Lutheran authorities inveighed against this remnant of what they called popish and anti-Christian superstition. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference
As the outbreak of Civil War struck, the enforcement of the penal laws against "popish" priests was stepped up under Oliver Cromwell. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-30] Reference
The adjective "popish" was one of Calvin's favorite derogatories. From Wordnik.com. [Green Baggins] Reference
Their tendencies no doubt were felt to be "popish", but they were primarily censured by the Protestant party as. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference
They accused the Presbyterian party of wanting to continued the barbarous, "popish" persecutions of the Laudian bishops. From Wordnik.com. [Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com] Reference
(Catholic) churches into more Romanesque (Protestant) buildings by stripping the "'popish' appointments and whitewashing their columns and walls.". From Wordnik.com. [Museum Blogs] Reference
This account was related by a popish spy, in a letter written here in. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
Pharisee or spiritual lawyer, False Doctrine like a popish doctor, and. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
One object was also to play the popish farce of trying Martin Bucer and. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
But these masses/and such popish supersticions/which are farsed full with. From Wordnik.com. [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 same, by Henry Bullinger] Reference
Waldenses were annoyed by the visits of popish missionaries, headed by the. From Wordnik.com. [The Vaudois of Piedmont A Visit to their Valleys] Reference
Newbury, in Berkshire, for denying those popish articles which we have already mentioned. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
Pichel, a bigoted popish magistrate, apprehended 24 protestants, among whom was his daughter's husband. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
Edinburgh on the 2nd of May 1559, much to the consternation of the popish council then assembled in the city. From Wordnik.com. [The Scottish Reformation Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics] Reference
But notwithstanding this, soon afterwards, the Romish clergy erected a new popish university in the city of Dublin. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
I know that the popish impostor-priests go about saying that the Inquisition was never an ecclesiastical tribunal, but a laic. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference
The special occasion for which the House had been summoned was the discovery of one of the numerous popish plots that distracted. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
Service Book there were no materiall errour at all, neither masse nor popish ceremonie; and though they should read nothing but Canonicall. From Wordnik.com. [The Scottish Reformation Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics] Reference
This occasioned a bloody war; for several popish princes undertook the extirpation, or at least expulsion, of the proscribed people; and the. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
Sentiments of some of your Friends; should you impart this Letter to any of your popish Acquaintance, I doubt they might be apt to give me more. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay on the Antient and Modern State of Ireland] Reference
For the family were Catholics, and there had long been laws in Scotland against the holding of popish ceremonials even on an occasion so solemn. From Wordnik.com. [Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North] Reference
Then he went on to speak of the many evil, popish, and unchristian things he had seen in his travels as a pedlar over the benighted countries of Europe. From Wordnik.com. [Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North] Reference
It is to well knowne/that many fondlye do flatter/and indeede deceyue them selues/imagining that it is lawfull for them to be present at this popish pelf. From Wordnik.com. [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 same, by Henry Bullinger] Reference
Even at the best, the most confident Royalists knew that a young man, nurtured by a popish mother, and amidst papists, would not be readily accepted as our King. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
In citing of popish errors, he cuts them with arguments, not cudgels them with barren invectives; and labours more to shew the truth of his cause than the spleen. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
Horsington to Bucknall; and deeming it popish to lie east and west in a churchyard, she directed that her body should be buried north and south in her own garden. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
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