After his arrival in Scotland, he wrote to his Dieppe congregation, upbraiding them for their Laodicean laxity in permitting idolatry to co-exist with true religion in their town.
"John Knox and the Reformation"
Andrew Lang
It is commonly said that no man was ever converted by argument, but there is a single one which will make any Laodicean in England, let him be once love-sick, wear prayer-books and become a zealous Episcopalian-the argument that his sweetheart can be seen from his pew.
"Desperate Remedies"
Thomas Hardy
Their wrath had been heated to such a temperature that what everybody else would have called boiling zeal seemed to them Laodicean lukewarmness.
"The History of England from the Accession of James II. Volume 1 (of 5)"
Thomas Babington Macaulay