How To Use popish In A Sentence
- It was to revise and redefine the national creed, after its long lapse into so-called Arminianism and semi-popish error, and to advise also as to the new system of church government and the new forms of worship that should come in place of rejected episcopacy and the condemned liturgy. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11
- Since the calender was a popish imposition , we will back to the Julian calender The Volokh Conspiracy » “Year of Our Lord”
- Lord Coke tells us, in the passage quoted at p. 364., that this was called the corporal oath, because the witness "toucheth with his hand some part of the Holy Scripture;" but the better opinion seems to be, that it was so called from the ancient custom of laying the hands upon the _corporale_, or cloth which covered the sacred elements, by which the most solemn oath was taken in Popish times. Notes and Queries, Number 211, November 12, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
- Those accusing him in his trial, however, proved themselves comparatively ignorant of popish doctrine and appeared foolish against Latimer's defence.
- I have run after a thief with a poker: ay, and I have handled a Popish catchpoll, in Queen _Mary's_ days, that he never came near my house no more. Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall
- Falsely interpreting the proposition as necessarily implying, not merely moral obligation, but also compulsion and coercion, they rejected it as unevangelical and semipopish. Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
- I couldna say that I had there great pleasure, for the preacher was very cauldrife, and read every word, and then there was such a beggary of popish prelacy, that it was compassionate to a Christian to see. The Ayrshire Legatees, or, the Pringle family
- This was sensible enough in a Britain which still subliminally linked civil liberty with Protestantism, and therefore regarded Irishness as a likely pointer to popish subversion of its political values.
- For though a Christian ought not to demaunde baptisme in the popishe churche/yet the baptisme which they haue hetherto vsed we acknowledge it to be such that it is not to be reiterated of them whõ they do baptise. A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful by Peter Martyr; Wherunto is Added A Sermon made of the Confessing of Christ and His Gospel and of the Denying of the sam
- He was the abolisher of Popish traditions about Priests marriages: his owne marriage being solemnized at Schalholt. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
