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diuinationdivination

u and v used by position, not sound: haue → have, vnto → unto.

Puritas changed it
153 times in 75 works
Consistency
64.8% (153 of 236)
Reach if approved
~248 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: divination
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
236 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (153 changes in 75 works, 64.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 153)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
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    … that is most certaine, take away all such ambiguitie as men might by suspicious diuinationdivination gather sometyme of their seuerall wordes, and declare by this marke of adoration playnly …
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    … that is most certaine, take away all such ambiguitie as men might by suspicious diuinationdivination gather sometyme of their seuerall wordes, and declare by this marke of adoration playnly …

    Archishop Thomas Cranmer · Answer unto a Crafy and Sophistical Cavillation · p. 368 · Open in the reader

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    … be often whetted, & so kept in an apt readines for all vses: for our diuinationdivination lies in the cōtemplation of entrails; in which art we are thus much more …
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    … be often whetted, & so kept in an apt readines for all vses: for our diuinationdivination lies in the cōtemplation of entrails; in which art we are thus much more …

    John Donne · Ignatius Conclave · p. 46 · Open in the reader

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    … I should haue knowne what it was that was intended, vnlesse it were by diuinationdivination; or how should I haue answered it, before I knew what was intended, vnlesse …
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    … I should haue knowne what it was that was intended, vnlesse it were by diuinationdivination; or how should I haue answered it, before I knew what was intended, vnlesse …

    Thomas Gataker · A Just Defense of Certain Passages · p. 249 · Open in the reader

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    … Marke 1.24. and 5.7, Thou art the Son of God. The maid with the ſpirit of diuinationdivination ſaith, You are the ſeruants of the moſt high God: but he profaneth the …
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    … Marke 1.24. and 5.7, Thou art the Son of God. The maid with the ſpirit of diuinationdivination ſaith, You are the ſeruants of the moſt high God: but he profaneth the …

    Paul Baynes · The Spiritual Armor · p. 37 · Open in the reader

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    … for the defence of his vice, as the former for approuing of truth in diuinationdivination.
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    … for the defence of his vice, as the former for approuing of truth in diuinationdivination.

    William Perkins · Four Great Liars Striving · Open in the reader

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    … lyes in the name of the Lord, and saith, they prophecied false vision, and diuinationdivination, and vanitie, and the deceitfulnesse of their owne hearts: why what was that? in …
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    … lyes in the name of the Lord, and saith, they prophecied false vision, and diuinationdivination, and vanitie, and the deceitfulnesse of their owne hearts: why what was that? in …

    Thomas Taylor · Commentary on Titus · p. 690 · Open in the reader

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    … and guesse at things to com. Acts 16, 16. Hauing a spirit of South-saying, or diuinationdivination.
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    … and guesse at things to com. Acts 16, 16. Hauing a spirit of South-saying, or diuinationdivination.

    Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 464 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … alſo ſhall be out of the ground, like him that hath a ſpirit of diuinationdivination, and thy talking ſhall whisper out of the duſt.
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    … alſo ſhall be out of the ground, like him that hath a ſpirit of diuinationdivination, and thy talking ſhall whisper out of the duſt.

    John Calvin · Commentary on Isaiah · p. 284 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (83)

73 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 43 are listed here. 10 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Anti-Prognostication A01297

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    … hath taken greate and laborous paines. For trauailyng to get out a science of DiuinationDivination, or foreseeyng, out of euery element, she hath broughte foorth vnto vs Pyromancy, whiche …
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    … hath taken greate and laborous paines. For trauailyng to get out a science of DiuinationDivination, or foreseeyng, out of euery element, she hath broughte foorth vnto vs Pyromancy, whiche …

    William Fulke · Anti-Prognostication · Open in the reader

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    … would not drawe heuen it selfe and the starres, to their superfluous rules of DiuinationDivination, of whome a greate numbre doo not this modestly, and as it were dius …
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    … would not drawe heuen it selfe and the starres, to their superfluous rules of DiuinationDivination, of whome a greate numbre doo not this modestly, and as it were dius …

    William Fulke · Anti-Prognostication · Open in the reader

Nature and Use of Lots A01545

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    … interpreters, or all generally, expound it of this kinde of curious Arts applied to DiuinationDivination; which (as Heathen stories also testifie) were so frequent at Ephesus, and so famous …
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    … interpreters, or all generally, expound it of this kinde of curious Arts applied to DiuinationDivination; which (as Heathen stories also testifie) were so frequent at Ephesus, and so famous …

    Thomas Gataker · Nature and Use of Lots · p. 308 · Open in the reader

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    … man is able to foredetermine or foresee. This kinde therefore of Lot Diuinatory and DiuinationDivination by Lotery is not onely, as the Canon iustly chargeth it, a step to …
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    … man is able to foredetermine or foresee. This kinde therefore of Lot Diuinatory and DiuinationDivination by Lotery is not onely, as the Canon iustly chargeth it, a step to …

    Thomas Gataker · Nature and Use of Lots · p. 311 · Open in the reader

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    … sinnes indeed withall, but these sinnes among others by name expressed in precise tearmes, DiuinationDivination and Sorcery; which enormitie withall is there branded with this marke, that it is …
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    … sinnes indeed withall, but these sinnes among others by name expressed in precise tearmes, DiuinationDivination and Sorcery; which enormitie withall is there branded with this marke, that it is …

    Thomas Gataker · Nature and Use of Lots · p. 327 · Open in the reader

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    … like: How vaine and idle, how friuolous and ridiculous was the Heathens course of DiuinationDivination, by opening the bellies of beasts and poaring into their entrailes, by obseruing the …
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    … like: How vaine and idle, how friuolous and ridiculous was the Heathens course of DiuinationDivination, by opening the bellies of beasts and poaring into their entrailes, by obseruing the …

    Thomas Gataker · Nature and Use of Lots · p. 341 · Open in the reader

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    … no doubt oft also the like in these Loteries and such like kindes of DiuinationDivination, as both Christian Writers haue obserued, and Heathen also themselues acknowledged.
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    … no doubt oft also the like in these Loteries and such like kindes of DiuinationDivination, as both Christian Writers haue obserued, and Heathen also themselues acknowledged.

    Thomas Gataker · Nature and Use of Lots · p. 349 · Open in the reader

The Height of Israels Heathenish Idolatry A04378

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    Let vs then conſider of Diabolicall Prediction and DiuinationDivination, what, how farre forth and in what manner Satan can foretell any thing. And …
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    Let vs then conſider of Diabolicall Prediction and DiuinationDivination, what, how farre forth and in what manner Satan can foretell any thing. And …

    Robert Jenison · The Height of Israels Heathenish Idolatry · p. 29 · Open in the reader

A Golden Chain A09339

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    DiuinationDivination. 50
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    DiuinationDivination. 50

    William Perkins · A Golden Chain · Open in the reader

The Damned Art of Witchcraft A09402

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    … disp…sed by his chosen instruments of both tex…t▪ sometime in matter of DiuinationDivination, sometime by Inchantment, sometime by rare … and delusions; otherwhiles by hurting, by cu…ing …
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    … disp…sed by his chosen instruments of both tex…t▪ sometime in matter of DiuinationDivination, sometime by Inchantment, sometime by rare … and delusions; otherwhiles by hurting, by cu…ing …

    William Perkins · The Damned Art of Witchcraft · Open in the reader

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    … or Working. For the whole nature of this art, consisteth either in matter of DiuinationDivination and coniecture, or in matter of practise. And in both these it is to …
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    … or Working. For the whole nature of this art, consisteth either in matter of DiuinationDivination and coniecture, or in matter of practise. And in both these it is to …

    William Perkins · The Damned Art of Witchcraft · p. 55 · Open in the reader

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    … affaires they had in hand. It were easie to exemplifie both these sorts of DiuinationDivination by sundrie particulars out of Heathen writers, but seeing the Scripture hath manifested that …
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    … affaires they had in hand. It were easie to exemplifie both these sorts of DiuinationDivination by sundrie particulars out of Heathen writers, but seeing the Scripture hath manifested that …

    William Perkins · The Damned Art of Witchcraft · p. 67 · Open in the reader

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    … egges, and by them no man can rightly define of particular euents, and therefore DiuinationDivination by the slarres, whereby are fore-told particular contingent euents, in kingdomes, families, or …
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    … egges, and by them no man can rightly define of particular euents, and therefore DiuinationDivination by the slarres, whereby are fore-told particular contingent euents, in kingdomes, families, or …

    William Perkins · The Damned Art of Witchcraft · p. 76 · Open in the reader

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    And thus much of DiuinationDivination by meanes of the creatures; and the seueral kinds thereof.
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    And thus much of DiuinationDivination by meanes of the creatures; and the seueral kinds thereof.

    William Perkins · The Damned Art of Witchcraft · p. 107 · Open in the reader

Pilgrimage A10228

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    … spent their whole time in religious seruices, and in Astrologie. Many of them by DiuinationDivination foretold things to come, as we haue shewed before in the Historie of Alexander …
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    … spent their whole time in religious seruices, and in Astrologie. Many of them by DiuinationDivination foretold things to come, as we haue shewed before in the Historie of Alexander …

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 53 · Open in the reader

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    … one of these to direct him, who only among the Indians had skill of DiuinationDivination, and authoritie to sacrifice, and were free from other seruices.
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    … one of these to direct him, who only among the Indians had skill of DiuinationDivination, and authoritie to sacrifice, and were free from other seruices.

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 384 · Open in the reader

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    … they obtaine a testimoniall thereof, and beginne to professe in practise of Physicke and DiuinationDivination. Let vs burie the Cumanois, and then we haue done.
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    … they obtaine a testimoniall thereof, and beginne to professe in practise of Physicke and DiuinationDivination. Let vs burie the Cumanois, and then we haue done.

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 698 · Open in the reader

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    DiuinationDivination in Lycia. 285
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    DiuinationDivination in Lycia. 285

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · Open in the reader

A Christian Dictionary A15520

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    … none be found among you that is a Diuiner. Esay. 8, 19. Gen. 41, 8. Ezek. 21, 21. Consulting by DiuinationDivination.
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    … none be found among you that is a Diuiner. Esay. 8, 19. Gen. 41, 8. Ezek. 21, 21. Consulting by DiuinationDivination.

    Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 103 · Open in the reader

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    spirit of DiuinationDivination. sig:
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    spirit of DiuinationDivination. sig:

    Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 103 · Open in the reader

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    … true holinesse of life. Leuit. 20, 6, 27. If a man or woman haue a spirit of DiuinationDivination.
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    … true holinesse of life. Leuit. 20, 6, 27. If a man or woman haue a spirit of DiuinationDivination.

    Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 103 · Open in the reader

Sermons on Jonah A16485

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    … the Chaldaeans, men not far frō Niniue, by Tully in the second of his DiuinationDivination, and by Cornelius Tacitus in the first of his History, (where that by his …
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    … the Chaldaeans, men not far frō Niniue, by Tully in the second of his DiuinationDivination, and by Cornelius Tacitus in the first of his History, (where that by his …

    Archbishop George Abbot · Sermons on Jonah · p. 19 · Open in the reader

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    … rats. In Tullies disputation concerning such arguments, when one to enforce the veritie of DiuinationDivination, had said that a victorie which fell to the Thebanes, was foreshewed by some …
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    … rats. In Tullies disputation concerning such arguments, when one to enforce the veritie of DiuinationDivination, had said that a victorie which fell to the Thebanes, was foreshewed by some …

    Archbishop George Abbot · Sermons on Jonah · p. 286 · Open in the reader

Commentary on Isaiah A17640

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    … or the branches of a tree Baddim: and they alſo take this word for DiuinationDivination, which is vſed in this ſignification in ſome other places. Some thinke it is …
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    … or the branches of a tree Baddim: and they alſo take this word for DiuinationDivination, which is vſed in this ſignification in ſome other places. Some thinke it is …

    John Calvin · Commentary on Isaiah · p. 173 · Open in the reader

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    DiuinationDivination condemned 19. 12. & 44. 25
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    DiuinationDivination condemned 19. 12. & 44. 25

    John Calvin · Commentary on Isaiah · Open in the reader

Sermons on Deuteronomy A17698

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    DiuinationDivination.
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    DiuinationDivination.

    John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · Open in the reader

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    DiuinationDivination by the flight of birds forbidden.
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    DiuinationDivination by the flight of birds forbidden.

    John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · Open in the reader

Satan Transformed Into an Angel of Light A19294

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    1. That which consists in DiuinationDivination; wherein first is shawed, p. 128.
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    1. That which consists in DiuinationDivination; wherein first is shawed, p. 128.

    Thomas Cooper · Satan Transformed Into an Angel of Light · Open in the reader

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    … concerne the Discouerie of the Good Witch: who specially triumphs in this power of DiuinationDivination, and coniecturing of vnknowne and hidden things.
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    … concerne the Discouerie of the Good Witch: who specially triumphs in this power of DiuinationDivination, and coniecturing of vnknowne and hidden things.

    Thomas Cooper · Satan Transformed Into an Angel of Light · p. 129 · Open in the reader

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    As touching DiuinationDivination by Lots, heerein also wee had need to bee informed, the rather because this …
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    As touching DiuinationDivination by Lots, heerein also wee had need to bee informed, the rather because this …

    Thomas Cooper · Satan Transformed Into an Angel of Light · p. 149 · Open in the reader

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    Hitherto of DiuinationDivination by true creatures. And doth not Satan also deceiue by forged meanes?
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    Hitherto of DiuinationDivination by true creatures. And doth not Satan also deceiue by forged meanes?

    Thomas Cooper · Satan Transformed Into an Angel of Light · p. 150 · Open in the reader

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    And thus farre of Witch-craft by DiuinationDivination.
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    And thus farre of Witch-craft by DiuinationDivination.

    Thomas Cooper · Satan Transformed Into an Angel of Light · p. 157 · Open in the reader

The Mystery of Witchcraft Discovering the Truth of Nature A19295

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    1. That which consists in DiuinationDivination; wherein first is shawed, p. 128.
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    1. That which consists in DiuinationDivination; wherein first is shawed, p. 128.

    Thomas Cooper · The Mystery of Witchcraft Discovering the Truth of Nature · Open in the reader

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    … concerne the Discouerie of the Good Witch: who specially triumphs in this power of DiuinationDivination, and coniecturing of vnknowne and hidden things.
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    … concerne the Discouerie of the Good Witch: who specially triumphs in this power of DiuinationDivination, and coniecturing of vnknowne and hidden things.

    Thomas Cooper · The Mystery of Witchcraft Discovering the Truth of Nature · p. 129 · Open in the reader

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    As touching DiuinationDivination by Lots, heerein also wee had need to bee informed, the rather because this …
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    As touching DiuinationDivination by Lots, heerein also wee had need to bee informed, the rather because this …

    Thomas Cooper · The Mystery of Witchcraft Discovering the Truth of Nature · p. 149 · Open in the reader

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    Hitherto of DiuinationDivination by true creatures. And doth not Satan also deceiue by forged meanes?
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    Hitherto of DiuinationDivination by true creatures. And doth not Satan also deceiue by forged meanes?

    Thomas Cooper · The Mystery of Witchcraft Discovering the Truth of Nature · p. 150 · Open in the reader

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    And thus farre of Witch-craft by DiuinationDivination.
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    And thus farre of Witch-craft by DiuinationDivination.

    Thomas Cooper · The Mystery of Witchcraft Discovering the Truth of Nature · p. 157 · Open in the reader

The Sum of Sacred Divinity A20766

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    … Saul by Prophets, ſuch as Samuel was. To the ſecond belong Sooth-ſaying, and DiuinationDivination; by flying of Birds, looking into beaſts entrayles, as the King of Babel did …
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    … Saul by Prophets, ſuch as Samuel was. To the ſecond belong Sooth-ſaying, and DiuinationDivination; by flying of Birds, looking into beaſts entrayles, as the King of Babel did …

    John Downame · The Sum of Sacred Divinity · p. 155 · Open in the reader

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    … When they ſhall ſay to you, Inquire at them that haue a ſpirit of DiuinationDivination, and at the Sooth-ſayers which whiſper and murmure; ſhould not a people inquire …
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    … When they ſhall ſay to you, Inquire at them that haue a ſpirit of DiuinationDivination, and at the Sooth-ſayers which whiſper and murmure; ſhould not a people inquire …

    John Downame · The Sum of Sacred Divinity · p. 156 · Open in the reader

Lectures Upon Hosea 1-4 A69234

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    … vſe, with certaine Ceremonies, Pictures, and Characters written on them. The which kinde of DiuinationDivination was called foreign, of which Liuie in his Romaine Hiſtory and M. Cicero in his …
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    … vſe, with certaine Ceremonies, Pictures, and Characters written on them. The which kinde of DiuinationDivination was called foreign, of which Liuie in his Romaine Hiſtory and M. Cicero in his …

    John Downame · Lectures Upon Hosea 1-4 · p. 226 · Open in the reader

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    … of which Liuie in his Romaine Hiſtory and M. Cicero in his bookes of DiuinationDivination maketh mention. So that their ſin here condemned was, that they forſooke the Lord …
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    … of which Liuie in his Romaine Hiſtory and M. Cicero in his bookes of DiuinationDivination maketh mention. So that their ſin here condemned was, that they forſooke the Lord …

    John Downame · Lectures Upon Hosea 1-4 · p. 226 · Open in the reader

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    … in the parting of the way, at the head of two wayes, conſulting by DiuinationDivination, and made his kniues bright (namely, which he vſed in killing and cutting vp …
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    … in the parting of the way, at the head of two wayes, conſulting by DiuinationDivination, and made his kniues bright (namely, which he vſed in killing and cutting vp …

    John Downame · Lectures Upon Hosea 1-4 · p. 226 · Open in the reader

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    … Witch to liue. So Leu. 20. 27. If a man or woman, haue a ſpirit of DiuinationDivination in them, they ſhall dye the death, &c. The which puniſhment was accordingly inflicted …
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    … Witch to liue. So Leu. 20. 27. If a man or woman, haue a ſpirit of DiuinationDivination in them, they ſhall dye the death, &c. The which puniſhment was accordingly inflicted …

    John Downame · Lectures Upon Hosea 1-4 · p. 239 · Open in the reader