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seruauntsservants

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

Puritas changed it
714 times in 177 works
Consistency
95.3% (714 of 749)
Reach if approved
~787 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: servants
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
749 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (714 changes in 177 works, 95.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 714)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … here: beholde, like as children loke to the hand of their fathers, but as seruauntsservants to the hand of their masters. This is the humilitie and modestie of the …
    With rule
    … here: beholde, like as children loke to the hand of their fathers, but as seruauntsservants to the hand of their masters. This is the humilitie and modestie of the …

    Martin Luther · Commentary on the Psalms of Ascent · p. 72 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … them to their fete and fled, so that by this meanes God gaue his seruauntsservants a glorious victorie ouer the popyshe enemyes. Ex Chron. Angl. Such end, O Lord …
    With rule
    … them to their fete and fled, so that by this meanes God gaue his seruauntsservants a glorious victorie ouer the popyshe enemyes. Ex Chron. Angl. Such end, O Lord …

    Thomas Becon · The Relics of Rome · p. 15 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … Alphonſus choſe the greateſt dutie in the burying of a ſtraunger, hee ſet his ſeruauntsservants to digge the graue to dreſſe the corpe and ſhroude it reſeruing the holieſt …
    With rule
    … Alphonſus choſe the greateſt dutie in the burying of a ſtraunger, hee ſet his ſeruauntsservants to digge the graue to dreſſe the corpe and ſhroude it reſeruing the holieſt …

    Robert Parker · Against Symbolizing with Antichrist in Ceremonies · p. 81 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … being manumitted or freed from ſinn by Chriſt, we are there withall made the ſeruauntsservants of God to bring furth fruts vnto ſanctificatiō.
    With rule
    … being manumitted or freed from ſinn by Chriſt, we are there withall made the ſeruauntsservants of God to bring furth fruts vnto ſanctificatiō.

    John Prime · Of Nature and Grace · p. 176 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … wife vvas in …, when few mens daughters were maryed vyrgins: and as for mens seruauntsservants, they had more myrth then in a day, then they haue nowe in a …
    With rule
    … wife vvas in …, when few mens daughters were maryed vyrgins: and as for mens seruauntsservants, they had more myrth then in a day, then they haue nowe in a …

    John Field · A Caveat for Parsons Howlet · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … persecute the members: and in the same city wher their Lord was murthered, the seruauntsservants also should be persecuted.
    With rule
    … persecute the members: and in the same city wher their Lord was murthered, the seruauntsservants also should be persecuted.

    William Fulke · Sermon Preached 12 November 1570 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … your fyeldes and your vineyardes, your beſte orchardes of oliues and geue to his ſeruauntsservants, and of your corne and vines ſhall he take the tenthes, and geue them …
    With rule
    … your fyeldes and your vineyardes, your beſte orchardes of oliues and geue to his ſeruauntsservants, and of your corne and vines ſhall he take the tenthes, and geue them …

    Christopher Goodman · How Superior Powers Ought to be Obeyed of their Subjects · p. 149 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … good arte. For if we haue condemned ſluggiſhe▪ Nobles, much leſſe allowe we theyr ſeruauntsservants ydle. Yet howe manye handleſſe men, hath the preſent Nobility? Howe vnfruitefull trayne? what …
    With rule
    … good arte. For if we haue condemned ſluggiſhe▪ Nobles, much leſſe allowe we theyr ſeruauntsservants ydle. Yet howe manye handleſſe men, hath the preſent Nobility? Howe vnfruitefull trayne? what …

    Laurence Humphrey · The Nobles · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (35)

29 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 25 are listed here. 6 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Nobles A03850

  • Printed
    … doinge, as wont your honors after long and truſty tryall, to guerdon your loued SeruauntsServants, with farther preferments: ſo that Noble ſtate, whyche vnder your honorable prynceſſe here ye …
    With rule
    … doinge, as wont your honors after long and truſty tryall, to guerdon your loued SeruauntsServants, with farther preferments: ſo that Noble ſtate, whyche vnder your honorable prynceſſe here ye …

    Laurence Humphrey · The Nobles · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … but in maunger ſwathed with bratts. Nor wente hee garded with greate trayne of SeruauntsServants, but picked oute his Diſciples, Fiſhermen and Publicanes: to whome as Seruaunt hee ſerued …
    With rule
    … but in maunger ſwathed with bratts. Nor wente hee garded with greate trayne of SeruauntsServants, but picked oute his Diſciples, Fiſhermen and Publicanes: to whome as Seruaunt hee ſerued …

    Laurence Humphrey · The Nobles · Open in the reader

Collected Sermons A06521

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    … vnhoneſt, &c: but therefore, becauſe the word of God doth thus ſpeake vnto me: SeruauntsServants be obedient vnto your Maiſters as vnto Chriſt, &c. This ſeruice proceedeth of it …
    With rule
    … vnhoneſt, &c: but therefore, becauſe the word of God doth thus ſpeake vnto me: SeruauntsServants be obedient vnto your Maiſters as vnto Chriſt, &c. This ſeruice proceedeth of it …

    Martin Luther · Collected Sermons · p. 193 · Open in the reader

The Pomander of Prayer A07044

  • Printed
    Of SeruauntsServants. Folio. 16
    With rule
    Of SeruauntsServants. Folio. 16

    Thomas Becon · The Pomander of Prayer · Open in the reader

The Sick Mans Salve A07163

  • Printed
    SeruauntsServants ought not to be forgotten that serue well.
    With rule
    SeruauntsServants ought not to be forgotten that serue well.

    Thomas Becon · The Sick Mans Salve · Open in the reader

Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion A07769

  • Printed
    … onely Nation for an hundred yeres, which were lesse than the interuiewe of two SeruauntsServants in a Comedie? Thou hast seene Pompey ouercome. Loe here a discord that offendeth …
    With rule
    … onely Nation for an hundred yeres, which were lesse than the interuiewe of two SeruauntsServants in a Comedie? Thou hast seene Pompey ouercome. Loe here a discord that offendeth …

    Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 196 · Open in the reader

Commentary on Romans A14353

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    … neuer come to any ende or meaſure of heapyng vp of wealth and riches. SeruauntsServants when they heare the threatnynges of their maiſters, do tremble frō top to toe …
    With rule
    … neuer come to any ende or meaſure of heapyng vp of wealth and riches. SeruauntsServants when they heare the threatnynges of their maiſters, do tremble frō top to toe …

    Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentary on Romans · p. 1 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … cuſtome. Neither doe we owe honor vnto Princes only, but alſo to our parents. SeruauntsServants alſo owe feare to theyr Lords and maſters. In Malachie God thus complaineth: If …
    With rule
    … cuſtome. Neither doe we owe honor vnto Princes only, but alſo to our parents. SeruauntsServants alſo owe feare to theyr Lords and maſters. In Malachie God thus complaineth: If …

    Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentary on Romans · p. 432 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    SeruauntsServants and free men differ. 1
    With rule
    SeruauntsServants and free men differ. 1

    Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentary on Romans · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    SeruauntsServants, why they are ſo called 153
    With rule
    SeruauntsServants, why they are ſo called 153

    Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentary on Romans · Open in the reader

An ABC for Laymen A15621

  • Printed
    SeruauntsServants.
    With rule
    SeruauntsServants.

    Clergy George Wither · An ABC for Laymen · p. 125 · Open in the reader

Of the Head Cornerstone A17242

  • Printed
    … rest when fainest hee would. How God is wont oft-times to try good SeruauntsServants also, doth heere likewise indifferent plainely appeare: when as this man did so hardly …
    With rule
    … rest when fainest hee would. How God is wont oft-times to try good SeruauntsServants also, doth heere likewise indifferent plainely appeare: when as this man did so hardly …

    Edmund Bunny · Of the Head Cornerstone · p. 84 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … vayle on while hee talked with them. And truely, the glorie of his true SeruauntsServants, is alwayes great, though hee make it not so to appeare vnto others.
    With rule
    … vayle on while hee talked with them. And truely, the glorie of his true SeruauntsServants, is alwayes great, though hee make it not so to appeare vnto others.

    Edmund Bunny · Of the Head Cornerstone · p. 145 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … there were of our great men also, that could so ill abide, that those SeruauntsServants of GOD were so well prouided for as before they were, and yet no …
    With rule
    … there were of our great men also, that could so ill abide, that those SeruauntsServants of GOD were so well prouided for as before they were, and yet no …

    Edmund Bunny · Of the Head Cornerstone · p. 312 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … the Riuer might now bee no hinderance vnto him: as others also of the SeruauntsServants of God shall haue no let … of such honour as GOD dooth meane them …
    With rule
    … the Riuer might now bee no hinderance vnto him: as others also of the SeruauntsServants of God shall haue no let … of such honour as GOD dooth meane them …

    Edmund Bunny · Of the Head Cornerstone · p. 394 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … Babylon of ours, which hath so imbrewed it selfe in the blood of Gods SeruauntsServants, and yet keepeth many of them Captiue still, in his good time to be …
    With rule
    … Babylon of ours, which hath so imbrewed it selfe in the blood of Gods SeruauntsServants, and yet keepeth many of them Captiue still, in his good time to be …

    Edmund Bunny · Of the Head Cornerstone · p. 493 · Open in the reader

Commentary on Colossians A17648

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    22 SeruauntsServants obay. Whatſoeuer is here reade concearning ſeruauntes, needeth no expoſition: becauſe it is already …
    With rule
    22 SeruauntsServants obay. Whatſoeuer is here reade concearning ſeruauntes, needeth no expoſition: becauſe it is already …

    John Calvin · Commentary on Colossians · p. 76 · Open in the reader

Sermon on the History of Melchizedek A17696

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    … him with the reſt of the prouiſion, and went on with two of his SeruauntsServants and his Sonne.
    With rule
    … him with the reſt of the prouiſion, and went on with two of his SeruauntsServants and his Sonne.

    John Calvin · Sermon on the History of Melchizedek · p. 255 · Open in the reader

Sermons on Deuteronomy A17698

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    What were able to make Gods SeruauntsServants quite out of patience.
    With rule
    What were able to make Gods SeruauntsServants quite out of patience.

    John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · Open in the reader

Commentary Upon Philemon A22481

  • Printed
    … and reformed families, are many times vngodly, obſtinate, and vnreformed perſons, both Children and SeruauntsServants. page 237
    With rule
    … and reformed families, are many times vngodly, obſtinate, and vnreformed perſons, both Children and SeruauntsServants. page 237

    William Attersoll · Commentary Upon Philemon · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … and giuen this honour to make him a Father of Children, a Mayſter ouer SeruauntsServants, a Gouernour ouer an Houſhould; hee requireth with all this dutie, and therefore layeth …
    With rule
    … and giuen this honour to make him a Father of Children, a Mayſter ouer SeruauntsServants, a Gouernour ouer an Houſhould; hee requireth with all this dutie, and therefore layeth …

    William Attersoll · Commentary Upon Philemon · p. 38 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … all wel-doing. This is the right manner of honouring the Saintes and faithfull SeruauntsServants of God, when God is honoured in them, and for them, when they are …
    With rule
    … all wel-doing. This is the right manner of honouring the Saintes and faithfull SeruauntsServants of God, when God is honoured in them, and for them, when they are …

    William Attersoll · Commentary Upon Philemon · p. 145 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … beeing a true profeſſour of the Faith. He knew well the leud diſpoſition of SeruauntsServants, for the moſt part in thoſe dayes, as the Maiſters were cruell to them …
    With rule
    … beeing a true profeſſour of the Faith. He knew well the leud diſpoſition of SeruauntsServants, for the moſt part in thoſe dayes, as the Maiſters were cruell to them …

    William Attersoll · Commentary Upon Philemon · p. 253 · Open in the reader

Whole Works A68831

  • Printed
    SeruauntsServants of Mammon not Chriſtes Church. 233. b
    With rule
    SeruauntsServants of Mammon not Chriſtes Church. 233. b

    William Tyndale · Whole Works · Open in the reader

The World Possessed with Devils Part 2 B16217

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    And therfore, if they thought Saint Paule and Sylas to bee the SeruauntsServants of God, they might likewise thinke, that this Sorceresse was neyther against them, nor …
    With rule
    And therfore, if they thought Saint Paule and Sylas to bee the SeruauntsServants of God, they might likewise thinke, that this Sorceresse was neyther against them, nor …

    Pierre Viret · The World Possessed with Devils Part 2 · Open in the reader