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maintainemaintain

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

Puritas changed it
9,596 times in 1,831 works
Consistency
99.5% (9,596 of 9,641)
Reach if approved
~10,130 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: maintain
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
9,641 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (9,596 changes in 1,831 works, 99.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 9,596)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
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    I doe not seé how any man can indeéd iustifie, or maintainemaintain, that the spirits which appeare vnto them in the Christall, or in the glasse …
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    I doe not seé how any man can indeéd iustifie, or maintainemaintain, that the spirits which appeare vnto them in the Christall, or in the glasse …

    George Gifford · Dialogue Concerning Witches and Witchcrafts · Open in the reader

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    … all his pretious blood is contained, as wee, with the sacred Councell of Trent maintainemaintain. Therefore hee who inioyeth the least particle of either kind, receiueth not a mingled …
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    … all his pretious blood is contained, as wee, with the sacred Councell of Trent maintainemaintain. Therefore hee who inioyeth the least particle of either kind, receiueth not a mingled …

    Daniel Featley · The Grand Sacrilege of the Church of Rome · p. 224 · Open in the reader

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    … bellies and ambitions, becauſe by the peoples ſacrifices for ſinne, they haue wherewith to maintainemaintain their gormandizing and filthy pleaſures.
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    … bellies and ambitions, becauſe by the peoples ſacrifices for ſinne, they haue wherewith to maintainemaintain their gormandizing and filthy pleaſures.

    Henry Finch · The Calling of the Jews · p. 197 · Open in the reader

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    … meanes of ſaluation vnto them vvhom he foreſees vvil abuſe them, theſe men that maintainemaintain this opinion ſe not, hovv their vayne, and blind cureoſitie, & carnall vviſdom makes them …
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    … meanes of ſaluation vnto them vvhom he foreſees vvil abuſe them, theſe men that maintainemaintain this opinion ſe not, hovv their vayne, and blind cureoſitie, & carnall vviſdom makes them …

    John Forbes · Sermon on 1 Timothy 2:4 · p. 43 · Open in the reader

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    IF wee will obey God, wee muſt maintainemaintain the honour and credite of our neighbours, as much as lyeth in vs. For …
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    IF wee will obey God, wee muſt maintainemaintain the honour and credite of our neighbours, as much as lyeth in vs. For …

    John Frewen · Fruitful Instructions and Necessary Doctrines · p. 104 · Open in the reader

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    … against him, he helde no such prerogatiue of that sea, as the Papists now maintainemaintain, that the bishop of Rome cannot erre. In deede Cyprian professeth, that notwithstanding he …
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    … against him, he helde no such prerogatiue of that sea, as the Papists now maintainemaintain, that the bishop of Rome cannot erre. In deede Cyprian professeth, that notwithstanding he …

    William Fulke · A Retentive to Stay Good Christians · p. 270 · Open in the reader

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    … is time he were cut downe; this place will maintainemaintain a man, that will maintainemaintain the place, with vprightnesse. A Minister is barren, hath no milke in his breasts …
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    … is time he were cut downe; this place will maintainemaintain a man, that will maintainemaintain the place, with vprightnesse. A Minister is barren, hath no milke in his breasts …

    Thomas Adams · Five Sermons Preached Upon Special Occasions · p. 50 · Open in the reader

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    … God; and that is ſufficient to proue him an Athe… though he neuer openly maintainemaintain any Poſition of Atheiſme. And there be ſome that profeſſe they know God, but …
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    … God; and that is ſufficient to proue him an Athe… though he neuer openly maintainemaintain any Poſition of Atheiſme. And there be ſome that profeſſe they know God, but …

    Thomas Gataker · True Contentment in the Gain of Godliness · p. 2 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (45)

38 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 7 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Lectures Upon Psalm 51 A03343

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    Meanes to destroy corruption, & to breed grace in our children, are these. Wee must 1 MaintaineMaintain our authority. There is an honour due to us from our childe; p. 291. This …
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    Meanes to destroy corruption, & to breed grace in our children, are these. Wee must 1 MaintaineMaintain our authority. There is an honour due to us from our childe; p. 291. This …

    Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon Psalm 51 · Open in the reader

The Christians Two Chief Lessons A03599

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    3. MaintaineMaintain in thy ſoule the authority of the Word. 63
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    3. MaintaineMaintain in thy ſoule the authority of the Word. 63

    Thomas Hooker · The Christians Two Chief Lessons · Open in the reader

The Souls Vocation A03615

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    Meanes 3 MaintaineMaintain in thy heart a deepe and ſerious acknowledgement of that ſupreme authoritie of the …
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    Meanes 3 MaintaineMaintain in thy heart a deepe and ſerious acknowledgement of that ſupreme authoritie of the …

    Thomas Hooker · The Souls Vocation · p. 148 · Open in the reader

Commentary Upon Proverbs A07874

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    … may well be called dumme. In the cauſe of all the children of deſtruction. MaintaineMaintain the cauſe of all who are wronged, neither onely of thoſe who are vniuſtly …
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    … may well be called dumme. In the cauſe of all the children of deſtruction. MaintaineMaintain the cauſe of all who are wronged, neither onely of thoſe who are vniuſtly …

    Peter Moffett · Commentary Upon Proverbs · p. 310 · Open in the reader

Seven Treatises A10945

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    MaintaineMaintain our owne reuerence.
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    MaintaineMaintain our owne reuerence.

    Richard Rogers · Seven Treatises · Open in the reader

Christs Counsel to His Languishing Church of Sardis A11850

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    4 MaintaineMaintain an holy jealouſie and feare of decaying; Bleſſed is the man who feareth alwaies …
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    4 MaintaineMaintain an holy jealouſie and feare of decaying; Bleſſed is the man who feareth alwaies …

    Obadiah Sedgwick · Christs Counsel to His Languishing Church of Sardis · Open in the reader

The Seven Days A12258

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    … innumerable Martyres, & which thou haſt made to grow amongſt the middeſt of thine enemies. MaintaineMaintain, O Lord, the vvorke vvhich thou haſt begunne amongſt them: giue them wiſedome, that …
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    … innumerable Martyres, & which thou haſt made to grow amongſt the middeſt of thine enemies. MaintaineMaintain, O Lord, the vvorke vvhich thou haſt begunne amongſt them: giue them wiſedome, that …

    Archibald Simson · The Seven Days · p. 131 · Open in the reader

The Marks of the Children of God and their Comforts in Affliction A13341

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    … enterpriſes which they haue taken in hand againſt thee, and thy ſonne leſus Chriſt. MaintaineMaintain the reſt of thy flocke, which thou haſt kept vntill this day. Eſtabliſh againe …
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    … enterpriſes which they haue taken in hand againſt thee, and thy ſonne leſus Chriſt. MaintaineMaintain the reſt of thy flocke, which thou haſt kept vntill this day. Eſtabliſh againe …

    Jean Taffin · The Marks of the Children of God and their Comforts in Affliction · Open in the reader

The Last Battle of the Soul A16539

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    Lord, heare thou in Heauen… MaintaineMaintain the life of his loue towards thee: Now vvater the seede vvhich thou hast …
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    Lord, heare thou in Heauen… MaintaineMaintain the life of his loue towards thee: Now vvater the seede vvhich thou hast …

    Zacharie Boyd · The Last Battle of the Soul · p. 1153 · Open in the reader

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    … of grace: Call home all his wandering thoughtes, settle and them vpon thy selfe: MaintaineMaintain the life of his loue: Make death to him a Messenger of mercie, and …
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    … of grace: Call home all his wandering thoughtes, settle and them vpon thy selfe: MaintaineMaintain the life of his loue: Make death to him a Messenger of mercie, and …

    Zacharie Boyd · The Last Battle of the Soul · p. 1155 · Open in the reader

The Fire of the Sanctuary Newly Uncovered A17270

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    … to declare what temper our zeale muſt aſcend vnto in defence of the Word. MaintaineMaintain we muſt with all our might the Principles of faith. But of inferiour doubtful …
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    … to declare what temper our zeale muſt aſcend vnto in defence of the Word. MaintaineMaintain we muſt with all our might the Principles of faith. But of inferiour doubtful …

    Cornelius Burges · The Fire of the Sanctuary Newly Uncovered · p. 35 · Open in the reader

A New Discovery of Personal Tithes A17271

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    … the Altar, may not by any Power of the Magiſtrate bee ſtill continued to MaintaineMaintain a Leuiticall Prieſthood.
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    … the Altar, may not by any Power of the Magiſtrate bee ſtill continued to MaintaineMaintain a Leuiticall Prieſthood.

    Cornelius Burges · A New Discovery of Personal Tithes · p. 33 · Open in the reader

The Cry and Revenge of Blood A19288

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    Now we shall wisely MaintaineMaintain peace with God. How,
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    Now we shall wisely MaintaineMaintain peace with God. How,

    Thomas Cooper · The Cry and Revenge of Blood · p. 21 · Open in the reader

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    … be found in Christ, renuing our right in him: hereby we shall renue and MaintaineMaintain our Peace with God.
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    … be found in Christ, renuing our right in him: hereby we shall renue and MaintaineMaintain our Peace with God.

    Thomas Cooper · The Cry and Revenge of Blood · p. 21 · Open in the reader

The Opening of the Words of the Prophet Joel A19666

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    MaintaineMaintain them ſtil,
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    MaintaineMaintain them ſtil,

    Robert Crowley · The Opening of the Words of the Prophet Joel · Open in the reader

Eighty Sermons A20637

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    … will bee with thee, and through the floods that they doe not overflow thee. MaintaineMaintain therefore a holy patience in all Gods viſitations: Accept your waters, though they come …
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    … will bee with thee, and through the floods that they doe not overflow thee. MaintaineMaintain therefore a holy patience in all Gods viſitations: Accept your waters, though they come …

    John Donne · Eighty Sermons · p. 600 · Open in the reader

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    … Originall; the Collaterall, the Direct; And the Traditions of men, the Commandements of God. MaintaineMaintain and hold up this holy alacrity, this religious cheerfulneſſe; For inordinate ſadneſſe is a …
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    … Originall; the Collaterall, the Direct; And the Traditions of men, the Commandements of God. MaintaineMaintain and hold up this holy alacrity, this religious cheerfulneſſe; For inordinate ſadneſſe is a …

    John Donne · Eighty Sermons · p. 816 · Open in the reader

The Duties Commanded and Sins Forbidden in the Law of God A20720

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    MaintaineMaintain the cause, which with good conscience they vndertake,
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    MaintaineMaintain the cause, which with good conscience they vndertake,

    George Downame · The Duties Commanded and Sins Forbidden in the Law of God · Open in the reader

Two Treatises A21041

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    … man being godly, ſhadoweth and obſcureth the ſtately and proud Palaces of prophane Princes. MaintaineMaintain then this Title that ſtill your Houſe may be Bethel, and not Bethauen.
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    … man being godly, ſhadoweth and obſcureth the ſtately and proud Palaces of prophane Princes. MaintaineMaintain then this Title that ſtill your Houſe may be Bethel, and not Bethauen.

    Daniel Dyke · Two Treatises · p. 57 · Open in the reader

The Bibles Abstract and Epitome A27502

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    MaintaineMaintain himselfe after his dismission, his Stewardship being t…ken from him, and that by …
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    MaintaineMaintain himselfe after his dismission, his Stewardship being t…ken from him, and that by …

    Richard Bernard · The Bibles Abstract and Epitome · p. 44 · Open in the reader

Quakerism the Path-Way to Paganism A29753

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    … others, as Crellius, and Schlichtingius, be of another judgment: our Divines, on the contrare, MaintaineMaintain, that there is some Imperfect, and as to Salvation Insufficient (though sufficient for Instruction …
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    … others, as Crellius, and Schlichtingius, be of another judgment: our Divines, on the contrare, MaintaineMaintain, that there is some Imperfect, and as to Salvation Insufficient (though sufficient for Instruction …

    John Brown · Quakerism the Path-Way to Paganism · p. 106 · Open in the reader

Canterburys Doom A56144

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    … TOGETHER WITH THEM DO PROFESSE, and WHICH WE ARE ALL BOƲND IN CONSCIENCE TO MAINTAINEMAINTAIN TO THE ƲTMOST OF OƲR POWERS; Whereas theſe Religious and Godly Perſons being involved …
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    … TOGETHER WITH THEM DO PROFESSE, and WHICH WE ARE ALL BOƲND IN CONSCIENCE TO MAINTAINEMAINTAIN TO THE ƲTMOST OF OƲR POWERS; Whereas theſe Religious and Godly Perſons being involved …

    William Prynne · Canterburys Doom · p. 392 · Open in the reader

The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms A56211

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    … RIGHTFVLL LAWES which THE COMMONS OF THE REALME SHALL CHVSE, AND TO STRENGTHEN AND MAINTAINEMAINTAIN THEM after his power. Which Clause of the Oath (as I formerly manifested at …
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    … RIGHTFVLL LAWES which THE COMMONS OF THE REALME SHALL CHVSE, AND TO STRENGTHEN AND MAINTAINEMAINTAIN THEM after his power. Which Clause of the Oath (as I formerly manifested at …

    William Prynne · The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms · p. 74 · Open in the reader

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    … that the law of the land which WEE BY OVR OATH BE BOVND TO MAINTAINEMAINTAIN is the lesse well kept, and the execution of the same disturbed many times …
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    … that the law of the land which WEE BY OVR OATH BE BOVND TO MAINTAINEMAINTAIN is the lesse well kept, and the execution of the same disturbed many times …

    William Prynne · The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms · p. 76 · Open in the reader

The Peoples Right to Defend Themselves and their Covenanted Religion A61509

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    … of his dominions] and then addeth▪ That the author of Naphtaly and his complices [MaintaineMaintain, That if the Magiſtrat abuſe his povver in making unjuſt lavves, or punishing according …
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    … of his dominions] and then addeth▪ That the author of Naphtaly and his complices [MaintaineMaintain, That if the Magiſtrat abuſe his povver in making unjuſt lavves, or punishing according …

    James Stewart · The Peoples Right to Defend Themselves and their Covenanted Religion · p. 11 · Open in the reader

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    … ſolemne manner, and that ſeveral times re-iterated: in which Covenants, all ſweare to MaintaineMaintain and defend this Riligion, with their lives and fortunes, and to labour, by all …
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    … ſolemne manner, and that ſeveral times re-iterated: in which Covenants, all ſweare to MaintaineMaintain and defend this Riligion, with their lives and fortunes, and to labour, by all …

    James Stewart · The Peoples Right to Defend Themselves and their Covenanted Religion · p. 184 · Open in the reader

Letter Entreating a Friends Judgment A67003

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    … did the Aegyptian, kill it preſently, and take ſhame to themſelves for it, What? MaintaineMaintain a ſinfull practiſe, while yet they maintainemaintain a Church-way, and haereticall doctrine in …
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    … did the Aegyptian, kill it preſently, and take ſhame to themſelves for it, What? MaintaineMaintain a ſinfull practiſe, while yet they maintainemaintain a Church-way, and haereticall doctrine in …

    Hezekiah Woodward · Letter Entreating a Friends Judgment · p. 25 · Open in the reader

Davids Reserve and Rescue A70212

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    … succour David in any of his faintings? then (as here) 1. Do Justice. 2. Shew Mercy. 3. MaintaineMaintain a correspondency of succours. 4. Give all the praise and glory to God.
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    … succour David in any of his faintings? then (as here) 1. Do Justice. 2. Shew Mercy. 3. MaintaineMaintain a correspondency of succours. 4. Give all the praise and glory to God.

    Charles Herle · Davids Reserve and Rescue · p. 18 · Open in the reader

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    3. MaintaineMaintain correspondence of aid among your forces, see that your Abishai be as neer at …
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    3. MaintaineMaintain correspondence of aid among your forces, see that your Abishai be as neer at …

    Charles Herle · Davids Reserve and Rescue · p. 9 · Open in the reader

An Abstract of the Doctrine of the Sabbath A73593

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    2 MaintaineMaintain fooliſh and profane jeſtures in their houſes, (if they be able) of purpoſe.
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    2 MaintaineMaintain fooliſh and profane jeſtures in their houſes, (if they be able) of purpoſe.

    William Burton · An Abstract of the Doctrine of the Sabbath · p. 82 · Open in the reader

The True Bounds of Christian Freedom A76991

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    1. MaintaineMaintain it againſt the Law. 342
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    1. MaintaineMaintain it againſt the Law. 342

    Samuel Bolton · The True Bounds of Christian Freedom · Open in the reader

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    2. MaintaineMaintain it againſt men. 344, &c.
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    2. MaintaineMaintain it againſt men. 344, &c.

    Samuel Bolton · The True Bounds of Christian Freedom · Open in the reader

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    1. MaintaineMaintain your Chriſtian libertie, or your libertie you have in Chriſt againſt the Law, neither …
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    1. MaintaineMaintain your Chriſtian libertie, or your libertie you have in Chriſt againſt the Law, neither …

    Samuel Bolton · The True Bounds of Christian Freedom · p. 342 · Open in the reader

The Great Interest of States and Kingdoms A85436

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    … patience is but onely this, to adde a word of Exhortation and Direction to MAINTAINEMAINTAIN THIS INTEREST, and to preſerve it. To this end, conſider, it is not ſimply …
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    … patience is but onely this, to adde a word of Exhortation and Direction to MAINTAINEMAINTAIN THIS INTEREST, and to preſerve it. To this end, conſider, it is not ſimply …

    Thomas Goodwin · The Great Interest of States and Kingdoms · p. 52 · Open in the reader

The Trade of Truth A86360

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    … eclipſe the glory of Gods grace. Oh trade for the doctrine of free grace. MaintaineMaintain the King of Heavens Prerogative. In the ſpirituall building, grace laid the firſt foundation …
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    … eclipſe the glory of Gods grace. Oh trade for the doctrine of free grace. MaintaineMaintain the King of Heavens Prerogative. In the ſpirituall building, grace laid the firſt foundation …

    Thomas Hill · The Trade of Truth · p. 26 · Open in the reader

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    … power and uſe of the Keyes, as the Word of Truth doth allow them. MaintaineMaintain amongſt us a free courſe of trading for eternall happineſſe, ſet and keepe open …
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    … power and uſe of the Keyes, as the Word of Truth doth allow them. MaintaineMaintain amongſt us a free courſe of trading for eternall happineſſe, ſet and keepe open …

    Thomas Hill · The Trade of Truth · p. 32 · Open in the reader

The Churchs Thank-Offering to God Her King A96886

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    … Kingdoms be moved, ſhe ſtands ſtill Reader, you and I may learne from thence; MaintaineMaintain we Truth; contend we for that, and Truth will maintainemaintain us; Hold faſt Truth …
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    … Kingdoms be moved, ſhe ſtands ſtill Reader, you and I may learne from thence; MaintaineMaintain we Truth; contend we for that, and Truth will maintainemaintain us; Hold faſt Truth …

    Hezekiah Woodward · The Churchs Thank-Offering to God Her King · p. 33 · Open in the reader

A Treatise of Prayer A96904

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    But we come to our undertakeing, which is to MaintaineMaintain the Negative: That it is not comely for a Miniſter of Chriſt to joyne …
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    But we come to our undertakeing, which is to MaintaineMaintain the Negative: That it is not comely for a Miniſter of Chriſt to joyne …

    Hezekiah Woodward · A Treatise of Prayer · p. 48 · Open in the reader