popery

How To Use popery In A Sentence

• When the Puritan Parliament brough Laud to trial in 1641, the statue was pointed to as evidence of his 'popery'. The dressing of the altars
• Of his controversies, those against Popery are the most powerful, because there he had subtleties and obscure reading to contend against; and his wit, acuteness, and omnifarious learning found stuff to work on. The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Only it having been always accounted a very rational and allowed way, to judge what may be by what has been, you may remember that about forty years since this word popery served such as brandish it about the ears of the government now, as an effectual engine to pull down the monarchy to the ground, to destroy episcopacy root and branch, and to rob the church, and almost all honest men, to the last farthing. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV.
• The Glorious ­Revolution is often seen as a clash ­between ­ "popery" — the term for authoritarian ­Catholicism — and ­ancient English liberties. Going Dutch
• Beyond its original designation of Roman Catholic dogma and doctrine, by the 1670s popery was also used to label other characteristics, such as arbitrary rule, radical motives, as well as Anglican liturgy and church government.
• But music was grating to the prejudiced ears of the Scottish; clergy; sculpture and painting appeared instruments of idolatry the surplice was a rag of Popery; and every motion or gesture prescribed by the liturgy, was a step towards that spiritual Babylon, so much the object of their horror and aversion. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I.
• Those who paid more attention to the threat from popery argued for an eirenic approach to Dissent, in the hope of fostering Protestant unity.
• Egypt, delivering us from popery, which is Romish idolatry, and causing the light of his truth to break forth gloriously among us. The Ten Commandments
• Religious liberty officially stopped short of ‘popery or prelacy’, but in practice was broad.
• What could be more natural, then, than to team up with Islam and popery to cleanse that terrible impurity?