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peecespieces

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

Puritas changed it
3,790 times in 1,084 works
Consistency
96.8% (3,790 of 3,914)
Reach if approved
~4,113 places (estimated)
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Agrees: pieces
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
3,914 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (3,790 changes in 1,084 works, 96.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 3,790)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … that you would conſider this, and forget not God, leaſt he teare you in peecespieces, and there bee none that can deliver you. Are the Lawes and Ordinances given …
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    … that you would conſider this, and forget not God, leaſt he teare you in peecespieces, and there bee none that can deliver you. Are the Lawes and Ordinances given …

    Thomas Helwys · Short Declaration of the Mystery of Iniquity · p. 110 · Open in the reader

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    … things were created. The next time he toucheth it, it shall br…ke to peecespieces, like a pot-sheard. The heauens shall passe away with a great noise, the …
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    … things were created. The next time he toucheth it, it shall br…ke to peecespieces, like a pot-sheard. The heauens shall passe away with a great noise, the …

    Thomas Adams · The Black Devil · p. 46 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    Secondly, he nameth and describeth the seuerall peecespieces of armour, whether defending or offending, and sheweth how to apply and vse each …
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    Secondly, he nameth and describeth the seuerall peecespieces of armour, whether defending or offending, and sheweth how to apply and vse each …

    James Forester · The Marrow and Juice of 260 Scriptures · p. 263 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … of it carnally, and supposed that our Lord minded to cutte of certeine small peecespieces of his body, and to giue them. This is an hard talk, say they …
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    … of it carnally, and supposed that our Lord minded to cutte of certeine small peecespieces of his body, and to giue them. This is an hard talk, say they …

    William Fulke · Rejoinder to Bristows Reply · p. 534 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … Nicholas that saith that Christs very body it selfe is broken and torne in peecespieces, as also of others that say, that nothing is broken at all, or nothing …
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    … Nicholas that saith that Christs very body it selfe is broken and torne in peecespieces, as also of others that say, that nothing is broken at all, or nothing …

    Thomas Gataker · Discussion of the Popish Doctrine of Transubstantiation · p. 192 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … make the hornes of yrō, and hooffes of braſſe, and thou ſhalt breake in peecespieces muche people. And I ſhall dedycate vnto the Lorde theyr ſpoyle and theyr riches …
    With rule
    … make the hornes of yrō, and hooffes of braſſe, and thou ſhalt breake in peecespieces muche people. And I ſhall dedycate vnto the Lorde theyr ſpoyle and theyr riches …

    Anthony Gilby · Commentary Upon Micah · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … our firſt parents to ſinne, Gen. 3. 14. and as the brazen ſerpent was broken in peecespieces, being abuſed by the Iſraelites, 2 King. 18. 4. In which ſence and for which cauſe they …
    With rule
    … our firſt parents to ſinne, Gen. 3. 14. and as the brazen ſerpent was broken in peecespieces, being abuſed by the Iſraelites, 2 King. 18. 4. In which ſence and for which cauſe they …

    Thomas Granger · The Bread of Life · p. 11 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … the wildernesse, at the Prophets desire, and they tore & rent 42. of these children in peecespieces: a lamentable spectacle, young children before their tender parents eies, to be so deuoured …
    With rule
    … the wildernesse, at the Prophets desire, and they tore & rent 42. of these children in peecespieces: a lamentable spectacle, young children before their tender parents eies, to be so deuoured …

    William Guild · A Young Mans Inquisition · p. 75 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (124)

102 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 60 are listed here. 22 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Josephs Party-Colored Coat A01344

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    … it not. Sometimes hee shooteth halfe canon, weaknesse, sometime full canon sicknesse, sometimes murthering PeecesPieces, death it selfe.
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    … it not. Sometimes hee shooteth halfe canon, weaknesse, sometime full canon sicknesse, sometimes murthering PeecesPieces, death it selfe.

    Thomas Fuller · Josephs Party-Colored Coat · p. 76 · Open in the reader

Journal of the Beginning of the English Plantation at Plymouth A09810

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    … till at length we came neare the Ship, and then we shot off our PeecesPieces, and the long Boat came to fetch vs; master Iones, and master Caruer being …
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    … till at length we came neare the Ship, and then we shot off our PeecesPieces, and the long Boat came to fetch vs; master Iones, and master Caruer being …

    William Bradford · Journal of the Beginning of the English Plantation at Plymouth · p. 4 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … morning wee began to be stirring, and two or three which doubted whether their PeecesPieces would goe off or no made tryall of them, and shot them off, but …
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    … morning wee began to be stirring, and two or three which doubted whether their PeecesPieces would goe off or no made tryall of them, and shot them off, but …

    William Bradford · Journal of the Beginning of the English Plantation at Plymouth · p. 15 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … Well, Well every one, and be of good courage: wee heard three of their PeecesPieces goe off, and the rest called for a fire-brand to light their matches …
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    … Well, Well every one, and be of good courage: wee heard three of their PeecesPieces goe off, and the rest called for a fire-brand to light their matches …

    William Bradford · Journal of the Beginning of the English Plantation at Plymouth · p. 15 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … they should leaue their Bowes and Arrowes behind them, as wee should doe our PeecesPieces when we came to them.
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    … they should leaue their Bowes and Arrowes behind them, as wee should doe our PeecesPieces when we came to them.

    William Bradford · Journal of the Beginning of the English Plantation at Plymouth · p. 37 · Open in the reader

Pilgrimage A10228

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    … feet. In the night time they haue foure or fiue men goe before with PeecesPieces of drie wood, which giue light: they follow the Starre, as the Mariners. Within …
    With rule
    … feet. In the night time they haue foure or fiue men goe before with PeecesPieces of drie wood, which giue light: they follow the Starre, as the Mariners. Within …

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 222 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … with. Mahomet himselfe for feare, seeing his Ordinance (an hundred fourescore and tenne great PeecesPieces) taken, and his men slaine in multitudes, fled with Ibrahim Bassa towards Agria, shedding …
    With rule
    … with. Mahomet himselfe for feare, seeing his Ordinance (an hundred fourescore and tenne great PeecesPieces) taken, and his men slaine in multitudes, fled with Ibrahim Bassa towards Agria, shedding …

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 241 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … Gates one after another, garded with women, expert at their weapon, and vsing both PeecesPieces and Swords. Hee hath none other gard for his person. In saluting the King …
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    … Gates one after another, garded with women, expert at their weapon, and vsing both PeecesPieces and Swords. Hee hath none other gard for his person. In saluting the King …

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 458 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … slaues (if cut out, they will yeeld them more in the seuerall Ioynts, or PeecesPieces, then to be sold aliue) they kill, though it be but to saue a …
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    … slaues (if cut out, they will yeeld them more in the seuerall Ioynts, or PeecesPieces, then to be sold aliue) they kill, though it be but to saue a …

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 588 · Open in the reader

Britains Remembrancer A15627

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    Old scattred PeecesPieces, finely glew'd together;
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    Old scattred PeecesPieces, finely glew'd together;

    George Wither · Britains Remembrancer · p. 137 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    Her LORD, and all those deare and hopefull PeecesPieces,
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    Her LORD, and all those deare and hopefull PeecesPieces,

    George Wither · Britains Remembrancer · p. 219 · Open in the reader

The First Anniversary A20620

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    PeecesPieces a Circle, and still keepes it so,
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    PeecesPieces a Circle, and still keepes it so,

    John Donne · The First Anniversary · p. 47 · Open in the reader

Five Sermons 1 A20641

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    … and entire body, GOD neuer brought them backe, but in many faire and Noble PeecesPieces, they came when Iudah came; for, from that place of Ezra, where there is …
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    … and entire body, GOD neuer brought them backe, but in many faire and Noble PeecesPieces, they came when Iudah came; for, from that place of Ezra, where there is …

    John Donne · Five Sermons 1 · p. 28 · Open in the reader

Sermon Preached to the King 24 February 1625 A20650

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    … and entire body, GOD neuer brought them backe, but in many faire and Noble PeecesPieces, they came when Iudah came; for, from that place of Ezra, where there is …
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    … and entire body, GOD neuer brought them backe, but in many faire and Noble PeecesPieces, they came when Iudah came; for, from that place of Ezra, where there is …

    John Donne · Sermon Preached to the King 24 February 1625 · p. 28 · Open in the reader

Speech to a Grand Committee of both Houses of Parliament A25796

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    … Moure by the Lord Viscount of Ardes; The Army followed up after the feilding PeecesPieces, and drew up in Battell forth against the enemy, who had possessed themselves with …
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    … Moure by the Lord Viscount of Ardes; The Army followed up after the feilding PeecesPieces, and drew up in Battell forth against the enemy, who had possessed themselves with …

    Archibald Argyll · Speech to a Grand Committee of both Houses of Parliament · p. 11 · Open in the reader

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

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    … ſame to ſtand now all upon their Guards, they having had ſo many Warning-PeecesPieces, both in the Army, and in the Citie, both in Pulpits and Pamphlets what …
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    … ſame to ſtand now all upon their Guards, they having had ſo many Warning-PeecesPieces, both in the Army, and in the Citie, both in Pulpits and Pamphlets what …

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

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    … diſthrone him: For what is it to diſthrone a King if writing of Warning PeecesPieces, and Pamphlets againſt Kings▪ſervice and Kings-honour be not? And what I pray …
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    … diſthrone him: For what is it to diſthrone a King if writing of Warning PeecesPieces, and Pamphlets againſt Kings▪ſervice and Kings-honour be not? And what I pray …

    John Bastwick · The Utter Routing of the Whole Army of All the Independents and Sectaries · p. 447 · Open in the reader

The Theater of Gods Judgments A27163

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    … themselves under so high a Patronage, did I not humbly conceive, that being Historicall PeecesPieces, they might be fit for Your Highnesse perusall, History being the proper'st and most …
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    … themselves under so high a Patronage, did I not humbly conceive, that being Historicall PeecesPieces, they might be fit for Your Highnesse perusall, History being the proper'st and most …

    Thomas Beard · The Theater of Gods Judgments · Open in the reader

The Crown and Glory of Christianity A29687

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    Several PeecesPieces of Mr. Ralph Venning collected into one Volume, viz. Orthodox Paradoxes, Myſteries and Revelations …
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    Several PeecesPieces of Mr. Ralph Venning collected into one Volume, viz. Orthodox Paradoxes, Myſteries and Revelations …

    Thomas Brooks · The Crown and Glory of Christianity · Open in the reader

A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government A29737

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    … all away, saving some few that yielded themselves prisoners, leaving all their Tents, fourteen PeecesPieces of Ordnance, forty Barrels of Powder, three hundred Pipes of Wine, much Armour, and …
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    … all away, saving some few that yielded themselves prisoners, leaving all their Tents, fourteen PeecesPieces of Ordnance, forty Barrels of Powder, three hundred Pipes of Wine, much Armour, and …

    Sir Richard Baker · A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government · p. 64 · Open in the reader

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    … had encreased the fresh waters. In his five and thirtieth yeere, the first cast-PeecesPieces of Iro… that ever were made in England, were made at Buckstead in Sussex …
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    … had encreased the fresh waters. In his five and thirtieth yeere, the first cast-PeecesPieces of Iro… that ever were made in England, were made at Buckstead in Sussex …

    Sir Richard Baker · A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government · p. 66 · Open in the reader

Englands Looking Glass A31933

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    … mercy, before his red Flag of utter defiance; first he shoots off his warning PeecesPieces, before his murdering PeecesPieces. And the Reasons are,
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    … mercy, before his red Flag of utter defiance; first he shoots off his warning PeecesPieces, before his murdering PeecesPieces. And the Reasons are,

    Edmund Calamy · Englands Looking Glass · p. 10 · Open in the reader

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    … Flag of utter defiance; first he shoots off his warning PeecesPieces, before his murdering PeecesPieces. And the Reasons are,
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    … Flag of utter defiance; first he shoots off his warning PeecesPieces, before his murdering PeecesPieces. And the Reasons are,

    Edmund Calamy · Englands Looking Glass · p. 10 · Open in the reader

The Godly Mans Ark A31997

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    … in Essex, his second part of Mans wilfull Impenitency, upon Ezek. 18. 32. With some other PeecesPieces of his, preserved by a special Providence.
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    … in Essex, his second part of Mans wilfull Impenitency, upon Ezek. 18. 32. With some other PeecesPieces of his, preserved by a special Providence.

    Edmund Calamy · The Godly Mans Ark · Open in the reader

Historical Relation of the Military Government of Gloucester A34531

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    … of Gloucester one Company of Volunteers was added to the Trayned Band, and some PeecesPieces of Ordinance obtained from London and Bristoll, which were then received with universall amazement …
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    … of Gloucester one Company of Volunteers was added to the Trayned Band, and some PeecesPieces of Ordinance obtained from London and Bristoll, which were then received with universall amazement …

    John Corbet · Historical Relation of the Military Government of Gloucester · p. 11 · Open in the reader

Westminster Annotations A36467

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    … Gentiles in the Greek tongue, wherein Luke in an Elegant stile, dedicateth two excellent PeecesPieces (this Gospel, and the Acts of the Apostles) unto Theophilus an honourable person, and …
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    … Gentiles in the Greek tongue, wherein Luke in an Elegant stile, dedicateth two excellent PeecesPieces (this Gospel, and the Acts of the Apostles) unto Theophilus an honourable person, and …

    John Downame · Westminster Annotations · Open in the reader

The Anatomy of the Mass A36867

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    … fourth Booke, Chapter 36. The ancient cuſtome of the royall City requireth, that when many PeecesPieces of the immaculate body of Chriſt remaine, children not yet in age to be …
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    … fourth Booke, Chapter 36. The ancient cuſtome of the royall City requireth, that when many PeecesPieces of the immaculate body of Chriſt remaine, children not yet in age to be …

    Peter du Moulin Jr · The Anatomy of the Mass · p. 206 · Open in the reader

The Dead Yet Speaking A40646

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    … the Greek tongue, and Anno…ations on the Pandects, are two usefull and excellent PeecesPieces. But Erasmus was nothing his inferior in humanity, when first he applyed himselfe to …
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    … the Greek tongue, and Anno…ations on the Pandects, are two usefull and excellent PeecesPieces. But Erasmus was nothing his inferior in humanity, when first he applyed himselfe to …

    Thomas Fuller · The Dead Yet Speaking · p. 71 · Open in the reader

The History of the Worthies of England A40672

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    … suspicion, the Enemy not expecting thirty, when (to his cost) he hath found sixty PeecesPieces of Ordnance in them. Our Masts stand generally very upright whereas those of the …
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    … suspicion, the Enemy not expecting thirty, when (to his cost) he hath found sixty PeecesPieces of Ordnance in them. Our Masts stand generally very upright whereas those of the …

    Thomas Fuller · The History of the Worthies of England · p. 60 · Open in the reader

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    … first rates when she is fitted for the Seas, carrieth one hundred and four PeecesPieces of Ordnance mounted.
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    … first rates when she is fitted for the Seas, carrieth one hundred and four PeecesPieces of Ordnance mounted.

    Thomas Fuller · The History of the Worthies of England · p. 60 · Open in the reader

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    … Hen. Prat * 8 Hugo. Perry 8 Hen. Andrews 9 Gilb. Harrison 9 Rich. Gurney Paly Counter-paly of 6 PeecesPieces per Fess Or. & A…. 10 Joh. Highlord Sab. a Bend Flory, Argent. 10 Joh. Cordell 11 Tho …
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    … Hen. Prat * 8 Hugo. Perry 8 Hen. Andrews 9 Gilb. Harrison 9 Rich. Gurney Paly Counter-paly of 6 PeecesPieces per Fess Or. & A…. 10 Joh. Highlord Sab. a Bend Flory, Argent. 10 Joh. Cordell 11 Tho …

    Thomas Fuller · The History of the Worthies of England · p. 228 · Open in the reader

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    … Bramcot Az. 2 Barrs Or. on each 3 Martlets G. 44 Will. Peyto, ar. Chesterton Barry of 6 PeecesPieces Arg. & G, per …ale ind…nted & coun… chang'd. 45 Barth. Hales G. 3 Arrows Or, fea …
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    … Bramcot Az. 2 Barrs Or. on each 3 Martlets G. 44 Will. Peyto, ar. Chesterton Barry of 6 PeecesPieces Arg. & G, per …ale ind…nted & coun… chang'd. 45 Barth. Hales G. 3 Arrows Or, fea …

    Thomas Fuller · The History of the Worthies of England · p. 132 · Open in the reader

Christs Alarm to Drowsy Saints A41106

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    … threw it downe: ſo did Michah, the man was an▪ Idolater, and had ſtollen 1100 PeecesPieces of Silver from his Maſter, yet when he heard his mother curſe, he reſtored …
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    … threw it downe: ſo did Michah, the man was an▪ Idolater, and had ſtollen 1100 PeecesPieces of Silver from his Maſter, yet when he heard his mother curſe, he reſtored …

    William Fenner · Christs Alarm to Drowsy Saints · p. 333 · Open in the reader

The Resurrection Revealed A44277

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    … DESTROYED, nor LEFT (as the other were) to another people; but ſhould BREAKE IN PEECESPIECES, and CONSUME ad thoſe Kingdomes, and it ſelfe ſhould ſtand for ever. And all …
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    … DESTROYED, nor LEFT (as the other were) to another people; but ſhould BREAKE IN PEECESPIECES, and CONSUME ad thoſe Kingdomes, and it ſelfe ſhould ſtand for ever. And all …

    Nathanael Homes · The Resurrection Revealed · p. 237 · Open in the reader

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    … STONE WAS CUT OUT OF THE MOUNTAIN WITHOUT HANDS; AND THAT IT BRAKE IN PEECESPIECES THE IRON, THE BRASSE, THE CLAY, THE SILVER, AND THE GOLD. Here make the …
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    … STONE WAS CUT OUT OF THE MOUNTAIN WITHOUT HANDS; AND THAT IT BRAKE IN PEECESPIECES THE IRON, THE BRASSE, THE CLAY, THE SILVER, AND THE GOLD. Here make the …

    Nathanael Homes · The Resurrection Revealed · p. 237 · Open in the reader

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    … STONE for all peoples: all that burthen themſelves with it, ſhall be CUT IN PEECESPIECES, though all the people of the earth bee gathered together againſt it.
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    … STONE for all peoples: all that burthen themſelves with it, ſhall be CUT IN PEECESPIECES, though all the people of the earth bee gathered together againſt it.

    Nathanael Homes · The Resurrection Revealed · p. 247 · Open in the reader

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    … NATIONS, to rule them with A ROD OF IRON, and to BREAKE THEM IN PEECESPIECES as a Potters veſſels. Which words import a Corporall breaking, not a Spirituall; as …
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    … NATIONS, to rule them with A ROD OF IRON, and to BREAKE THEM IN PEECESPIECES as a Potters veſſels. Which words import a Corporall breaking, not a Spirituall; as …

    Nathanael Homes · The Resurrection Revealed · p. 403 · Open in the reader

Justice Triumphing A45550

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    … nay to so bad purpose? know they not that their mischiefes like over-charged PeecesPieces will recoyle upon their own breasts? that they build the walls of their hopes …
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    … nay to so bad purpose? know they not that their mischiefes like over-charged PeecesPieces will recoyle upon their own breasts? that they build the walls of their hopes …

    Nathaniel Hardy · Justice Triumphing · p. 15 · Open in the reader

Canterburys Doom A56144

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    … Sir Iohn makes this endorſment with his own hand, Maſter Valentine 28. April 1636. with 5 l. PEECESPIECES incloſed: which Petition Sir Iohn recommending to Mr Dell, procured him a gratious anſwer …
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    … Sir Iohn makes this endorſment with his own hand, Maſter Valentine 28. April 1636. with 5 l. PEECESPIECES incloſed: which Petition Sir Iohn recommending to Mr Dell, procured him a gratious anſwer …

    William Prynne · Canterburys Doom · p. 382 · Open in the reader

The Sword of Christian Magistracy A56215

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    … thing amiſſe) AGAINST THE GOD of Shadrach, Meſhach, and Abednego, SHAL BE CUT IN PEECESPIECES, and THEIR HOUSES SHAL BEE MADE A DUNGHIL, becauſe there is no God that …
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    … thing amiſſe) AGAINST THE GOD of Shadrach, Meſhach, and Abednego, SHAL BE CUT IN PEECESPIECES, and THEIR HOUSES SHAL BEE MADE A DUNGHIL, becauſe there is no God that …

    William Prynne · The Sword of Christian Magistracy · p. 14 · Open in the reader

Christ Dying and Drawing Sinners to Himself A57963

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    … highest Orbe and Region of glory, such hoasts and numerous t…oups of glorified PeecesPieces, redeemed Saints, and elect Angels that are by anticipation ransommed from their contingent fall …
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    … highest Orbe and Region of glory, such hoasts and numerous t…oups of glorified PeecesPieces, redeemed Saints, and elect Angels that are by anticipation ransommed from their contingent fall …

    Samuel Rutherford · Christ Dying and Drawing Sinners to Himself · Open in the reader

The Theater of Gods Judgments Part 2 A64252

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    … marriage (at which Petrarch the learned Italian Poet was present) spent an hundred thousand PeecesPieces of money, which might be rated to the value of a Spanish Piece of …
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    … marriage (at which Petrarch the learned Italian Poet was present) spent an hundred thousand PeecesPieces of money, which might be rated to the value of a Spanish Piece of …

    Thomas Taylor · The Theater of Gods Judgments Part 2 · p. 100 · Open in the reader

Englands Worthies A64893

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    … Together with a Bristoll ship, called the Fellowship a Ship of 400 tun, and bearing 24 PeecesPieces of Ordnance in her, was taken by Captaine Smith, laden with Armes, and ammunition …
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    … Together with a Bristoll ship, called the Fellowship a Ship of 400 tun, and bearing 24 PeecesPieces of Ordnance in her, was taken by Captaine Smith, laden with Armes, and ammunition …

    John Vicars · Englands Worthies · p. 10 · Open in the reader

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    … had chased a brave Dunkirk-ship into Arundell-haven, richly laden with Linnen cloth, 20 PeecesPieces of Ordnance, 100 barrels of Powder, 2000 Armes, and divers Commanders of quality.
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    … had chased a brave Dunkirk-ship into Arundell-haven, richly laden with Linnen cloth, 20 PeecesPieces of Ordnance, 100 barrels of Powder, 2000 Armes, and divers Commanders of quality.

    John Vicars · Englands Worthies · p. 10 · Open in the reader

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    … vigilant Vice-Admirall Captaine Batten▪ took two Ships at Waymouth in the West▪ with 28 PeecesPieces of Ordnance with much Armes and Ammunition from France. And with his brave ships …
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    … vigilant Vice-Admirall Captaine Batten▪ took two Ships at Waymouth in the West▪ with 28 PeecesPieces of Ordnance with much Armes and Ammunition from France. And with his brave ships …

    John Vicars · Englands Worthies · p. 12 · Open in the reader

A Complete Christian Dictionary A66593

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    PeecesPieces of gold, 2 King. 5. 5. Hereby is meant that which is elsewere called a … of gold …
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    PeecesPieces of gold, 2 King. 5. 5. Hereby is meant that which is elsewere called a … of gold …

    Thomas Wilson · A Complete Christian Dictionary · p. 474 · Open in the reader

The Cause and Cure of Ignorance A67743

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    Cursing mouthes are like ill made PeecesPieces, which while men discharge at others, recoile in splinters upon their owne faces. Their …
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    Cursing mouthes are like ill made PeecesPieces, which while men discharge at others, recoile in splinters upon their owne faces. Their …

    Richard Younge · The Cause and Cure of Ignorance · p. 92 · Open in the reader

A Christian Library A67744

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    … to … back into thine own brest, Psal. 7.14, 15, 16. Prov. 14.30. Cursing mouthes are like ill made PeecesPieces, which while men discharge … others, reco…l i… splinters on their own faces. Their …
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    … to … back into thine own brest, Psal. 7.14, 15, 16. Prov. 14.30. Cursing mouthes are like ill made PeecesPieces, which while men discharge … others, reco…l i… splinters on their own faces. Their …

    Richard Younge · A Christian Library · p. 31 · Open in the reader

Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 A67927

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    … he hath done all that hee can, and hath shot of all his last PeecesPieces, wherwith he had thought to haue done most mischiefe: but now he seeth hee …
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    … he hath done all that hee can, and hath shot of all his last PeecesPieces, wherwith he had thought to haue done most mischiefe: but now he seeth hee …

    John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · p. 1926 · Open in the reader

Works of Joseph Hall A68126

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    … to hide death vnder it: There need no cords, nor kniues, nor ſwords, nor PeecesPieces: we haue made our ſelues as many waies to death, as there are helps …
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    … to hide death vnder it: There need no cords, nor kniues, nor ſwords, nor PeecesPieces: we haue made our ſelues as many waies to death, as there are helps …

    Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 126 · Open in the reader

Declaration Concerning the Late Tumults in Scotland A68707

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    … on his way from Holland hither, one of his Majesties small ships of eight PeecesPieces, came aboard and searched him for Armes and Ammunition, declaring they did the same …
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    … on his way from Holland hither, one of his Majesties small ships of eight PeecesPieces, came aboard and searched him for Armes and Ammunition, declaring they did the same …

    Walter Balcanquhall · Declaration Concerning the Late Tumults in Scotland · p. 200 · Open in the reader

Poems A69225

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    PeecesPieces a Circle, and ſtill keepes it ſo,
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    PeecesPieces a Circle, and ſtill keepes it ſo,

    John Donne · Poems · p. 277 · Open in the reader

Rocks Improved A70872

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    To raſe theſe Mounts, and them in PeecesPieces breake.
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    To raſe theſe Mounts, and them in PeecesPieces breake.

    William Prynne · Rocks Improved · p. 45 · Open in the reader

The Christian Sabbath Vindicated A78427

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    … both Sabbatarians and Antiſabbatarians. And as we have built upward, we have planted ſome PeecesPieces, and diſcharged them againſt their workes in ſuch fort, as we are perſwaded the …
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    … both Sabbatarians and Antiſabbatarians. And as we have built upward, we have planted ſome PeecesPieces, and diſcharged them againſt their workes in ſuch fort, as we are perſwaded the …

    Daniel Cawdry · The Christian Sabbath Vindicated · p. 216 · Open in the reader

England Described A88898

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    … exerciſe in ſtrength and military Diſcipline, that they exactly know before-hand with their PeecesPieces to ſhoot point-blank, and not miſſe the Mark, to keep their ranks, to …
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    … exerciſe in ſtrength and military Diſcipline, that they exactly know before-hand with their PeecesPieces to ſhoot point-blank, and not miſſe the Mark, to keep their ranks, to …

    Edward Leigh · England Described · p. 84 · Open in the reader

The Churchs Troubles and Deliverance A89195

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    … a corner of the Kingdome, ſhould (in this learned age, wherein ſo many elaborate PeecesPieces of ſpeciall worth have bin printed) publiſh any thing: Yet knowing the ſubject to …
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    … a corner of the Kingdome, ſhould (in this learned age, wherein ſo many elaborate PeecesPieces of ſpeciall worth have bin printed) publiſh any thing: Yet knowing the ſubject to …

    Thomas Mocket · The Churchs Troubles and Deliverance · Open in the reader

Divine Meditations Raised from Three Leaves of Nature A91224

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    To raſe theſe Mounts, and them in PeecesPieces breake.
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    To raſe theſe Mounts, and them in PeecesPieces breake.

    William Prynne · Divine Meditations Raised from Three Leaves of Nature · p. 45 · Open in the reader

Relation of the Prosecution of Nathaniel Fiennes A91306

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    … their Cannon but ſeven or eight, whereas Briſtoll had 55 Canon, beſides Sir Francis Pophams PeecesPieces; the Enemies before Gloceſter almoſt 10000 more then thoſe that beſieged Briſtoll, and likewiſe accompanied …
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    … their Cannon but ſeven or eight, whereas Briſtoll had 55 Canon, beſides Sir Francis Pophams PeecesPieces; the Enemies before Gloceſter almoſt 10000 more then thoſe that beſieged Briſtoll, and likewiſe accompanied …

    William Prynne · Relation of the Prosecution of Nathaniel Fiennes · p. 50 · Open in the reader

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    … horſe at leaſt to guard Briſtoll: a vaſt diſproportion. Fourthly, they had nine great PeecesPieces of battery, a great Ram or Morter-peece, greater then ever were ſeen in …
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    … horſe at leaſt to guard Briſtoll: a vaſt diſproportion. Fourthly, they had nine great PeecesPieces of battery, a great Ram or Morter-peece, greater then ever were ſeen in …

    William Prynne · Relation of the Prosecution of Nathaniel Fiennes · p. 102 · Open in the reader

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    … could keep it no longer, than ſurrender it; That they had not above 7. or 8. PeecesPieces of Canon in the Town, and thoſe very ſmall; but 1500. Souldiers of all ſorts …
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    … could keep it no longer, than ſurrender it; That they had not above 7. or 8. PeecesPieces of Canon in the Town, and thoſe very ſmall; but 1500. Souldiers of all ſorts …

    William Prynne · Relation of the Prosecution of Nathaniel Fiennes · p. 4 · Open in the reader