forsaking

How To Use forsaking In A Sentence

• Thirdly, that seeing (out of the sharpness of his wit) a necessity of forsaking the ordinary sublapsarian way, and the supralapsarian too, as it had diversely been declared by all that had gone before him, Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Rich'd Hooker, George Herbert, &C, Volume 2
• Deny to others what you will; to me, it is as clear as day, that in forsaking your husband and home, you are acting under David Stuart's advice, in the hope of becoming, by a most indecent fiction of the law, his wedded wife. Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times
• Let us all remember what the writer of Hebrews said in Hebrews 10: 25: "Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. Church Shopping
• The progress of the penitent is to be from negative reformation, "forsaking his way," and a farther step, "his thoughts," to positive repentance, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
• Though He seems, in forsaking me, to be as one dead, He now truly "liveth" in heaven; hereafter He shall appear also above the dust of earth. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
• Had God no other end in forsaking and rejecting them than their destruction? Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
• Why—speaking of disloyalties, forsakings, and acts that seemingly cannot be explained—did I forsake myself to draw cartoons, when I am averse by nature to caricature, ribaldry, and violence? Kalooki Nights
• Neo-modernism simply appropriates images and technology while forsaking old hopes and old ideas of the social.
• Spirit, was that of justification by the works of the law or by the faith of Christ; they very well knew that it was not the former, but the latter; and therefore must needs be inexcusable in forsaking a doctrine which had been so signally owned and attested, and exchanging it for one that had received no such attestations. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
• The woman at last told her husband that he must have been wrong in forsaking a religion of which her slave had told her such wonderful things. A Book of Golden Deeds