Pope of Rome
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
the Pope of Rome · The pope of Rome · the Pope
in the texts
Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
The papal office, described as having persuaded Europeans that annual indulgences fulfilled scriptural righteousness while actually defrauding them of money.
” The pope of Rome for many centuries persuaded the people of Europe, that he fulfilled all these texts of scripture, by uttering annually a great number of indulgences, to cheat the people of money.
The Unconstitutionality of Slavery
Referenced as an example of ecclesiastical governmental authority.
If one portion of the State governments should be republican, like Vermont, where suffrage is open to all—and another portion should be oligarchies, like South Carolina, and the other slave States—another portion limited monarchies, like England—another portion ecclesiastical, like that of the Pope of Rome, or that of the ancient Jews—and another portion absolute despotisms, like that of Nicholas, …
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
The head of the Roman Catholic Church, whose instructions to agents entering the kingdom are declared a case of high treason.
The sixth head concerneth such as shall come into the kingdom with titles of being the Pope’s nuncio, that it may be declared that if any man come into this kingdom with instructions from the Pope of Rome, it be a case of high treason;