What is "papistry"

Usage examples of "papistry".

What has a young man bred abroad in a vapid Court, and suckled into Papistry, to say to the people of England?

The growing strength of France promoted a corresponding distrust of Papistry in England, which reached a head when, at about the time of which I write, Louis XIV.

David of old, to do battle with the Goliath of Papistry, which hath overshadowed and thrown into disrepute that true and reverent regard for ritual which should exist in the real Church of England, as ordained by law.

World Headquarters still wants me to try converting the Cajuns from mere Papistry to SoPrim Protestantism, I am willing to return to the fray.

He was about to tell this chaplain that the liturgy of traditional Anglicanism was superior to that of reformed Papistry when the chaplain turned his face towards the entrance with mouth open in joy.

That Papistry and superstition may be utterly suppressed, according to the intention of the Acts of Parliament, repeated in the 5th Act, Parl.

His conversion to Catholicism--or at any rate his moving from some form of Church Papistry to more ardent belief--was supposed to have calmed him down.

For God has called me to this work, and he has given me the task of showing the people of Scotland the folly of papistry, and the pride, tyranny and deceit of the Roman AntiChrist.

God and the sincere profession of Christianity are much decayed, and in place of it, partly papistry, partly paganism and irreligion have crept in.

He was about to tell this chaplain that the liturgy of traditional Anglicanism was superior to that of reformed Papistry when the chaplain turned his face towards the entrance with mouth open in joy.

Thrower set his candlestick on the floor near the altar never on it, since that would smack of Papistry and knelt in a prayer of thanksgiving.

Thrower set his candlestick on the floor near the altar-- never on it, since that would smack of Papistry-- and knelt in a prayer of thanksgiving.