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chuchChurch

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

Puritas changed it
159 times in 133 works
Consistency
92.4% (159 of 172)
Reach if approved
~181 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
172 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (159 changes in 133 works, 92.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 159)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … God and nature hath beſtowed vpon me. As it is vnpoſſible to build a ChuchChurch without lyme or ſtone, no more can a workman worke without tooles, yet to …
    With rule
    … God and nature hath beſtowed vpon me. As it is vnpoſſible to build a ChuchChurch without lyme or ſtone, no more can a workman worke without tooles, yet to …

    Joseph Swetnam · The Noble and Worthy Science of Defense · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … some prayers are made daily at set times: and thence it was that the ChuchChurch of the Jewes had their houres of prayer, Acts 3.1. and some are uttered suddenly …
    With rule
    … some prayers are made daily at set times: and thence it was that the ChuchChurch of the Jewes had their houres of prayer, Acts 3.1. and some are uttered suddenly …

    Nicholas Byfield · A Commentary on 1 Peter 1-3 · p. 671 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … to them that (in the Apostles Phrase) desire Occasion. The lightest distempers in the ChuchChurch being contagious, and most apt (when fomented by ambitious designers) to beget an universal …
    With rule
    … to them that (in the Apostles Phrase) desire Occasion. The lightest distempers in the ChuchChurch being contagious, and most apt (when fomented by ambitious designers) to beget an universal …

    Richard Allestree · The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety · p. 315 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    2. They exclude all from Chriſts ChuchChurch, who are not the Popes Subjects, though at the Antipodes, where he never came …
    With rule
    2. They exclude all from Chriſts ChuchChurch, who are not the Popes Subjects, though at the Antipodes, where he never came …

    Richard Baxter · A Search for the English Schismatic · p. 2 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … a power of edification, which the Lord hath given to every Member of the ChuchChurch, to exerciſe mutually one over another, to ſave ſome with compaſsion, others with feare …
    With rule
    … a power of edification, which the Lord hath given to every Member of the ChuchChurch, to exerciſe mutually one over another, to ſave ſome with compaſsion, others with feare …

    John Cotton · The Doctrine of the Church · p. 11 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … that Council at Ierusalem, who must needs be understood of fixed Pastors of that ChuchChurch. The Surveyer (P. 210.) offers to our thoughts, Whether James, the LORDS Brother, called by …
    With rule
    … that Council at Ierusalem, who must needs be understood of fixed Pastors of that ChuchChurch. The Surveyer (P. 210.) offers to our thoughts, Whether James, the LORDS Brother, called by …

    Thomas Forrester · The Hierarchical Bishops Claim Tried at the Scripture-Bar · p. 34 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … neede of our seruice, and therefore he hath set ouer his loue to the ChuchChurch, there to be answered vnto her in obedidience, & furtherance of his members; there he …
    With rule
    … neede of our seruice, and therefore he hath set ouer his loue to the ChuchChurch, there to be answered vnto her in obedidience, & furtherance of his members; there he …

    Richard Greenham · Works · p. 648 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … and assent unto it. Whence it falls out many times, that a Vsurer, a ChuchChurch-robber, or some other not willing to leave this or that course, though doubtfull …
    With rule
    … and assent unto it. Whence it falls out many times, that a Vsurer, a ChuchChurch-robber, or some other not willing to leave this or that course, though doubtfull …

    William Pemble · A Plea for Grace · p. 167 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (13)

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

Parallels Censures A12557

  • Printed
    … ordinary & ſome occaſional or extraordinary? & do you think that to be of a true chuchChurch, & to live in a true church are one thing? we ſay that members of …
    With rule
    … ordinary & ſome occaſional or extraordinary? & do you think that to be of a true chuchChurch, & to live in a true church are one thing? we ſay that members of …

    John Smyth · Parallels Censures · p. 17 · Open in the reader

The Utter Routing of the Whole Army of All the Independents and Sectaries A26759

  • Printed
    … be governed to the end of the world; and this is indeed the true chuchChurch mould, according to the New Teſtament forme, that all churches ought to be caſt …
    With rule
    … be governed to the end of the world; and this is indeed the true chuchChurch mould, according to the New Teſtament forme, that all churches ought to be caſt …

    John Bastwick · The Utter Routing of the Whole Army of All the Independents and Sectaries · p. 140 · Open in the reader