Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11944 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

subtiltiessubtleties

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

Puritas changed it: 834 times in 506 works
Consistency: 89.0% (834 of 937)
Reach if approved: ~985 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: subtleties
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 937 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (834 changes in 506 works, 89.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 834)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

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… you speake blasphemie against Christs Passion, and goe about to trap vs with your subtiltiessubtleties and snares; and though my Father, Mother, and other my kindred doe beleeu…, you …
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… you speake blasphemie against Christs Passion, and goe about to trap vs with your subtiltiessubtleties and snares; and though my Father, Mother, and other my kindred doe beleeu…, you …
John Foxe · Christs Victory over Satans Tyranny · p. 263 · Open in the reader
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… way for this beaſts entrance in, and the Diuell by all his force and ſubtiltiessubtleties gaue power & ſtrength to this beaſt, to take poſſeſſion of that place, in ſtead …
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… way for this beaſts entrance in, and the Diuell by all his force and ſubtiltiessubtleties gaue power & ſtrength to this beaſt, to take poſſeſſion of that place, in ſtead …
Richard Bernard · A Key of Knowledge to Open Revelation · p. 56 · Open in the reader
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… godly wisdome of S. Paule… I thinke it more meete to beate downe mans subtiltiessubtleties, with the contemplation of the Maiestie of the mightie God, pronouncing boldly that suche …
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… godly wisdome of S. Paule… I thinke it more meete to beate downe mans subtiltiessubtleties, with the contemplation of the Maiestie of the mightie God, pronouncing boldly that suche …
Theodore Beza · The Treasure of Truth Touching Salvation and the Christian Religion · Open in the reader
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… shewed a dooble example of wisedome, first because he vouchesaued not to aūswere the subtiltiessubtleties of Zeno in so vaine a matter, & secondly for that his sensible action, did …
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… shewed a dooble example of wisedome, first because he vouchesaued not to aūswere the subtiltiessubtleties of Zeno in so vaine a matter, & secondly for that his sensible action, did …
William Fulke · A Confutation of a Popish and Slanderous Libel · p. 112 · Open in the reader
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… to pray vnto God, that he would ſaue & preſerue you, & yours, from the manifolde ſubtiltiessubtleties of Sathan, and the dangerous baites & alluremēts of this world, and to finiſh the …
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… to pray vnto God, that he would ſaue & preſerue you, & yours, from the manifolde ſubtiltiessubtleties of Sathan, and the dangerous baites & alluremēts of this world, and to finiſh the …
George Gifford · Four Sermons · Open in the reader
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Who ſo pleaſeth God ſhall eſcape from her. Here he amplifieth her deuilliſh ſubtiltiessubtleties, by the power and force thereof in the perſons tempted. Firſt, negatiuely onely he …
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Who ſo pleaſeth God ſhall eſcape from her. Here he amplifieth her deuilliſh ſubtiltiessubtleties, by the power and force thereof in the perſons tempted. Firſt, negatiuely onely he …
Thomas Granger · Commentary on Ecclesiastes · p. 197 · Open in the reader
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… and therefore he will play faſt and looſe a long time, and diſcover deſperate ſubtiltiessubtleties.
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… and therefore he will play faſt and looſe a long time, and diſcover deſperate ſubtiltiessubtleties.
Thomas Hooker · The Souls Vocation · p. 183 · Open in the reader
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… the seruice and worship of God, here the deuill, with all his assaults, his subtiltiessubtleties, his furies and his lyes wherewith he goeth about to trouble and vexe the …
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… the seruice and worship of God, here the deuill, with all his assaults, his subtiltiessubtleties, his furies and his lyes wherewith he goeth about to trouble and vexe the …
Martin Luther · Commentary on the Psalms of Ascent · p. 259 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (103)

37 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 36 are listed here. 66 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Dialogue Wherein a Romish Rhyme is Confuted A01042

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… shall best cleare our Church, and make Eubulus to bee seene, in all his SubtiltiesSubtleties: For, so shall a Church bee found to haue continued, if shee hath continued …
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… shall best cleare our Church, and make Eubulus to bee seene, in all his SubtiltiesSubtleties: For, so shall a Church bee found to haue continued, if shee hath continued …
Patrick Forbes · Dialogue Wherein a Romish Rhyme is Confuted · p. 69 · Open in the reader
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… distrust our Cause, (Eriphilus) as that I would, there-fore, seeke to escape by SubtiltiesSubtleties, why would I haue suffered my selfe, (and that vnnecessarilie) to bee drawne a …
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… distrust our Cause, (Eriphilus) as that I would, there-fore, seeke to escape by SubtiltiesSubtleties, why would I haue suffered my selfe, (and that vnnecessarilie) to bee drawne a …
Patrick Forbes · Dialogue Wherein a Romish Rhyme is Confuted · p. 70 · Open in the reader

An Excellent Oration A10327

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… a Rete mirabile, an admirable net, a heape and a cōjugatiō of manifold infolded SubtiltiesSubtleties, which for the Maeandrian windings and turnings, and intricate devices cannot be be anatomized …
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… a Rete mirabile, an admirable net, a heape and a cōjugatiō of manifold infolded SubtiltiesSubtleties, which for the Maeandrian windings and turnings, and intricate devices cannot be be anatomized …
John Rainolds · An Excellent Oration · Open in the reader

The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety A23697

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… with their skill of slingling to a hairs breadth, their nice Criticisms, Distinctions, and SubtiltiesSubtleties, have cast abroad so many stones of contention, that the Church is become perfect …
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… with their skill of slingling to a hairs breadth, their nice Criticisms, Distinctions, and SubtiltiesSubtleties, have cast abroad so many stones of contention, that the Church is become perfect …
Richard Allestree · The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety · p. 315 · Open in the reader

One-Hundred Forty-Five Sermons Upon John 17 A30241

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… no matter what Religion I am of, all the doctrinal Diſputes are but Scholaſtical SubtiltiesSubtleties? Is not this to blaſpheme the perfection of the Scripture? and is it not …
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… no matter what Religion I am of, all the doctrinal Diſputes are but Scholaſtical SubtiltiesSubtleties? Is not this to blaſpheme the perfection of the Scripture? and is it not …
Anthony Burgess · One-Hundred Forty-Five Sermons Upon John 17 · p. 317 · Open in the reader

A Treatise of Original Sin A30247

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… as to all neceſſary ſaving Knowledge about it; And as for Curioſities and needleſſe SubtiltiesSubtleties, which are a ſhell in the Controverſie, we may throw them them away, and …
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… as to all neceſſary ſaving Knowledge about it; And as for Curioſities and needleſſe SubtiltiesSubtleties, which are a ſhell in the Controverſie, we may throw them them away, and …
Anthony Burgess · A Treatise of Original Sin · Open in the reader

Existence and Attributes of God A32723

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… by their Aſſertions, we loſe by their Diſtinctions. But if our Author have ſome SubtiltiesSubtleties and ſuperfine Notions in his Argumentations, yet he condenſeth them again, and conſolidates them …
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… by their Aſſertions, we loſe by their Diſtinctions. But if our Author have ſome SubtiltiesSubtleties and ſuperfine Notions in his Argumentations, yet he condenſeth them again, and conſolidates them …
Stephen Charnock · Existence and Attributes of God · Open in the reader

The Catholic Doctrine of the Eucharist in All Ages A33378

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… and filled with his Spirit, on purpoſe to reſcue and vindicate Truth from the SubtiltiesSubtleties, and falſe Gloſſes of Error, as ſpeaketh one of his Approbationers.
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… and filled with his Spirit, on purpoſe to reſcue and vindicate Truth from the SubtiltiesSubtleties, and falſe Gloſſes of Error, as ſpeaketh one of his Approbationers.
Jean Claude · The Catholic Doctrine of the Eucharist in All Ages · p. 6 · Open in the reader
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… ſay, the two laſt were Ages of Ignorance and Superſtition. To diſſipate all theſe SubtiltiesSubtleties, we need but diſtinguiſh theſe Centuries in two reſpects, in which we may conſider …
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… ſay, the two laſt were Ages of Ignorance and Superſtition. To diſſipate all theſe SubtiltiesSubtleties, we need but diſtinguiſh theſe Centuries in two reſpects, in which we may conſider …
Jean Claude · The Catholic Doctrine of the Eucharist in All Ages · p. 330 · Open in the reader
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… Arnaud ſuppoſes. 4ly. Mr. Arnaud does himſelf furniſh us wherewithal to diſſipate all his SubtiltiesSubtleties touching the Council of Nice; for we need only apply to the Council of …
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… Arnaud ſuppoſes. 4ly. Mr. Arnaud does himſelf furniſh us wherewithal to diſſipate all his SubtiltiesSubtleties touching the Council of Nice; for we need only apply to the Council of …
Jean Claude · The Catholic Doctrine of the Eucharist in All Ages · p. 345 · Open in the reader
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… Converſion of Subſtances; that never believed theſe Doctrines, and were ignorant of all the SubtiltiesSubtleties of the Schools on that point, my requeſt would be more reaſonable than that …
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… Converſion of Subſtances; that never believed theſe Doctrines, and were ignorant of all the SubtiltiesSubtleties of the Schools on that point, my requeſt would be more reaſonable than that …
Jean Claude · The Catholic Doctrine of the Eucharist in All Ages · p. 63 · Open in the reader

Concerning the Right Use of the Fathers in Controversies A35787

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… is for the moſt part incumbred with Figures, and Rhetorical Flouriſhes, and nice Logical SubtiltiesSubtleties, and the like; and alſo by reaſon of the Termes which they for the …
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… is for the moſt part incumbred with Figures, and Rhetorical Flouriſhes, and nice Logical SubtiltiesSubtleties, and the like; and alſo by reaſon of the Termes which they for the …
Jean Daille · Concerning the Right Use of the Fathers in Controversies · Open in the reader
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… is for the moſt part incumbred with Figures, and Rhetorical Flouriſhes, and nice Logical SubtiltiesSubtleties, and the like; and alſo by reaſon of the Terms, which they for the …
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… is for the moſt part incumbred with Figures, and Rhetorical Flouriſhes, and nice Logical SubtiltiesSubtleties, and the like; and alſo by reaſon of the Terms, which they for the …
Jean Daille · Concerning the Right Use of the Fathers in Controversies · p. 69 · Open in the reader
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… new Terms and Paſſages out of the Law, and with ſuch variety of Alluſions, SubtiltiesSubtleties, and nice Points, as that the greateſt ſtock both of Learning and Attention that …
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… new Terms and Paſſages out of the Law, and with ſuch variety of Alluſions, SubtiltiesSubtleties, and nice Points, as that the greateſt ſtock both of Learning and Attention that …
Jean Daille · Concerning the Right Use of the Fathers in Controversies · p. 69 · Open in the reader
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… in a very ſhort time came to be changed, and to be clogg'd with SubtiltiesSubtleties, and flouriſhes of Secular Learning; as Methodius in Epiphanius teſtifieth. The Doctors (ſaith he …
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… in a very ſhort time came to be changed, and to be clogg'd with SubtiltiesSubtleties, and flouriſhes of Secular Learning; as Methodius in Epiphanius teſtifieth. The Doctors (ſaith he …
Jean Daille · Concerning the Right Use of the Fathers in Controversies · p. 69 · Open in the reader
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… Former Part of this Treatiſe, proceeding either from the Rhetorical Ornaments, or the Logical SubtiltiesSubtleties which they made uſe of, ſhould have no place here. For, what uſe would …
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… Former Part of this Treatiſe, proceeding either from the Rhetorical Ornaments, or the Logical SubtiltiesSubtleties which they made uſe of, ſhould have no place here. For, what uſe would …
Jean Daille · Concerning the Right Use of the Fathers in Controversies · p. 40 · Open in the reader

Compulsion of Conscience Condemned A37480

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Conſidering Men are wary, (and ſo they had need) of the SubtiltiesSubtleties of ſuch as would pervert or deceive them, in ſo important a matter as …
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Conſidering Men are wary, (and ſo they had need) of the SubtiltiesSubtleties of ſuch as would pervert or deceive them, in ſo important a matter as …
Thomas De Laune · Compulsion of Conscience Condemned · p. 13 · Open in the reader

Of Free Justification by Christ A40370

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An Answer to the Adversaries, wherein their Frivolous Exceptions, and Sophistical SubtiltiesSubtleties are confuted.
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An Answer to the Adversaries, wherein their Frivolous Exceptions, and Sophistical SubtiltiesSubtleties are confuted.
John Foxe · Of Free Justification by Christ · p. 482 · Open in the reader

Satans Temptations in Three Parts A42781

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What are the SubtiltiesSubtleties of Satan againſt the holy things of God, I am next to diſcover. Duties …
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What are the SubtiltiesSubtleties of Satan againſt the holy things of God, I am next to diſcover. Duties …
Richard Gilpin · Satans Temptations in Three Parts · p. 132 · Open in the reader
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CONTAINING The manifold SubtiltiesSubtleties and Stratagems of Satan, for the corrupting of the minds of Men with Errour …
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CONTAINING The manifold SubtiltiesSubtleties and Stratagems of Satan, for the corrupting of the minds of Men with Errour …
Richard Gilpin · Satans Temptations in Three Parts · Open in the reader
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… Satan's Stratagems, againſt the Peace of God's Children: the Remedies againſt theſe and other SubtiltiesSubtleties of our grand Enemy, I ſhall not offer you, becauſe many others have done …
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… Satan's Stratagems, againſt the Peace of God's Children: the Remedies againſt theſe and other SubtiltiesSubtleties of our grand Enemy, I ſhall not offer you, becauſe many others have done …
Richard Gilpin · Satans Temptations in Three Parts · p. 408 · Open in the reader

The Holy Arbor A42920

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1. It freeth us from the Snares and SubtiltiesSubtleties of Satan, 2 Tim. 2.25, 26.
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1. It freeth us from the Snares and SubtiltiesSubtleties of Satan, 2 Tim. 2.25, 26.
John Godolphin · The Holy Arbor · p. 366 · Open in the reader

Works of Hooker A44334

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… For, without Faith no man thinketh that things believed are: Which Argument all the SubtiltiesSubtleties of Infernal Powers will never be able to dissolve. This is an Abridgment of …
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… For, without Faith no man thinketh that things believed are: Which Argument all the SubtiltiesSubtleties of Infernal Powers will never be able to dissolve. This is an Abridgment of …
Richard Hooker · Works of Hooker · p. 17 · Open in the reader

One Hundred Select Sermons A44565

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… We ſhould from hence have our Wits about us, to apprehend the Slights and SubtiltiesSubtleties of it; from whence we may the more avoid it, and be freed from …
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… We ſhould from hence have our Wits about us, to apprehend the Slights and SubtiltiesSubtleties of it; from whence we may the more avoid it, and be freed from …
Thomas Horton · One Hundred Select Sermons · p. 263 · Open in the reader

Treatise of Religion and Learning A47630

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Julius Caesar Scaliger in his Epistle to the Reader prefixed before his SubtiltiesSubtleties, names him his Master.
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Julius Caesar Scaliger in his Epistle to the Reader prefixed before his SubtiltiesSubtleties, names him his Master.
Edward Leigh · Treatise of Religion and Learning · p. 145 · Open in the reader

A Fit Conjucture of Religion and Learning A50062

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Iulius Caesar Scaliger in his Epistle to the Reader prefixed before his SubtiltiesSubtleties, names him his Master.
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Iulius Caesar Scaliger in his Epistle to the Reader prefixed before his SubtiltiesSubtleties, names him his Master.
Edward Leigh · A Fit Conjucture of Religion and Learning · p. 145 · Open in the reader

Works A50522

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… little differences are these to break communion for? viz. for one or two Speculative SubtiltiesSubtleties, for some Logical or Metaphysical Notion. So I believe much of these disputes (when …
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… little differences are these to break communion for? viz. for one or two Speculative SubtiltiesSubtleties, for some Logical or Metaphysical Notion. So I believe much of these disputes (when …
Joseph Mede · Works · p. 871 · Open in the reader

The Acts of Famous National Councils of the Reformed Churches in France A56905

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… perceived in taking the ſaid Farms to uſe and help themſelves by Quiddities and SubtiltiesSubtleties, that ſo they may eſcape the Cenſures of the Church, the Conſiſtory ſhall prudently …
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… perceived in taking the ſaid Farms to uſe and help themſelves by Quiddities and SubtiltiesSubtleties, that ſo they may eſcape the Cenſures of the Church, the Conſiſtory ſhall prudently …
John Quick · The Acts of Famous National Councils of the Reformed Churches in France · p. 75 · Open in the reader
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… good work of their Calling; to which Holy and Noble ends, all forts of SubtiltiesSubtleties are utterly unſerviceable, and have ever marred the Divine Doctrine by wicked Errors; or …
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… good work of their Calling; to which Holy and Noble ends, all forts of SubtiltiesSubtleties are utterly unſerviceable, and have ever marred the Divine Doctrine by wicked Errors; or …
John Quick · The Acts of Famous National Councils of the Reformed Churches in France · p. 401 · Open in the reader
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… an infinite Brood of Diſputants, void of Underſtanding, and corrupt in Points of Faith. SubtiltiesSubtleties bring forth Thorns, which never leave the Churches nor Conſciences at reſt, but ſcratch …
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… an infinite Brood of Diſputants, void of Underſtanding, and corrupt in Points of Faith. SubtiltiesSubtleties bring forth Thorns, which never leave the Churches nor Conſciences at reſt, but ſcratch …
John Quick · The Acts of Famous National Councils of the Reformed Churches in France · p. 401 · Open in the reader
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… lately ſtarted by ſome certain Paſtors, who be more in love with Novelties and SubtiltiesSubtleties, than with plain and ſimple Verity. They have ſhown a great deal of Imprudence …
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… lately ſtarted by ſome certain Paſtors, who be more in love with Novelties and SubtiltiesSubtleties, than with plain and ſimple Verity. They have ſhown a great deal of Imprudence …
John Quick · The Acts of Famous National Councils of the Reformed Churches in France · p. 408 · Open in the reader

The Wiles of Satan A61206

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… having to do with ſuch an Adverſary, who is no leſs active in his SubtiltiesSubtleties, than impl…cable in his Malice. Malo cautior eſſe quam fortior, fortis ſaepe captus …
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… having to do with ſuch an Adverſary, who is no leſs active in his SubtiltiesSubtleties, than impl…cable in his Malice. Malo cautior eſſe quam fortior, fortis ſaepe captus …
William Spurstowe · The Wiles of Satan · p. 40 · Open in the reader

The Pastors Charge and the Peoples Duty A61666

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… Sheep. My Lambs, foreign. My Sheep, foreign. I would not querere nodum in Scirpo, ſeek for SubtiltiesSubtleties, where the Text neither intends, nor needs any. I know the words are often …
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… Sheep. My Lambs, foreign. My Sheep, foreign. I would not querere nodum in Scirpo, ſeek for SubtiltiesSubtleties, where the Text neither intends, nor needs any. I know the words are often …
Samuel Stodden · The Pastors Charge and the Peoples Duty · p. 9 · Open in the reader

A Body of Practical Divinity A65285

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Thus I have shewn you 27 SubtiltiesSubtleties of Satan in Tempting, that so you may the better know them and avoid …
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Thus I have shewn you 27 SubtiltiesSubtleties of Satan in Tempting, that so you may the better know them and avoid …
Thomas Watson · A Body of Practical Divinity · p. 847 · Open in the reader
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4. Be always upon your Guard, watch against Satans Wiles and SubtiltiesSubtleties, 1 Pet. 5.8. Be vigilant▪ because your Adversary the Devil walks about. A Christian must Excubias …
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4. Be always upon your Guard, watch against Satans Wiles and SubtiltiesSubtleties, 1 Pet. 5.8. Be vigilant▪ because your Adversary the Devil walks about. A Christian must Excubias …
Thomas Watson · A Body of Practical Divinity · p. 855 · Open in the reader

Heaven Taken By Storm A65299

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SubtiltiesSubtleties of Satan in tempting, 75
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SubtiltiesSubtleties of Satan in tempting, 75
Thomas Watson · Heaven Taken By Storm · Open in the reader