Egypt, delivering us from popery, which is Romish idolatry, and causing the light of his truth to break forth gloriously among us. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Commandments] Reference
Hamilton inveighs against "popery" in some of his early political pamphlets. From Wordnik.com. [Separation of Church & State: A Thumbnail Sketch] Reference
In the Commons he was attacked as the promoter of the French alliance, of "popery" and arbitrary government. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
When the Puritan Parliament brough Laud to trial in 1641, the statue was pointed to as evidence of his 'popery'. From Wordnik.com. [The dressing of the altars] Reference
On early Unitarian fears of 'popery': Nineteenth-century Unitarians had theological reasons to be wary of Catholicism. From Wordnik.com. [Philocrites: Philocrites is signing off.] Reference
On early Unitarian fears of 'popery' 1.30.06 — 19th-century Unitarians had theological reasons to be wary of Catholicism. From Wordnik.com. [Philocrites: My favorite blog posts of 2006.] Reference
The Glorious Revolution is often seen as a clash between "popery" — the term for authoritarian Catholicism — and ancient English liberties. From Wordnik.com. [Going Dutch] Reference
But he underestimated two difficulties, the hatred of the dissenters for "popery" and their distrust of royal absolutism. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference
"popery" preventing its being given there in its original form. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present] Reference
The breach between the king and popery was now open. From Wordnik.com. [The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa] Reference
But wherever popery had power, there was the tribunal. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
Such is the deadening and perverting influence of popery. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
Dominic, who appeared extremely zealous in the cause of popery. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
These ordinances were practically a signal for the death of popery. From Wordnik.com. [The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa] Reference
But it may be asked, is popery the same system now as in the days of. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
In order to crush popery in the most effectual manner in this kingdom. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
From first to last it was a blow at popery and the temporal supremacy of Rome. From Wordnik.com. [The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa] Reference
She hated all devices of pleasure as her ancestors did the abominations of popery. From Wordnik.com. [Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States] Reference
"What! the lord mayor of our city come to preach up popery! too sure, it cannot be!". From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume II] Reference
She has left her virginity as a relick of popery, and marries in her tribe without a ring. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
The knell of popery had been sounded, and nothing remained for the aged bishop but despair. From Wordnik.com. [The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa] Reference
He felt it to be the knell of popery, and in writing to Peder Galle he inveighed against it. From Wordnik.com. [The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa] Reference
These barefaced practices made the Protestant party think it high time to check the growth of popery. From Wordnik.com. [A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies Or, a Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses] Reference
He had sense enough to see into the errors of popery, and abhorred the very name of the inquisition. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
Their children were taken from them to be educated by the catholics, and at seven years made to embrace popery. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
The heaviest blow to popery was the order issued by the king in 1525 that the Scriptures be translated into Swedish. From Wordnik.com. [The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa] Reference
Horrified at popery, an Englishman honestly believed that popery had no rights in a country possessed by a protestant king. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
He not only labored to preserve his friends from the contagion of popery, but to guard them against the terrors of persecution. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
Abbe Paris, trespasses on the common sense of man, scarcely conceivable by us if they had not been renewed under our eyes by popery. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
Protestant controversialists quoted him against popery, and in the conduct of the conquerors the evidences of the Catholic depravity. From Wordnik.com. [Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings] Reference
He could like the gray hairs of popery, did not some dotages there stagger him: he would come to us sooner, but our new name affrights him. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
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