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Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1734 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

pathespaths

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

Puritas changed it
1,184 times in 598 works
Consistency
96.2% (1,184 of 1,230)
Reach if approved
~1,292 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: paths
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,230 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,184 changes in 598 works, 96.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,184)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … to be taught in the wayes of the Lord and to walk in his pathespaths: yea, seing that thousandis in Scotland refuses not to be rebuked of the Lord …
    With rule
    … to be taught in the wayes of the Lord and to walk in his pathespaths: yea, seing that thousandis in Scotland refuses not to be rebuked of the Lord …

    John Knox · Answer to a Jesuit · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    My pathespaths he crokes, & giues noe ease
    With rule
    My pathespaths he crokes, & giues noe ease

    William Loe · Songs of Zion · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … the Word of God the Lanthorne for our féete, and a light for our pathespaths, and so as we grow in knowledge, faith, repentance, zeale of Gods glory, &c …
    With rule
    … the Word of God the Lanthorne for our féete, and a light for our pathespaths, and so as we grow in knowledge, faith, repentance, zeale of Gods glory, &c …

    John Frewen · Choice Grounds and Principles of our Christian Religion · p. 339 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … the (The foxe hath ſmall ſhif…e when for feare of eſpiynge in playne pathespaths, he rennethe to duplicate page duplicate page this hedgerowe of (ē. eſt. ē. en) but we haue anſwered …
    With rule
    … the (The foxe hath ſmall ſhif…e when for feare of eſpiynge in playne pathespaths, he rennethe to duplicate page duplicate page this hedgerowe of (ē. eſt. ē. en) but we haue anſwered …

    Anthony Gilby · Answer to the Devilish Detection of the Bishop of Winchester · p. clxxiii · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … not, as well to leade me in them, as into them. O the comfortable pathespaths of righteouſneſſe; the very paths in which Enoch walked with God, and which walked …
    With rule
    … not, as well to leade me in them, as into them. O the comfortable pathespaths of righteouſneſſe; the very paths in which Enoch walked with God, and which walked …

    Sir Richard Baker · Meditations and Disquisitions Upon the Seven Consolatory Psalms of David · p. 11 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … of ryghtousnesse hath not shyned vnto vs. We haue weryed owr selues / in the pathespaths of wickednesse but the waye of the lyuinge lorde haue we not knowne.
    With rule
    … of ryghtousnesse hath not shyned vnto vs. We haue weryed owr selues / in the pathespaths of wickednesse but the waye of the lyuinge lorde haue we not knowne.

    John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation 2 · p. 18 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … wayes of true piety, Prov. 3.17. Her wayes are wayes of pleasantnesse, and all her pathespaths are peace. Certainly, every yoke of Christ is easie, and every burden that he …
    With rule
    … wayes of true piety, Prov. 3.17. Her wayes are wayes of pleasantnesse, and all her pathespaths are peace. Certainly, every yoke of Christ is easie, and every burden that he …

    Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon Psalm 51 · p. 235 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … committed his wayes in all matters to him, or made him Arbiter of his pathespaths: and his reaſon was; he was at his right hand, or his readie hand …
    With rule
    … committed his wayes in all matters to him, or made him Arbiter of his pathespaths: and his reaſon was; he was at his right hand, or his readie hand …

    Robert Horne · The Shield of Righteousness · p. 132 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (46)

22 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 20 are listed here. 24 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Light of Faith A17419

  • Printed
    THE PATHESPATHS OF HOLY LIFE THAT GVIDE MEN AS THEY ARE CHRISTIANS.
    With rule
    THE PATHESPATHS OF HOLY LIFE THAT GVIDE MEN AS THEY ARE CHRISTIANS.

    Richard Byfield · The Light of Faith · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    THE PATHESPATHS OF HOLY LIFE THAT GVIDE CHRISTIANS IN SVCH A CONDITION:
    With rule
    THE PATHESPATHS OF HOLY LIFE THAT GVIDE CHRISTIANS IN SVCH A CONDITION:

    Richard Byfield · The Light of Faith · Open in the reader

A Guide to Godliness A20762

  • Printed
    … others from all that is euill and ſinfull. But contrariwiſe, tread ſecurely in thoſe PathesPaths, which they ſee their Teachers tread before them, ſuppoſing that if there were any …
    With rule
    … others from all that is euill and ſinfull. But contrariwiſe, tread ſecurely in thoſe PathesPaths, which they ſee their Teachers tread before them, ſuppoſing that if there were any …

    John Downame · A Guide to Godliness · p. 16 · Open in the reader

The Bibles Abstract and Epitome A27502

  • Printed
    The Way without Wandring in our Peregrination, wherby ou… PathesPaths are directed.
    With rule
    The Way without Wandring in our Peregrination, wherby ou… PathesPaths are directed.

    Richard Bernard · The Bibles Abstract and Epitome · p. 8 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    The PathesPaths of life, Psal. 16. 11.
    With rule
    The PathesPaths of life, Psal. 16. 11.

    Richard Bernard · The Bibles Abstract and Epitome · p. 15 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    The light of our PathesPaths, Psal 119. 105.
    With rule
    The light of our PathesPaths, Psal 119. 105.

    Richard Bernard · The Bibles Abstract and Epitome · p. 15 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    The old PathesPaths, Ier. 6. 16.
    With rule
    The old PathesPaths, Ier. 6. 16.

    Richard Bernard · The Bibles Abstract and Epitome · p. 15 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    Right PathesPaths, Psal. 27. 11.
    With rule
    Right PathesPaths, Psal. 27. 11.

    Richard Bernard · The Bibles Abstract and Epitome · p. 15 · Open in the reader

Quakerism the Path-Way to Paganism A29753

  • Printed
    … look upon, as our only sure Rule, by which we are to order our PathesPaths, and to examine the Teachings of Men. One Francis Howgil (as Mr. Stalham sheweth …
    With rule
    … look upon, as our only sure Rule, by which we are to order our PathesPaths, and to examine the Teachings of Men. One Francis Howgil (as Mr. Stalham sheweth …

    John Brown · Quakerism the Path-Way to Paganism · p. 8 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … world, there being nothing, but a new broaching of all (few excepted) the old PathesPaths of errour, heresie, and abomination: for verification of which, I shall only referre the …
    With rule
    … world, there being nothing, but a new broaching of all (few excepted) the old PathesPaths of errour, heresie, and abomination: for verification of which, I shall only referre the …

    John Brown · Quakerism the Path-Way to Paganism · p. 543 · Open in the reader

One Hundred Select Sermons A44565

  • Printed
    … thine own underſtanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he ſhall direct thy PathesPaths; when we neglect to ſeek to God in Prayers, we are ſo far-forth …
    With rule
    … thine own underſtanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he ſhall direct thy PathesPaths; when we neglect to ſeek to God in Prayers, we are ſo far-forth …

    Thomas Horton · One Hundred Select Sermons · p. 10 · Open in the reader

A History of Angels A49761

  • Printed
    … and that will be a glorious walkeing, when yee shall not onely treade hard PathesPaths, but lead up troopes, wee see even bruit beasts in motion are put on …
    With rule
    … and that will be a glorious walkeing, when yee shall not onely treade hard PathesPaths, but lead up troopes, wee see even bruit beasts in motion are put on …

    Henry Lawrence · A History of Angels · p. 140 · Open in the reader

Commentary on Revelation A55917

  • Printed
    … Againe every of theſe wayes are devided as it were, into diverſe diviſions of PathesPaths: and other things there following. Hee himſelf goes in the fourth way, the worſt …
    With rule
    … Againe every of theſe wayes are devided as it were, into diverſe diviſions of PathesPaths: and other things there following. Hee himſelf goes in the fourth way, the worſt …

    David Pareus · Commentary on Revelation · p. 223 · Open in the reader

The Spiritual Chemist A61207

  • Printed
    … ceaſe to be Sweet, becauſe the Sick Man ſaith it is Bitter, as the PathesPaths of Holineſs to be Pleaſant, becauſe Carnal Men affirm them to be irkſome and …
    With rule
    … ceaſe to be Sweet, becauſe the Sick Man ſaith it is Bitter, as the PathesPaths of Holineſs to be Pleaſant, becauſe Carnal Men affirm them to be irkſome and …

    William Spurstowe · The Spiritual Chemist · p. 15 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … ever much hearkened unto who decries Drunkenneſs, Swearing, wantonneſs, as the high-Rodes and PathesPaths to deſtruction, and yet turns not his own feet from walking in them? will …
    With rule
    … ever much hearkened unto who decries Drunkenneſs, Swearing, wantonneſs, as the high-Rodes and PathesPaths to deſtruction, and yet turns not his own feet from walking in them? will …

    William Spurstowe · The Spiritual Chemist · p. 33 · Open in the reader

The Incomparableness of God A62054

  • Printed
    … is holy in all his Wayes, and righteous in all his Works; When his PathesPaths are in the Seas, and his goings in deep Waters, Pſal. 77.19. That none can …
    With rule
    … is holy in all his Wayes, and righteous in all his Works; When his PathesPaths are in the Seas, and his goings in deep Waters, Pſal. 77.19. That none can …

    George Swinnock · The Incomparableness of God · p. 72 · Open in the reader

The Merchants and Mariners Preservation and Thanksgiving A64422

  • Printed
    Those Watery PathesPaths in which you tread, are wayes so full of danger, that Petticus who was …
    With rule
    Those Watery PathesPaths in which you tread, are wayes so full of danger, that Petticus who was …

    Edward Terry · The Merchants and Mariners Preservation and Thanksgiving · p. 16 · Open in the reader

Truth Triumphing Over Falsehood A91309

  • Printed
    … the Lord, Stand yee in the wayes and ſee, and aske for the OLD PATHESPATHS, where is the GOOD WAY, and walk therein, and yee ſhall find reſt for …
    With rule
    … the Lord, Stand yee in the wayes and ſee, and aske for the OLD PATHESPATHS, where is the GOOD WAY, and walk therein, and yee ſhall find reſt for …

    William Prynne · Truth Triumphing Over Falsehood · Open in the reader

Three Decades of Sermons A96523

  • Printed
    PRov. 3. 17. Her ways are ways of pleaſantneſs. All her PathesPaths are peace, pag. 188.
    With rule
    PRov. 3. 17. Her ways are ways of pleaſantneſs. All her PathesPaths are peace, pag. 188.

    Dean Henry Wilkinson · Three Decades of Sermons · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    Doct. 2. That all the PathesPaths of divine wiſdome or godlineſs are full of Peace to the Sons and daughters …
    With rule
    Doct. 2. That all the PathesPaths of divine wiſdome or godlineſs are full of Peace to the Sons and daughters …

    Dean Henry Wilkinson · Three Decades of Sermons · Open in the reader