How To Use Popery In A Sentence
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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
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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
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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.
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The Glorious Revolution is often seen as a clash between "popery" — the term for authoritarian Catholicism — and ancient English liberties.
Going Dutch
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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.
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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.
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Those who paid more attention to the threat from popery argued for an eirenic approach to Dissent, in the hope of fostering Protestant unity.
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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
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Religious liberty officially stopped short of ‘popery or prelacy’, but in practice was broad.
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What could be more natural, then, than to team up with Islam and popery to cleanse that terrible impurity?
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Hamilton inveighs against "popery" in some of his early political pamphlets.
Separation of Church & State: A Thumbnail Sketch
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Whether this be the number of the errors and heresies that are contained in popery, or rather, as others, the number of the years from its rise to its fall, is not certain, much less what that period is which is described by these prophetic numbers.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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Well, your hanner, without much stickling I gave up my Popery, joined the Orange lodge, learned the Orange tunes, and became a regular Protestant boy, and truly the Orange men kept their word, and made it answer my purpose.
Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
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His visit to Scotland made matters worse; Scotchmen were horrified to see at the coronation service such "popish rags" as "white rochets and white sleeves and copes of gold having blue silk to their foot" worn by the presiding bishops which "bred great fear of inbringing of popery
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
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It must be remembered that there was less of priestcraft -- less of what we now call popery -- in those earlier days than there came to be later on; and the springs of truth, though somewhat tainted, were not poisoned, as it were, at the very source, as they afterwards became.
In the Days of Chivalry
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Though I doubt not (how much soever knaves may abuse fools with words for a time) but there will come a day, in which the most active Papists will be found under the Puritan mask; in which it will appear, that the conventicle has been the Jesuits safest kennel, and the Papists themselves, as well as the fanatics, have been managers of all those monstrous outcries against popery, to the ruin of those Protestants whom they most hate, and whom alone they fear.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. II.
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This parliament took into consideration the abolition of the clerical function, as savoring of Popery; and the taking away of tithes, which they called a relic of Judaism.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell
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Rome never was so black, with all her benighting influence of Popery.
HAIR-BREADTH ESCAPES FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM.
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Ruskin, having formed the pleasant little original design of abolishing the difference between Popery and Protestantism, through the persuasive influence of his own special eloquence, set forth his views upon the matter in a book which he termed a treatise "on the construction of sheepfolds.
The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author
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To the same general purpose, Whigs strove for the political emancipation of Protestant Dissenters, as a step towards unity among Protestants against the threat of popery and ‘arbitrary government’ at home and abroad.
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Not a theologian, he was unconcerned by doctrinal minutiae; far from encouraging popery his one known theological work was a stout defence of the church against Catholicism.
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In assembly elections last November, the erstwhile mainstream parties were beaten by the hard-liners -- Sinn Fein, the political arm of the Irish Republican Army, and the DUP, led by the loyalist, anti - "popery" firebrand Ian Paisley.
MARCHING TOWARD CIVILITY
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The zeal of the Scottish reformers was at its height, and this zeal found vent in many a pasquil discharged at Popery.
A Book of Old Ballads — Complete
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Above all, the system is destructive of faith, having a tendency to substitute passive acquiescence for real conviction; and therefore I should not say that the excess of it was popery, but that it had once and actually those characters of evil which we sometimes express by the term popery, but which may be better signified by the term idolatry; a reverence for that which ought not to be reverenced, leading to a want of faith in that which is really deserving of all adoration and love.
The Christian Life Its Course, Its Hindrances, And Its Helps
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Crashaw's Catholicism additionally associates him with both foreignness and popery.
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This little gentilesse pleased, and atoned for the popery of my house, which was not serious enough for Madame de Boufflers, who is Montmorency, et du sang du premier Chritien; and too serious for Madame Dusson, who is a Dutch Calvinist.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3
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The chief weapon in their ideological arsenal was the fear of popery, in particular Irish popery.
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[Illustration] The "soldan" is king Philip II. of Spain; "Mercilla" is queen Elizabeth; "Adicia" is Injustice personified, or the bigotry of popery; and "Samient" the ambassadors of Holland, who went to Philip for redress of grievances, and were most iniquitously detained by him as prisoners.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook
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Knox preached on her behalf, and threatened popery and tyranny should Mary enforce her claim.
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And this infernal monster, Popery, is now rearing his impious head again in this long-favoured country, and will, I fear, soon repeat his diabolical cruelties upon the Church of God.
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_ Oh! 'Tis an Abomination to look like a Gentleman; long Hair is wicked and cavalierish, a Periwig is flat Popery, the Disguise of the
The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I
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They issue Tracts carrying forward a debate about Anglican identity: the Church of England would be Catholic but it would stand against Popery on the one hand and dissent on the other.
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Contemporaries visiting France and Italy in the 1820s did not know which was the more shocking: the popery of the revived Roman Catholic Church or the secularism of the remnants of the revolution.
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You Enter a large jsle just in the Middle that runns quite aCross through the Church, and divides the body of the Church wth ye pulpet and pews on one Side with a partition of wood Carv'd, and on the other side was such another partition for ye Chancell, and I observ'd there their alter stood tablewise for ye Comunion just in the middle of ye Chancell, as it was in the primitive tymes before Popery Came in.
Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary
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Independents, who believed that each local congregation of Christians should be practically free, excepting that "prelacy" (_i. e._, the episcopal form of church government) and "popery" (_i. e.
A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.
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Covenanters, whilst the grand house was being built from the profits resulting from the sale of writings favouring Popery and persecution, and calumniatory of Scotland's saints and martyrs, had risen from the grave, and banned Scott, his race, and his house, by reading a certain psalm.
The Romany Rye
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On early Unitarian fears of 'popery': Nineteenth-century Unitarians had theological reasons to be wary of Catholicism.
Philocrites: Philocrites is signing off.
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This little gentilesse pleased, and atoned for the popery of my house, which was not serious enough for Madame de Boufflers, who is Montmorency, et du sang du premier Chretien; and too serious for Madame Dusson, who is a Dutch Calvinist.
Letters of Horace Walpole 01
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And, we ask, was it by the survival of the fittest that Julius Ceasar, [tr. note: sic] one of the grandest rulers of all ages, should succumb under the daggers of Brutus and Cassius: that Paul and Seneca should die by authority of their inferior, Nero; that Popery, rotten to the core and represented by men who would have brought on the ignominous [tr. note: sic] collapse or extinction of every other dynasty in the days of the Roman pornocracy, should survive, while the illustrious house of Henry I. sank away to ruin in the third and fourth generation; that John Hus should die at the stake and Jean Charlier de Gerson in timid monastic retirement, while
Evolution An Investigation and a Critique
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His great ruling principle, however, originated in what he termed a godless system of religious liberality; in other words, he attributed all the calamities and scourges of the land to the influence of Popery. and its toleration by the powers that be.
The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One
