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apostolickeApostolic

Proper names whose form changes beyond mechanical spelling: Ionas → Jonah. Approve one at a time.

Puritas changed it
519 times in 126 works
Consistency
97.5% (519 of 532)
Reach if approved
~559 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: apostolic
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
532 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (519 changes in 126 works, 97.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 519)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … the saide writers doe recorde, did call them selues Apostolici, that is to say ApostolickeApostolic or followers of the Apostles, so they woulde be termed to delude the ignorant …
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    … the saide writers doe recorde, did call them selues Apostolici, that is to say ApostolickeApostolic or followers of the Apostles, so they woulde be termed to delude the ignorant …

    William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 420 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … learned rules and examples of the kinds of it, viz. Septuagint, Talmudick, Atticke and ApostolickeApostolic. The Hebrew or Syrian (for so that word Hebrew in the title of the …
    With rule
    … learned rules and examples of the kinds of it, viz. Septuagint, Talmudick, Atticke and ApostolickeApostolic. The Hebrew or Syrian (for so that word Hebrew in the title of the …

    John Lightfoot · Miscellanies Christian and Judaical · p. 123 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … Antichrist was long since borne in Rome, & shall be yet aduanced higher in the ApostolickeApostolic See. Petrarch saith, Once Rome, now Babylon. And Ireneus booke 5. chap. last, said before …
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    … Antichrist was long since borne in Rome, & shall be yet aduanced higher in the ApostolickeApostolic See. Petrarch saith, Once Rome, now Babylon. And Ireneus booke 5. chap. last, said before …

    William Perkins · A Golden Chain · p. 907 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … humane presumption, and not by divine Institution, and consequently not by Apostolike Tradition. For ApostolickeApostolic Tradition is farre from …um…ne presumption; So as it is humane presumption to …
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    … humane presumption, and not by divine Institution, and consequently not by Apostolike Tradition. For ApostolickeApostolic Tradition is farre from …um…ne presumption; So as it is humane presumption to …

    William Prynne · Lord Bishops None of the Lords Bishops · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … communion in the Church, this is no sinne nor a thing forbidden by any ApostolickeApostolic precept. But PLATINA is dreaming when hee ascribeth such friuolous constitutions to a Bishop …
    With rule
    … communion in the Church, this is no sinne nor a thing forbidden by any ApostolickeApostolic precept. But PLATINA is dreaming when hee ascribeth such friuolous constitutions to a Bishop …

    Patrick Simson · History of the First Ten Persecutions · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … Tertullian) dare fetch their continuance from the Apoſtles time, that therefore they may ſeeme ApoſtolickeApostolic, becauſe they were, while the Apoſtles liued; we may ſay, let them ſhew the …
    With rule
    … Tertullian) dare fetch their continuance from the Apoſtles time, that therefore they may ſeeme ApoſtolickeApostolic, becauſe they were, while the Apoſtles liued; we may ſay, let them ſhew the …

    Anthony Wotton · A Trial of the Romish Clergys Title to the Church · p. 300 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … Dignitie, but according to Canonicall Sanctions and Decrees of Holy Fathers, Wee doe by ApostolickeApostolic Authoritie adiudge them to bee altogether condemned and deposed. What terrible thunder claps bee …
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    … Dignitie, but according to Canonicall Sanctions and Decrees of Holy Fathers, Wee doe by ApostolickeApostolic Authoritie adiudge them to bee altogether condemned and deposed. What terrible thunder claps bee …

    Henry Burton · A Censure of Simony · p. 81 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … of gūne shot, they carelesly despise vs, and laugh at vs. For the Sea ApostolickeApostolic is so great, that it easely swalloweth vp all the Doctors that euer were …
    With rule
    … of gūne shot, they carelesly despise vs, and laugh at vs. For the Sea ApostolickeApostolic is so great, that it easely swalloweth vp all the Doctors that euer were …

    John Calvin · The Little Book · p. 99 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (13)

12 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.

Two Treatises Against the Papists A01335

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    … bring the first author of their heresies, eyther from any of the Apostles: or apostolickeApostolic men which cōtinued in the doctrine of the Apostles: as Tertullian doth in that …
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    … bring the first author of their heresies, eyther from any of the Apostles: or apostolickeApostolic men which cōtinued in the doctrine of the Apostles: as Tertullian doth in that …

    William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 373 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … receiue of the Apostles: Therefore it was a true Church, therefore it was an apostolickeApostolic Church, which because it doth not nowe, neither hath done of many yeares, and …
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    … receiue of the Apostles: Therefore it was a true Church, therefore it was an apostolickeApostolic Church, which because it doth not nowe, neither hath done of many yeares, and …

    William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 373 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … false church, and a company of heretikes, departed from the auncient Romaines true and apostolickeApostolic faith.
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    … false church, and a company of heretikes, departed from the auncient Romaines true and apostolickeApostolic faith.

    William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 373 · Open in the reader

A Compend of the Controversies of Religion A02349

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    Note then, That continuance in Chriſts trueth, and apoſtolickeApostolic doctrine, with the holie exerciſe of prayer, and participation of Sacraments, is a cleare …
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    Note then, That continuance in Chriſts trueth, and apoſtolickeApostolic doctrine, with the holie exerciſe of prayer, and participation of Sacraments, is a cleare …

    William Guild · A Compend of the Controversies of Religion · p. 46 · Open in the reader

Answer to John De Albines A12701

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    … ſome ſort is already confirmed. But my reaſon indeede is, that true and ſounde apoſtolickeApostolic doctrine, in the good prouidence of God towards his Church, opened and continued in …
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    … ſome ſort is already confirmed. But my reaſon indeede is, that true and ſounde apoſtolickeApostolic doctrine, in the good prouidence of God towards his Church, opened and continued in …

    Thomas Sparke · Answer to John De Albines · p. 25 · Open in the reader

Confession of the Christian Religion A15857

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    … commaunding vs: and therefore leaſt wee ſhould ſtill abide in an apoſtaſie from the apoſtolickeApostolic and catholicke church, wee haue iudged it our partes and dueties to returne at …
    With rule
    … commaunding vs: and therefore leaſt wee ſhould ſtill abide in an apoſtaſie from the apoſtolickeApostolic and catholicke church, wee haue iudged it our partes and dueties to returne at …

    Girolamo Zanchi · Confession of the Christian Religion · p. 197 · Open in the reader

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    … ehurch of Rome: but only in thoſe things, wherein it hath fallen from the apoſtolickeApostolic church, and euen from it ſelfe, and from the old and ſound church: nether …
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    … ehurch of Rome: but only in thoſe things, wherein it hath fallen from the apoſtolickeApostolic church, and euen from it ſelfe, and from the old and ſound church: nether …

    Girolamo Zanchi · Confession of the Christian Religion · p. 198 · Open in the reader

A Defense of the Sermon Preached at the Consecration of the Bishop of Bath A20733

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    … one pregnant testimony of any sound writer, or example of any one orthodoxal or apostolickeApostolic Church (viz. in the first three hundred yeares after Christ and his Apostles) can …
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    … one pregnant testimony of any sound writer, or example of any one orthodoxal or apostolickeApostolic Church (viz. in the first three hundred yeares after Christ and his Apostles) can …

    George Downame · A Defense of the Sermon Preached at the Consecration of the Bishop of Bath · p. 13 · Open in the reader

A Treatise Concerning Antichrist A20740

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    … of Pagani…, whosoeuer professing himselfe to be a Christian, renounceth obedience to the S… apostolickeApostolic.
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    … of Pagani…, whosoeuer professing himselfe to be a Christian, renounceth obedience to the S… apostolickeApostolic.

    George Downame · A Treatise Concerning Antichrist · p. 131 · Open in the reader

Two Sermons A20744

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    … sometimes are called Presbyteri, so Presbyterium heere may signifie a company of Apostles or apostolickeApostolic men; in which number Paule was one. For Presbyters, as these Fathers say, might …
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    … sometimes are called Presbyteri, so Presbyterium heere may signifie a company of Apostles or apostolickeApostolic men; in which number Paule was one. For Presbyters, as these Fathers say, might …

    George Downame · Two Sermons · p. 38 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … stock. For, whiles th' episcopall power was for the most part in th' apostles & apostolickeApostolic men, those, who also had that power, were called apostles: & therfore Ambr. vnderstāds by …
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    … stock. For, whiles th' episcopall power was for the most part in th' apostles & apostolickeApostolic men, those, who also had that power, were called apostles: & therfore Ambr. vnderstāds by …

    George Downame · Two Sermons · p. 69 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … their first Bishop had for their founder and ancecessor, one of the Apostles, or apostolickeApostolic men, who had continued with the Apostles.
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    … their first Bishop had for their founder and ancecessor, one of the Apostles, or apostolickeApostolic men, who had continued with the Apostles.

    George Downame · Two Sermons · p. 86 · Open in the reader