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  • Articles, in the very act of doing so, had avowed, or rather in one of those very Articles themselves had imposed on subscribers, a number of those very "Papistical" doctrines, which they were now thought to deny, as part and parcel of that very Protestantism, which they were now thought to consider divine? and this was the fact, and I showed it in my

    Apologia Pro Vita Sua John Henry Newman 1845

  • a number of those very "Papistical" doctrines, which they were now thought to deny, as part and parcel of that very Protestantism, which they were now thought to consider divine? and this was the fact, and

    Apologia pro Vita Sua John Henry Newman 1845

  • But in spite of organ and window, in consequence of the latter very likely, which had come out of a Papistical place of worship and was blazoned all over with idolatry, Clavering New Church prospered scandalously in the teeth of Orthodoxy; and many of the

    The History of Pendennis 2006

  • Papistical baptism is worse than none,” the Major said, impressively.

    Erema Richard Doddridge 2004

  • Papistical portion of Connaught, would be sure, thought Mr

    The Kellys and the O'Kellys 2004

  • This dignitary, conferring in secrecy with John Rokesmith on the subject of punch and wines, bent his head as though stooping to the Papistical practice of receiving auricular confession.

    Our Mutual Friend 2004

  • He so little obtruded that fact -- and, indeed, had assented so readily to any animadversions upon the superstition and priestcraft which, according to Protestants, are the essential characteristics of Papistical communities -- that it was not till the hymeneal torch, which brings all faults to light, was fairly illumined for the altar, that the remembrance of a faith so cast into the shade burst upon the conscience of the Parson.

    The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 Various

  • Papistical tyrannie shall onely be changed into the tyrannie of the lord and laird.

    The Scottish Reformation Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics Alexander F. Mitchell

  • "And by what authority," retorted Larkham, "was the Papistical sign foisted into the standard of England, except by that of the scarlet woman, whose robes are red with the blood of the saints?"

    The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance John Turvill Adams

  • But, lo and behold! an obstacle now occurred to the Parson, of which he ought to have thought long before -- viz., the Papistical religion of the Italian.

    The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 Various

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