Historically, the words popery and popish have been used as derogatory terms for Roman Catholicism and Roman Catholic, respectively. They were often used by Protestants to denote the idea that the Pope is a tyrant and his servants, Roman Catholics, worship him. They also refer to the culture of the Church, such as Baroque vestments and decoration that Protestants view as excessive and unwarrented by Scripture. This article considers Catholicism in the broadest ecclesiastical sense. ... Protestantism is a general grouping of denominations within Christianity. ... The Pope (from Greek: pappas, father; from Latin: papa, Papa, father) is the successor of St. ... A tyrant (from Greek Ï„ÏÏαννος týrannos) is a usurper of rightful power, possessing absolute power and ruling by tyranny. ... Adoration, by Peter Paul Rubens: dynamic figures spiral down around a void: draperies blow: a whirl of movement lit in a shaft of light, rendered in a free bravura handling of paint In arts, the Baroque (or baroque) is both a period and the style that dominated it. ...
Now Popery may be considered in a twofold respect; both as an hierarchy, and usurped jurisdiction, and tyrannical domination over others; and as a system of Antichristian doctrines and practices: and in both views it will appear, that what is now so called, had a very early beginning.
Popery may he considered as an Antichristian hierarchy, a tyrannical jurisdiction over other churches, gradually obtained by usurpation; and though such an affectation of preeminence and dominion was forbidden, and condemned by Christ, (Matt.
Popery may be considered as a system of Antichristian doctrines and practices, some of the principal of which the apostle Paul has prophetically given notice of in a few words, 1 Timothy 4:1-3.
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