Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11385 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

subtilesubtle

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

Puritas changed it: 2,677 times in 1,185 works
Consistency: 97.4% (2,677 of 2,748)
Reach if approved: ~2,887 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: subtle
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 2,748 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,677 changes in 1,185 works, 97.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,677)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

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… and secret, and subtill to conceale it. The Harlot is said (Pro. 7. 10.) to bee subtilesubtle of heart. See also the subtiltie of these sinners noted and described, Pro. 30. 19, 20. The …
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… and secret, and subtill to conceale it. The Harlot is said (Pro. 7. 10.) to bee subtilesubtle of heart. See also the subtiltie of these sinners noted and described, Pro. 30. 19, 20. The …
Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon John 4 · p. 75 · Open in the reader
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… from any mans ſoft, harmeleſſe, and relenting heart. From whence then but from that ſubtilesubtle Serpent, and deuouring Lyon, great Beelzebub, our vtter enemy, their great god? for ſo …
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… from any mans ſoft, harmeleſſe, and relenting heart. From whence then but from that ſubtilesubtle Serpent, and deuouring Lyon, great Beelzebub, our vtter enemy, their great god? for ſo …
Robert Jenison · The Height of Israels Heathenish Idolatry · p. 59 · Open in the reader
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… his house and kingdome as he intended, but the utter subversion of it. The subtilesubtle plot of Iezabel for compassing Naboths vineyard (who by painting her face, had learned …
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… his house and kingdome as he intended, but the utter subversion of it. The subtilesubtle plot of Iezabel for compassing Naboths vineyard (who by painting her face, had learned …
Phineas Fletcher · The Way to Blessedness · p. 212 · Open in the reader
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… of their generation. In matter they agrée, for they are both generated of a subtilesubtle & thinne vapor, also small in quantitie.
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… of their generation. In matter they agrée, for they are both generated of a subtilesubtle & thinne vapor, also small in quantitie.
William Fulke · A Goodly Gallery · p. 54 · Open in the reader
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… the heauens, ſome in the knowledge of nature in all creatures here belowe, ſome ſubtilesubtle Logicians, ſome eloquent Orators to perſwade; ſome politike in making lawes to gouerne Cities …
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… the heauens, ſome in the knowledge of nature in all creatures here belowe, ſome ſubtilesubtle Logicians, ſome eloquent Orators to perſwade; ſome politike in making lawes to gouerne Cities …
George Gifford · Eight Sermons on Ecclesiastes · Open in the reader
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… first with a flatte Negatiue; Non mori…mini: Ye shall not dye. Then with subtilesubtle promises; Yee shall be as Gods, knowing good and euill. But what is the …
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… first with a flatte Negatiue; Non mori…mini: Ye shall not dye. Then with subtilesubtle promises; Yee shall be as Gods, knowing good and euill. But what is the …
Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 231 · Open in the reader
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… enemies, ſo the righteous by their death deſtroy their corruptions; ſinne is like a ſubtilesubtle Fox, that cannot bee taken till his holds be deſtroyed; like ivie in the …
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… enemies, ſo the righteous by their death deſtroy their corruptions; ſinne is like a ſubtilesubtle Fox, that cannot bee taken till his holds be deſtroyed; like ivie in the …
Alexander Grosse · Deaths Deliverance and Elijahs Fiery Chariot · p. 9 · Open in the reader
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… supersticyons / with all lyenge powre / sygnes / and wonders / in all deceyuable doctrine / by the subtilesubtle workinge of Sathā. They must also be permitted to do all mischef in vnryghtousnesse …
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… supersticyons / with all lyenge powre / sygnes / and wonders / in all deceyuable doctrine / by the subtilesubtle workinge of Sathā. They must also be permitted to do all mischef in vnryghtousnesse …
John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation 2 · p. 7 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (71)

43 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 28 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Answer to the Devilish Detection of the Bishop of Winchester A01752

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… no lōger hope to worke your wickedneſſe ſo openly: the Deuyll ſteareth vp Stephane SubtileSubtle & his felowes, by deceyuable wordes, to maintaine the ſame matters.
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… no lōger hope to worke your wickedneſſe ſo openly: the Deuyll ſteareth vp Stephane SubtileSubtle & his felowes, by deceyuable wordes, to maintaine the ſame matters.
Anthony Gilby · Answer to the Devilish Detection of the Bishop of Winchester · p. clxxxxiiij · Open in the reader

The Players Scourge A10187

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… with all those Obscene, and filthie Iests; those Scurrilous, and beastly passages, those quaint, SubtileSubtle, Rhetoricall, and Flexanimous streines of contemplatiue, Elegant, and wittie Obscenities, with which our Playes …
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… with all those Obscene, and filthie Iests; those Scurrilous, and beastly passages, those quaint, SubtileSubtle, Rhetoricall, and Flexanimous streines of contemplatiue, Elegant, and wittie Obscenities, with which our Playes …
William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 65 · Open in the reader

Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs A11649

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SubtileSubtle, what it meaneth, Gen. 3. 1.
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SubtileSubtle, what it meaneth, Gen. 3. 1.
Henry Ainsworth · Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs · Open in the reader

The Arraignment of Covetousness A13005

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1 SubtileSubtle, hardly diſcerned.
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1 SubtileSubtle, hardly diſcerned.
John Stoughton · The Arraignment of Covetousness · Open in the reader

Harmony of the Gospels A16078

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… a glasse, the wonderfull prouidence of God approued in the resurrection of hys sonne. SubtileSubtle men exercised in fraudes and treachery, do conspire amongst themselues, and deuise a meanes …
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… a glasse, the wonderfull prouidence of God approued in the resurrection of hys sonne. SubtileSubtle men exercised in fraudes and treachery, do conspire amongst themselues, and deuise a meanes …
John Calvin · Harmony of the Gospels · p. 769 · Open in the reader

A Sparing Restraint of Many Lavish Untruths A20303

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… mynde. Socrates was named the dissembler, Plato the Diuine, Heraclitus the Darke, Carneades the SubtileSubtle, Chrysippus the sharpe, Theophrasius the sweete, Diogines the Doggish. Certainely, had you bene aliue …
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… mynde. Socrates was named the dissembler, Plato the Diuine, Heraclitus the Darke, Carneades the SubtileSubtle, Chrysippus the sharpe, Theophrasius the sweete, Diogines the Doggish. Certainely, had you bene aliue …
Edward Dering · A Sparing Restraint of Many Lavish Untruths · p. 43 · Open in the reader

The Government of the Thoughts A23734

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… Minds Centinel to awaken it, and give the Alarm against the assaults of the SubtileSubtle Enemy. This armeth a Man, with a true and unfailing Confidence: 'Tis indeed the …
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… Minds Centinel to awaken it, and give the Alarm against the assaults of the SubtileSubtle Enemy. This armeth a Man, with a true and unfailing Confidence: 'Tis indeed the …
Richard Allestree · The Government of the Thoughts · p. 94 · Open in the reader
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3. WHEN the SubtileSubtle Tempter, by his Instigations offers any Motion of Discontent, referring to thy present Station …
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3. WHEN the SubtileSubtle Tempter, by his Instigations offers any Motion of Discontent, referring to thy present Station …
Richard Allestree · The Government of the Thoughts · p. 175 · Open in the reader

Valentinus Gentilis – The Tritheist Put to Death In Bern A25775

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… his peculiar Talent, so much as that excellent qualification which the Greeks call foreign, a SubtileSubtle Craftiness to distinguish his Cause, by wresting the Law.
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… his peculiar Talent, so much as that excellent qualification which the Greeks call foreign, a SubtileSubtle Craftiness to distinguish his Cause, by wresting the Law.
Benedictus Aretius · Valentinus Gentilis – The Tritheist Put to Death In Bern · p. 84 · Open in the reader

The Four Last Things A26786

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… with Cruelties, representing them as worthy of publick Hatred. It was one of the SubtileSubtle Artifices of Julian the Apostate, to mingle the Images of the Heathen Gods with …
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… with Cruelties, representing them as worthy of publick Hatred. It was one of the SubtileSubtle Artifices of Julian the Apostate, to mingle the Images of the Heathen Gods with …
William Bates · The Four Last Things · p. 225 · Open in the reader

Sermons Upon Death and Eternal Judgment A26805

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… with Cruelties, representing them as worthy of publick hatred. It was one of the SubtileSubtle Artifices of Julian the Apostate, to mingle the Images of the Heathen Gods with …
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… with Cruelties, representing them as worthy of publick hatred. It was one of the SubtileSubtle Artifices of Julian the Apostate, to mingle the Images of the Heathen Gods with …
William Bates · Sermons Upon Death and Eternal Judgment · p. 114 · Open in the reader

Catholic Theology Plain Pure Peaceable A26883

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552. SubtileSubtle Ockam Quodl. 3. q. 15. diſputing Utrum rectitudo & deformitas actus differant à ſubſtantia actus? denyeth it …
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552. SubtileSubtle Ockam Quodl. 3. q. 15. diſputing Utrum rectitudo & deformitas actus differant à ſubſtantia actus? denyeth it …
Richard Baxter · Catholic Theology Plain Pure Peaceable · p. 87 · Open in the reader

Christ the Way and the Truth and the Life A29748

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… our faith, the salvation of our souls, because of the many Active, Vigilant, Indefatigable, SubtileSubtle, and Insinuating adversaries, who by good words & faire speaches, vvill readily deceive the hearts …
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… our faith, the salvation of our souls, because of the many Active, Vigilant, Indefatigable, SubtileSubtle, and Insinuating adversaries, who by good words & faire speaches, vvill readily deceive the hearts …
John Brown · Christ the Way and the Truth and the Life · Open in the reader

Historical Relation of the Military Government of Gloucester A34531

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… p. 8. l. 4. r. tender. p. 50. l. 17. del. and the river chained. p. 81. l. 6. r SubtileSubtle. p. ib. l. 10. r. imaginary. p. 82. l. 32. r. quartered. p. 85. l. 11. r. Winnie… hill …
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… p. 8. l. 4. r. tender. p. 50. l. 17. del. and the river chained. p. 81. l. 6. r SubtileSubtle. p. ib. l. 10. r. imaginary. p. 82. l. 32. r. quartered. p. 85. l. 11. r. Winnie… hill …
John Corbet · Historical Relation of the Military Government of Gloucester · Open in the reader

The Gentile Sinner A39252

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… he hath very often his wish'd for successe in overturning the Bravest Sinner. The SubtileSubtle Serpent, though he despair of Heaven, is alwaies crawling upwards, and can as easily …
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… he hath very often his wish'd for successe in overturning the Bravest Sinner. The SubtileSubtle Serpent, though he despair of Heaven, is alwaies crawling upwards, and can as easily …
Clement Ellis · The Gentile Sinner · p. 242 · Open in the reader

Words to Give to the Young Man Knowledge and Discretion A40634

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SubtileSubtle. He prevails more by Policy than by Strength; and therefore, it concerns you, neither …
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SubtileSubtle. He prevails more by Policy than by Strength; and therefore, it concerns you, neither …
Francis Fuller · Words to Give to the Young Man Knowledge and Discretion · p. 130 · Open in the reader

The History of the Worthies of England A40672

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… the other parts (intended by Antiperistasis) are zealous Protestants. Hence is it, that many SubtileSubtle Papists, and Jesuits have been born and bred in this County, which have met …
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… the other parts (intended by Antiperistasis) are zealous Protestants. Hence is it, that many SubtileSubtle Papists, and Jesuits have been born and bred in this County, which have met …
Thomas Fuller · The History of the Worthies of England · p. 105 · Open in the reader

Refutation of the Errors Toleration Erastianism Independency and Separation A41202

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… Godliness, he tells what they are, High-minded &c. v, 4. And in the 6 v, SubtileSubtle Hereticks who lead away the simple. Now we say none such ought to be …
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… Godliness, he tells what they are, High-minded &c. v, 4. And in the 6 v, SubtileSubtle Hereticks who lead away the simple. Now we say none such ought to be …
James Fergusson · Refutation of the Errors Toleration Erastianism Independency and Separation · p. 210 · Open in the reader

An Exposition of Genesis A44894

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D. 7. SubtileSubtle and severe is the inquisition of the wicked into the just soules state, to …
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D. 7. SubtileSubtle and severe is the inquisition of the wicked into the just soules state, to …
George Hughes · An Exposition of Genesis · p. 399 · Open in the reader

The Almost Christian Discovered A50480

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Let men be as Wiſe, as Prudent, as SubtileSubtle, as Watchful as they will, but then let it be in the way of …
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Let men be as Wiſe, as Prudent, as SubtileSubtle, as Watchful as they will, but then let it be in the way of …
Matthew Mead · The Almost Christian Discovered · p. 203 · Open in the reader

Works A50522

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… not less (yea more) necessary to the right discerning of Divine Truth than the SubtileSubtle Head: And from this Principle he thus expresseth himself in some of his Diatribae …
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… not less (yea more) necessary to the right discerning of Divine Truth than the SubtileSubtle Head: And from this Principle he thus expresseth himself in some of his Diatribae …
Joseph Mede · Works · Open in the reader

Davids Harp Strung and Tuned A52303

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2. SubtileSubtle. They digg'd pits. For their advantage, ſubmit to any baſe office, crouch and bow …
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2. SubtileSubtle. They digg'd pits. For their advantage, ſubmit to any baſe office, crouch and bow …
William Nicholson · Davids Harp Strung and Tuned · p. 421 · Open in the reader

Exposition Upon Ecclesiastes A52356

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… the Fleſh: Which he manifeſts. Both by de cribing a Whooriſh Woman, from the SubtileSubtle and prevailing ways that ſhe hath in alluring and detaining men Slaves to her …
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… the Fleſh: Which he manifeſts. Both by de cribing a Whooriſh Woman, from the SubtileSubtle and prevailing ways that ſhe hath in alluring and detaining men Slaves to her …
Alexander Nisbet · Exposition Upon Ecclesiastes · p. 301 · Open in the reader

A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament A52807

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… lay on the Earth, as unable to ſtand under ſo unbearable a burden, until SubtileSubtle-pated Jonadab came to comfort his Uncle: He that had been a cauſe of …
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… lay on the Earth, as unable to ſtand under ſo unbearable a burden, until SubtileSubtle-pated Jonadab came to comfort his Uncle: He that had been a cauſe of …
Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 380 · Open in the reader
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… the dangerous conſequence of this Expedition of Achitophel's. ver. 9, 10. ſaying, Since David is ſo SubtileSubtle and Politick a warrior for contriving all ſorts of warlike Stratagems: He will certainly …
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… the dangerous conſequence of this Expedition of Achitophel's. ver. 9, 10. ſaying, Since David is ſo SubtileSubtle and Politick a warrior for contriving all ſorts of warlike Stratagems: He will certainly …
Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 394 · Open in the reader
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… very Angels intently pry into, (as the word foreign ſignfies) 1 Pet. 2.12. Though theſe Reſpondents were SubtileSubtle Sophiſters, and Mighty in the Scriptures, yet now Chriſt (to crown this long Diſpute …
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… very Angels intently pry into, (as the word foreign ſignfies) 1 Pet. 2.12. Though theſe Reſpondents were SubtileSubtle Sophiſters, and Mighty in the Scriptures, yet now Chriſt (to crown this long Diſpute …
Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 174 · Open in the reader

History of the Catholic Church from 600 to 1600 A54576

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… ſaved thief, and many Martyres. Others ſaid. Theſe received the ſacrament voto. Others ſaid, SubtileSubtle diſtinctions should not be brought into articles of faith, neither can it be known …
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… ſaved thief, and many Martyres. Others ſaid. Theſe received the ſacrament voto. Others ſaid, SubtileSubtle diſtinctions should not be brought into articles of faith, neither can it be known …
Alexander Petrie · History of the Catholic Church from 600 to 1600 · p. 155 · Open in the reader

Necessity of Human Learning for a Gospel Preacher A57125

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… Schiſmatical Adverſaries thereof; whether ſecret underminers, or open oppoſers? to convince, and confute Learned, SubtileSubtle, Witty Adverſaries, as Heretics, Jeſuits, and divers others?
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… Schiſmatical Adverſaries thereof; whether ſecret underminers, or open oppoſers? to convince, and confute Learned, SubtileSubtle, Witty Adverſaries, as Heretics, Jeſuits, and divers others?
Edward Reyner · Necessity of Human Learning for a Gospel Preacher · p. 188 · Open in the reader

Eighteen Sermons A64642

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… with him, found him (if they pleased to try it) a skilful Linguist, a SubtileSubtle Disputant, a fluent Orator, a profound Divine, a mighty Antiquary, an exact Chronologer, and …
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… with him, found him (if they pleased to try it) a skilful Linguist, a SubtileSubtle Disputant, a fluent Orator, a profound Divine, a mighty Antiquary, an exact Chronologer, and …
James Ussher · Eighteen Sermons · Open in the reader

A Body of Practical Divinity A65285

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(1.) It is a SubtileSubtle Sin, a Sin that many do not so well discern in themselves: As some …
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(1.) It is a SubtileSubtle Sin, a Sin that many do not so well discern in themselves: As some …
Thomas Watson · A Body of Practical Divinity · p. 383 · Open in the reader

Commentary Upon Genesis 1-3 A65748

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Cunning and SubtileSubtle perſons are dangerous Inſtruments to deceive, p. 22
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Cunning and SubtileSubtle perſons are dangerous Inſtruments to deceive, p. 22
John White · Commentary Upon Genesis 1-3 · Open in the reader

A Reply to a Relation A69024

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The Prelate a SubtileSubtle underminer of the Truth. 116.
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The Prelate a SubtileSubtle underminer of the Truth. 116.
Henry Burton · A Reply to a Relation · Open in the reader
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85, 86. A SubtileSubtle and Sly evasion of the Prelate from the Jusuites true objection, 164.
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85, 86. A SubtileSubtle and Sly evasion of the Prelate from the Jusuites true objection, 164.
Henry Burton · A Reply to a Relation · Open in the reader
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… the ruffling of her Ruffe. Nay rather then fayle, as the Trojans, at the SubtileSubtle Counsell of their perjured Sinon, brake downe a great part of their City-wall …
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… the ruffling of her Ruffe. Nay rather then fayle, as the Trojans, at the SubtileSubtle Counsell of their perjured Sinon, brake downe a great part of their City-wall …
Henry Burton · A Reply to a Relation · p. 109 · Open in the reader

Poems A69225

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SubtileSubtle to plague thy ſelfe, wilt ſay,
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SubtileSubtle to plague thy ſelfe, wilt ſay,
John Donne · Poems · p. 286 · Open in the reader

The Wisemans Forecast Against the Evil Time A72475

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The word in the Originall is a Craftie, or SubtileSubtle man, comming of a word which ſignifies to be ſubtilesubtle, or to deale craftily …
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The word in the Originall is a Craftie, or SubtileSubtle man, comming of a word which ſignifies to be ſubtilesubtle, or to deale craftily …
Thomas Barnes · The Wisemans Forecast Against the Evil Time · p. 2 · Open in the reader

The Great Corruption of Subtle Self A81893

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THE Great Corruption OF SubtileSubtle Self, Diſcovered, and driven from it's Lurking-places and Starting-holes.
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THE Great Corruption OF SubtileSubtle Self, Diſcovered, and driven from it's Lurking-places and Starting-holes.
James Durham · The Great Corruption of Subtle Self · Open in the reader

The Saints Guide A86532

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2. SubtileSubtle hypocrites
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2. SubtileSubtle hypocrites
Thomas Hooker · The Saints Guide · p. 130 · Open in the reader

Exposition of the 12 Small Prophets A86936

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… to ripen them for judgement; for, ſo proved the Prieſts and Rulers to Iſrael. 6. SubtileSubtle ſnares and inſinuations are more dangerous for drawing men wrong, then open violence is …
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… to ripen them for judgement; for, ſo proved the Prieſts and Rulers to Iſrael. 6. SubtileSubtle ſnares and inſinuations are more dangerous for drawing men wrong, then open violence is …
George Hutcheson · Exposition of the 12 Small Prophets · p. 84 · Open in the reader

A Divine Prospective A87090

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… more in faſhion, but the Linings of Piety never more out of requeſt. That SubtileSubtle malu… ſecr… virus latens venenum, as Chryſologus fitly termeth it, lurking ſnake, ſubtilesubtle evill …
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… more in faſhion, but the Linings of Piety never more out of requeſt. That SubtileSubtle malu… ſecr… virus latens venenum, as Chryſologus fitly termeth it, lurking ſnake, ſubtilesubtle evill …
Nathaniel Hardy · A Divine Prospective · p. 10 · Open in the reader

Answer to George Keiths Libel A89410

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… Faithfully, according to the Judgment of all of that Party, without Obſcurity, Equivocation, or SubtileSubtle and Unfair Reſervation, and ſo I bid the… Farewel, and Remains as above
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… Faithfully, according to the Judgment of all of that Party, without Obſcurity, Equivocation, or SubtileSubtle and Unfair Reſervation, and ſo I bid the… Farewel, and Remains as above
Francis Makemie · Answer to George Keiths Libel · Open in the reader

Hamans Vanity A92853

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… the ſumme of all trecherous plots, viz. A Deep malice, a Proud contrivance, a SubtileSubtle inveagling, a Large expence, a Vaine confidence, a Near acting, an Vnexpected diſcovery, a …
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… the ſumme of all trecherous plots, viz. A Deep malice, a Proud contrivance, a SubtileSubtle inveagling, a Large expence, a Vaine confidence, a Near acting, an Vnexpected diſcovery, a …
Obadiah Sedgwick · Hamans Vanity · p. 29 · Open in the reader

Two Treatises A96524

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… and readineſs to all Cheating Tricks whatſoever. However (as Beza notes) Though they be SubtileSubtle and Crafty, yet God will catch them, and diſcover them, to be what they …
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… and readineſs to all Cheating Tricks whatſoever. However (as Beza notes) Though they be SubtileSubtle and Crafty, yet God will catch them, and diſcover them, to be what they …
Dean Henry Wilkinson · Two Treatises · p. 14 · Open in the reader