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Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11875 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

unbeleevingunbelieving

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

Puritas changed it
1,155 times in 387 works
Consistency
98.3% (1,155 of 1,175)
Reach if approved
~1,236 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: unbelieving
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,176 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,155 changes in 387 works, 98.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,155)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … and miſery come, then to fling away the Croſſe is a fearfull thing; the unbeleevingunbelieving and fearfull are coupled together, and ſhall be coupled together in hell. It is …
    With rule
    … and miſery come, then to fling away the Croſſe is a fearfull thing; the unbeleevingunbelieving and fearfull are coupled together, and ſhall be coupled together in hell. It is …

    Thomas Hooker · The Christians Two Chief Lessons · p. 73 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … to part a beleeving man from an unbeleevingunbelieving wife, a beleeving wife from an unbeleevingunbelieving and infidell husband. Wee must say then, that this Law in Ezra was a …
    With rule
    … to part a beleeving man from an unbeleevingunbelieving wife, a beleeving wife from an unbeleevingunbelieving and infidell husband. Wee must say then, that this Law in Ezra was a …

    William Pemble · The Period of the Persian Monarchy · p. 40 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … a man, and consisting of all the parts togither. Now to the defiled and unbeleevingunbelieving, nothing is pure; their sacrifices are abominable, their prayers are turned to syn. We …
    With rule
    … a man, and consisting of all the parts togither. Now to the defiled and unbeleevingunbelieving, nothing is pure; their sacrifices are abominable, their prayers are turned to syn. We …

    Henry Ainsworth · Animadversion to Cliftons Advertisement · p. 83 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … our selves, that there are few others to be found. This nation is an unbeleevingunbelieving and unfaithfull nation: for universally though people acknowledge the truth, both of Law and …
    With rule
    … our selves, that there are few others to be found. This nation is an unbeleevingunbelieving and unfaithfull nation: for universally though people acknowledge the truth, both of Law and …

    John Rogers · The Doctrine of Faith · p. 419 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … a world of opposition betweene the heart of man, and Christ, Satan helping the unbeleevingunbelieving heart; here must needs be a strife and conflict with Faith. Therefore, those men …
    With rule
    … a world of opposition betweene the heart of man, and Christ, Satan helping the unbeleevingunbelieving heart; here must needs be a strife and conflict with Faith. Therefore, those men …

    Richard Sibbes · Light from Heaven · p. 155 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … every thing) polluteth all that we touch: Tit. 1. 15. Vnto them that are defiled and unbeleevingunbelieving, is nothing pure, but even their mindes and consciences are defiled. 4. As those uncleane …
    With rule
    … every thing) polluteth all that we touch: Tit. 1. 15. Vnto them that are defiled and unbeleevingunbelieving, is nothing pure, but even their mindes and consciences are defiled. 4. As those uncleane …

    Thomas Taylor · Christ Revealed · p. 162 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … to come, ignorance of that miſery, and ſhame unſupportable as you have heard. The unbeleevingunbelieving Iewes are now within five yeares of their end, and yet I know not …
    With rule
    … to come, ignorance of that miſery, and ſhame unſupportable as you have heard. The unbeleevingunbelieving Iewes are now within five yeares of their end, and yet I know not …

    John Yates · The Saints Sufferings and Sinners Sorrows · p. 231 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … all things are pure, but nothing pure to them that are d…filed and unbeleevingunbelieving. Doe not wee see by experience …hat riches turne to the hurt of the …
    With rule
    … all things are pure, but nothing pure to them that are d…filed and unbeleevingunbelieving. Doe not wee see by experience …hat riches turne to the hurt of the …

    Phineas Fletcher · The Way to Blessedness · p. 178 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (20)

18 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 15 are listed here. 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Bibles Abstract and Epitome A27502

  • Printed
    UnbeleevingUnbelieving Men.
    With rule
    UnbeleevingUnbelieving Men.

    Richard Bernard · The Bibles Abstract and Epitome · p. 59 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    UnbeleevingUnbelieving persons,
    With rule
    UnbeleevingUnbelieving persons,

    Richard Bernard · The Bibles Abstract and Epitome · p. 61 · Open in the reader

The Dead Saint Speaking to Saints and Sinners Living A28620

  • Printed
    … up the ſpring and iſſues of ſorrow. No Heart is ſo hard as an UnbeleevingUnbelieving-heart: neither the Promiſes, nor Threatnings; neither Mercy, nor Juſtice; neither Word, nor works …
    With rule
    … up the ſpring and iſſues of ſorrow. No Heart is ſo hard as an UnbeleevingUnbelieving-heart: neither the Promiſes, nor Threatnings; neither Mercy, nor Juſtice; neither Word, nor works …

    Samuel Bolton · The Dead Saint Speaking to Saints and Sinners Living · p. 80 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … to their Souls: yet they return back again to folly; to the folly of UnbeleevingUnbelieving, Doubting, Queſtioning of Gods love. And no marvel, if ſuch do want Peace.
    With rule
    … to their Souls: yet they return back again to folly; to the folly of UnbeleevingUnbelieving, Doubting, Queſtioning of Gods love. And no marvel, if ſuch do want Peace.

    Samuel Bolton · The Dead Saint Speaking to Saints and Sinners Living · p. 89 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … doubts and fears. — If you do not beleeve, yee ſhall not bee eſtabliſhed. And UnbeleevingUnbelieving man is an houſe without a foundation; a man without a bottom, like a …
    With rule
    … doubts and fears. — If you do not beleeve, yee ſhall not bee eſtabliſhed. And UnbeleevingUnbelieving man is an houſe without a foundation; a man without a bottom, like a …

    Samuel Bolton · The Dead Saint Speaking to Saints and Sinners Living · p. 127 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … uſual manner of Gods working of this Grace of Faith, in the hearts of UnbeleevingUnbelieving men.
    With rule
    … uſual manner of Gods working of this Grace of Faith, in the hearts of UnbeleevingUnbelieving men.

    Samuel Bolton · The Dead Saint Speaking to Saints and Sinners Living · p. 141 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    2. The deſires of a wicked man, of an UnbeleevingUnbelieving man after Chriſt, they are tranſient, not permanent deſires: which may bee in times …
    With rule
    2. The deſires of a wicked man, of an UnbeleevingUnbelieving man after Chriſt, they are tranſient, not permanent deſires: which may bee in times …

    Samuel Bolton · The Dead Saint Speaking to Saints and Sinners Living · p. 144 · Open in the reader

The Knowledge of Christ A37204

  • Printed
    4 UnbeleevingUnbelieving Hearers, who though the Scripture doth so demonstratively cleare it, that this Jesus is …
    With rule
    4 UnbeleevingUnbelieving Hearers, who though the Scripture doth so demonstratively cleare it, that this Jesus is …

    John Davenport · The Knowledge of Christ · p. 81 · Open in the reader

An Exposition of Genesis A44894

  • Printed
    1. The fear itself. Because he feared to say, my wife. UnbeleevingUnbelieving passion put him here upon sinning.
    With rule
    1. The fear itself. Because he feared to say, my wife. UnbeleevingUnbelieving passion put him here upon sinning.

    George Hughes · An Exposition of Genesis · p. 322 · Open in the reader

Sermon of the Baptizing of Infants A52051

  • Printed
    … they bring, which is not betweene beleevers, and their Children, but betweene them, and UnbeleevingUnbelieving and profane persons who are shut from the Lords Covenant, Baptisme, and Salvation.
    With rule
    … they bring, which is not betweene beleevers, and their Children, but betweene them, and UnbeleevingUnbelieving and profane persons who are shut from the Lords Covenant, Baptisme, and Salvation.

    Stephen Marshall · Sermon of the Baptizing of Infants · p. 46 · Open in the reader

The Herbal of Divinity A60254

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    … hee pleaſeth to thoſe, who are without faith, as being unable to reſiſt him. UnbeleevingUnbelieving men are like the Iſraelites, without a ſhield, or Speare to defend themſelves. Jude …
    With rule
    … hee pleaſeth to thoſe, who are without faith, as being unable to reſiſt him. UnbeleevingUnbelieving men are like the Iſraelites, without a ſhield, or Speare to defend themſelves. Jude …

    John Simpson · The Herbal of Divinity · p. 125 · Open in the reader

A Chain of Principles A75616

  • Printed
    … ſaid of his liberal man. He will know whom he beſtoweth his forgiveneſs upon. UnbeleevingUnbelieving, unrepenting ſinners never obtained it; faithfull penitents never yet went without it. They may …
    With rule
    … ſaid of his liberal man. He will know whom he beſtoweth his forgiveneſs upon. UnbeleevingUnbelieving, unrepenting ſinners never obtained it; faithfull penitents never yet went without it. They may …

    John Arrowsmith · A Chain of Principles · p. 213 · Open in the reader

Of the Death of Christ A90278

  • Printed
    … then, if Chriſt died not for final Unbelief, he died not for the finally UnbeleevingUnbelieving: Though the Satisfaction of his Death hath not paid for it, the Merit of …
    With rule
    … then, if Chriſt died not for final Unbelief, he died not for the finally UnbeleevingUnbelieving: Though the Satisfaction of his Death hath not paid for it, the Merit of …

    John Owen · Of the Death of Christ · p. 40 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … that Love of God which through Chriſt is effectual to beſtow Faith upon the UnbeleevingUnbelieving? And how can ſo great Love in the actual exerciſe of it producing the …
    With rule
    … that Love of God which through Chriſt is effectual to beſtow Faith upon the UnbeleevingUnbelieving? And how can ſo great Love in the actual exerciſe of it producing the …

    John Owen · Of the Death of Christ · p. 78 · Open in the reader

The Perfection of Justification B10040

  • Printed
    … hee pleaſeth to thoſe, who are without faith, as being unable to reſiſt him. UnbeleevingUnbelieving men are like the Iſraelites, without a ſhield, or Speare to defend themſelves. Jude …
    With rule
    … hee pleaſeth to thoſe, who are without faith, as being unable to reſiſt him. UnbeleevingUnbelieving men are like the Iſraelites, without a ſhield, or Speare to defend themſelves. Jude …

    John Simpson · The Perfection of Justification · p. 125 · Open in the reader