Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #12048 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

chusethchooseth

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

Puritas changed it: 1,143 times in 579 works
Consistency: 99.6% (1,143 of 1,147)
Reach if approved: ~1,205 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: chooseth
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,147 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,143 changes in 579 works, 99.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,143)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
2… The Lord chusethchooseth out the righteous for himselfe, and their paths for them; preordaining, setting out, and …
With rule
2… The Lord chusethchooseth out the righteous for himselfe, and their paths for them; preordaining, setting out, and …
Phineas Fletcher · The Way to Blessedness · p. 255 · Open in the reader
Printed
… peruerſe wayes of folly in all things, and in euery thing. The one hee chuſethchooseth, ordering himſelfe in all his wayes according to wiſedome, the other he refuſeth, and …
With rule
… peruerſe wayes of folly in all things, and in euery thing. The one hee chuſethchooseth, ordering himſelfe in all his wayes according to wiſedome, the other he refuſeth, and …
Thomas Granger · Commentary on Ecclesiastes · p. 62 · Open in the reader
Printed
… was good. Freedome is not ſeated in the underſtanding; therefore the deſcription ſaith. He chuſethchooseth good; which is an act of the will. The will can imbrace nothing, but …
With rule
… was good. Freedome is not ſeated in the underſtanding; therefore the deſcription ſaith. He chuſethchooseth good; which is an act of the will. The will can imbrace nothing, but …
Thomas Hooker · The Pattern of Perfection Exhibited in Gods Image on Adam · p. 119 · Open in the reader
Printed
… not otherſome? why hee giueth perſeuerance to ſome, and not to others? why hee chuſethchooseth ſome, and refuſeth others? hee doth not reaſon the matter, but admireth and ſaith …
With rule
… not otherſome? why hee giueth perſeuerance to ſome, and not to others? why hee chuſethchooseth ſome, and refuſeth others? hee doth not reaſon the matter, but admireth and ſaith …
Thomas Newhouse · Certain Sermons · p. 30 · Open in the reader
Printed
The 6. impediment, the will of man, which freely in cōmon matters chusethchooseth this, & refuseth that. There are many thinges which are caused without any worke of …
With rule
The 6. impediment, the will of man, which freely in cōmon matters chusethchooseth this, & refuseth that. There are many thinges which are caused without any worke of …
William Perkins · Four Great Liars Striving · Open in the reader
Printed
… choſen peculiar people, for the greater benefite and beuty of the whole work, he chuſethchooseth no Nabal, no foole as Nabal was to be their ruſer, but Salomon the …
With rule
… choſen peculiar people, for the greater benefite and beuty of the whole work, he chuſethchooseth no Nabal, no foole as Nabal was to be their ruſer, but Salomon the …
John Prime · Sermon Comparing Solomon and Queen Elizabeth · Open in the reader
Printed
… of iron, & to break me in peices like a potters vessell. And because he chusethchooseth as his ground of best advantage, a poynt of our profession, viz: that Baptism …
With rule
… of iron, & to break me in peices like a potters vessell. And because he chusethchooseth as his ground of best advantage, a poynt of our profession, viz: that Baptism …
John Robinson · Of Religious Communion Private and Public · p. 62 · Open in the reader
Printed
… diuell. Lastly, he is a very foole, for of that which is good hee chusethchooseth onely to haue the appearance, and of that which is naught to haue, a …
With rule
… diuell. Lastly, he is a very foole, for of that which is good hee chusethchooseth onely to haue the appearance, and of that which is naught to haue, a …
Francis Rous · Meditations · p. 285 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Practical Commentary of 1 Peter Volume 1 A47642

Printed
This Foreknowledge then, is his Eternal and Unchangable Love, and that thus he ChusethChooseth some, and rejecteth others, is for that great End, to manifest and magnifie his …
With rule
This Foreknowledge then, is his Eternal and Unchangable Love, and that thus he ChusethChooseth some, and rejecteth others, is for that great End, to manifest and magnifie his …
Robert Leighton · Practical Commentary of 1 Peter Volume 1 · p. 25 · Open in the reader

Counsel to the Afflicted A61650

Printed
… an uncomfortable place; Canaan was a Land flowing with milk and honey, yet Moſes ChuſethChooseth to abide in the Wilderneſs with Gods preſence, rather than to go into Canaan …
With rule
… an uncomfortable place; Canaan was a Land flowing with milk and honey, yet Moſes ChuſethChooseth to abide in the Wilderneſs with Gods preſence, rather than to go into Canaan …
Owen Stockton · Counsel to the Afflicted · p. 258 · Open in the reader

A Complete Body of Divinity N02384

Printed
… but he turns away from them all, and refuſeth them all for Him, and ChuſethChooseth Him without any reſerve. Hence that, Pſal. 20.7. Some truſt in chariots, and ſome in …
With rule
… but he turns away from them all, and refuſeth them all for Him, and ChuſethChooseth Him without any reſerve. Hence that, Pſal. 20.7. Some truſt in chariots, and ſome in …
Samuel Willard · A Complete Body of Divinity · p. 790 · Open in the reader