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controulcontrol

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

Puritas changed it
602 times in 387 works
Consistency
90.8% (602 of 663)
Reach if approved
~697 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: control
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
663 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (602 changes in 387 works, 90.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 602)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    I could with comfort them controulcontrol,
    With rule
    I could with comfort them controulcontrol,

    John Bunyan · One Thing is Needful · p. 3 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … to scorne his seruice, and deny him duty? Might not one worthily check and controulcontrol him as Christ did the …, who vnwillingly paid such taxes and tributes as were …
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    … to scorne his seruice, and deny him duty? Might not one worthily check and controulcontrol him as Christ did the …, who vnwillingly paid such taxes and tributes as were …

    William Attersoll · The Badges of Christianity · p. 72 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … yesterday, to day, and the same for ever; and if his poor prejudices must controulcontrol divine Revelations, I cannot help it. An Atheist would believe there i… a God …
    With rule
    … yesterday, to day, and the same for ever; and if his poor prejudices must controulcontrol divine Revelations, I cannot help it. An Atheist would believe there i… a God …

    Vincent Alsop · Opposition to Errors of William Sherlock · p. 513 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … not actually and strongly consider the Divine Command; and Conscience is brought under the controulcontrol of the impetuous Passions. The Light of Reason, as well as of Divine Revelation …
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    … not actually and strongly consider the Divine Command; and Conscience is brought under the controulcontrol of the impetuous Passions. The Light of Reason, as well as of Divine Revelation …

    William Bates · The Danger of Prosperity · p. 78 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … Vengeance, that sometimes strikes the Wicked, or the apprehension of Judgment to come, may controulcontrol the licentious Appetites from breaking forth into actual commission of Sins. But as when …
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    … Vengeance, that sometimes strikes the Wicked, or the apprehension of Judgment to come, may controulcontrol the licentious Appetites from breaking forth into actual commission of Sins. But as when …

    William Bates · A Sure Trial of Uprightness · p. 66 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … call us all to naught, and teach abundance of their own Opinions, without a controulcontrol. And many a poor ſoul will take an Anabaptiſt Papiſt, or Seeker into their …
    With rule
    … call us all to naught, and teach abundance of their own Opinions, without a controulcontrol. And many a poor ſoul will take an Anabaptiſt Papiſt, or Seeker into their …

    Richard Baxter · A Key for Catholics · p. 340 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … preſume hereupon to abuſe his Power to Tyranny, becauſe he hath no Superiour to controulcontrol him; but remember theſe things following. Firſt, that though he command over mens bodies …
    With rule
    … preſume hereupon to abuſe his Power to Tyranny, becauſe he hath no Superiour to controulcontrol him; but remember theſe things following. Firſt, that though he command over mens bodies …

    Simon Patrick · The Book of Ecclesiastes and Song of Solomon Paraphrased · p. 122 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … and down the ſtreets, with a Whores fore-head, without the leaſt check or controulcontrol, Jer. 3. 3. Thou had'ſt a Whores fore-head, thou refuſeſt to be aſhamed. Jer. 6. 15. Were …
    With rule
    … and down the ſtreets, with a Whores fore-head, without the leaſt check or controulcontrol, Jer. 3. 3. Thou had'ſt a Whores fore-head, thou refuſeſt to be aſhamed. Jer. 6. 15. Were …

    Thomas Brooks · The Privy Key of Heaven · p. 103 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (61)

22 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 39 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Meekness and Quietness of Spirit A43344

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    … and excuse of necessary strictness, and the maintaining of Authority, and the Education and ControulControl of Children and Servants: But surely every little faileur needs not be animadverted upon …
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    … and excuse of necessary strictness, and the maintaining of Authority, and the Education and ControulControl of Children and Servants: But surely every little faileur needs not be animadverted upon …

    Matthew Henry · Meekness and Quietness of Spirit · p. 80 · Open in the reader

Innocency Though Under a Cloud Cleared A44026

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    To all Accuſers gives a grand ControulControl.
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    To all Accuſers gives a grand ControulControl.

    Paul Hobson · Innocency Though Under a Cloud Cleared · Open in the reader

One Hundred Select Sermons A44565

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    … Atheiſm in the word. If God ſhould ſuffer wicked men to go on without ControulControl, they would be ready to think that there were no God at all, but …
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    … Atheiſm in the word. If God ſhould ſuffer wicked men to go on without ControulControl, they would be ready to think that there were no God at all, but …

    Thomas Horton · One Hundred Select Sermons · p. 125 · Open in the reader

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    … an indulgent God, and one that will let them do as they liſt without ControulControl, as it is in Pſal. 50.21. Thou thinkeſt that I was altogether ſuch an one …
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    … an indulgent God, and one that will let them do as they liſt without ControulControl, as it is in Pſal. 50.21. Thou thinkeſt that I was altogether ſuch an one …

    Thomas Horton · One Hundred Select Sermons · p. 293 · Open in the reader

Sermons Volume 4 A51840

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    … constant Course of Mortification set up, but Lust is let alone to reign without ControulControl, you have no Interest in Christ. Mark, it is said, they crucify the Flesh …
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    … constant Course of Mortification set up, but Lust is let alone to reign without ControulControl, you have no Interest in Christ. Mark, it is said, they crucify the Flesh …

    Thomas Manton · Sermons Volume 4 · p. 51 · Open in the reader

A Complete and Compendious Church History A52804

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    … Kings Inhumane and Unnatural Command, v. 17. That which is Inferior and Subordinate, may not ControulControl and Contradict that which is Superior. Thus Peter Explains his two Sociable Duties, [Fear …
    With rule
    … Kings Inhumane and Unnatural Command, v. 17. That which is Inferior and Subordinate, may not ControulControl and Contradict that which is Superior. Thus Peter Explains his two Sociable Duties, [Fear …

    Christopher Ness · A Complete and Compendious Church History · p. 36 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … of the World; and the Devil in Jehoram ſhall not carry it without a ControulControl from Heaven, both (1) by that Letter brought to him from one that was then …
    With rule
    … of the World; and the Devil in Jehoram ſhall not carry it without a ControulControl from Heaven, both (1) by that Letter brought to him from one that was then …

    Christopher Ness · A Complete and Compendious Church History · p. 192 · Open in the reader

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

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    … them from Wickedneſs, but under an Anarchy, ſo to do what they liſted, without ControulControl. Beſides, As the Tribe of Judah led the People againſt the Canaanites, Judges 1.3. And …
    With rule
    … them from Wickedneſs, but under an Anarchy, ſo to do what they liſted, without ControulControl. Beſides, As the Tribe of Judah led the People againſt the Canaanites, Judges 1.3. And …

    Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 70 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … but had the Adminiſtration of his Kingdom wholly in his own hands, without the ControulControl of any Superiour, yet even at Sixteen Years of Age he begins to be …
    With rule
    … but had the Adminiſtration of his Kingdom wholly in his own hands, without the ControulControl of any Superiour, yet even at Sixteen Years of Age he begins to be …

    Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 615 · Open in the reader

Inquiry into the Nature of Evangelical Churches A53704

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    … lawful Governours, or pretend themselves so to be, may impose what they please without ControulControl, as they did in the Papacy, and the Councils of it. But
    With rule
    … lawful Governours, or pretend themselves so to be, may impose what they please without ControulControl, as they did in the Papacy, and the Councils of it. But

    John Owen · Inquiry into the Nature of Evangelical Churches · p. 278 · Open in the reader

The Christian Life Part 2 Volume 2 A58800

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    … they exerted their Legislative Power in Ecclesiastical Causes, the Church had no power to ControulControl or Countermand them, then neither hath it in any other instance of the same …
    With rule
    … they exerted their Legislative Power in Ecclesiastical Causes, the Church had no power to ControulControl or Countermand them, then neither hath it in any other instance of the same …

    John Scott · The Christian Life Part 2 Volume 2 · p. 369 · Open in the reader

The Christian Life Part 3 Volume 4 A58802

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    … to walk to and fro upon the Stage of our Fancies without Check or ControulControl; we are still adulterous in the sight of God, to whom our Lust is …
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    … to walk to and fro upon the Stage of our Fancies without Check or ControulControl; we are still adulterous in the sight of God, to whom our Lust is …

    John Scott · The Christian Life Part 3 Volume 4 · p. 269 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … upon what we have done: and while we can thus sin without Check or ControulControl, it will be in vain for us to make Resolutions of Obedience. For still …
    With rule
    … upon what we have done: and while we can thus sin without Check or ControulControl, it will be in vain for us to make Resolutions of Obedience. For still …

    John Scott · The Christian Life Part 3 Volume 4 · p. 290 · Open in the reader

Sermon 31 May 1697 A66979

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    … Godlineſs, were grown very modiſh, and very faſhionable Things, rode in Triumph, above the ControulControl of thoſe that ſhould have atteſted them.
    With rule
    … Godlineſs, were grown very modiſh, and very faſhionable Things, rode in Triumph, above the ControulControl of thoſe that ſhould have atteſted them.

    John Woodhouse · Sermon 31 May 1697 · p. 35 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … were heartily againſt it; or whether they looked upon Wickedneſs as got above their ControulControl, I am loth to ſay; but this I muſt ſay, that in all my …
    With rule
    … were heartily againſt it; or whether they looked upon Wickedneſs as got above their ControulControl, I am loth to ſay; but this I muſt ſay, that in all my …

    John Woodhouse · Sermon 31 May 1697 · p. 40 · Open in the reader

Tropes and Figures B25425

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    … For if Men may lie by allowance; may kill, and ſhed innocent Blood, without ControulControl of Conſcience, and Church-Cenſures; may ſwear and blaſpheme, and challenge God himſelf to …
    With rule
    … For if Men may lie by allowance; may kill, and ſhed innocent Blood, without ControulControl of Conſcience, and Church-Cenſures; may ſwear and blaſpheme, and challenge God himſelf to …

    Benjamin Keach · Tropes and Figures · p. 301 · Open in the reader

The Churchs Quarrel Espoused N01398

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    … in the Sympathies and Antipathies of Humane Nature, with an abſolute ſuperintending Power to ControulControl and direct all Wooers in their Choice for the Marriage Bed; for that there …
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    … in the Sympathies and Antipathies of Humane Nature, with an abſolute ſuperintending Power to ControulControl and direct all Wooers in their Choice for the Marriage Bed; for that there …

    John Wise · The Churchs Quarrel Espoused · p. 89 · Open in the reader

Sermons Preached from Luke 11:21-22 N01574

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    … Will are his; tamely yielded to him, wickedly uſed for him. "Satan rules without ControulControl; His Luſts are done and his intereſts ſerved; and all the Powers of the …
    With rule
    … Will are his; tamely yielded to him, wickedly uſed for him. "Satan rules without ControulControl; His Luſts are done and his intereſts ſerved; and all the Powers of the …

    Benjamin Colman · Sermons Preached from Luke 11:21-22 · p. 50 · Open in the reader

Vindication of the Government of New England Churches 1 N01635

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    … to Nature, then that thoſe who Excel in Ʋnderstanding and Prudence, ſhould Rule and ControulControl thoſe who are leſs happy in thoſe Advantages, &c. Yet we muſt note, that …
    With rule
    … to Nature, then that thoſe who Excel in Ʋnderstanding and Prudence, ſhould Rule and ControulControl thoſe who are leſs happy in thoſe Advantages, &c. Yet we muſt note, that …

    John Wise · Vindication of the Government of New England Churches 1 · p. 41 · Open in the reader

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    … ſleep with both Ears; that then was ſcarce any Enemy left to Interrupt, or ControulControl the Conquerors. This was the manner of the Clergy till they had made themſelves …
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    … ſleep with both Ears; that then was ſcarce any Enemy left to Interrupt, or ControulControl the Conquerors. This was the manner of the Clergy till they had made themſelves …

    John Wise · Vindication of the Government of New England Churches 1 · p. 58 · Open in the reader

The Doctrine of Original Sin N06399

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    … to it, as an Antidote; and so has gone on to prevail with little ControulControl. I have indeed heard, that an Answer to it has been publish'd by Dr …
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    … to it, as an Antidote; and so has gone on to prevail with little ControulControl. I have indeed heard, that an Answer to it has been publish'd by Dr …

    Jonathan Edwards · The Doctrine of Original Sin · p. xi · Open in the reader

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    … in Power; since He himself, and others appointed by him, and wholly under his ControulControl, were the Men that were in Power, in that Land, and in almost all …
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    … in Power; since He himself, and others appointed by him, and wholly under his ControulControl, were the Men that were in Power, in that Land, and in almost all …

    Jonathan Edwards · The Doctrine of Original Sin · p. 69 · Open in the reader