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ordinauncesordinances

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

Puritas changed it: 574 times in 154 works
Consistency: 95.3% (574 of 602)
Reach if approved: ~633 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: ordinances
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 602 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (574 changes in 154 works, 95.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 574)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

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… very poyſoning of the word and Sacraments, it is nothing elſe but poyſening the ordinauncesordinances of God. The Apoſtle letts us ſee this plainly, that the force of ſaving …
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… very poyſoning of the word and Sacraments, it is nothing elſe but poyſening the ordinauncesordinances of God. The Apoſtle letts us ſee this plainly, that the force of ſaving …
John Forbes · Four Sermons · p. 44 · Open in the reader
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… thus to commit them by faithful prayer to his purposed decrées or fore set ordinauncesordinances.
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… thus to commit them by faithful prayer to his purposed decrées or fore set ordinauncesordinances.
John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation · Open in the reader
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… an ordinari helpe against theyr aduersaryes, and oughte to take them as Godes holy ordinauncesordinances, for the remedyes of theyr iniuryes and wronges. when they are distressed
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… an ordinari helpe against theyr aduersaryes, and oughte to take them as Godes holy ordinauncesordinances, for the remedyes of theyr iniuryes and wronges. when they are distressed
Hugh Latimer · The Second to Seventh Sermon to His Majesty · Open in the reader
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… that they had a politike rule, euen as other regions and realmes haue theyr ordinauncesordinances ſtatutes and lawes, as the Saxōs haue the glaſſe of Saxon, where after they …
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… that they had a politike rule, euen as other regions and realmes haue theyr ordinauncesordinances ſtatutes and lawes, as the Saxōs haue the glaſſe of Saxon, where after they …
Martin Luther · Exposition of Jeremiah 22 · Open in the reader
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… professe the gospel, abhorre and condempne all fastynge and prayeinge, all cōmendable customes & godlye ordinauncesordinances, that by well doing we may stop the mouthes of folish and ignoraūt men …
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… professe the gospel, abhorre and condempne all fastynge and prayeinge, all cōmendable customes & godlye ordinauncesordinances, that by well doing we may stop the mouthes of folish and ignoraūt men …
Thomas Becon · A Fruitful Treatise · Open in the reader
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… alſo for a number of benefites receiued at his hand, wholly ſubiect to his ordinauncesordinances: Yea ſuch a one as he is aſſured, will not ſpeake, doe, or attempt …
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… alſo for a number of benefites receiued at his hand, wholly ſubiect to his ordinauncesordinances: Yea ſuch a one as he is aſſured, will not ſpeake, doe, or attempt …
Phillips Marnix · An Exhortation Concerning the Estate of Christendom · p. 57 · Open in the reader
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… to the word, shal reforme their Churches agayne and turne to the olde popishe ordinauncesordinances, as a dog dothe to that he hathe spued out, or a washen swyne …
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… to the word, shal reforme their Churches agayne and turne to the olde popishe ordinauncesordinances, as a dog dothe to that he hathe spued out, or a washen swyne …
Philipp Melanchthon · A Weighing and Considering of the Interim · Open in the reader
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… that we muſt not thinke that the Greeke fathers, when they called thoſe holy ordinauncesordinances, myſteries, or the Latine fathers when they called them Sacramentes, did adde any thing …
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… that we muſt not thinke that the Greeke fathers, when they called thoſe holy ordinauncesordinances, myſteries, or the Latine fathers when they called them Sacramentes, did adde any thing …
Theodore Beza · Christian Questions and Answers Part 2 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (28)

23 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 5 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Commentary on Peter and Jude A06502

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… reuerence by faith to be obeied: ſo alſo there be certaine humaine and worldlie OrdinauncesOrdinances and decrees (conſiſtyng in Lawes and Proclamations) for the quiet & politique gouernance of the …
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… reuerence by faith to be obeied: ſo alſo there be certaine humaine and worldlie OrdinauncesOrdinances and decrees (conſiſtyng in Lawes and Proclamations) for the quiet & politique gouernance of the …
Martin Luther · Commentary on Peter and Jude · Open in the reader
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… He keepeth a greate coyle, and ſetteth doune his Lordly commaundements, Rules, Lawes and OrdinauncesOrdinances for Apparell, for choiſe of meates, for Colleges, Abbayes, Priories, Biſhoprikes, and Benefices? He …
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… He keepeth a greate coyle, and ſetteth doune his Lordly commaundements, Rules, Lawes and OrdinauncesOrdinances for Apparell, for choiſe of meates, for Colleges, Abbayes, Priories, Biſhoprikes, and Benefices? He …
Martin Luther · Commentary on Peter and Jude · p. 61 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the people muſte all liſten to that whiche I ſaie, and obſerue my Lawes, OrdinauncesOrdinances, and Iniunctions without gainſaie. For God requireth this, that no manne miniſter, or doe …
With rule
… the people muſte all liſten to that whiche I ſaie, and obſerue my Lawes, OrdinauncesOrdinances, and Iniunctions without gainſaie. For God requireth this, that no manne miniſter, or doe …
Martin Luther · Commentary on Peter and Jude · p. 99 · Open in the reader

The Acts of Christ and Antichrist A06652

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… little and little vnto perfection thorowe suche Ceremonies, and outward obseruaunces: whiche Ceremonies and OrdinauncesOrdinances of Christes spouse the Churche, are with no lesse reuerences to bee obserued, than …
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… little and little vnto perfection thorowe suche Ceremonies, and outward obseruaunces: whiche Ceremonies and OrdinauncesOrdinances of Christes spouse the Churche, are with no lesse reuerences to bee obserued, than …
Thomas Becon · The Acts of Christ and Antichrist · Open in the reader

Declaration of Ecclesiastical Discipline out of the Word of God A13881

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… no other cauſe / then off the contempte off the moſt holeſome and moſt holie OrdinauncesOrdinances wherupon yt was grownded by our Lorde and Sauiour Chriſte / that it might haue …
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… no other cauſe / then off the contempte off the moſt holeſome and moſt holie OrdinauncesOrdinances wherupon yt was grownded by our Lorde and Sauiour Chriſte / that it might haue …
Walter Travers · Declaration of Ecclesiastical Discipline out of the Word of God · p. 2 · Open in the reader
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… the name off God / who will not ſuffer vnpunyſhed the trangreſſion off his holie OrdinauncesOrdinances: and in the behalfe off the church to whoſe deſtruction and decay ſuche thinges …
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… the name off God / who will not ſuffer vnpunyſhed the trangreſſion off his holie OrdinauncesOrdinances: and in the behalfe off the church to whoſe deſtruction and decay ſuche thinges …
Walter Travers · Declaration of Ecclesiastical Discipline out of the Word of God · p. 60 · Open in the reader

The Christian Disputations A14461

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… what communion can thoſe haue wyth hym, who haue altogether ouerthrowen his Sacramentes and OrdinauncesOrdinances, and haue founde out and inuented newe ſacrifices, more intollerable then euer the Iewes …
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… what communion can thoſe haue wyth hym, who haue altogether ouerthrowen his Sacramentes and OrdinauncesOrdinances, and haue founde out and inuented newe ſacrifices, more intollerable then euer the Iewes …
Pierre Viret · The Christian Disputations · p. 50 · Open in the reader

Christian Instruction and Sum of Doctrine Part 1 A14462

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¶ Of the contradiction of the Popes, and of their Decrees and OrdinauncesOrdinances, the one ſorte contrarie to the other.
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¶ Of the contradiction of the Popes, and of their Decrees and OrdinauncesOrdinances, the one ſorte contrarie to the other.
Pierre Viret · Christian Instruction and Sum of Doctrine Part 1 · p. 114 · Open in the reader

Questions of Religion A17219

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… they doo beleeue that the Decrees and Preceptes of the Churche, the Canones and OrdinauncesOrdinances of the Fathers, be of the holy Ghost, and not contrary to Christ, or …
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… they doo beleeue that the Decrees and Preceptes of the Churche, the Canones and OrdinauncesOrdinances of the Fathers, be of the holy Ghost, and not contrary to Christ, or …
Henrich Bullinger · Questions of Religion · p. 32 · Open in the reader

Sermons on Deuteronomy A17698

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… thee, tarie thou here with mee, and I will tell thee all the commaundements, OrdinauncesOrdinances and Lawes which thou shalt teache them, that they may do them in the …
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… thee, tarie thou here with mee, and I will tell thee all the commaundements, OrdinauncesOrdinances and Lawes which thou shalt teache them, that they may do them in the …
John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · p. 259 · Open in the reader
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20 When thy child asketh thee in time to come, saying: What are these testimonies, OrdinauncesOrdinances, and lawes which the Lorde our God hath commaunded you?
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20 When thy child asketh thee in time to come, saying: What are these testimonies, OrdinauncesOrdinances, and lawes which the Lorde our God hath commaunded you?
John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · p. 296 · Open in the reader
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… expressed by Moses that Abraham would instruct his posteritie in the iudgements, Lawes and OrdinauncesOrdinances of GOD. Whereby he doth vs to vnderstand, y^t although there was not as …
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… expressed by Moses that Abraham would instruct his posteritie in the iudgements, Lawes and OrdinauncesOrdinances of GOD. Whereby he doth vs to vnderstand, y^t although there was not as …
John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · p. 501 · Open in the reader
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… the Lorde his God, and keepe all the wordes of the Lawe, and the OrdinauncesOrdinances to doe them:
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… the Lorde his God, and keepe all the wordes of the Lawe, and the OrdinauncesOrdinances to doe them:
John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · p. 650 · Open in the reader

Sermons on the Ten Commandments A17717

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… here he purpoſely placeth together theſe wordes: the Lawe, the Witneſſes, the Statutes, the OrdinauncesOrdinances, to the end he might more fullie expreſſe & declare (as we haue before ſhewed …
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… here he purpoſely placeth together theſe wordes: the Lawe, the Witneſſes, the Statutes, the OrdinauncesOrdinances, to the end he might more fullie expreſſe & declare (as we haue before ſhewed …
John Calvin · Sermons on the Ten Commandments · Open in the reader
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… vnder it: to the declaration whereof the two other woordes followe, the Statutes, the OrdinauncesOrdinances. Nowe when God beſtoweth ſuch paine to teach and inſtruct vs, and declareth that …
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… vnder it: to the declaration whereof the two other woordes followe, the Statutes, the OrdinauncesOrdinances. Nowe when God beſtoweth ſuch paine to teach and inſtruct vs, and declareth that …
John Calvin · Sermons on the Ten Commandments · Open in the reader

Thirteen Sermons on Free Election in Jacob and Reprobation in Esau A17722

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… ſhall finde it ſtraunge, that is heere ſpoken, that Abraham kepte the Commaundementes, Statutes, OrdinauncesOrdinances, and Lawes of the Lorde. And yet hee had not ſo much as one …
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… ſhall finde it ſtraunge, that is heere ſpoken, that Abraham kepte the Commaundementes, Statutes, OrdinauncesOrdinances, and Lawes of the Lorde. And yet hee had not ſo much as one …
John Calvin · Thirteen Sermons on Free Election in Jacob and Reprobation in Esau · Open in the reader

Twenty-Two Sermons on Psalm 119 A17724

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… our ſelues heere in, and although that hee ſo oftentimes repeateth theſe woordes, Lawe, OrdinauncesOrdinances, Statutes, Edict, Commaundements, Decrees, and other ſuch like: yet are they no vaine repetitions …
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… our ſelues heere in, and although that hee ſo oftentimes repeateth theſe woordes, Lawe, OrdinauncesOrdinances, Statutes, Edict, Commaundements, Decrees, and other ſuch like: yet are they no vaine repetitions …
John Calvin · Twenty-Two Sermons on Psalm 119 · Open in the reader
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… the reſte of the names couched in this Pſalme, as of Statutes, Decrees, and OrdinauncesOrdinances, Dauid alwayes meaneth the doctrine of the Lawe. Howbeit it is to be noted …
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… the reſte of the names couched in this Pſalme, as of Statutes, Decrees, and OrdinauncesOrdinances, Dauid alwayes meaneth the doctrine of the Lawe. Howbeit it is to be noted …
John Calvin · Twenty-Two Sermons on Psalm 119 · p. 4 · Open in the reader
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… either of the lawe of God, or of his Commaundementes, either elſe of his OrdinauncesOrdinances, Statutes, or Teſtimonyes, or of his voice, Iudgementes, or Iuſtice. Theſe wordes are heere …
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… either of the lawe of God, or of his Commaundementes, either elſe of his OrdinauncesOrdinances, Statutes, or Teſtimonyes, or of his voice, Iudgementes, or Iuſtice. Theſe wordes are heere …
John Calvin · Twenty-Two Sermons on Psalm 119 · p. 4 · Open in the reader

A Preparative to Contention A18015

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… and Diſciples, all due obedience to Princes, and a willing ſubiection to all manner OrdinauncesOrdinances of man for the Lordes ſake: But the Pope, exalting himſelfe aboue all that …
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… and Diſciples, all due obedience to Princes, and a willing ſubiection to all manner OrdinauncesOrdinances of man for the Lordes ſake: But the Pope, exalting himſelfe aboue all that …
John Carpenter · A Preparative to Contention · p. 35 · Open in the reader
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… had accuſed Stephen, that hee had preached, that Ieſus of Nazareth ſhould chaunge the OrdinauncesOrdinances that Moſes gaue, and this lawe that was deliuered by the miniſterie of Angels …
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… had accuſed Stephen, that hee had preached, that Ieſus of Nazareth ſhould chaunge the OrdinauncesOrdinances that Moſes gaue, and this lawe that was deliuered by the miniſterie of Angels …
John Carpenter · A Preparative to Contention · p. 129 · Open in the reader

Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 A67927

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… the Maisters of euery house should copy out their Statutes, the which beside common OrdinauncesOrdinances, conteined in them certayne Rules of priuate Order, for euerye House particularly. Swinborne (who …
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… the Maisters of euery house should copy out their Statutes, the which beside common OrdinauncesOrdinances, conteined in them certayne Rules of priuate Order, for euerye House particularly. Swinborne (who …
John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · p. 1964 · Open in the reader
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… Rome hathe and doeth preserue it, and oute of the same hathe made Decrees, OrdinauncesOrdinances, and true expositions.
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… Rome hathe and doeth preserue it, and oute of the same hathe made Decrees, OrdinauncesOrdinances, and true expositions.
John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · p. 2040 · Open in the reader