Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #10759 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

melchisedechMelchizedek

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

Puritas changed it: 1,009 times in 289 works
Consistency: 98.3% (1,009 of 1,026)
Reach if approved: ~1,078 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,026 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,009 changes in 289 works, 98.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,009)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

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… as an all-sufficient sacrifice vpon the Crosse, neu… againe to bee repeated, Heb. 7. 27. 10. MelchisedechMelchizedek was greater then Abraham: and consequently, then all Israel which then was in his …
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… as an all-sufficient sacrifice vpon the Crosse, neu… againe to bee repeated, Heb. 7. 27. 10. MelchisedechMelchizedek was greater then Abraham: and consequently, then all Israel which then was in his …
William Guild · Moses Unveiled · p. 26 · Open in the reader
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… to an end, and another Priest was to rise vp after the order of MelchisedechMelchizedek, who because he endureth ever should have a priesthood that can not passe from …
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… to an end, and another Priest was to rise vp after the order of MelchisedechMelchizedek, who because he endureth ever should have a priesthood that can not passe from …
Francis Johnson · The Ministry of the Church of England · p. 51 · Open in the reader
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… to corroborate & establysshe for euermore. This is that euerlastynge preeste, after the order of MelchisedechMelchizedek. This is he, whome so manye kynges and Prophetes haue desyred to se. And …
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… to corroborate & establysshe for euermore. This is that euerlastynge preeste, after the order of MelchisedechMelchizedek. This is he, whome so manye kynges and Prophetes haue desyred to se. And …
Thomas Becon · News Out of Heaven · Open in the reader
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… willingly vnto them, without inquiring how they were gathered and conuerted: as Abraham to MelchiſedechMelchizedek, Rahab to Iſrael, the Eunuch to Philip, y^e Iaylor to Paul & Silas.
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… willingly vnto them, without inquiring how they were gathered and conuerted: as Abraham to MelchiſedechMelchizedek, Rahab to Iſrael, the Eunuch to Philip, y^e Iaylor to Paul & Silas.
Richard Bernard · Christian Advertisements and Counsels of Peace · p. 182 · Open in the reader
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… Priest, in the Gospel, being a Priest for euer, according to the order of MelchisedechMelchizedek. This Sacrifice is onely one, and once onely offered, and that by himselfe alone …
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… Priest, in the Gospel, being a Priest for euer, according to the order of MelchisedechMelchizedek. This Sacrifice is onely one, and once onely offered, and that by himselfe alone …
John Phillips · The Way to Heaven · p. 31 · Open in the reader
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… He was a Prince of the world, and yet a Preacher of righteouſneſſe. To MelchiſedechMelchizedek, who was King of Salem, and yet a Prieſt vnto the Lord? To Samuel …
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… He was a Prince of the world, and yet a Preacher of righteouſneſſe. To MelchiſedechMelchizedek, who was King of Salem, and yet a Prieſt vnto the Lord? To Samuel …
Nehemiah Rogers · The Wild Vine · p. 17 · Open in the reader
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… betweene God and man, and an high priest for euer after the order of MelchisedechMelchizedek.
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… betweene God and man, and an high priest for euer after the order of MelchisedechMelchizedek.
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 66 · Open in the reader
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… anie of the laietie? when now that Prieſt for euer after the order of MelchiſedechMelchizedek, euen our high Prieſt, ſitting at the right hand of the Father, maketh interceſsion …
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… anie of the laietie? when now that Prieſt for euer after the order of MelchiſedechMelchizedek, euen our high Prieſt, ſitting at the right hand of the Father, maketh interceſsion …
George Gifford · Plain Declaration that Brownists be Full Donatists · p. 56 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (17)

11 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 8 are listed here. 6 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Moses Unveiled A02353

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1. MElchisedechMelchizedek, a King of righteousnes. So is Christ that truely, Reu. 15. Heb. 7. 2. 2. Also King of …
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1. MElchisedechMelchizedek, a King of righteousnes. So is Christ that truely, Reu. 15. Heb. 7. 2. 2. Also King of …
William Guild · Moses Unveiled · p. 26 · Open in the reader
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MElchisedechMelchizedek was man onely, and consequently sinfull: but our High-Priest is God and Man …
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MElchisedechMelchizedek was man onely, and consequently sinfull: but our High-Priest is God and Man …
William Guild · Moses Unveiled · p. 29 · Open in the reader

Sermon on the History of Melchizedek A17696

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… this is it that wee are heereby to learne. Hee ſaith anon after, THAT MELCHISEDECHMELCHIZEDEK BLESSED ABRAM, becauſe hee was the Prieſt of the high God. This bleſsing importeth …
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… this is it that wee are heereby to learne. Hee ſaith anon after, THAT MELCHISEDECHMELCHIZEDEK BLESSED ABRAM, becauſe hee was the Prieſt of the high God. This bleſsing importeth …
John Calvin · Sermon on the History of Melchizedek · p. 43 · Open in the reader

Sermons Preached on Romans 8 A46354

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… command the faith of ſuch who are ſerious and conſiderative. For inſtance, Gen. 14.18. And MELCHISEDECHMELCHIZEDEK King of SALEM brought forth bread and wine, and be was the Prieſt of …
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… command the faith of ſuch who are ſerious and conſiderative. For inſtance, Gen. 14.18. And MELCHISEDECHMELCHIZEDEK King of SALEM brought forth bread and wine, and be was the Prieſt of …
Thomas Jacombe · Sermons Preached on Romans 8 · p. 533 · Open in the reader
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… and be was the Prieſt of the moſt high God: whence they thus argue, MELCHISEDECHMELCHIZEDEK did ſacrifice bread and wine, there (ſay they) was an unbloody Sacrifice, and that …
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… and be was the Prieſt of the moſt high God: whence they thus argue, MELCHISEDECHMELCHIZEDEK did ſacrifice bread and wine, there (ſay they) was an unbloody Sacrifice, and that …
Thomas Jacombe · Sermons Preached on Romans 8 · p. 533 · Open in the reader
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(1.) 'Tis not evident, that what MELCHISEDECHMELCHIZEDEK here did was done in the way of a Sacrifice to God: 'tis ſaid …
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(1.) 'Tis not evident, that what MELCHISEDECHMELCHIZEDEK here did was done in the way of a Sacrifice to God: 'tis ſaid …
Thomas Jacombe · Sermons Preached on Romans 8 · p. 534 · Open in the reader
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… to thoſe who cannot (juſtly) pretend to be …rieſts according to the order of MELCHISEDECHMELCHIZEDEK, (that being an incommunicable order)? And
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… to thoſe who cannot (juſtly) pretend to be …rieſts according to the order of MELCHISEDECHMELCHIZEDEK, (that being an incommunicable order)? And
Thomas Jacombe · Sermons Preached on Romans 8 · p. 534 · Open in the reader
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… are the things wherein all along in that Chapter he illuſtrates Chriſt's agreement with MELCHISEDECHMELCHIZEDEK.
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… are the things wherein all along in that Chapter he illuſtrates Chriſt's agreement with MELCHISEDECHMELCHIZEDEK.
Thomas Jacombe · Sermons Preached on Romans 8 · p. 534 · Open in the reader