Crossword-Solution: BACKSLIDES 10 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 19

But after this, perhaps the soul grows cold again; it also forgets the grace received, and waxes carnal; begins again to hanker after the world; loseth the life and savor of heavenly things; grieves the Spirit of God; wofully backslides; casteth off closet duties quite, or else retains only the formality of them; is a reproach to religion, and grieves the heart of them that are awake and tender of God's name.

Here is grace! So many time as the soul backslides, so many times God brings him again—I mean, the soul that must be saved by grace—he renews his pardons, and multiplies them.

Here is grace! So many time as the soul backslides, so many times God brings him again--I mean, the soul that must be saved by grace--he renews his pardons, and multiplies them.

Indeed, it is rather pleasant to see that in his alarm about "the enemy," in 1673, he backslides into the second person plural.

Three possibilities of life await, as Wilson[21] remarks, each living being: either it remains primitive and unchanged, or it progresses toward a higher type, or it backslides and retrogresses.