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confesseconfess

A final e dropped: selfe → self, beene → been, hee → he.

Puritas changed it
26,551 times in 2,946 works
Consistency
99.9% (26,551 of 26,559)
Reach if approved
~27,908 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: confess
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
26,561 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (26,551 changes in 2,946 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 26,551)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … in both kinds, and vrge a like necessitie for both: but the Papists themselues confesseconfess, that the Cleargie, who administer the Communion, are bound by the Law of God …
    With rule
    … in both kinds, and vrge a like necessitie for both: but the Papists themselues confesseconfess, that the Cleargie, who administer the Communion, are bound by the Law of God …

    Daniel Featley · The Grand Sacrilege of the Church of Rome · p. 65 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … to God, through Christe, which (he sayeth) is the frute of our lippes which confesseconfess his name, willing vs also not to forget to do good, and to distribute …
    With rule
    … to God, through Christe, which (he sayeth) is the frute of our lippes which confesseconfess his name, willing vs also not to forget to do good, and to distribute …

    David Fergusson · Answer to Epistle by Renat Benedict · p. 32 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … would diligently consider, and compare those places, I…r. 9.23.24. and Rom. 10. 14. we would soone confesseconfess; 1. that all our good consisteth in the knowledge of God: and 2. that the knowledge …
    With rule
    … would diligently consider, and compare those places, I…r. 9.23.24. and Rom. 10. 14. we would soone confesseconfess; 1. that all our good consisteth in the knowledge of God: and 2. that the knowledge …

    Phineas Fletcher · The Way to Blessedness · p. 111 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … the true Church; how faile they at any tyme? Or, if, as they themselves confesseconfess, in Antichrist his vsurpation, the case shalbe such: why see they not that, vainlie …
    With rule
    … the true Church; how faile they at any tyme? Or, if, as they themselves confesseconfess, in Antichrist his vsurpation, the case shalbe such: why see they not that, vainlie …

    Patrick Forbes · Defense of the Lawful Calling of Ministers of Reformed Churches · p. 61 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … ſeeing it is thus, as by the truth it is confirmed, they then which confeſſeconfess their ſinnes to God and to his ſonne our Lorde, haue obteyned full remiſſion …
    With rule
    … ſeeing it is thus, as by the truth it is confirmed, they then which confeſſeconfess their ſinnes to God and to his ſonne our Lorde, haue obteyned full remiſſion …

    John Frewen · Fruitful Instructions and Necessary Doctrines · p. 174 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … vnto vs. But Hierome is cited as a fauourer of your opinion, who, I confesseconfess in some parte held as you doe, but not altogither. For thus he writeth …
    With rule
    … vnto vs. But Hierome is cited as a fauourer of your opinion, who, I confesseconfess in some parte held as you doe, but not altogither. For thus he writeth …

    William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 210 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … occasion hée should be placed by the Apostle. Now the papists them selues doe confesseconfess, that euery particular church may erre, but it is, the catholike and vniuersall church …
    With rule
    … occasion hée should be placed by the Apostle. Now the papists them selues doe confesseconfess, that euery particular church may erre, but it is, the catholike and vniuersall church …

    William Fulke · Sermon Preached 12 March 1581 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … of Dauids iudging himſelfe worthy of puniſhment, now follow the ſinnes which he doth confeſſeconfess: and firſt actuall, in the 4 verſe: next, originall, in the 5, & 6, verſes.
    With rule
    … of Dauids iudging himſelfe worthy of puniſhment, now follow the ſinnes which he doth confeſſeconfess: and firſt actuall, in the 4 verſe: next, originall, in the 5, & 6, verſes.

    George Estey · Expositions Upon Divers Parts of Scripture · p. 17 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (8)

7 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.

Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs A11649

  • Printed
    COnfesseConfess yee to Iehovah, call on his Name, make knowne his actions among the peoples …
    With rule
    COnfesseConfess yee to Iehovah, call on his Name, make knowne his actions among the peoples …

    Henry Ainsworth · Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs · p. 150 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    COnfesseConfess ye to Iehovah, for he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever. Let …
    With rule
    COnfesseConfess ye to Iehovah, for he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever. Let …

    Henry Ainsworth · Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs · p. 154 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    COnfesseConfess ye to Iehovah, for he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever. Let …
    With rule
    COnfesseConfess ye to Iehovah, for he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever. Let …

    Henry Ainsworth · Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs · p. 164 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    COnfesseConfess ye to Iehovah, for he is good, for his mercie endureth for ever. ConfesseConfess …
    With rule
    COnfesseConfess ye to Iehovah, for he is good, for his mercie endureth for ever. ConfesseConfess …

    Henry Ainsworth · Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs · p. 178 · Open in the reader

A Song A12600

  • Printed
    COnfeſſeConfess we all before the Lord,
    With rule
    COnfeſſeConfess we all before the Lord,

    John Wilson · A Song · p. 45 · Open in the reader

Whole Works A68831

  • Printed
    COnfeſſeConfess thy ſinnes that thou mayſt blot them out, if thou be abaſhed to confeſſeconfess …
    With rule
    COnfeſſeConfess thy ſinnes that thou mayſt blot them out, if thou be abaſhed to confeſſeconfess …

    William Tyndale · Whole Works · p. 369 · Open in the reader

The Nature and Use of Things Indifferent B15350

  • Printed
    … Constans decree, that Confeſſus non auditur appellans: but the refractarie Miniſters do not only CONFESSECONFESS, that they are ſuch, but alſo wilfully PROFESSE that they will NEVER be conformable …
    With rule
    … Constans decree, that Confeſſus non auditur appellans: but the refractarie Miniſters do not only CONFESSECONFESS, that they are ſuch, but alſo wilfully PROFESSE that they will NEVER be conformable …

    Gabriel Powel · The Nature and Use of Things Indifferent · p. 151 · Open in the reader