loue→love

In early modern print v and u are one letter in two shapes: v at the start of a word, u inside it, whichever sound is meant. Medial u here is the consonant.

About 1,871 places across the Puritan corpus, estimated: 1,871 in a random sample of 70 of 7,722 works.

Drawn Oct 19, 2026, 6:06 PM against rule-set version 6 · 1 sample drawn · no exact count yet (the overnight batch count is not built). Shown in original spelling.

1. …being in it, sheweth him to be an agent in this work. God out of his loue→love, sent and gaue his Sonne for us, Ioh. 3.16.17, it pleased the Lord…

   Henry Ainsworth · Censure Upon the Dialogue of the Anabaptists · p. 9 · Open in the reader

2. …wanting both the light of faith to direct her, and the strength of Loue→Love to incite her to goodnesse. For to be carnally minded is death: but…

   Thomas Adams · The Devils Banket Described · p. 163 · Open in the reader

3. …out pietie: nay charity will not, cannot: for faith worketh by loue→love. And loue neuer dined in a conscience, where faith had not first…

   Thomas Adams · The White Devil · p. 11 · Open in the reader

4. …extortion of the Patrone, the idlenesse in the Minister, the want of loue→love in the Communaltie, and securitie in all sortes, did but so much…

   Archbishop George Abbot · Sermons on Jonah · p. 162 · Open in the reader

5. …1 letter⟧ vnto you in ſuch ſort as I can his infinite loue→love, whereby he refuſed not for our ſakes to ſuffer death. But becauſe…

   Peter Martyr Vermigli · Common Places · p. 1 · Open in the reader

6. …deceiued. But to returne vnto Paule, he of a certeine great loue→love hoped to abide longer among the Philippians, and to edifie them; of…

   Peter Martyr Vermigli · Common Places · p. 87 · Open in the reader

7. …that mirrour of clearenesse wherein we were created, we would be in loue→love with nothing else but God, and that: But as an ill affected Stomacke…

   Thomas Adams · Heaven and Earth Reconciled · p. 4 · Open in the reader

8. …and let every present soule that loues heauen, pledge me. Walke in loue→love

   Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 143 · Open in the reader

9. …a perfect obedience vnto the commandements of God; yet doo they loue→love them, and excéedinglie deſire them, and imbrace them as the chiefe…

   Peter Martyr Vermigli · Common Places · p. 299 · Open in the reader

10. …before men. Laſtlie he inflamed and kindled him with an incredible loue→love of the holie ſcriptures whereof while he for a good ſpace of time…

    Peter Martyr Vermigli · Common Places · Open in the reader

11. …motion, is left as neuter or frée vnto vs: ſéeing we be commanded to loue→love God with all our hart, with all our mind, and with all our ſtrength;…

    Peter Martyr Vermigli · Common Places · p. 565 · Open in the reader

12. …it ſtraitwaie followeth, that vnto him is due our faith, hope, loue→love, feare, and obedience.

    Peter Martyr Vermigli · Common Places · p. 164 · Open in the reader

13. …would vsurpe Gods due and claime the heart, the soule. Hee that doth loue→love her destroyeth his owne soule. Which shee loues not for it selfe,…

    Thomas Adams · The Devils Banket Described · p. 158 · Open in the reader

14. …those, thou dearely louest. Yet first thou art going to one, whose loue→love is greater then Ionathans; that gaue his life to redeeme thee. And…

    Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 7 · Open in the reader

15. …or day did he another, to day thou haſt receiued one euidence of his loue→love, and yeſterday thou diddeſt receiue another; wee may not onely…

    Robert Abbot · Be Thankful London and Her Sisters · p. 32 · Open in the reader

16. …question a Paradoxe to repining flesh & bloud, which doth euer loue→love to be in iolity; but yet vnto a Christian mā, it is a principle of…

    Archbishop George Abbot · Sermons on Jonah · p. 215 · Open in the reader

17. …how great an affliction was this unto Iakob: to bee beguiled of his Loue→Love, and deflyed with another, whom in respect of her he hated? ver. 30.…

    Henry Ainsworth · Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs · p. 110 · Open in the reader

18. …himselfe to haue kept the Commandements; (and Christ began to loue→love him) yet there was a little leuen spoyled all, Couetousnesse. Vnum…

    Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 378 · Open in the reader

19. There be no rubbes in Loue→Love. Nec retia tendit, nec laedere intendit. It neither does nor desires…

    Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 129 · Open in the reader

20. …without seeking recouery. I call this curse merited, because they loue→love it. As hee loued cursing, so let it come vnto him. Hath he loued it?…

    Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 132 · Open in the reader

21. …But euery man sayth hee knowes Christ. If men knew Christ his loue→love in dying for them, they would loue him aboue all thinges: how doe…

    Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 72 · Open in the reader

22. …walles, to vncouer our roofe: that hauing neyther faith in God, nor loue→love to men, our soule may bee without hope, exposed to the tempests of…

    Thomas Adams · Mystical Bedlam · p. 75 · Open in the reader

23. …vnto vs, euen as it appéereth by the commandement; Thou ſhalt loue→love the Lord, with all thine hart, and with all thy ſoule. To theſe…

    Peter Martyr Vermigli · Common Places · p. 212 · Open in the reader

24. …not till now. He had wept the teares of pittie, the teares of loue→love; but neuer before the teares of anguish. When the Sonne of God thus…

    Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 184 · Open in the reader

25. …and rehearſe all the pleaſures whereby they declared their mutuall loue→love, rather wordes woulde frayle than matter. Wherefore leauing theſe…

    Peter Martyr Vermigli · Common Places · Open in the reader

26. …Ezekiel compareth the idolaters of Israel, to a woman inflamed with loue→love towards some goodly yong man, on whom she hath cast her eies, and…

    Henry Ainsworth · An Arrow Against Idolatry · p. 30 · Open in the reader

27. …the other. For there are ſome, which are inward; as, To beléeue, To loue→love, To fauour, To feare, and To pitie: other ſome are outward; as To…

    Peter Martyr Vermigli · Common Places · p. 93 · Open in the reader

28. 1. We are loued our selues, therefore let vs loue→love. He that bids vs loue, loued vs first This is my Commandement, that…

    Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 158 · Open in the reader

29. …I doo not allow of their interpretation, which ſaie; that To loue→love God with all the hart, with all the ſoule, &c. Is nothing elſe, but…

    Peter Martyr Vermigli · Common Places · p. 567 · Open in the reader

30. …and ſo of the reſt. Secondly, from God the Son wee haue raſted ſuch loue→love, greater then which, knowes no man, that one ſhould dye for his…

    Robert Abbot · Be Thankful London and Her Sisters · p. 16 · Open in the reader

31. …but that finished, it shall end, & so yeeld superiority to Loue→Love, which shall endure for euer.

    Thomas Adams · The Sacrifice of Thankfulness · p. 17 · Open in the reader

32. Howe we ſhoulde both Hate and loue→love our ſelues. [3] 258.a.

    Peter Martyr Vermigli · Common Places · Open in the reader

33. 1. Debts. Rom. 13. Owe no man any thing, but to loue→love one another. Indeed there must be some owing, as there must be some…

    Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 262 · Open in the reader

34. …we haue no smal store of these in England too, which in their harte loue→love his Holinesse well, but yet will not part vvith their fleshe on…

    Archbishop George Abbot · Doctor Hills Reasons for Upholding of Papistry Unmasked · p. 387 · Open in the reader

35. For their Myrrhe, he giues them Charitie, a true loue→love to him, that so truely loued them; and for his sake a loue to…

    Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 209 · Open in the reader

36. …remembrance we thinke vpon his mercy, and contemplate on his great loue→love, in the redemption of his sonne, and desire him for his blouds sake,…

    Archbishop George Abbot · Sermons on Jonah · p. 277 · Open in the reader

37. …them the crovvn of righteousnes vvhich is layd vp for all them that loue→love his appeering.

    Henry Ainsworth · A True Confession of the Faith · Open in the reader

38. The words of Chriſt, Thou ſhalt loue→love the Lord thy God, &c. expounded.

    Peter Martyr Vermigli · Common Places · p. 556 · Open in the reader

39. …into the heart of man, the things God hath prepared for them that loue→love him. The eye sees much, the eare heares more, the heart conceaues…

    Thomas Adams · The Devils Banket Described · p. 196 · Open in the reader

40. …saue vs: he loued vs, that his Actions might direct vs. Walke in loue→love, as Christ, &c.

    Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 127 · Open in the reader

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