Word: romish
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...subject for the year is the third of the series of four subjects prescribed by the Founder, Judge Dudley, in 1750, namely:- "For the detecting, and convicting, and exposing the idolatry of the Romish Church, their tyranny, usurpations, damnable heresies, fatal errors, abominable superstitions, and other crying wickednesses in their high places, and finally that the Church of Rome is that mystical Babylon, that man of sin, that apostate church spoken of in the New Testament...
...subject for the year is the third of the series of four subjects prescribed by the Founder, Judge Dudley, in 1750, namely:- "For the detecting, and convicting, and exposing the idolatry of the Romish Church, their tyranny, usurpations, damnable heresies, fatal errors, abominable superstitions, and other crying wickednesses in their high places, and finally that the Church of Rome is that mystical Babylon, that man of sin, that apostate church spoken of in the New Testament...
...records of the Corporation published in the last University Bulletin contains the story of how the attempt to suppress the third Dudleian lecture failed. The subject of this lecture, it will be remembered, is "the detecting and conviction and exposing the idolatry of the Romish Church, their tyranny, usurpation, damnable baseness, fatal errors, abominable superstitions and other crying wickedness in their high places...
...Corporation has considered with much care the remonstrance signed by fifty-eight members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, in which they urge the suppression of the third Dudleian lecture, the subject of which is the Romish Church, and in substance declare that the continuance of this lecture at the present time would be both impolitic and unbecoming, and even more than unbecoming, it would be indecent and unjust'; and doubtless referring to the strong and violent language used by Chief Justice Dudley in the third clause of his will in pointing out what he considers errors, and idolatry...
DEAR SIRS. - Allow me to call attention to an error in the editorial of Thursday on the Dudleian lecture. The lecture on the Romish Church was not postponed from last year, but was the regular one in course. Last year's lecture was also in regular order and was given by a Roman Catholic Bishop who had full knowledge of the subject of the lecture for this year...