A returning backslider is a great blessing, I mean intended to be so, to two sorts of men-1

But again, the Lord Jesus hath added to these, for the encouragement of returning backsliders, to come to him.

In a copy of Sibbes' " Returning Backslider" is this couplet (attributed to Doddridge) in the handwriting, with autograph, of Isaac Walton:

But where doth Jesus Christ, in all the word of the New Testament, expressly speak to a returning backslider with words of grace and peace?