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presbytryPresbytery

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

Puritas changed it
168 times in 23 works
Consistency
98.2% (168 of 171)
Reach if approved
~180 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: presbytery
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
171 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (168 changes in 23 works, 98.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 168)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … of Excommunication, is by the Apostle Paul 1 Cor. 5. supposed to be competent to a PresbytryPresbytery. And therefore, Titus could have no Sole and Ordinary Authority herein. For what the …
    With rule
    … of Excommunication, is by the Apostle Paul 1 Cor. 5. supposed to be competent to a PresbytryPresbytery. And therefore, Titus could have no Sole and Ordinary Authority herein. For what the …

    Thomas Forrester · The Hierarchical Bishops Claim Tried at the Scripture-Bar · p. 25 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … that though there was one common Government then, by Elders; It inferrs not a PresbytryPresbytery but a Congregational Eldership only. This is the sum of all that is said …
    With rule
    … that though there was one common Government then, by Elders; It inferrs not a PresbytryPresbytery but a Congregational Eldership only. This is the sum of all that is said …

    James Fergusson · Refutation of the Errors Toleration Erastianism Independency and Separation · p. 165 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … Essay is from p. 58. to let us see the several periods of Episcopacy and PresbytryPresbytery, in the Church of Scotland since the Reformation: And this he doth out of …
    With rule
    … Essay is from p. 58. to let us see the several periods of Episcopacy and PresbytryPresbytery, in the Church of Scotland since the Reformation: And this he doth out of …

    Gilbert Rule · Defense of the Vindication of the Church of Scotland · p. 40 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … in him, all that follow his ſteps, and will not ſubmit themſelves to the PresbytryPresbytery which is Gods Ordinance, and that will not receive the brethren into the Churches …
    With rule
    … in him, all that follow his ſteps, and will not ſubmit themſelves to the PresbytryPresbytery which is Gods Ordinance, and that will not receive the brethren into the Churches …

    John Bastwick · Independency Not Gods Ordinance · p. 12 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … by it they are brought to ignorance, contempt and beggery. Anſ. Whither Epiſcopacy or PresbytryPresbytery is the fitteſt inſtrumen to avert theſe evills, let reaſon or experience teach men …
    With rule
    … by it they are brought to ignorance, contempt and beggery. Anſ. Whither Epiſcopacy or PresbytryPresbytery is the fitteſt inſtrumen to avert theſe evills, let reaſon or experience teach men …

    Robert Baillie · Review of the Seditious Pamphlet by Dr Bramble · p. 55 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … Preaching-Presbyters, if any be within his Pariſh; alſo conſidered as Moderator of the PresbytryPresbytery, he is ſtill a Miniſter, and hath Rule over all the Miniſters, and People …
    With rule
    … Preaching-Presbyters, if any be within his Pariſh; alſo conſidered as Moderator of the PresbytryPresbytery, he is ſtill a Miniſter, and hath Rule over all the Miniſters, and People …

    Gilbert Rule · The Cyprianic-Bishop Examined · p. 84 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … part, have delivered this power of Ordination to the Presbytery jure DIVINO. Afterward the PresbytryPresbytery conferred, jure humano, this power upon them, who were specially called Bishops. Whence the …
    With rule
    … part, have delivered this power of Ordination to the Presbytery jure DIVINO. Afterward the PresbytryPresbytery conferred, jure humano, this power upon them, who were specially called Bishops. Whence the …

    George Gillespie · Dispute Against the English-Popish Ceremonies · p. 169 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … and monthly diſputations in Latine upon the controverted heads be looked upon which the PresbytryPresbytery exacts of every Miniſter after his ordination all the dayes of his life: for …
    With rule
    … and monthly diſputations in Latine upon the controverted heads be looked upon which the PresbytryPresbytery exacts of every Miniſter after his ordination all the dayes of his life: for …

    Robert Baillie · Review of Brambles Warning Against the Scots Discipline · p. 72 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Independency Not Gods Ordinance A76080

  • Printed
    … the Lords and Commons now ſitting in the great Councell, as the grand civill presbytryPresbytery of the Kingdome, where all binding Ordinances are to be paſſed by the joynt …
    With rule
    … the Lords and Commons now ſitting in the great Councell, as the grand civill presbytryPresbytery of the Kingdome, where all binding Ordinances are to be paſſed by the joynt …

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

  • Printed
    … by the joint conſent of the Apoſtles and Presbyters, as under a grand common presbytryPresbytery, this at pleaſure they teject and make it no way exemplary and binding. But …
    With rule
    … by the joint conſent of the Apoſtles and Presbyters, as under a grand common presbytryPresbytery, this at pleaſure they teject and make it no way exemplary and binding. But …

    John Bastwick · Independency Not Gods Ordinance · p. 91 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … governement, and did really governe that church. But the places above coted prove a presbytryPresbytery in Ieruſalem, or an aſſociation of presbyters in that church; ergo, they prove that …
    With rule
    … governement, and did really governe that church. But the places above coted prove a presbytryPresbytery in Ieruſalem, or an aſſociation of presbyters in that church; ergo, they prove that …

    John Bastwick · Independency Not Gods Ordinance · p. 95 · Open in the reader