Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11077 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

ministerieministry

Everything else the mechanical classes do not explain: shew → show, then → than.

Puritas changed it: 9,060 times in 946 works
Consistency: 99.9% (9,060 of 9,062)
Reach if approved: ~9,522 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: ministry
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 9,062 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (9,060 changes in 946 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 9,060)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… neck of diſcipline ſtraight, and ſteddie, like vnto a tower to beare vp the miniſterieministry as it were the face of the Church: and white and bewtifull as a …
With rule
… neck of diſcipline ſtraight, and ſteddie, like vnto a tower to beare vp the miniſterieministry as it were the face of the Church: and white and bewtifull as a …
Henry Finch · Exposition of the Song of Solomon · p. 53 · Open in the reader
Printed
As we require these things to bee the matter of our MinisterieMinistry in such a perplexitie; so I would wish the persons ministring to be men …
With rule
As we require these things to bee the matter of our MinisterieMinistry in such a perplexitie; so I would wish the persons ministring to be men …
Richard Greenham · Comfort for All Those Afflicted in Conscience · Open in the reader
Printed
Let me now before I leave you, and in the concluſion of my MiniſterieMinistry, pray for you, as Saint Peter did for the people in the concluſion of …
With rule
Let me now before I leave you, and in the concluſion of my MiniſterieMinistry, pray for you, as Saint Peter did for the people in the concluſion of …
Alexander Grosse · The Happiness of Enjoying and Use of Christ · p. 53 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſhal be taken from him: And for the Sacramentes, to conſider Gods inſtitution, their miniſterieministry, his mercie in Chriſt, their faith, their repentāce and their wants: and ſo ſeeking …
With rule
… ſhal be taken from him: And for the Sacramentes, to conſider Gods inſtitution, their miniſterieministry, his mercie in Chriſt, their faith, their repentāce and their wants: and ſo ſeeking …
Dudley Fenner · Godly and Learned Treatises · p. 17 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the poore, because the Lord is his refuge. Doe not many learned in the MinisterieMinistry, despising the frequencie of preaching, neglect it in their owne practise, condemne it in …
With rule
… the poore, because the Lord is his refuge. Doe not many learned in the MinisterieMinistry, despising the frequencie of preaching, neglect it in their owne practise, condemne it in …
Phineas Fletcher · The Way to Blessedness · p. 169 · Open in the reader
Printed
… hee hath called you to toyle and labour, not to scrape riches togither: to ministerieministry and submission, not to maistrie and soueraintie. Bestowe cost, and dresse the Lordes vineyarde …
With rule
… hee hath called you to toyle and labour, not to scrape riches togither: to ministerieministry and submission, not to maistrie and soueraintie. Bestowe cost, and dresse the Lordes vineyarde …
John Foxe · The Pope Confuted · p. 111 · Open in the reader
Printed
… many conduites, such as you speake of, for which purpose he vseth not the ministerieministry of man, but the vertue of the Holie Ghost. The ministerieministry of man is …
With rule
… many conduites, such as you speake of, for which purpose he vseth not the ministerieministry of man, but the vertue of the Holie Ghost. The ministerieministry of man is …
William Fulke · Rejoinder to Bristows Reply · p. 304 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſhall doe them good, not elſe; if they be contemners of our office and miniſterieministry, as many be, they are not qualified and prepared for grace: they ſhall haue …
With rule
… ſhall doe them good, not elſe; if they be contemners of our office and miniſterieministry, as many be, they are not qualified and prepared for grace: they ſhall haue …
Samuel Gibson · Sermon of Ecclesiastical Benediction · p. 19 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

2 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.

The Sacred Doctrine of Divinity A00742

Printed
MIniſterieMinistry is a publike function in the Churche. Miniſters are Gouerners or ….
With rule
MIniſterieMinistry is a publike function in the Churche. Miniſters are Gouerners or ….
Henry Finch · The Sacred Doctrine of Divinity · p. 43 · Open in the reader

A General View of Papistry A15422

Printed
THE SECOND QVESTION OF THE MINIsterieMinistry and function of Angels.
With rule
THE SECOND QVESTION OF THE MINIsterieMinistry and function of Angels.
Andrew Willet · A General View of Papistry · p. 293 · Open in the reader