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impulsiueimpulsive

u and v used by position, not sound: haue → have, vnto → unto.

Puritas changed it
96 times in 46 works
Consistency
95.0% (96 of 101)
Reach if approved
~106 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: impulsive
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
101 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (96 changes in 46 works, 95.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 96)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … himselfe, though there were no other wages: And when hee findes such a strong impulsiueimpulsive in him, in his owne heart, that carries him on to serue the Lord …
    With rule
    … himselfe, though there were no other wages: And when hee findes such a strong impulsiueimpulsive in him, in his owne heart, that carries him on to serue the Lord …

    John Preston · The Breastplate of Faith and Love · p. 30 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … fountaine or cauſe is euill, cannot be good: wherefore diſcontentment being an euil cauſe impulſiueimpulsive of deſiring riches, the deſire of riches is a ſinne alſo.
    With rule
    … fountaine or cauſe is euill, cannot be good: wherefore diſcontentment being an euil cauſe impulſiueimpulsive of deſiring riches, the deſire of riches is a ſinne alſo.

    John Smyth · A Pattern of True Prayer · p. 130 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … purpose and to giue Christ for our Sauiour, and therfore could not be the impulsiueimpulsive cause to Gods loue, to the which it is subordinate, and not superior. Indeed …
    With rule
    … purpose and to giue Christ for our Sauiour, and therfore could not be the impulsiueimpulsive cause to Gods loue, to the which it is subordinate, and not superior. Indeed …

    Thomas Wilson · Commentary on Romans · p. 689 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … as well as others, Eph. 2.1.3. Fourthly, the Lord reſpected not our faith as an impulſiueimpulsive cauſe mouing him to elect vs, but only as an effect of our election …
    With rule
    … as well as others, Eph. 2.1.3. Fourthly, the Lord reſpected not our faith as an impulſiueimpulsive cauſe mouing him to elect vs, but only as an effect of our election …

    John Downame · The Christian Warfare Part 1 · p. 175 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … could light into it, without eſpeciall reaſon and ſound conſideration. Now there be many impulſiueimpulsive cauſes, or reaſons giuen in Scripture why Chriſt muſt ſuffer: as
    With rule
    … could light into it, without eſpeciall reaſon and ſound conſideration. Now there be many impulſiueimpulsive cauſes, or reaſons giuen in Scripture why Chriſt muſt ſuffer: as

    Nicholas Byfield · The Rule of Faith · p. 310 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … and motions are answerable to the prescript of the law, first in the true impulsiueimpulsive cause, which is the right knowledge and loue of God, and then in the …
    With rule
    … and motions are answerable to the prescript of the law, first in the true impulsiueimpulsive cause, which is the right knowledge and loue of God, and then in the …

    Theodore Beza · Job Expounded · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … glory as the finall cause, the riches of his goodnesse as the efficient and impulsiueimpulsive, so that the true Christian need neither buy it in the royall exchange of …
    With rule
    … glory as the finall cause, the riches of his goodnesse as the efficient and impulsiueimpulsive, so that the true Christian need neither buy it in the royall exchange of …

    Robert Mandevill · Timothys Task · p. 41 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … make knowen his iustice in them. This act hath a finall cause, but no impulsiueimpulsive cause out of God. For it ariseth of Gods meere good pleasure, no respect …
    With rule
    … make knowen his iustice in them. This act hath a finall cause, but no impulsiueimpulsive cause out of God. For it ariseth of Gods meere good pleasure, no respect …

    William Perkins · Predestination · p. 25 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

4 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Ten Sermons A11454

  • Printed
    … ate the sacrifices of the dead.] The Plague, with the Efficient cause thereof, both ImpulsiueImpulsive and Principall, vers. 29. [Thus they prouoked him to anger with their Inuentions, and the …
    With rule
    … ate the sacrifices of the dead.] The Plague, with the Efficient cause thereof, both ImpulsiueImpulsive and Principall, vers. 29. [Thus they prouoked him to anger with their Inuentions, and the …

    Robert Sanderson · Ten Sermons · p. 239 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … kind of Cause de numero efficientium, which the learned for distinctions sake call the ImpulsiueImpulsive Cause: and it is such a cause, as moueth and induceth the principall Agent …
    With rule
    … kind of Cause de numero efficientium, which the learned for distinctions sake call the ImpulsiueImpulsive Cause: and it is such a cause, as moueth and induceth the principall Agent …

    Robert Sanderson · Ten Sermons · p. 384 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … against his house; as appeareth in 4. Kings 9. and 10. But now, what the true proper ImpulsiueImpulsive cause should be, for which he was so punished, and which moued God at …
    With rule
    … against his house; as appeareth in 4. Kings 9. and 10. But now, what the true proper ImpulsiueImpulsive cause should be, for which he was so punished, and which moued God at …

    Robert Sanderson · Ten Sermons · p. 384 · Open in the reader

Christs Cross A19511

  • Printed
    … the interceſſion of his ſonne, offering himſelfe to be puniſhed for vs is the ImpulſiueImpulsive cauſe.
    With rule
    … the interceſſion of his ſonne, offering himſelfe to be puniſhed for vs is the ImpulſiueImpulsive cauſe.

    John Andrewes · Christs Cross · p. 65 · Open in the reader