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profestprofessed

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

Puritas changed it
1,428 times in 680 works
Consistency
97.1% (1,428 of 1,470)
Reach if approved
~1,545 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: professed
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,470 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,428 changes in 680 works, 97.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,428)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … not in a worſe) then they who have ſuffered themſelves to be circumciſed by profeſtprofessed enemies of Chriſt, and therewithall renounced the faith of Chriſt, and yet ſeek not …
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    … not in a worſe) then they who have ſuffered themſelves to be circumciſed by profeſtprofessed enemies of Chriſt, and therewithall renounced the faith of Chriſt, and yet ſeek not …

    William Gouge · Recover from Apostasy · p. 83 · Open in the reader

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    … from the company of beleeuers, but from the fellowship of sound beleeuers. For where profestprofessed vnbeleefe is, there can be no visible Church of Christ; there may be, where …
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    … from the company of beleeuers, but from the fellowship of sound beleeuers. For where profestprofessed vnbeleefe is, there can be no visible Church of Christ; there may be, where …

    Richard Hooker · The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity · p. 123 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    Virginis profeſtprofessed in to Religioun,
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    Virginis profeſtprofessed in to Religioun,

    David Lindsay · Works · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … truly and properly the Mystery of Iniquity. In which respect the Turke, and other profestprofessed Enemies of Christ, and Christian Religion cannot come within the compasse of this Mystery …
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    … truly and properly the Mystery of Iniquity. In which respect the Turke, and other profestprofessed Enemies of Christ, and Christian Religion cannot come within the compasse of this Mystery …

    William Prynne · Lord Bishops None of the Lords Bishops · Open in the reader

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    … reasonably thinke it should be a commendable Calling for any man to be a profestprofessed Bowler, or Archer, or Gamster, and nothing else? Therefore take a second Rule; Make …
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    … reasonably thinke it should be a commendable Calling for any man to be a profestprofessed Bowler, or Archer, or Gamster, and nothing else? Therefore take a second Rule; Make …

    Robert Sanderson · Ten Sermons · p. 435 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    Which hitherto thou hast profestprofessed,
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    Which hitherto thou hast profestprofessed,

    George Wither · Fair-Virtue the Mistress of Philarete · Open in the reader

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    … if any man be content to stand for Satans kingdom, either by open and profestprofessed impietie, or by close conueiances and secret practises and conniuencie; he will be sure …
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    … if any man be content to stand for Satans kingdom, either by open and profestprofessed impietie, or by close conueiances and secret practises and conniuencie; he will be sure …

    Robert Bolton · The State of True Happiness · p. 53 · Open in the reader

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    … Test, it will presently fume into the ayre. For, according to Philosophy (Aquinas his profestprofessed and pretended proper element) a thing without forme, is non ens: if it be …
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    … Test, it will presently fume into the ayre. For, according to Philosophy (Aquinas his profestprofessed and pretended proper element) a thing without forme, is non ens: if it be …

    Henry Burton · Truths Triumph Over Trent · p. 171 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (42)

33 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 27 are listed here. 9 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Happiness of the Church A01956

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    … to themselues. This disease is Interius, within: and quickly becomes Interitus, a violent destruction. ProfestProfessed Atheists, and open Heretikes, are through the manifestation of their malice preuented: these are …
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    … to themselues. This disease is Interius, within: and quickly becomes Interitus, a violent destruction. ProfestProfessed Atheists, and open Heretikes, are through the manifestation of their malice preuented: these are …

    Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 364 · Open in the reader

Works A05537

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    ProfeſtProfessed Virginis, in keiping of ſtrong huris.
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    ProfeſtProfessed Virginis, in keiping of ſtrong huris.

    David Lindsay · Works · Open in the reader

The Complaint and Testament of a Popinjay A05547

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    ProfestProfessed among the systers of the senes
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    ProfestProfessed among the systers of the senes

    David Lindsay · The Complaint and Testament of a Popinjay · Open in the reader

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    ProfestProfessed virgyns in kepynge of stronge hures
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    ProfestProfessed virgyns in kepynge of stronge hures

    David Lindsay · The Complaint and Testament of a Popinjay · Open in the reader

The Ladys Calling A23744

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    … be not among us such societies, yet there may be Nuns who are not ProfestProfessed. She who has devoted her heart to God, and the better to secure his …
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    … be not among us such societies, yet there may be Nuns who are not ProfestProfessed. She who has devoted her heart to God, and the better to secure his …

    Richard Allestree · The Ladys Calling · p. 145 · Open in the reader

Against the Revolt to a Foreign Jurisdiction A26858

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    … All the truely Baptized are thereby made the Kingdom of Christ the Redeemer by ProfestProfessed Consent. And this is the Church visible.
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    … All the truely Baptized are thereby made the Kingdom of Christ the Redeemer by ProfestProfessed Consent. And this is the Church visible.

    Richard Baxter · Against the Revolt to a Foreign Jurisdiction · p. 373 · Open in the reader

Catholic Communion Defended Against Both Extremes A26880

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    … Mystical (in Believers) or Visible (in Prosessors of the same, and not another Faith). ProfestProfessed Idolaters, or Hereticks, that deny the Essential, are no Members of it, as Visible …
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    … Mystical (in Believers) or Visible (in Prosessors of the same, and not another Faith). ProfestProfessed Idolaters, or Hereticks, that deny the Essential, are no Members of it, as Visible …

    Richard Baxter · Catholic Communion Defended Against Both Extremes · p. 37 · Open in the reader

Right to Sacraments A26886

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    … faith is to be taken by us as a probable Evidence of the thing ProfestProfessed, till men forfeit their credit, I shall (God willing) prove anon from Scripture. And …
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    … faith is to be taken by us as a probable Evidence of the thing ProfestProfessed, till men forfeit their credit, I shall (God willing) prove anon from Scripture. And …

    Richard Baxter · Right to Sacraments · p. 6 · Open in the reader

The Cure of Church Divisions A26906

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    … exchange of earth for heaven, they cannot be his true Disciples: Nor without a ProfestProfessed consent to thus much, they cannot be his visible profestprofessed Disciples▪ But all that …
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    … exchange of earth for heaven, they cannot be his true Disciples: Nor without a ProfestProfessed consent to thus much, they cannot be his visible profestprofessed Disciples▪ But all that …

    Richard Baxter · The Cure of Church Divisions · p. 106 · Open in the reader

An Exposition of Hosea 1-3 A30572

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    Fourthly, For ſhe ſaid: She profeſtprofessed what ſhe would do. ProfeſtProfessed ſinnes are ſhamefull ſins. It is an evill for ſin to lye lurking in …
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    Fourthly, For ſhe ſaid: She profeſtprofessed what ſhe would do. ProfeſtProfessed ſinnes are ſhamefull ſins. It is an evill for ſin to lye lurking in …

    Jeremiah Burroughs · An Exposition of Hosea 1-3 · p. 219 · Open in the reader

Defense from the Imputation of Self Contradiction by Daniel Cawdry A34675

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    … is given to Peter, not at an Apostle nor as Elder, but as a ProfestProfessed Believer The way, P. 27. 1 Peter Received not the keyes, meerely as a Believer, but …
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    … is given to Peter, not at an Apostle nor as Elder, but as a ProfestProfessed Believer The way, P. 27. 1 Peter Received not the keyes, meerely as a Believer, but …

    John Cotton · Defense from the Imputation of Self Contradiction by Daniel Cawdry · p. 4 · Open in the reader

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    … only to Elders) but as a ProfestProfessed Believer. And under the Generall Name of ProfestProfessed Believers, not only private Brethren, but Apostles, and Elders may be comprehended. For all …
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    … only to Elders) but as a ProfestProfessed Believer. And under the Generall Name of ProfestProfessed Believers, not only private Brethren, but Apostles, and Elders may be comprehended. For all …

    John Cotton · Defense from the Imputation of Self Contradiction by Daniel Cawdry · p. 4 · Open in the reader

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    … are true. Peter considered as standing in the Roome of an Apostle, Elder, and ProfestProfessed Believer, did receive Formally all the Power of the keyes: The Body of the …
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    … are true. Peter considered as standing in the Roome of an Apostle, Elder, and ProfestProfessed Believer, did receive Formally all the Power of the keyes: The Body of the …

    John Cotton · Defense from the Imputation of Self Contradiction by Daniel Cawdry · p. 7 · Open in the reader

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    … leave it; He that saith, Believers Receive all the Power of the keyes as ProfestProfessed Believers, He saith all of them have Received the Power, and they only, and …
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    … leave it; He that saith, Believers Receive all the Power of the keyes as ProfestProfessed Believers, He saith all of them have Received the Power, and they only, and …

    John Cotton · Defense from the Imputation of Self Contradiction by Daniel Cawdry · p. 10 · Open in the reader

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    … requisite to say any thing to this, I would say. 1. That the Fraternity, and ProfestProfessed Believers, and Believers Publickly Professing their Faith, are all one. And the common Name …
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    … requisite to say any thing to this, I would say. 1. That the Fraternity, and ProfestProfessed Believers, and Believers Publickly Professing their Faith, are all one. And the common Name …

    John Cotton · Defense from the Imputation of Self Contradiction by Daniel Cawdry · p. 17 · Open in the reader

A Testimony to the Doctrine and Government of the Church of Scotland A35932

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    … this conſideration, that having Renounced Chriſt for their head, they have ſet up his ProfeſtProfessed and Avowed Enemy (by them others of their Kidney Inſtigate to be ſo) in …
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    … this conſideration, that having Renounced Chriſt for their head, they have ſet up his ProfeſtProfessed and Avowed Enemy (by them others of their Kidney Inſtigate to be ſo) in …

    John Dick · A Testimony to the Doctrine and Government of the Church of Scotland · p. 35 · Open in the reader

Innocency and Truth Vindicated A36591

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    … if you miſs it in the Right Subject, or Matter of Baptiſm, viz. a ProfeſtProfessed Believer, and erre alſo in the due Form or Ceremony, viz. Dipping, you have …
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    … if you miſs it in the Right Subject, or Matter of Baptiſm, viz. a ProfeſtProfessed Believer, and erre alſo in the due Form or Ceremony, viz. Dipping, you have …

    Henry Danvers · Innocency and Truth Vindicated · p. 191 · Open in the reader

The Present State of London A37482

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    … be ſtiled an Ʋniverſity, for all Liberal Arts and Sciences are here Taught and ProfeſtProfessed. Here is Divinity, Law, and Phyſick Read; the Municipal or Common-Laws of the …
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    … be ſtiled an Ʋniverſity, for all Liberal Arts and Sciences are here Taught and ProfeſtProfessed. Here is Divinity, Law, and Phyſick Read; the Municipal or Common-Laws of the …

    Thomas De Laune · The Present State of London · p. 160 · Open in the reader

The History of the Worthies of England A40672

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    … are found in their throats. There is a kind of Frog which is a ProfestProfessed Foe unto them, insomuch that of a Hundred Carpes put into a Pond, not …
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    … are found in their throats. There is a kind of Frog which is a ProfestProfessed Foe unto them, insomuch that of a Hundred Carpes put into a Pond, not …

    Thomas Fuller · The History of the Worthies of England · p. 98 · Open in the reader

Sermons A45465

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    … this World hath now taught men to vilifie and reproach the God of Heaven. ProfeſtProfessed Atheiſm begins to ſet up; it comes in faſhion, and then ſome Courtiers muſt …
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    … this World hath now taught men to vilifie and reproach the God of Heaven. ProfeſtProfessed Atheiſm begins to ſet up; it comes in faſhion, and then ſome Courtiers muſt …

    Henry Hammond · Sermons · p. 103 · Open in the reader

Worthy Communicating A47298

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    … other actions of Religion. For an Impenitent man, whilst he continues such, is Gods ProfestProfessed Enemy, and is welcome to him at no time but when he Repents; so …
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    … other actions of Religion. For an Impenitent man, whilst he continues such, is Gods ProfestProfessed Enemy, and is welcome to him at no time but when he Repents; so …

    John Kettlewell · Worthy Communicating · p. 118 · Open in the reader

Antichrist Stormed A47362

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    … to plot again… the Righteous, and to gnash upon him wit… their Teeth; Idolaters; ProfestProfessed Idolaters, t… persecute the Servants, and Worshipers of th… true God; those that were …
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    … to plot again… the Righteous, and to gnash upon him wit… their Teeth; Idolaters; ProfestProfessed Idolaters, t… persecute the Servants, and Worshipers of th… true God; those that were …

    Benjamin Keach · Antichrist Stormed · p. 23 · Open in the reader

The Resurrection and the Reward to Come Considered A67106

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    … as these are even to this Day to be found, and where Christianity is ProfestProfessed: But observe the Character of these Men, they are such as have a mind …
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    … as these are even to this Day to be found, and where Christianity is ProfestProfessed: But observe the Character of these Men, they are such as have a mind …

    John Worthington · The Resurrection and the Reward to Come Considered · p. 25 · Open in the reader

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    … Purity in Heart and Life, it is most worthy to be firmly Believed and ProfestProfessed.
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    … Purity in Heart and Life, it is most worthy to be firmly Believed and ProfestProfessed.

    John Worthington · The Resurrection and the Reward to Come Considered · p. 48 · Open in the reader

Works Volume 4 A70318

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    … this World hath now taught men to vilifie and reproach the God of Heaven. ProfeſtProfessed Atheiſm begins to ſet up; it comes in faſhion, and then ſome Courtiers muſt …
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    … this World hath now taught men to vilifie and reproach the God of Heaven. ProfeſtProfessed Atheiſm begins to ſet up; it comes in faſhion, and then ſome Courtiers muſt …

    Henry Hammond · Works Volume 4 · p. 606 · Open in the reader

The Way of Congregational Churches Cleared A80640

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    … to ſhew, that Peter in his loweſt ſpirituall relation in the Church (as a ProfeſtProfessed Believer) had his ſhare in the power of the Keyes: but not that he …
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    … to ſhew, that Peter in his loweſt ſpirituall relation in the Church (as a ProfeſtProfessed Believer) had his ſhare in the power of the Keyes: but not that he …

    John Cotton · The Way of Congregational Churches Cleared · p. 22 · Open in the reader

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    … that he had his ſhare in the whole power of the Keyes, as a ProfeſtProfessed Believer: but that he had other parts of the power of the Keyes, as …
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    … that he had his ſhare in the whole power of the Keyes, as a ProfeſtProfessed Believer: but that he had other parts of the power of the Keyes, as …

    John Cotton · The Way of Congregational Churches Cleared · p. 22 · Open in the reader