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hourehour

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

Puritas changed it: 8,986 times in 1,822 works
Consistency: 99.0% (8,986 of 9,073)
Reach if approved: ~9,533 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: hour
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 9,073 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (8,986 changes in 1,822 works, 99.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 8,986)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

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… one is called from the wombe: another in his mid-age: another in the hourehour of his death. why the Goſpell is ſalvation, firſt vnto the Iewes, and next …
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… one is called from the wombe: another in his mid-age: another in the hourehour of his death. why the Goſpell is ſalvation, firſt vnto the Iewes, and next …
John Forbes · The Doctrine of Justification · p. 16 · Open in the reader
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… we repent, and ſtand in readineſſe continually watching and praying euery minute of an hourehour, that we may be caught vp into the cloudes to meete our Redeemer.
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… we repent, and ſtand in readineſſe continually watching and praying euery minute of an hourehour, that we may be caught vp into the cloudes to meete our Redeemer.
John Frewen · Fruitful Instructions and Necessary Doctrines · p. 359 · Open in the reader
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… I answere that since it was first set vp, it was neuer for one hourehour quite suppressed, although by Antichriste these many hundred yeeres it hath beene greatly oppressed …
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… I answere that since it was first set vp, it was neuer for one hourehour quite suppressed, although by Antichriste these many hundred yeeres it hath beene greatly oppressed …
William Fulke · A Retentive to Stay Good Christians · p. 135 · Open in the reader
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… For, Riches availe not in the day of wrath; and much leſſe, at the hourehour of death. No, then it utterly faileth them, and their hopes fall to ground …
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… For, Riches availe not in the day of wrath; and much leſſe, at the hourehour of death. No, then it utterly faileth them, and their hopes fall to ground …
Thomas Gataker · Saint Stephens Last Will and Testament · p. 10 · Open in the reader
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… perceived. And the night following after this Gentlewoman had beene in her bed ſome hourehour or two, there ſeemed to be a great light in her Chamber, which at …
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… perceived. And the night following after this Gentlewoman had beene in her bed ſome hourehour or two, there ſeemed to be a great light in her Chamber, which at …
John Gee · New Shreds of the Old Snare · p. 12 · Open in the reader
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… whyles we looked to our owne weakneſſe and infirmitie, not able to endure one hourehour in the way of righteouſneſſe: or elſe a vayne preſumption of fayned holyneſſe, whyles …
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… whyles we looked to our owne weakneſſe and infirmitie, not able to endure one hourehour in the way of righteouſneſſe: or elſe a vayne preſumption of fayned holyneſſe, whyles …
Anthony Gilby · Of Election and Reprobation · Open in the reader
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… them, I propounded those words of our Saviour, Marke 13. 32. But of that day and hourehour knoweth no man, no not the Angels, neither the Sonne, but the Father; Which …
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… them, I propounded those words of our Saviour, Marke 13. 32. But of that day and hourehour knoweth no man, no not the Angels, neither the Sonne, but the Father; Which …
Daniel Featley · Learned Decisions · p. 24 · Open in the reader
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… the stream; & whiles he neglects 2 or 3. strokes, he is carried down further in an hourehour, then he can recouer in a day. He loues, like a horse, short iourneys …
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… the stream; & whiles he neglects 2 or 3. strokes, he is carried down further in an hourehour, then he can recouer in a day. He loues, like a horse, short iourneys …
Thomas Adams · Diseases of the Soul · p. 70 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (87)

71 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 53 are listed here. 16 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Works A02178

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… is neere, and no difference: But as the Day was then neere, so the HoureHour is now neere; neere, I say in respect of God and of eternitie. And …
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… is neere, and no difference: But as the Day was then neere, so the HoureHour is now neere; neere, I say in respect of God and of eternitie. And …
Richard Greenham · Works · p. 658 · Open in the reader

Commentary on Peter and Jude A06502

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… this Life and it: For all thynges in it, are as one Daie, one HoureHour, one Minute, one Moment.
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… this Life and it: For all thynges in it, are as one Daie, one HoureHour, one Minute, one Moment.
Martin Luther · Commentary on Peter and Jude · Open in the reader

The Grounds of Divinity A09026

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… Time a Yeare, another a Month, another a Wéeke, another a Day, another an HoureHour, &c. Which wee could neither vnderſtand, nor diſtinguiſh, without the motion of theſe Celeſtiall …
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… Time a Yeare, another a Month, another a Wéeke, another a Day, another an HoureHour, &c. Which wee could neither vnderſtand, nor diſtinguiſh, without the motion of theſe Celeſtiall …
Elnathan Parr · The Grounds of Divinity · p. 90 · Open in the reader

A Brief Introduction to Geography A09258

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… the longest day in Summer exc…edes that in another Paralell, by halfe an HoureHour. There is a greate deale of Confusion and difference betweene the late and and …
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… the longest day in Summer exc…edes that in another Paralell, by halfe an HoureHour. There is a greate deale of Confusion and difference betweene the late and and …
William Pemble · A Brief Introduction to Geography · p. 40 · Open in the reader

The Breastplate of Faith and Love A09950

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… when the Bridegroome shall enter in, and the doores shall bee shut, when your HoureHour-glasse shall be out, and your time spent, and then this relation of righteousnesse …
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… when the Bridegroome shall enter in, and the doores shall bee shut, when your HoureHour-glasse shall be out, and your time spent, and then this relation of righteousnesse …
John Preston · The Breastplate of Faith and Love · p. 33 · Open in the reader

Pilgrimage A10228

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… on their enemie, but would faithfully before relate vnto him the Time, Place, and HoureHour of their fight; whereas the Mosynoeci vsed to assault strangers that trauelled by them …
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… on their enemie, but would faithfully before relate vnto him the Time, Place, and HoureHour of their fight; whereas the Mosynoeci vsed to assault strangers that trauelled by them …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 272 · Open in the reader

Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs A11649

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HoureHour for time, Exod. 9. 18.
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HoureHour for time, Exod. 9. 18.
Henry Ainsworth · Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs · Open in the reader

The Souls Conflict With Itself A12198

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HoureHour of mercy not yet past, if yeelded unto. 368
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HoureHour of mercy not yet past, if yeelded unto. 368
Richard Sibbes · The Souls Conflict With Itself · Open in the reader

The Seven Days A12258

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This is a Day, not an HoureHour: not of Ydleneſſe, but of Reſt: not vnto our ſelues, but to the Lord …
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This is a Day, not an HoureHour: not of Ydleneſſe, but of Reſt: not vnto our ſelues, but to the Lord …
Archibald Simson · The Seven Days · p. 93 · Open in the reader

Balm from Gilead to Recover Conscience A14732

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… and are not acquainted with the Tythe of the worlds villanies: besides, when the HoureHour-glasse is out, wee can say no more to you, and perhaps shall neuer …
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… and are not acquainted with the Tythe of the worlds villanies: besides, when the HoureHour-glasse is out, wee can say no more to you, and perhaps shall neuer …
Samuel Ward · Balm from Gilead to Recover Conscience · p. 70 · Open in the reader

A Christian Dictionary A15520

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HoureHour. sig:
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HoureHour. sig:
Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 73 · Open in the reader
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… vpon men when they looke not for it. Reuelati. 3, 3. Thou shalt not know what HoureHour I will come.
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… vpon men when they looke not for it. Reuelati. 3, 3. Thou shalt not know what HoureHour I will come.
Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 73 · Open in the reader
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HoureHour of Iudgment. sig:
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HoureHour of Iudgment. sig:
Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 73 · Open in the reader
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… called Reuel. 10, 7. The finishing of the Mystery of God. Reue. 14, 7. For now commeth the HoureHour of his Iudgement.
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… called Reuel. 10, 7. The finishing of the Mystery of God. Reue. 14, 7. For now commeth the HoureHour of his Iudgement.
Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 73 · Open in the reader
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… time of tryal, by great calamities, but verie short, being to last but an HoureHour (as it were.) Reu. 3, 10. I will keepe thee in the HoureHour of tentation. What …
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… time of tryal, by great calamities, but verie short, being to last but an HoureHour (as it were.) Reu. 3, 10. I will keepe thee in the HoureHour of tentation. What …
Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 73 · Open in the reader

Emblems Ancient and Modern A15631

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And, let me ſtill remember, that an HoureHour
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And, let me ſtill remember, that an HoureHour
George Wither · Emblems Ancient and Modern · p. 12 · Open in the reader
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Which, with his Light, his HoureHour-glaſſe, and his booke,
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Which, with his Light, his HoureHour-glaſſe, and his booke,
George Wither · Emblems Ancient and Modern · p. 94 · Open in the reader
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This Day, my HoureHour-glaſſe, forth is runne;
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This Day, my HoureHour-glaſſe, forth is runne;
George Wither · Emblems Ancient and Modern · p. 184 · Open in the reader

Harmony of the Gospels A16078

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HoureHour. Christe his hourehour. 2. 4. & 7. 30. & 8. 20.
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HoureHour. Christe his hourehour. 2. 4. & 7. 30. & 8. 20.
John Calvin · Harmony of the Gospels · Open in the reader

Comforting Afflicted Consciences A16330

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… will these sleepers in Harvest say, when they shall be awaked at that dreadfull HoureHour out of their golden dreames, and in their hands shall finde nothing; but the …
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… will these sleepers in Harvest say, when they shall be awaked at that dreadfull HoureHour out of their golden dreames, and in their hands shall finde nothing; but the …
Robert Bolton · Comforting Afflicted Consciences · p. 32 · Open in the reader

Five Sermons 1 A20641

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… life was a continuall Paſsion; yet how long ſoeuer, he calls it but an HoureHour, and how much ſoeuer it were their act, the act of their malignitie that …
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… life was a continuall Paſsion; yet how long ſoeuer, he calls it but an HoureHour, and how much ſoeuer it were their act, the act of their malignitie that …
John Donne · Five Sermons 1 · p. 47 · Open in the reader

Five Sermons 2 A20642

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… life was a continuall Paſsion; yet how long ſoeuer, he calls it but an HoureHour, and how much ſoeuer it were their act, the act of their malignitie that …
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… life was a continuall Paſsion; yet how long ſoeuer, he calls it but an HoureHour, and how much ſoeuer it were their act, the act of their malignitie that …
John Donne · Five Sermons 2 · p. 47 · Open in the reader

An Alarm to the Last Judgment A20795

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… Ghost keepeth vs in suspense, and still in the Scripture telleth vs, that the HoureHour draweth neere, that the Day is at hand, and that the Lord will come …
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… Ghost keepeth vs in suspense, and still in the Scripture telleth vs, that the HoureHour draweth neere, that the Day is at hand, and that the Lord will come …
Thomas Draxe · An Alarm to the Last Judgment · p. 102 · Open in the reader

Coals from the Altar A20939

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… reſolution and tranquillitie of ſpirit, euen to aſpire with all your hearr, when the HoureHour will …ome, to ſay with Saint Paul, My deſire is to be diſſolued, and …
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… reſolution and tranquillitie of ſpirit, euen to aſpire with all your hearr, when the HoureHour will …ome, to ſay with Saint Paul, My deſire is to be diſſolued, and …
Peter du Moulin Jr · Coals from the Altar · p. 52 · Open in the reader

Micro-Cosmography A21075

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… his vnderstanding. He conceiues his Youth as the season of his Lust, and the HoureHour wherein hee ought to bee bad: and because he would not lose his time …
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… his vnderstanding. He conceiues his Youth as the season of his Lust, and the HoureHour wherein hee ought to bee bad: and because he would not lose his time …
John Earle · Micro-Cosmography · Open in the reader

The Whole Duty of Man A23775

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… I doubt it would pose many of us to tell when we bestowed one HoureHour on them, though we know them to be continually beset with most Dangerous Enemies …
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… I doubt it would pose many of us to tell when we bestowed one HoureHour on them, though we know them to be continually beset with most Dangerous Enemies …
Richard Allestree · The Whole Duty of Man · Open in the reader

A Practical Discourse of Prayer A33525

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… his Petitions, as to glorifie him, verſe 4. 5. Father glorifie thy Son: why ſo? The HoureHour (or the Time) is come, Ibid. And verſe 4. 5. I have glorified thee on Earth …
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… his Petitions, as to glorifie him, verſe 4. 5. Father glorifie thy Son: why ſo? The HoureHour (or the Time) is come, Ibid. And verſe 4. 5. I have glorified thee on Earth …
Thomas Cobbet · A Practical Discourse of Prayer · p. 163 · Open in the reader

The Perfect Pharisee Under Monkish Holiness A33735

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… at Kendale▪ and had▪ he said, his Commission from God to pull downe the HoureHour-Glasse. And the same man came a long mile, with no other Message from …
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… at Kendale▪ and had▪ he said, his Commission from God to pull downe the HoureHour-Glasse. And the same man came a long mile, with no other Message from …
Thomas Weld · The Perfect Pharisee Under Monkish Holiness · p. 45 · Open in the reader
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… Lord to call men immediately from Heaven▪ on purpose to tell onely of an HoureHour-Glasse; and to have nothing to say, but to call a man Priest, with …
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… Lord to call men immediately from Heaven▪ on purpose to tell onely of an HoureHour-Glasse; and to have nothing to say, but to call a man Priest, with …
Thomas Weld · The Perfect Pharisee Under Monkish Holiness · p. 46 · Open in the reader

Twenty-Six Sermons A36308

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THis is no Text for an HoureHour-glaſſe: if God would afford me Ezekiah's ſigne, Ut revertatur umbra, that the ſhadow …
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THis is no Text for an HoureHour-glaſſe: if God would afford me Ezekiah's ſigne, Ut revertatur umbra, that the ſhadow …
John Donne · Twenty-Six Sermons · p. 45 · Open in the reader

The Gentile Sinner A39252

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… by the name of Baal's Priest, and to sell more books in halfe an HoureHour then he had bought him in a yeare; To forget the second yeare what …
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… by the name of Baal's Priest, and to sell more books in halfe an HoureHour then he had bought him in a yeare; To forget the second yeare what …
Clement Ellis · The Gentile Sinner · p. 25 · Open in the reader

Good Thoughts in Worse Times A40668

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… three Peti…ions into one, so contracting them to halfe a quarter of an HoureHour.
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… three Peti…ions into one, so contracting them to halfe a quarter of an HoureHour.
Thomas Fuller · Good Thoughts in Worse Times · p. 46 · Open in the reader

The Holy State A40674

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America is not unfitly resembled to an HoureHour-glasse, which hath a narrow neck of land (suppose it the hole where the …
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America is not unfitly resembled to an HoureHour-glasse, which hath a narrow neck of land (suppose it the hole where the …
Thomas Fuller · The Holy State · p. 139 · Open in the reader

The Gentle Lash A41008

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… Enemy? which of them have struck a blow but against a Cushion or an HoureHour glasse? Whilst these menbars whom you so revile, have with their well ar…'d …
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… Enemy? which of them have struck a blow but against a Cushion or an HoureHour glasse? Whilst these menbars whom you so revile, have with their well ar…'d …
Daniel Featley · The Gentle Lash · Open in the reader

Sermon 21 April 1645 A48948

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… both good and bad, of all that he heares and sees: Or like an HoureHour-glasse that takes it in at one eare, and out at the other: Or …
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… both good and bad, of all that he heares and sees: Or like an HoureHour-glasse that takes it in at one eare, and out at the other: Or …
William Loe · Sermon 21 April 1645 · p. 31 · Open in the reader

The Doctrine of the Saints Perseverance A53688

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… of God with any one, on whom it is bestowed, for a Day, an HoureHour, or a Moment; but notwithstanding this Testimony of the Holy Ghost, they may be …
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… of God with any one, on whom it is bestowed, for a Day, an HoureHour, or a Moment; but notwithstanding this Testimony of the Holy Ghost, they may be …
John Owen · The Doctrine of the Saints Perseverance · p. 34 · Open in the reader

Commentary on Revelation A55917

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… unlearned: No, nor by the learned: for it is ſaid. Of that Day and HoureHour no man knoweth, no, not the Angels of Heaven. Therefore beeing convinced by the …
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… unlearned: No, nor by the learned: for it is ſaid. Of that Day and HoureHour no man knoweth, no, not the Angels of Heaven. Therefore beeing convinced by the …
David Pareus · Commentary on Revelation · p. 535 · Open in the reader

Works of Joseph Hall A68126

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… ſuch affectation of perpetuity, and leaue without a light fickleneſſe; making alwaies not our HoureHour-glaſſe, but ſome competent increaſe of our deuotion, the meaſure of our continuance; knowing …
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… ſuch affectation of perpetuity, and leaue without a light fickleneſſe; making alwaies not our HoureHour-glaſſe, but ſome competent increaſe of our deuotion, the meaſure of our continuance; knowing …
Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 109 · Open in the reader

Whole Works A68831

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HoureHour is here taken for tyme: the laſt hourehour is as much to ſay, as …
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HoureHour is here taken for tyme: the laſt hourehour is as much to ſay, as …
William Tyndale · Whole Works · p. 406 · Open in the reader

The Saints Sure and Perpetual Guide A68954

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… breath, were ſpent onely to entertaine the Time, and buſie mens eares for an HoureHour; and, not as Chriſt tells Paul, To open their eyes, that they might turne …
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… breath, were ſpent onely to entertaine the Time, and buſie mens eares for an HoureHour; and, not as Chriſt tells Paul, To open their eyes, that they might turne …
Robert Bolton · The Saints Sure and Perpetual Guide · p. 146 · Open in the reader

Exposition of the Laws of Moses A73378

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HoureHour from whence derived, 88. houres twofold, 89. houres meaſured by their ſhadow, 178.
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HoureHour from whence derived, 88. houres twofold, 89. houres meaſured by their ſhadow, 178.
John Weemes · Exposition of the Laws of Moses · Open in the reader
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CHAPTER XXV. Of their civill counting of their times, and firſt of their HoureHour.
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CHAPTER XXV. Of their civill counting of their times, and firſt of their HoureHour.
John Weemes · Exposition of the Laws of Moses · p. 88 · Open in the reader

Lancashires Valley of Achor is Englands Door of Hope A75350

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LANCASHIRES HoureHour of ſad Temptation, AND Joyfull Iſſue.
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LANCASHIRES HoureHour of ſad Temptation, AND Joyfull Iſſue.
John Angier · Lancashires Valley of Achor is Englands Door of Hope · p. 1 · Open in the reader

The Christian Sabbath Vindicated A78427

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… denomination of Nature, as this or that Day; or of Art, this or that HoureHour, as we ſpake before) there is no materiality at all toward the advantage, or …
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… denomination of Nature, as this or that Day; or of Art, this or that HoureHour, as we ſpake before) there is no materiality at all toward the advantage, or …
Daniel Cawdry · The Christian Sabbath Vindicated · p. 91 · Open in the reader
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… ſome accidentall thing withall) what Day or HoureHour he began to ſtudy; or which HoureHour or Day he took for ſtudy, out of any number, if he intermitted any …
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… ſome accidentall thing withall) what Day or HoureHour he began to ſtudy; or which HoureHour or Day he took for ſtudy, out of any number, if he intermitted any …
Daniel Cawdry · The Christian Sabbath Vindicated · p. 91 · Open in the reader
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… that HoureHour, and never ſooner, as well as no later; never at any other HoureHour, or on any other Day. This, we ſay, cannot be profitable to Religion; becauſe …
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… that HoureHour, and never ſooner, as well as no later; never at any other HoureHour, or on any other Day. This, we ſay, cannot be profitable to Religion; becauſe …
Daniel Cawdry · The Christian Sabbath Vindicated · p. 134 · Open in the reader
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… Chriſt…ans, and men, all the world over.) Then, when that particular Day and HoureHour is once determined (by what authority ſoever) in any Church, (as it muſt neceſſarily …
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… Chriſt…ans, and men, all the world over.) Then, when that particular Day and HoureHour is once determined (by what authority ſoever) in any Church, (as it muſt neceſſarily …
Daniel Cawdry · The Christian Sabbath Vindicated · p. 338 · Open in the reader
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… determined Day or HoureHour, but It above them all: That particular Day, wherein that HoureHour is to be obſerved, is above all other Dayes: and that particular HoureHour of …
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… determined Day or HoureHour, but It above them all: That particular Day, wherein that HoureHour is to be obſerved, is above all other Dayes: and that particular HoureHour of …
Daniel Cawdry · The Christian Sabbath Vindicated · p. 338 · Open in the reader

Eighteen Choice and Useful Sermons A86368

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… is already cut off, and the leſſe is remaining; as the more of an HoureHour-glaſſe is already run out, the leſſe it hath to runne.
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… is already cut off, and the leſſe is remaining; as the more of an HoureHour-glaſſe is already run out, the leſſe it hath to runne.
Benjamin Hinton · Eighteen Choice and Useful Sermons · p. 80 · Open in the reader

Divine Meditations Raised from Three Leaves of Nature A91224

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Being imperfect, fading every HoureHour,
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Being imperfect, fading every HoureHour,
William Prynne · Divine Meditations Raised from Three Leaves of Nature · p. 118 · Open in the reader
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Seldome regarded till the fatall HoureHour.
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Seldome regarded till the fatall HoureHour.
William Prynne · Divine Meditations Raised from Three Leaves of Nature · p. 178 · Open in the reader

Moses Prayer A93404

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… unto the world, that his coming by Death, and judgment will be in an HoureHour, when men will not think of it, that ſo we might expect him every …
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… unto the world, that his coming by Death, and judgment will be in an HoureHour, when men will not think of it, that ſo we might expect him every …
Samuel Smith · Moses Prayer · p. 153 · Open in the reader

The Doctrine of the Three Sacred Persons A95611

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If on mine HoureHour-Glaſs thou then lay thine hand
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If on mine HoureHour-Glaſs thou then lay thine hand
Faithful Teate · The Doctrine of the Three Sacred Persons · p. 168 · Open in the reader