Our discourse therefore now became entirely political.[*] For my own part, I had been for some time very seriously affected with the danger to which the Protestant religion was so visibly exposed under a Popish prince, and thought the apprehension of it alone sufficient to justify that insurrection; for no real security can ever be found against the persecuting spirit of Popery, when armed with power, except the depriving it of that power, as woeful experience presently showed.
preach against popery, and bishops were ordered to supend those who
and constant machinations of Popery, a preservation so strange and
But perhaps we do not know it in our hearts too well, to profit by even so humble an example as the 'No
Popery' riots of Seventeen Hundred and Eighty.
In this retirement--a Patmos amid the howling ocean of
popery that surrounds us--a letter from England has reached me at last.
I'm not exactly a Protestant, and I'm not a Catholic, but I could almost pray for the days of
popery to come again-- because of the fasts."
They do not possess our blessings and advantages, and they are, for the most part, brought up in the blind errors of
Popery. It has also always been my precept and practice, as it was my dear husband's precept and practice before me (see Sermon XXIX.
The Episcopal system was an anathema to all good covenanters, the back door to
popery, and Charles found the perfect instrument in the ambitious and opportunist minister James Sharp, who, by December 1661, had connived his way to the Archbishopric of St Andrew's and primacy of Scotland.
Puritans were ardent English Calvinists (read: predestinarian Protestants) who labored relentlessly to rid the Established Church of all vestiges of "
popery" beginning in the 1560s.
They learn to know and love this great man, and with him experience the anxieties of the cholera outbreak and the dangers of the 'No-
Popery' riots.
Consequently, Catholicism was perceived, at least by certain influential Protestant social groups, as a threat to the nation's values and socio-economic accomplishments, an attack by '
Popery', with all its negative connotations, on Britain and America, with the scope of depriving their people of liberty and 'enlightenment', replacing them with Papal control and 'superstition'.
Notably, the unrevised paper on "The 'No
Popery' Crusade and the Newfoundland School System, 1836-1841," first published in 1991, describes an ongoing debate about whether the denominational system should be abolished, revised, or retained.