Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1414 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

mouthesmouths

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

Puritas changed it: 7,712 times in 2,017 works
Consistency: 98.6% (7,712 of 7,816)
Reach if approved: ~8,212 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: mouths
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 7,816 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (7,712 changes in 2,017 works, 98.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 7,712)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

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… men assault the city, with open jaws ready to devoure it, had not their mouthesmouths been stopped with the artillery the Christians shot at them. Back they were beaten …
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… men assault the city, with open jaws ready to devoure it, had not their mouthesmouths been stopped with the artillery the Christians shot at them. Back they were beaten …
Thomas Fuller · The History of the Holy War · p. 226 · Open in the reader
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… anhelitu or is enecare homines, kill men with the breath that comes from their mouthesmouths. And Leno in the Comedy is noted to bee of ſo ſtrong a breath …
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… anhelitu or is enecare homines, kill men with the breath that comes from their mouthesmouths. And Leno in the Comedy is noted to bee of ſo ſtrong a breath …
John Gee · The Foot out of the Snare · p. 57 · Open in the reader
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… of theyr faith, nor of the truth which they had learned before from the mouthesmouths of Gods Miniſters in our Church. What were they all diſgraded of? doo yée …
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… of theyr faith, nor of the truth which they had learned before from the mouthesmouths of Gods Miniſters in our Church. What were they all diſgraded of? doo yée …
George Gifford · Short Treatise Against the Donatists of England · p. 98 · Open in the reader
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… and eares of the hearers, and the hearts of all the Congregation. Direct the mouthesmouths of the Preachers, that they may skilfully sowe the Seede, and open the eares …
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… and eares of the hearers, and the hearts of all the Congregation. Direct the mouthesmouths of the Preachers, that they may skilfully sowe the Seede, and open the eares …
Daniel Featley · The Handmaid to Private Devotion · p. 252 · Open in the reader
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… a ſigne vpon their handes, that the doctrine of God might be in their mouthesmouths.
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… a ſigne vpon their handes, that the doctrine of God might be in their mouthesmouths.
Dudley Fenner · The Whole Doctrine of the Sacraments · Open in the reader
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… as ſaith the Apoſtle, they ſubdued kingdomes, wrought righteouſnes, obtayned the …romiſe, ſtopped the mouthesmouths of …yons, quenched the violence of fire, eſcaped the edge of the ſword, of …
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… as ſaith the Apoſtle, they ſubdued kingdomes, wrought righteouſnes, obtayned the …romiſe, ſtopped the mouthesmouths of …yons, quenched the violence of fire, eſcaped the edge of the ſword, of …
John Forbes · A Fruitful Sermon · p. 59 · Open in the reader
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… and he shal deuide the spoyle with the strong. The kings shal shut their mouthesmouths at him. You haue nowe therfore heard, how he shoulde be poore and deformed …
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… and he shal deuide the spoyle with the strong. The kings shal shut their mouthesmouths at him. You haue nowe therfore heard, how he shoulde be poore and deformed …
John Foxe · A Sermon Preached at the Christening of a Jew · Open in the reader
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For there power is in ther mouthesmouths and in there tailes: for there tailes were lyke vnto serpentes, and had heades …
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For there power is in ther mouthesmouths and in there tailes: for there tailes were lyke vnto serpentes, and had heades …
William Fulke · Prelections Upon Revelation · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (104)

51 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 49 are listed here. 53 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Dialogue Wherein a Romish Rhyme is Confuted A01042

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… the voyce of the Dryver: and are lyke to those Horses and Mules, whose MouthesMouths must bee bound vp with Bit and Brydle, lest they come neare vs. Yea …
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… the voyce of the Dryver: and are lyke to those Horses and Mules, whose MouthesMouths must bee bound vp with Bit and Brydle, lest they come neare vs. Yea …
Patrick Forbes · Dialogue Wherein a Romish Rhyme is Confuted · p. 11 · Open in the reader

The Logic Newly Translated A05111

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… how euerie thinge is placed, but euen as it chaunſethe to come into their MouthesMouths, ſo lettethe it go. Dyd euer Plato or Ariſtotle ſo? no in deede. But …
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… how euerie thinge is placed, but euen as it chaunſethe to come into their MouthesMouths, ſo lettethe it go. Dyd euer Plato or Ariſtotle ſo? no in deede. But …
Petrus Ramus · The Logic Newly Translated · p. 7 · Open in the reader

Exposition of Zechariah 1-9 A09272

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… with their Wickedneſſe and Idolatry, as to have their Meate pluckt out of their MouthesMouths, which they hold faſt betweene their Teeth. And this (I take it) is the …
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… with their Wickedneſſe and Idolatry, as to have their Meate pluckt out of their MouthesMouths, which they hold faſt betweene their Teeth. And this (I take it) is the …
William Pemble · Exposition of Zechariah 1-9 · p. 134 · Open in the reader

The Players Scourge A10187

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… grieuous, and offensiue to Gods blessed Spirit, who hath Sanctified, and Sealed vp our MouthesMouths, and Eares from all Scurrilitie: as all the fore-recited Fathers, and Christian Authors …
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… grieuous, and offensiue to Gods blessed Spirit, who hath Sanctified, and Sealed vp our MouthesMouths, and Eares from all Scurrilitie: as all the fore-recited Fathers, and Christian Authors …
William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 65 · Open in the reader

Pilgrimage A10228

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MouthesMouths of Nilus. ibid.
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MouthesMouths of Nilus. ibid.
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · Open in the reader

A Prospective Glass to Look into Heaven A14380

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Your MouthesMouths with oathes, your thoughts with strife and quarrell.
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Your MouthesMouths with oathes, your thoughts with strife and quarrell.
John Vicars · A Prospective Glass to Look into Heaven · Open in the reader

The Hymns and Songs of the Church A15647

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… in Isa…ah 47. Nor such a Iewish or superstitious obse…uation of Dayes, and MouthesMouths, and Times, an… Yeares, as is reprooued by S Paul. Gal. 4. Nor a …lciation …
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… in Isa…ah 47. Nor such a Iewish or superstitious obse…uation of Dayes, and MouthesMouths, and Times, an… Yeares, as is reprooued by S Paul. Gal. 4. Nor a …lciation …
George Wither · The Hymns and Songs of the Church · p. 128 · Open in the reader

A Childs Patrimony A15695

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… thy family like a flocke of Sheep, and thy paſture be bare; if the MouthesMouths, thou haſt to feed, be many, and thy proviſion of Meale is now toward …
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… thy family like a flocke of Sheep, and thy paſture be bare; if the MouthesMouths, thou haſt to feed, be many, and thy proviſion of Meale is now toward …
Hezekiah Woodward · A Childs Patrimony · p. 163 · Open in the reader

Sermons Upon John 1 A15738

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… yeelde obedience to our Lord and Maker. There is nothing more common in the MouthesMouths of men and children, then that God made all other thinges for the ſeruice …
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… yeelde obedience to our Lord and Maker. There is nothing more common in the MouthesMouths of men and children, then that God made all other thinges for the ſeruice …
Anthony Wotton · Sermons Upon John 1 · p. 125 · Open in the reader

About Preaching and Hearing the Word A16895

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… for and on the behalfe of the people; to be, as it were, their MouthesMouths vnto God, in putting vp their suits, and supplications, and thanksgiuings vnto God, in …
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… for and on the behalfe of the people; to be, as it were, their MouthesMouths vnto God, in putting vp their suits, and supplications, and thanksgiuings vnto God, in …
John Brinsley · About Preaching and Hearing the Word · p. 3 · Open in the reader

Five Sermons 1 A20641

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… againe, by the moſt part of the Clergie of thoſe parts: and in their MouthesMouths they were but Homilies. And Caluins Homilies vpon Iob (as Beza in his Preface …
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… againe, by the moſt part of the Clergie of thoſe parts: and in their MouthesMouths they were but Homilies. And Caluins Homilies vpon Iob (as Beza in his Preface …
John Donne · Five Sermons 1 · p. 61 · Open in the reader

Five Sermons 2 A20642

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… againe, by the moſt part of the Clergie of thoſe parts: and in their MouthesMouths they were but Homilies. And Caluins Homilies vpon Iob (as Beza in his Preface …
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… againe, by the moſt part of the Clergie of thoſe parts: and in their MouthesMouths they were but Homilies. And Caluins Homilies vpon Iob (as Beza in his Preface …
John Donne · Five Sermons 2 · p. 61 · Open in the reader

Sermon Upon Judges 5:20 A20654

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… againe, by the most part of the Clergie of those parts: and in their MouthesMouths they were but Homilies. And Caluins Homilies vpon Iob (as Beza in his Preface …
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… againe, by the most part of the Clergie of those parts: and in their MouthesMouths they were but Homilies. And Caluins Homilies vpon Iob (as Beza in his Preface …
John Donne · Sermon Upon Judges 5:20 · p. 61 · Open in the reader

Three Sermons Upon Special Occasions A20655

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… againe, by the most part of the Clergie of those parts: and in their MouthesMouths they were but Homilies. And Caluins Homilies vpon Iob (as Beza in his Preface …
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… againe, by the most part of the Clergie of those parts: and in their MouthesMouths they were but Homilies. And Caluins Homilies vpon Iob (as Beza in his Preface …
John Donne · Three Sermons Upon Special Occasions · p. 61 · Open in the reader

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

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MouthesMouths, by
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MouthesMouths, by
George Downame · The Duties Commanded and Sins Forbidden in the Law of God · Open in the reader
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MouthesMouths, by making the glory of God, both the
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MouthesMouths, by making the glory of God, both the
George Downame · The Duties Commanded and Sins Forbidden in the Law of God · Open in the reader

A Caveat for Archippus A21042

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… ſhepheard be? He that is like to Idols. How they are deſcribed, ſee Pſal. 115. 5 7. MouthesMouths they haue and ſpeake not, feete they haue and walke not. So then not …
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… ſhepheard be? He that is like to Idols. How they are deſcribed, ſee Pſal. 115. 5 7. MouthesMouths they haue and ſpeake not, feete they haue and walke not. So then not …
Jeremiah Dyke · A Caveat for Archippus · p. 33 · Open in the reader

The Bibles Abstract and Epitome A27502

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Man Hath no Freewill MouthesMouths speake leasing: Their Tongues slattering.
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Man Hath no Freewill MouthesMouths speake leasing: Their Tongues slattering.
Richard Bernard · The Bibles Abstract and Epitome · p. 25 · Open in the reader
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MouthesMouths Yea, such as none shall be able to gain-say them.
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MouthesMouths Yea, such as none shall be able to gain-say them.
Richard Bernard · The Bibles Abstract and Epitome · p. 80 · Open in the reader

The Bishops Condemned out of their Own Mouths A39933

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FELO DE SE, OR THE Bishops Condemned Out of their own MouthesMouths: Confessing their Politick Devices, and unjust Practices, to settle and maintain their Lordly Dignities …
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FELO DE SE, OR THE Bishops Condemned Out of their own MouthesMouths: Confessing their Politick Devices, and unjust Practices, to settle and maintain their Lordly Dignities …
Thomas Ford · The Bishops Condemned out of their Own Mouths · Open in the reader
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… and canonical, and thy doubts will be quickly and fully resolved from their own MouthesMouths.
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… and canonical, and thy doubts will be quickly and fully resolved from their own MouthesMouths.
Thomas Ford · The Bishops Condemned out of their Own Mouths · Open in the reader
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Felo de se, OR, The BISHOPS CONDEMNED out of their own MouthesMouths, Confessing their politick Devices, and unjust Practises, to Settle and Maintain their Lordly Dignities …
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Felo de se, OR, The BISHOPS CONDEMNED out of their own MouthesMouths, Confessing their politick Devices, and unjust Practises, to Settle and Maintain their Lordly Dignities …
Thomas Ford · The Bishops Condemned out of their Own Mouths · p. 5 · Open in the reader

One Hundred Select Sermons A44565

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… them. And that they did it neither Actually, nor yet Habitually, neither with their MouthesMouths, nor yet in their Hearts. The omiſſion whereof is the Argument of a prophane …
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… them. And that they did it neither Actually, nor yet Habitually, neither with their MouthesMouths, nor yet in their Hearts. The omiſſion whereof is the Argument of a prophane …
Thomas Horton · One Hundred Select Sermons · p. 81 · Open in the reader

The Excellency of Christ A46734

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1. MouthesMouths.
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1. MouthesMouths.
Christopher Jelinger · The Excellency of Christ · Open in the reader

The Usefulness and Excellency of Christ A46739

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1. MouthesMouths.
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1. MouthesMouths.
Christopher Jelinger · The Usefulness and Excellency of Christ · Open in the reader

Truth Held Forth and Maintained A50325

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… have ſaid, are the Checks of a Natura… …, which words have proceeded from the MouthesMouths of … Prieſt, in New England, which are no leſs than … Words, by them, in …
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… have ſaid, are the Checks of a Natura… …, which words have proceeded from the MouthesMouths of … Prieſt, in New England, which are no leſs than … Words, by them, in …
Thomas Mall · Truth Held Forth and Maintained · p. 1 · Open in the reader
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… art and wiſdom, thou art my God? They do not thus ſay with their MouthesMouths, but their whole life, and their idolatrizing Mind ſaith as much, by their deeds …
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… art and wiſdom, thou art my God? They do not thus ſay with their MouthesMouths, but their whole life, and their idolatrizing Mind ſaith as much, by their deeds …
Thomas Mall · Truth Held Forth and Maintained · p. 228 · Open in the reader

Answer to a Book A50898

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… full of factious distractions and not more eyes then mouthesmouths. Yet surely not more MouthesMouths, or not so wide, as the dissolute rabble of all his Courtiers had, both …
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… full of factious distractions and not more eyes then mouthesmouths. Yet surely not more MouthesMouths, or not so wide, as the dissolute rabble of all his Courtiers had, both …
John Milton · Answer to a Book · p. 95 · Open in the reader

Canterburys Doom A56144

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… to ſpeake the Scripture phraſe, when indeed the Dregs of Aſhdod flow from their MouthesMouths, p. 21. With us the Sabbath is Saturday, and no day elſe, no ancient Father …
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… to ſpeake the Scripture phraſe, when indeed the Dregs of Aſhdod flow from their MouthesMouths, p. 21. With us the Sabbath is Saturday, and no day elſe, no ancient Father …
William Prynne · Canterburys Doom · p. 222 · Open in the reader

A Gospel Plea for Maintenance of the Ministers A56170

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… it, for the Readers better ſatisfaction in this publique Controverſy, and ſtopping the clamorous MouthesMouths of all Gain-ſayers. Which had been publiſhed, ſoon after the former, in the …
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… it, for the Readers better ſatisfaction in this publique Controverſy, and ſtopping the clamorous MouthesMouths of all Gain-ſayers. Which had been publiſhed, ſoon after the former, in the …
William Prynne · A Gospel Plea for Maintenance of the Ministers · p. 1 · Open in the reader

The Spiritual Chemist A61207

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… who have made (for Age) their Beds in the Grave, and have filled their MouthesMouths with the Gravel and Slime of the Pit: He will call for his redeemed …
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… who have made (for Age) their Beds in the Grave, and have filled their MouthesMouths with the Gravel and Slime of the Pit: He will call for his redeemed …
William Spurstowe · The Spiritual Chemist · p. 13 · Open in the reader
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… an end to all Contradictions that can riſe up againſt it, and ſtops the MouthesMouths of Gainſayers, ſhould not ſilence thoſe unjuſt Calumnies that have been long caſt upon …
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… an end to all Contradictions that can riſe up againſt it, and ſtops the MouthesMouths of Gainſayers, ſhould not ſilence thoſe unjuſt Calumnies that have been long caſt upon …
William Spurstowe · The Spiritual Chemist · p. 15 · Open in the reader

The Last Judgment A65932

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… Lords Choiceſt Servants in the Ordinary Miniſtry, both Ancient and Moderne, whoſe Mindes and MouthesMouths have been full of this Truth.
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… Lords Choiceſt Servants in the Ordinary Miniſtry, both Ancient and Moderne, whoſe Mindes and MouthesMouths have been full of this Truth.
Samuel Whiting · The Last Judgment · Open in the reader

Of the Childs Portion A67002

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… thy family like a flocke of Sheep, and thy paſture be bare; if the MouthesMouths, thou haſt to feed, be many, and thy proviſion of Meale is now toward …
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… thy family like a flocke of Sheep, and thy paſture be bare; if the MouthesMouths, thou haſt to feed, be many, and thy proviſion of Meale is now toward …
Hezekiah Woodward · Of the Childs Portion · p. 163 · Open in the reader

A Sons Patrimony and Daughters Portion A67005

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… thy family like a flocke of Sheep, and thy paſture be bare; if the MouthesMouths, thou haſt to feed, be many, and thy proviſion of Meale is now toward …
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… thy family like a flocke of Sheep, and thy paſture be bare; if the MouthesMouths, thou haſt to feed, be many, and thy proviſion of Meale is now toward …
Hezekiah Woodward · A Sons Patrimony and Daughters Portion · p. 163 · Open in the reader

Select Sermons A73885

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… and therfore God makes him an Idoll ſhepheard. Of Idols it is ſaid, Pſalme 115. MouthesMouths they have, and ſpeake not, eyes they have and ſee not. Hee made himſelfe …
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… and therfore God makes him an Idoll ſhepheard. Of Idols it is ſaid, Pſalme 115. MouthesMouths they have, and ſpeake not, eyes they have and ſee not. Hee made himſelfe …
Jeremiah Dyke · Select Sermons · p. 47 · Open in the reader

A Vindication of Godliness A74976

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… There's no more need of Preaching. There needs no more Argument, to ſtop ſuch MouthesMouths, but the ſhewing themſelves: Or if it ſhould have done its work upon you …
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… There's no more need of Preaching. There needs no more Argument, to ſtop ſuch MouthesMouths, but the ſhewing themſelves: Or if it ſhould have done its work upon you …
Richard Alleine · A Vindication of Godliness · p. 50 · Open in the reader

Gods Rising His Enemies Scattering A81241

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MouthesMouths,
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MouthesMouths,
Thomas Case · Gods Rising His Enemies Scattering · p. 51 · Open in the reader

Innocency Above Impudency A87230

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… book, that all that I have writ againſt you, is either from your own MouthesMouths or Writings; you ſay, This is a Lye: but James, in the ſame page …
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… book, that all that I have writ againſt you, is either from your own MouthesMouths or Writings; you ſay, This is a Lye: but James, in the ſame page …
Jeremiah Ives · Innocency Above Impudency · p. 41 · Open in the reader
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… the Errors I charge you with, are either ſuch as fell from your own MouthesMouths, or elſe ſuch as your ſelves being charged with, could not deny. Now put …
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… the Errors I charge you with, are either ſuch as fell from your own MouthesMouths, or elſe ſuch as your ſelves being charged with, could not deny. Now put …
Jeremiah Ives · Innocency Above Impudency · p. 41 · Open in the reader

The Quakers Quaking A87231

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… QUAKERS QƲAKING: OR, The Foundation of their Deceit ſhaken, BY SCRIPTURE, REASON, Their own MOUTHESMOUTHS at ſeveral Conferences. By all which will appear, That their QUAKING, MINISTERY, DOCTRINE, and …
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… QUAKERS QƲAKING: OR, The Foundation of their Deceit ſhaken, BY SCRIPTURE, REASON, Their own MOUTHESMOUTHS at ſeveral Conferences. By all which will appear, That their QUAKING, MINISTERY, DOCTRINE, and …
Jeremiah Ives · The Quakers Quaking · Open in the reader
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… have writ concerning them, are either ſuch things as have fallen from their own MouthesMouths before hundreds of witneſſes; or elſe ſuch things as have been faithfully collected out …
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… have writ concerning them, are either ſuch things as have fallen from their own MouthesMouths before hundreds of witneſſes; or elſe ſuch things as have been faithfully collected out …
Jeremiah Ives · The Quakers Quaking · p. 45 · Open in the reader

England Faithfully Watched A88417

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… will beſilent, his voyce and our own too, will be gone out of our MouthesMouths, and hid from your Eares.
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… will beſilent, his voyce and our own too, will be gone out of our MouthesMouths, and hid from your Eares.
Nicholas Lockyer · England Faithfully Watched · p. 448 · Open in the reader

The Mournful Note of the Dove A88692

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… Quot vulnera, tot ora, So many Wounds as were in the Land, so many MouthesMouths were opened, as 'twere calling upon you for this necessary Phlebotomy; And so many …
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… Quot vulnera, tot ora, So many Wounds as were in the Land, so many MouthesMouths were opened, as 'twere calling upon you for this necessary Phlebotomy; And so many …
John Langley · The Mournful Note of the Dove · Open in the reader
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… calling upon you for this necessary Phlebotomy; And so many Wounds seem so many MouthesMouths to praise God for you, who by this means have endeavoured to heal and …
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… calling upon you for this necessary Phlebotomy; And so many Wounds seem so many MouthesMouths to praise God for you, who by this means have endeavoured to heal and …
John Langley · The Mournful Note of the Dove · Open in the reader

A Two Edged Sword out of the Mouth of Babes A89591

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… wherin you ſhould not be accompanyed with the power that comes out of the MouthesMouths of theſe Babes and Sucklings: you have found, (though it may be carnall eyes …
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… wherin you ſhould not be accompanyed with the power that comes out of the MouthesMouths of theſe Babes and Sucklings: you have found, (though it may be carnall eyes …
Stephen Marshall · A Two Edged Sword out of the Mouth of Babes · p. 31 · Open in the reader

The Mystery of the Gospel Vindicated and Socinianism Examined A90295

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… man in the cry, v. 22. and that with violence and clamour, v. 23. abjects made MouthesMouths at him, Psal 35. 15. Psal: 22. 6.
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… man in the cry, v. 22. and that with violence and clamour, v. 23. abjects made MouthesMouths at him, Psal 35. 15. Psal: 22. 6.
John Owen · The Mystery of the Gospel Vindicated and Socinianism Examined · p. 558 · Open in the reader

The Fast Friend A91943

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… you pray, ſay; ſay what? even theſe words which now I put into your MouthesMouths. Our Father which art in Heaven, &c. A…beit we may not think that …
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… you pray, ſay; ſay what? even theſe words which now I put into your MouthesMouths. Our Father which art in Heaven, &c. A…beit we may not think that …
Nehemiah Rogers · The Fast Friend · p. 1 · Open in the reader

The Bloody Tenant Yet more Bloody A96610

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… dwell on the Earth, both bloudie Papiſts and bloudie Proteſtants? Out of their owne MouthesMouths ſhall Papiſts and Proteſtants be condemned, for ſlaughtering Chriſt Jeſus (the Shepheard) in his …
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… dwell on the Earth, both bloudie Papiſts and bloudie Proteſtants? Out of their owne MouthesMouths ſhall Papiſts and Proteſtants be condemned, for ſlaughtering Chriſt Jeſus (the Shepheard) in his …
Roger Williams · The Bloody Tenant Yet more Bloody · p. 251 · Open in the reader