto judgment against the nations and people that are overtaken with these sins A great part of the book of the Revelation is taken up with declaring the judgments of God against apostatizing churches, destroying such churches as are overgrown with lusts in their latter days; that is, all that combination of men who, under the Romish conduct, falling into the apostasy, make up several churches in the world.

The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

With this sort of men Jeremiah had great contests; for in that apostatizing age of the church, they had got such an interest and reputation among the rulers and people as not only to confront his prophecies with contrary predictions, chap.xxviii. 1-4, but also to traduce him as a false prophet, and to urge his punishment according to the law, chap. xxix.

Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

To this end are they often exposed to winnowings of fierce winds, and shakings by more dreadful blasts than any breaths in this consideration of the apostatizing of professors, though of eminency.

The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

To say that such admonitions are a means to preserve those from apostasy who are by other means (as suppose the absolute decree of God, or the interposal of his irresistible power for their perseverance, or the like) in no possibility of apostatizing, is to say that washing is a means to make snow white, or the rearing up of a pillar in the air a means to keep the heavens from falling.

The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

Many Protestants saved their lives by apostatizing, or by allowing their children to be rebaptized; it is but fair to add, however, that several of the older priests, shocked at the conduct of the rebels, concealed heretics in their houses and churches; and that all through the war many priests, in spite of the difficulty of their position, remained loyal and did what they could to aid the king's troops.

Is Ulster Right? Anonymous

The first is the movement of the free-will towards God, and is an act of faith quickened by charity; and against this a man acts by apostatizing from the faith.

Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas