Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1694 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

helpeshelps

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

Puritas changed it: 3,270 times in 969 works
Consistency: 99.8% (3,270 of 3,275)
Reach if approved: ~3,441 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: helps
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 3,275 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (3,270 changes in 969 works, 99.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 3,270)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… the ball to another, that hee may tosse it to them againe: but who helpeshelps the poore? Wealth maketh many friends, but the poore is separated from his neighbours …
With rule
… the ball to another, that hee may tosse it to them againe: but who helpeshelps the poore? Wealth maketh many friends, but the poore is separated from his neighbours …
Thomas Adams · The City of Peace · p. 57 · Open in the reader
Printed
… M. Stapl. cited, De Theod. li. 2. Vt haec praesidia omittam &c. To omit these helpeshelps, yet it should satisfie vs, that none of those which haue bene inspired with …
With rule
… M. Stapl. cited, De Theod. li. 2. Vt haec praesidia omittam &c. To omit these helpeshelps, yet it should satisfie vs, that none of those which haue bene inspired with …
William Fulke · Two Popish Heretics Confuted · p. 62 · Open in the reader
Printed
… theſe, and not ſpeake of reſiſting him by nothing but by faith. Such readie helpeshelps for to defend men, and ſo eaſie, and not one of the Apoſtles would …
With rule
… theſe, and not ſpeake of reſiſting him by nothing but by faith. Such readie helpeshelps for to defend men, and ſo eaſie, and not one of the Apoſtles would …
George Gifford · Sermons Upon Divers Texts · p. 72 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſoule might bee partaker of eternall life. But when the ſumme of our faith helpeshelps us to give no reckoning what became of the ſoule of our Saviour, more …
With rule
… ſoule might bee partaker of eternall life. But when the ſumme of our faith helpeshelps us to give no reckoning what became of the ſoule of our Saviour, more …
Alexander Gill · The Sacred Philosophy of the Holy Scripture · p. 64 · Open in the reader
Printed
The aſſemblies of the Church where this heaue…ly Goſpell ſoundeth, are excellent helpeshelps to quicken our dulneſſe, and to make vs feele a greater meaſure of the …
With rule
The aſſemblies of the Church where this heaue…ly Goſpell ſoundeth, are excellent helpeshelps to quicken our dulneſſe, and to make vs feele a greater meaſure of the …
Henry Finch · Exposition of the Song of Solomon · p. 88 · Open in the reader
Printed
The whole Worſhip of God hath two helpeshelps alſo; Vowes, and reading of godly bookes, Actes 17. 11. Gen. 28. 22. Pſal. 116. 18.
With rule
The whole Worſhip of God hath two helpeshelps alſo; Vowes, and reading of godly bookes, Actes 17. 11. Gen. 28. 22. Pſal. 116. 18.
Thomas Granger · The Tree of Good and Evil · p. 6 · Open in the reader
Printed
… not praying / doth now answere / that howsoeuer the Scripture doth extol and magnifie outward helpeshelps and meanes, yet when they are compared with God which worketh all in all …
With rule
… not praying / doth now answere / that howsoeuer the Scripture doth extol and magnifie outward helpeshelps and meanes, yet when they are compared with God which worketh all in all …
John Greenwood · Answer to Giffords Defense of Read Prayers · p. 45 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Ge. 26. 8. So the Lord requireth theſe, both as teſtimonies of our ſinceritie, as alſo helpeshelps of our infirmitie, when wee may cōuenientlie vſe them, and forbiddeth to doe in …
With rule
… Ge. 26. 8. So the Lord requireth theſe, both as teſtimonies of our ſinceritie, as alſo helpeshelps of our infirmitie, when wee may cōuenientlie vſe them, and forbiddeth to doe in …
Dudley Fenner · Brief Treatise Upon the First Table of the Law · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

5 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Helps to Stir Up to Christian Duties A15114

Printed
SOME HELPESHELPS TO STIRRE UP TO CHRISTIAN DVTIES.
With rule
SOME HELPESHELPS TO STIRRE UP TO CHRISTIAN DVTIES.
Henry Whitfield · Helps to Stir Up to Christian Duties · Open in the reader
Printed
SOME HELPESHELPS TO STIR UP TO CHRISTIAN DVTIES.
With rule
SOME HELPESHELPS TO STIR UP TO CHRISTIAN DVTIES.
Henry Whitfield · Helps to Stir Up to Christian Duties · p. 1 · Open in the reader

Helps to Humiliation A16325

Printed
HELPESHELPS TO HVMILIATION.
With rule
HELPESHELPS TO HVMILIATION.
Robert Bolton · Helps to Humiliation · Open in the reader

The Grammar School A16865

Printed
HElpesHelps in the Schoole besides the Vsher.
With rule
HElpesHelps in the Schoole besides the Vsher.
John Brinsley · The Grammar School · p. 334 · Open in the reader

A Guide to Godliness A20762

Printed
THE FIFTH BOOKE OF A GODLY LIFE, CONTAINING IN IT THE HELPESHELPS AND MEANES WHICH INABLE VS VNTO IT.
With rule
THE FIFTH BOOKE OF A GODLY LIFE, CONTAINING IN IT THE HELPESHELPS AND MEANES WHICH INABLE VS VNTO IT.
John Downame · A Guide to Godliness · p. 448 · Open in the reader