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wealeweal

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

Puritas changed it
1,753 times in 548 works
Consistency
95.6% (1,753 of 1,833)
Reach if approved
~1,929 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: weal
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,836 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
3 places (not counted against it)

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,753 changes in 548 works, 95.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,753)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … to draw them to seeke to him for helpe of their soules: therefore the wealeweal and woe of our bodies should draw vs to a consideration and care of …
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    … to draw them to seeke to him for helpe of their soules: therefore the wealeweal and woe of our bodies should draw vs to a consideration and care of …

    Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon John 4 · p. 450 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … sayde warnings, and shall assemble in armes together, making practises and deuises against the wealeweal of his seruice, then the L. of Charnye shall runne vpon them and hewe …
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    … sayde warnings, and shall assemble in armes together, making practises and deuises against the wealeweal of his seruice, then the L. of Charnye shall runne vpon them and hewe …

    François Hotman · The Furious Outrages of France and the Horrible Slaughter · p. CV · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … promiſing them benefite of longe life no longer, then it ſhall be for their wealeweal to inioy it.
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    … promiſing them benefite of longe life no longer, then it ſhall be for their wealeweal to inioy it.

    John Knewstubs · Lectures Upon Exodus 20 · p. 86 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … of his faith amōg his people, & so necessaryly to the profit of the commune wealeweal. And to suche a minister the scriptures do vouchsafe to attribute double honoure boeth …
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    … of his faith amōg his people, & so necessaryly to the profit of the commune wealeweal. And to suche a minister the scriptures do vouchsafe to attribute double honoure boeth …

    David Lindsay · The Tragical Death of David Beaton · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … doe all they can with all their hart for the behoofe of the common wealeweal, and ſuffer whatſoeuer thinges for the common weales ſake, yet at the length finde …
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    … doe all they can with all their hart for the behoofe of the common wealeweal, and ſuffer whatſoeuer thinges for the common weales ſake, yet at the length finde …

    Martin Luther · Exposition of Ecclesiastes · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    Let thē that beare office, authorite, rule and power in the commō wealeweal, punysh the euel, mayntayne the good, accept no parson in iudge mente, allowe no …
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    Let thē that beare office, authorite, rule and power in the commō wealeweal, punysh the euel, mayntayne the good, accept no parson in iudge mente, allowe no …

    Thomas Becon · Davids Harp · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … And as for our externall calling, he sayth falsly it is of the common wealeweal &c, whereas it is of the Church, and therefore ordinarye and lawfull, and the …
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    … And as for our externall calling, he sayth falsly it is of the common wealeweal &c, whereas it is of the Church, and therefore ordinarye and lawfull, and the …

    William Fulke · A Retentive to Stay Good Christians · p. 147 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … this life, is like Iosepht coat, party coloured, to expresse variablenesse; a mixture of wealeweal and woe; but turnes at last, all to a staine; and such happinesse, wicked …
    With rule
    … this life, is like Iosepht coat, party coloured, to expresse variablenesse; a mixture of wealeweal and woe; but turnes at last, all to a staine; and such happinesse, wicked …

    Sir Richard Baker · Meditations and Disquisitions Upon Psalm 1 · p. 57 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (80)

42 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 40 are listed here. 38 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Isle of Man A09156

  • Printed
    … inſtruction, and bodily labour, become, through Gods mercy, more profitable members in the Commō-WealeWeal afterwards: whereas now they become twice more the children of Belial, than they were …
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    … inſtruction, and bodily labour, become, through Gods mercy, more profitable members in the Commō-WealeWeal afterwards: whereas now they become twice more the children of Belial, than they were …

    Richard Bernard · The Isle of Man · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … to the Peace of our Soueraigne Lord the King, and the quiet of the WealeWeal-publike; ſo this ſpirituall Iuſtice, his Office is to ſee Peace kept betweene God …
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    … to the Peace of our Soueraigne Lord the King, and the quiet of the WealeWeal-publike; ſo this ſpirituall Iuſtice, his Office is to ſee Peace kept betweene God …

    Richard Bernard · The Isle of Man · p. 86 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … very good account, and of great worth in their Country; Maſter Church, Maſter Common-WealeWeal, Maſter Houſhold, Maſter Neighbour-hood, and Maſter Good-worke, who hauing anſwered to their …
    With rule
    … very good account, and of great worth in their Country; Maſter Church, Maſter Common-WealeWeal, Maſter Houſhold, Maſter Neighbour-hood, and Maſter Good-worke, who hauing anſwered to their …

    Richard Bernard · The Isle of Man · p. 194 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    Maſter Common-WealeWeal, what can you ſay on the Kings behalfe againſt the Priſoner at Barre?
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    Maſter Common-WealeWeal, what can you ſay on the Kings behalfe againſt the Priſoner at Barre?

    Richard Bernard · The Isle of Man · p. 198 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … And when thus they had remoued themſelues, hee ſought the welfare of the Common-WealeWeal, which was to hold vp cloathing (my Lord) the chiefeſt meanes here to ſet …
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    … And when thus they had remoued themſelues, hee ſought the welfare of the Common-WealeWeal, which was to hold vp cloathing (my Lord) the chiefeſt meanes here to ſet …

    Richard Bernard · The Isle of Man · p. 218 · Open in the reader

Sermons on Three Chapters of Song of Songs A09998

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    … vnto his honour: for the welfare of his Church, the benefite of our common WealeWeal, the patronage of our Vniuerſitie, the ioy of all ſuch as pray for your …
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    … vnto his honour: for the welfare of his Church, the benefite of our common WealeWeal, the patronage of our Vniuerſitie, the ioy of all ſuch as pray for your …

    Theodore Beza · Sermons on Three Chapters of Song of Songs · Open in the reader

Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soul A10663

  • Printed
    … never brought downe so low, as if they did concerne a mans owne particular WealeWeal or Woe, nor thorowly weighed, with an assuming, applying, concluding Conscience; but, like the …
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    … never brought downe so low, as if they did concerne a mans owne particular WealeWeal or Woe, nor thorowly weighed, with an assuming, applying, concluding Conscience; but, like the …

    Edward Reynolds · Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soul · p. 70 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … how pernicious to the parts themselves, to nourish their owne private Discontents, when the WealeWeal publique is together therewithall endangered.
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    … how pernicious to the parts themselves, to nourish their owne private Discontents, when the WealeWeal publique is together therewithall endangered.

    Edward Reynolds · Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soul · p. 79 · Open in the reader

Prototypes A15013

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    … doe him good. If you be advanced, ſtrive to doe good to the Common-WealeWeal, and let the Nation fare the better for you: ſtrive to do good to …
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    … doe him good. If you be advanced, ſtrive to doe good to the Common-WealeWeal, and let the Nation fare the better for you: ſtrive to do good to …

    William Whately · Prototypes · p. 30 · Open in the reader

The Art of Rhetoric A15530

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    … for their liuynge, suffered none extorcion, exempted Brybers frome bearynge rule in the commune WealeWeal: the Christians muste neades be ashamed of their euyll behauiour, and studye much to …
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    … for their liuynge, suffered none extorcion, exempted Brybers frome bearynge rule in the commune WealeWeal: the Christians muste neades be ashamed of their euyll behauiour, and studye much to …

    Thomas Wilson · The Art of Rhetoric · Open in the reader

Britains Remembrancer A15627

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    Sworne servants to the whole WealeWeal-publique be.
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    Sworne servants to the whole WealeWeal-publique be.

    George Wither · Britains Remembrancer · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    I saw of WealeWeal and Woe the many ranges:
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    I saw of WealeWeal and Woe the many ranges:

    George Wither · Britains Remembrancer · p. 152 · Open in the reader

Emblems Ancient and Modern A15631

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    The WealeWeal, thou ſeekeſt to injoy,
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    The WealeWeal, thou ſeekeſt to injoy,

    George Wither · Emblems Ancient and Modern · p. 60 · Open in the reader

A Revelation of the Holy Apocalypse A17001

  • Printed
    … the Beryll of King Ioſeph: as the K. is the ſtay of the Commune WealeWeal: and the Emperour in Conſtantinople: not S. Chriſoſtome, whom in Photio the Dialect deceiued …
    With rule
    … the Beryll of King Ioſeph: as the K. is the ſtay of the Commune WealeWeal: and the Emperour in Conſtantinople: not S. Chriſoſtome, whom in Photio the Dialect deceiued …

    Hugh Broughton · A Revelation of the Holy Apocalypse · p. 71 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    So this Citie muſt meane a very large Common WealeWeal, and Kingdome: and the two in generall may be full many thouſandes in particular …
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    So this Citie muſt meane a very large Common WealeWeal, and Kingdome: and the two in generall may be full many thouſandes in particular …

    Hugh Broughton · A Revelation of the Holy Apocalypse · p. 126 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … to command warre & peace as they would: that none ſhould be in the Commune WealeWeal, but of their marke, by othe, & ſubſcription, or whole profeſſion.
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    … to command warre & peace as they would: that none ſhould be in the Commune WealeWeal, but of their marke, by othe, & ſubſcription, or whole profeſſion.

    Hugh Broughton · A Revelation of the Holy Apocalypse · p. 195 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … bare the XI I. Patriarches names: as a King and ſtay of the common WealeWeal: when the people fell away, other tribes: Iuda, Beniamin, Iſachar, Zabulon, Nepthaly and Dan …
    With rule
    … bare the XI I. Patriarches names: as a King and ſtay of the common WealeWeal: when the people fell away, other tribes: Iuda, Beniamin, Iſachar, Zabulon, Nepthaly and Dan …

    Hugh Broughton · A Revelation of the Holy Apocalypse · p. 213 · Open in the reader

A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government A29737

  • Printed
    … Lord Gouvernance was ruled by dissipation and negligence, by whose evill order Lady Publick-WealeWeal was put from governance. This the Cardinall took to be meant by him, and …
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    … Lord Gouvernance was ruled by dissipation and negligence, by whose evill order Lady Publick-WealeWeal was put from governance. This the Cardinall took to be meant by him, and …

    Sir Richard Baker · A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government · p. 31 · Open in the reader

Hidden Works of Darkness Brought to Public Light A56171

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    … engagement for the performance of the Articles, and Propositions (for the …ight▪ augmentation, and WealeWeal of the Roman Catholike Religion: as the Cardinalls for the propagation of the Faith …
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    … engagement for the performance of the Articles, and Propositions (for the …ight▪ augmentation, and WealeWeal of the Roman Catholike Religion: as the Cardinalls for the propagation of the Faith …

    William Prynne · Hidden Works of Darkness Brought to Public Light · p. 40 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … Antwerpe, Brussells, Dunkirke, &c. who desires to enforme concerning some speciall points for the WealeWeal of this State, as himself hath observed above fifty yeers past, which are reduced …
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    … Antwerpe, Brussells, Dunkirke, &c. who desires to enforme concerning some speciall points for the WealeWeal of this State, as himself hath observed above fifty yeers past, which are reduced …

    William Prynne · Hidden Works of Darkness Brought to Public Light · p. 201 · Open in the reader

The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms A56211

  • Printed
    … sake to exclude his issue, but that with universall applause and joy, THE COMMON-WEALEWEAL HAD IN PARLIAMENT ELECTED HIS ELDEST SONNE, THE LORD EDWARD FOR KING. That it …
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    … sake to exclude his issue, but that with universall applause and joy, THE COMMON-WEALEWEAL HAD IN PARLIAMENT ELECTED HIS ELDEST SONNE, THE LORD EDWARD FOR KING. That it …

    William Prynne · The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms · p. 58 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … faithfull to the King, and keepe those Castles TO HIS USE, and TO THE WEALEWEAL OF THE REALME. And when William de Valens denied with oathes to render up …
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    … faithfull to the King, and keepe those Castles TO HIS USE, and TO THE WEALEWEAL OF THE REALME. And when William de Valens denied with oathes to render up …

    William Prynne · The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms · p. 17 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … abroad; The onely cause of this War to be, THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE PVBLIKE WEALEWEAL, and TO SET THE REALME IN A MORE COMMODIOVS STATE and BETTER CONDITION; Vsing …
    With rule
    … abroad; The onely cause of this War to be, THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE PVBLIKE WEALEWEAL, and TO SET THE REALME IN A MORE COMMODIOVS STATE and BETTER CONDITION; Vsing …

    William Prynne · The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms · p. 43 · Open in the reader

The Sword of Christian Magistracy A56215

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    Let the Rulers of the Common WealeWeal finde ſome honeſt remedy, that the nam… of God be no more blaſphemed among …
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    Let the Rulers of the Common WealeWeal finde ſome honeſt remedy, that the nam… of God be no more blaſphemed among …

    William Prynne · The Sword of Christian Magistracy · p. 74 · Open in the reader

Babylons Ruining A57199

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    … things appertaining to the Church, or eccleſiaſtick State; earth, things appertaining to the Common-WealeWeal, or civill State, as we ſhall heare afterwards: Seas and dry Land making up …
    With rule
    … things appertaining to the Church, or eccleſiaſtick State; earth, things appertaining to the Common-WealeWeal, or civill State, as we ſhall heare afterwards: Seas and dry Land making up …

    William Reyner · Babylons Ruining · p. 3 · Open in the reader

Reformations Preservation A60259

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    … let me adde unto that, ſuch things as doe immediately and properly concerne the WealeWeal publike: theſe ought to be eſtabliſhed; there ſhould be ſuch Rules for theſe, as …
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    … let me adde unto that, ſuch things as doe immediately and properly concerne the WealeWeal publike: theſe ought to be eſtabliſhed; there ſhould be ſuch Rules for theſe, as …

    Sidrach Simpson · Reformations Preservation · p. 24 · Open in the reader

The Danger of Tolerating Levelers in a Civil State A66680

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    … wee forbade them, and at our next meeting of Commissioners to consult about the WealeWeal publike of the United Colonies, in regard the Nanohiggansets pleaded they had taken a …
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    … wee forbade them, and at our next meeting of Commissioners to consult about the WealeWeal publike of the United Colonies, in regard the Nanohiggansets pleaded they had taken a …

    Edward Winslow · The Danger of Tolerating Levelers in a Civil State · p. 72 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … one, the said Commissioners being then met together at Massachusets by course, for the WealeWeal of the whole, upon just complaint ordered and thought meet that the Government of …
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    … one, the said Commissioners being then met together at Massachusets by course, for the WealeWeal of the whole, upon just complaint ordered and thought meet that the Government of …

    Edward Winslow · The Danger of Tolerating Levelers in a Civil State · p. 74 · Open in the reader

A Reply to a Relation A69024

  • Printed
    … vitious Senator in Court on a time gave very good Counsell for the Common-WealeWeal they approved of the Counsell, but would not have it Registred in his name …
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    … vitious Senator in Court on a time gave very good Counsell for the Common-WealeWeal they approved of the Counsell, but would not have it Registred in his name …

    Henry Burton · A Reply to a Relation · p. 183 · Open in the reader

A Treatise of Monarchy A86917

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    … a Government, and ſuch perſons to ſway it, as may moſt conduce to publique WealeWeal. Alſo it is the meaſure of all the Acts of the Governour: and he …
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    … a Government, and ſuch perſons to ſway it, as may moſt conduce to publique WealeWeal. Alſo it is the meaſure of all the Acts of the Governour: and he …

    Philip Hunton · A Treatise of Monarchy · p. 4 · Open in the reader

Minors No Senators A91218

  • Printed
    … the Prerogatives, Rights, Revenues of the Crowne it ſelfe judicially determined, to the Kingdomes WealeWeal or woe.
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    … the Prerogatives, Rights, Revenues of the Crowne it ſelfe judicially determined, to the Kingdomes WealeWeal or woe.

    William Prynne · Minors No Senators · p. 4 · Open in the reader

The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms Part 3 A91298

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    … abroad; The onely cauſe of this War to be, THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE PUBLIKE WEALEWEAL, and TO SET THE REALME IN A MORE COMMODIOVS STATE and BETTER CONDITION; Vſing …
    With rule
    … abroad; The onely cauſe of this War to be, THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE PUBLIKE WEALEWEAL, and TO SET THE REALME IN A MORE COMMODIOVS STATE and BETTER CONDITION; Vſing …

    William Prynne · The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms Part 3 · p. 43 · Open in the reader

Truth Triumphing Over Falsehood A91309

  • Printed
    … are prefaced. To the honour of God and holy Church, and for the Common WealeWeal and profit of this Realme: In the Parliament of 21. H. 8. C-3. 4. 13. there were Statutes …
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    … are prefaced. To the honour of God and holy Church, and for the Common WealeWeal and profit of this Realme: In the Parliament of 21. H. 8. C-3. 4. 13. there were Statutes …

    William Prynne · Truth Triumphing Over Falsehood · p. 84 · Open in the reader

Hypocrisy Unmasked A96686

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    … to God to recompenſe your vaſt hazzards, expenſes, ſtudies, and cares, (to advance the WealeWeal Publike of this diſtreſſed Kingdome, and the ſeverall limbs thereof) with all the bleſsings …
    With rule
    … to God to recompenſe your vaſt hazzards, expenſes, ſtudies, and cares, (to advance the WealeWeal Publike of this diſtreſſed Kingdome, and the ſeverall limbs thereof) with all the bleſsings …

    Edward Winslow · Hypocrisy Unmasked · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … wee forbade them, and at our next meeting of Commiſſioners to conſult about the WealeWeal publike of the United Colonies, in regard the Nanohigganſets pleaded they had taken a …
    With rule
    … wee forbade them, and at our next meeting of Commiſſioners to conſult about the WealeWeal publike of the United Colonies, in regard the Nanohigganſets pleaded they had taken a …

    Edward Winslow · Hypocrisy Unmasked · p. 72 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … one, the ſaid Commiſſioners being then met together at Maſſachuſets by courſe, for the WealeWeal of the whole, upon juſt complaint ordered and thought meet that the Government of …
    With rule
    … one, the ſaid Commiſſioners being then met together at Maſſachuſets by courſe, for the WealeWeal of the whole, upon juſt complaint ordered and thought meet that the Government of …

    Edward Winslow · Hypocrisy Unmasked · p. 74 · Open in the reader

A Voice Tending to the Pacification of Gods Wrath A96785

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    Who, for the Publike-WealeWeal, Peace-Offrings bring.
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    Who, for the Publike-WealeWeal, Peace-Offrings bring.

    George Wither · A Voice Tending to the Pacification of Gods Wrath · p. 164 · Open in the reader

The Wonderful Mystery of Spiritual Growth B12200

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    Yea alſo according to the ſeuerall occaſion; of the WealeWeal publike, which in caſe of neceſſitie may dispenſe with particular callings, and reſtraine men …
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    Yea alſo according to the ſeuerall occaſion; of the WealeWeal publike, which in caſe of neceſſitie may dispenſe with particular callings, and reſtraine men …

    Thomas Cooper · The Wonderful Mystery of Spiritual Growth · p. 179 · Open in the reader

A Sum of Moral Philosophy B15223

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    … requires their tryall, is to bury their goods with them, and to wrong the WealeWeal publicke
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    … requires their tryall, is to bury their goods with them, and to wrong the WealeWeal publicke

    William Pemble · A Sum of Moral Philosophy · p. 35 · Open in the reader

Of the Prelates Intolerable Usurpations B15410

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    … as God hath called them, and then we should have a flourishing Christian Common-WealeWeal, &c. But our Blaunchers, which will be Lords and no Labourers, when they are …
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    … as God hath called them, and then we should have a flourishing Christian Common-WealeWeal, &c. But our Blaunchers, which will be Lords and no Labourers, when they are …

    William Prynne · Of the Prelates Intolerable Usurpations · p. 32 · Open in the reader