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beleefebelief

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

Puritas changed it
1,492 times in 449 works
Consistency
99.9% (1,492 of 1,493)
Reach if approved
~1,569 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: belief
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,493 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,492 changes in 449 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,492)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … thoughts they may conceiue, how the word of God is a warrant of their beleefebelief. Men thinke this is a matter of impoſſibilitie, and caſt many perils (the deuill …
    With rule
    … thoughts they may conceiue, how the word of God is a warrant of their beleefebelief. Men thinke this is a matter of impoſſibilitie, and caſt many perils (the deuill …

    Samuel Hieron · The Dignity of the Scripture · p. 18 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … ſhould abſtaine negatively from aſſenting to, that is, though not change, yet ſuſpend our beleefebelief of them, and not fully paſſe over our full and abſolute aſſent unto them …
    With rule
    … ſhould abſtaine negatively from aſſenting to, that is, though not change, yet ſuſpend our beleefebelief of them, and not fully paſſe over our full and abſolute aſſent unto them …

    Henry Jeanes · Concerning a Christians Careful Abstinence from All Appearance of Evil · p. 16 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … more vnholineſſe euery way. Now the ſoule thinketh when thus it is ſhaken in beleefebelief, how doe theſe croſſes confirme faith? and when ſuch euill dwelling in vs doth …
    With rule
    … more vnholineſſe euery way. Now the ſoule thinketh when thus it is ſhaken in beleefebelief, how doe theſe croſſes confirme faith? and when ſuch euill dwelling in vs doth …

    Paul Baynes · A Letter Instructing to Repentance Love and New Obedience · p. 84 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … truſt to be put in men. Both Faith and charitie haue their truſt and beleefebelief, but after diuers ſorts by reaſon of the diuerſitie of their obiectes. Faith truſteth …
    With rule
    … truſt to be put in men. Both Faith and charitie haue their truſt and beleefebelief, but after diuers ſorts by reaſon of the diuerſitie of their obiectes. Faith truſteth …

    Martin Luther · Commentary on Galatians · p. 237 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … in God is taken away: for God hath layde the whole foundation of our beleefebelief in him alone. For which cauſe Pet. 1. Epiſt. chap. 1 ver. 21. ſayeth: That by his …
    With rule
    … in God is taken away: for God hath layde the whole foundation of our beleefebelief in him alone. For which cauſe Pet. 1. Epiſt. chap. 1 ver. 21. ſayeth: That by his …

    John Forbes · The Doctrine of Justification · p. 153 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … helde by godly men of the first 600. yeares: let vs see what practise and beleefebelief he chargeth vs to condemne.
    With rule
    … helde by godly men of the first 600. yeares: let vs see what practise and beleefebelief he chargeth vs to condemne.

    William Fulke · Two Popish Heretics Confuted · p. 38 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … our hope in God (through the ſatisfaction of Chriſt) muſt bee aſhamed, all our beleefebelief in his word is vaine, and all the virtues, the conſtancie, love and patience …
    With rule
    … our hope in God (through the ſatisfaction of Chriſt) muſt bee aſhamed, all our beleefebelief in his word is vaine, and all the virtues, the conſtancie, love and patience …

    Alexander Gill · The Sacred Philosophy of the Holy Scripture · p. 148 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    Giue me (my deare God) to beleeue beyond beleefebelief, when I feele not, to reſt vpon thee for comfort, as thy ſeruant Iob …
    With rule
    Giue me (my deare God) to beleeue beyond beleefebelief, when I feele not, to reſt vpon thee for comfort, as thy ſeruant Iob …

    Henry Greenwood · The Prisoners Prayers · p. 102 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Sermon on the History of Melchizedek A17696

  • Printed
    … was imputed to him for righteouſnes. And firſt we are here to define what BELEEFEBELIEF is: for otherwiſe wee ſhall make nothing of it. And here we ſee how …
    With rule
    … was imputed to him for righteouſnes. And firſt we are here to define what BELEEFEBELIEF is: for otherwiſe wee ſhall make nothing of it. And here we ſee how …

    John Calvin · Sermon on the History of Melchizedek · p. 95 · Open in the reader