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apostoliqueApostolic

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

Puritas changed it
491 times in 142 works
Consistency
95.3% (491 of 515)
Reach if approved
~541 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: apostolic
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
515 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (491 changes in 142 works, 95.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 491)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … do litle, or nothing, much leſſe eſtabliſh Sonday to bee the Lords day, without ApoſtoliqueApostolic authoritie? Laſtly; If Titus an Euangelist could not reforme Creta, nor ordaine Elders, but …
    With rule
    … do litle, or nothing, much leſſe eſtabliſh Sonday to bee the Lords day, without ApoſtoliqueApostolic authoritie? Laſtly; If Titus an Euangelist could not reforme Creta, nor ordaine Elders, but …

    James Balmford · Concerning the Lords Day, State of the Church of Rome, Execution of Priests · p. 23 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … durſt attempt all things for Gods glory, and the honour of the holy See ApoſtoliqueApostolic: And being puft vp with ſaucy malapertneſſe of abuſing your power, made no ſurer …
    With rule
    … durſt attempt all things for Gods glory, and the honour of the holy See ApoſtoliqueApostolic: And being puft vp with ſaucy malapertneſſe of abuſing your power, made no ſurer …

    Martin Luther · The Liberty of a Christian · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … of Pauls ſpeciall care euen for the congregation where perſonally, by reaſon of his ApoſtoliqueApostolic office, he could not be ſtil reſident. And verily the mind of a godly …
    With rule
    … of Pauls ſpeciall care euen for the congregation where perſonally, by reaſon of his ApoſtoliqueApostolic office, he could not be ſtil reſident. And verily the mind of a godly …

    John Prime · Exposition of Galatians · p. 189 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … in endevoring to reduce the worſhip and miniſtery of the Church, to the primitive ApoſtoliqueApostolic inſtitution from which as yet it is ſo farr diſtant: VVherfor my earneſt deſire …
    With rule
    … in endevoring to reduce the worſhip and miniſtery of the Church, to the primitive ApoſtoliqueApostolic inſtitution from which as yet it is ſo farr diſtant: VVherfor my earneſt deſire …

    John Smyth · The Differences of the Churches of the Separation · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … will you cal Peter ſacrilegious, becauſe to Simon Magus a reprobate, but profeſſing the ApoſtoliqueApostolic faith, he in Gods name oſtered grace, and to his power ſealed it by …
    With rule
    … will you cal Peter ſacrilegious, becauſe to Simon Magus a reprobate, but profeſſing the ApoſtoliqueApostolic faith, he in Gods name oſtered grace, and to his power ſealed it by …

    Zacharias Ursinus · Collection of Discourses · p. 27 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … sacerdotib▪ nati Apostolicae sedi praefuerunt: Many are found that being priestes sonnes ruled the ApostoliqueApostolic sea of Rome: as pope Syluerius, pope Deusdedit, pope Adriane 2. pope Iohn 15. and diuers …
    With rule
    … sacerdotib▪ nati Apostolicae sedi praefuerunt: Many are found that being priestes sonnes ruled the ApostoliqueApostolic sea of Rome: as pope Syluerius, pope Deusdedit, pope Adriane 2. pope Iohn 15. and diuers …

    Andrew Willet · The Four Principal Pillars of Papistry · p. 42 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … in the Churche, yet requireth the ſame to be approued by the ſinceritie of ApoſtoliqueApostolic doctrine: yea, hée acknowledgeth thoſe Churches whiche are inſtructed with pure doctrine, and yet …
    With rule
    … in the Churche, yet requireth the ſame to be approued by the ſinceritie of ApoſtoliqueApostolic doctrine: yea, hée acknowledgeth thoſe Churches whiche are inſtructed with pure doctrine, and yet …

    Henrich Bullinger · Fifty Sermons Containing the Chief Points of the Christian Religion · p. 830 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    But when the ApostoliqueApostolic doctrine displayed his bright beames to the world first, as it was heauenly, and …
    With rule
    But when the ApostoliqueApostolic doctrine displayed his bright beames to the world first, as it was heauenly, and …

    John Foxe · The Pope Confuted · p. 51 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (24)

21 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 12 are listed here. 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Touchstone to Determine the True Catholic Faith A13969

  • Printed
    … plainelie proue. Is it not proud and arrogant? who brotherlie exhortes not, like the apostoliqueApostolic spirit: but commandes and threatens, like Antichrist. Is it not full of wordes? as …
    With rule
    … plainelie proue. Is it not proud and arrogant? who brotherlie exhortes not, like the apostoliqueApostolic spirit: but commandes and threatens, like Antichrist. Is it not full of wordes? as …

    Francis Trigge · Touchstone to Determine the True Catholic Faith · p. 203 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … learned. Where he preferreth councels, before the apostoliqueApostolic seaes. And after also concerning the apostoliqueApostolic seaes, he writes thus: You see (saieth he) howe many are cutte off from …
    With rule
    … learned. Where he preferreth councels, before the apostoliqueApostolic seaes. And after also concerning the apostoliqueApostolic seaes, he writes thus: You see (saieth he) howe many are cutte off from …

    Francis Trigge · Touchstone to Determine the True Catholic Faith · p. 284 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … of sinne and ignorance, by sending his holie spirit. The Apostles and all the apostoliqueApostolic seaes, were but planters of this vine: as S. Paul saith, Paul hath planted …
    With rule
    … of sinne and ignorance, by sending his holie spirit. The Apostles and all the apostoliqueApostolic seaes, were but planters of this vine: as S. Paul saith, Paul hath planted …

    Francis Trigge · Touchstone to Determine the True Catholic Faith · p. 284 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … all the world; and that they ordained churches in euery citie, which were called apostoliqueApostolic churches, from which all the rest, (as it were) borrowed their doctrine. Furthermore, that …
    With rule
    … all the world; and that they ordained churches in euery citie, which were called apostoliqueApostolic churches, from which all the rest, (as it were) borrowed their doctrine. Furthermore, that …

    Francis Trigge · Touchstone to Determine the True Catholic Faith · p. 286 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … we see is made at this day. For he reckons her among the other apostoliqueApostolic churches. He doth not make her the onely apostoliqueApostolic church, he makes her one …
    With rule
    … we see is made at this day. For he reckons her among the other apostoliqueApostolic churches. He doth not make her the onely apostoliqueApostolic church, he makes her one …

    Francis Trigge · Touchstone to Determine the True Catholic Faith · p. 286 · Open in the reader

Fifty Sermons Containing the Chief Points of the Christian Religion A17183

  • Printed
    … which they had til then preached vnto y• churches, as the catholique, true, and apoſtoliqueApostolic doctrine, to wite, that they which wilbe ſaued, muſt bee circumciſed and keepe the …
    With rule
    … which they had til then preached vnto y• churches, as the catholique, true, and apoſtoliqueApostolic doctrine, to wite, that they which wilbe ſaued, muſt bee circumciſed and keepe the …

    Henrich Bullinger · Fifty Sermons Containing the Chief Points of the Christian Religion · p. 422 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … not farre I truſt from our purpoſe, to ſpeake of the decrée of the apoſtoliqueApostolic Synode helde at Hieruſalem: and thus muche at this time touching the abrogation of …
    With rule
    … not farre I truſt from our purpoſe, to ſpeake of the decrée of the apoſtoliqueApostolic Synode helde at Hieruſalem: and thus muche at this time touching the abrogation of …

    Henrich Bullinger · Fifty Sermons Containing the Chief Points of the Christian Religion · p. 426 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … ye papiſticall churche do boaſt, yt they haue a moſt certein marke of the apoſtoliqueApostolic church, to wit, in y• continuall ſucceſſion of biſhops, cōming from S. Peter by …
    With rule
    … ye papiſticall churche do boaſt, yt they haue a moſt certein marke of the apoſtoliqueApostolic church, to wit, in y• continuall ſucceſſion of biſhops, cōming from S. Peter by …

    Henrich Bullinger · Fifty Sermons Containing the Chief Points of the Christian Religion · p. 828 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … after thē. Paul y• apoſtle not frō any other place, than out of the apoſtoliqueApostolic churche it ſelfe, yea, out of the companie or aſſembly of ApoſtoliqueApostolic Byſhops and …
    With rule
    … after thē. Paul y• apoſtle not frō any other place, than out of the apoſtoliqueApostolic churche it ſelfe, yea, out of the companie or aſſembly of ApoſtoliqueApostolic Byſhops and …

    Henrich Bullinger · Fifty Sermons Containing the Chief Points of the Christian Religion · p. 828 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … cruel enimes, yt is to ſay, ye defenders of the Romane Monarchie, & of the apoſtoliqueApostolic ſea, as they cal it, & the moſt auncient church: for they cry euē while …
    With rule
    … cruel enimes, yt is to ſay, ye defenders of the Romane Monarchie, & of the apoſtoliqueApostolic ſea, as they cal it, & the moſt auncient church: for they cry euē while …

    Henrich Bullinger · Fifty Sermons Containing the Chief Points of the Christian Religion · p. 849 · Open in the reader

Assertion of the Government of the Church of Scotland A42758

  • Printed
    … robbing of congregations of their right, the exercising of ecclesiasticall government, in all the apostoliqueApostolic Churches, & our accoring with Papists & the Hierarchy. All which objections have been before repelled …
    With rule
    … robbing of congregations of their right, the exercising of ecclesiasticall government, in all the apostoliqueApostolic Churches, & our accoring with Papists & the Hierarchy. All which objections have been before repelled …

    George Gillespie · Assertion of the Government of the Church of Scotland · p. 39 · Open in the reader

Independency Not Gods Ordinance A76080

  • Printed
    … did their acting as Presbyters, deprive them of their ApoſtoliqueApostolic power, nor of that apoſtoliqueApostolic ſpirit which guided them, even in theſe things wherein they acted as Presbyters, for …
    With rule
    … did their acting as Presbyters, deprive them of their ApoſtoliqueApostolic power, nor of that apoſtoliqueApostolic ſpirit which guided them, even in theſe things wherein they acted as Presbyters, for …

    John Bastwick · Independency Not Gods Ordinance · p. 84 · Open in the reader