21 Verbs to Use for the Word dissenters

Sermons, church-goings, almsgivings; leaving the Church and turning Dissenters or Roman Catholics; joining this sect and that sect; nothing will rid a man of his superstitious fear: nothing but believing the blessed message of the text.

This exceedingly amusing but terribly earnest caricature of the sentiments of the High Anglican party at first deceived and alarmed the Dissenters themselves.

Paul says" Dorothy had been brought up a dissenter, and never said St. this one or that, any more than the Christians of the New Testament.

Protestant Sweden but lately condemned dissenters to fine and imprisonment; Catholic Spain daily inflicts the severest penalties on those who suffer themselves to profess or to propagate beliefs which are not those of the countrythose who sell the Scriptures, and those who read them.

Now, Mr. Gladstone would have governments propagate their opinions by excluding all dissenters from all civil offices.

Instead of belonging, as their American brethren did, to one ecclesiastical group, and that the dominant one, the English Unitarians included Dissenters of different tendencies and traditions, with a few recruits from the State Church.

The military usurpers have allowed nothing to be submitted to the test of a popular vote, except where they were able to take such measures of precaution, in the way of hanging, confiscation, banishment, disarming opponents, and the presence of an armed force which should overawe dissenters, as might secure the unanimity they desired.

They patronised Dissenters; they gave Whig votes; they made free, in a mild way, with the pet conventions and prejudices of Tories and High Churchmen.

"If I could persuade all Dissenters," he says, "to become members of my Church to-morrow, I should be very sorry to do it.

The misfortune is, that if we prefer dissenters to great posts, they will have an inclination to make themselves the national church, and so there will be perpetual struggling; which case may be dangerous to the state.

The papacy, then, was a church clothed with civil power, an ecclesiastical body, having authority to punish all dissenters with confiscation, imprisonment, torture, and death.

TOLERATION ACT, a statute passed in 1689 to relieve all Dissenters from certain penalties, except Roman Catholics and Unitarians.

Svenska Morgonbladet, another religious daily, opposes Vart Land, and represents the dissenters from the established church.

Why not roast dissenters at slow fires?

The same dissatisfaction and restlessness resulted in early and important amendments, but these did not satisfy all dissenters and doubters.

And he said, "Against what wilt thou write first, Daniel?" "Dissenters," said Daniel.

I can't stand Dissenters.

Dr. Watts was one of the first who taught the dissenters to write and speak like other men, by showing them, that elegance might consist with piety.

However, a flush of pleasure came to her pale face at the invitation to take a class, and to read to a good old woman, whom in his secret soul he thought so nearly a dissenter, that she could not be made more so.

This was the requirement of subscription to the Thirty-nine Articles from young men at matriculation; and a strong pamphlet advocating its abolition, with the express purpose of admitting Dissenters, was published by Dr. Hampden, the Bampton Lecturer of two years before.

And he wrote a pamphlet, and such as read it took firebrands, and visited the Dissenters in their habitations.

21 Verbs to Use for the Word  dissenters