Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1798 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

sectessects

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

Puritas changed it: 513 times in 156 works
Consistency: 85.9% (513 of 597)
Reach if approved: ~627 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: sects
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 597 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (513 changes in 156 works, 85.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 513)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

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… how many sects haue the people y^• profes god be deuided? The number of sectessects and counterfait religious, which yet liue vnder the Bishop of Rome, are almoste innumerable …
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… how many sects haue the people y^• profes god be deuided? The number of sectessects and counterfait religious, which yet liue vnder the Bishop of Rome, are almoste innumerable …
Thomas Becon · A Fruitful Treatise · Open in the reader
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… sincere fauourer, and a diligent folower of Gods most holy word. He abhorred all sectessects, Papistes Anabaptistes, Libertins. &c. Not withstanding alway praying for their amēdment, that they knowledging …
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… sincere fauourer, and a diligent folower of Gods most holy word. He abhorred all sectessects, Papistes Anabaptistes, Libertins. &c. Not withstanding alway praying for their amēdment, that they knowledging …
Thomas Becon · The Sick Mans Salve · p. 538 · Open in the reader
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… in the latter dayes in his Epistles: And namely, in matters of Religion, new sectessects and heresies, shall aryse, with a merveilous defection from the faith, according to the …
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… in the latter dayes in his Epistles: And namely, in matters of Religion, new sectessects and heresies, shall aryse, with a merveilous defection from the faith, according to the …
Robert Pont · The Right Reckoning of Years and Ages of the World · p. 78 · Open in the reader
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… c. the day should sooner faile mee then the names of heretikes and diuers sectessects. Yet this faith is generall against them all, that Christ is the sonne of …
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… c. the day should sooner faile mee then the names of heretikes and diuers sectessects. Yet this faith is generall against them all, that Christ is the sonne of …
William Fulke · Rejoinder to Bristows Reply · p. 194 · Open in the reader
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… tempteth them to be puffed vp, and to ſwell, and ſo leadeth them into ſectessects, errours, and hereſies, as his fit occaſion ſerueth, one parte into one, another into …
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… tempteth them to be puffed vp, and to ſwell, and ſo leadeth them into ſectessects, errours, and hereſies, as his fit occaſion ſerueth, one parte into one, another into …
George Gifford · Two Sermons on 1 Peter 5:8-9 · p. 58 · Open in the reader
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All sectessects of errour, with theyr enormytie
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All sectessects of errour, with theyr enormytie
John Bale · Comedy Concerning the Corruption of Laws of Nature Moses and Christ · Open in the reader
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… awoyde / for they are vnprofitable / and ſuperfluus. A man that is the auctor of ſectessects after the firſt and the ſecond amonition awoyde / remembrynge that he that is ſoche …
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… awoyde / for they are vnprofitable / and ſuperfluus. A man that is the auctor of ſectessects after the firſt and the ſecond amonition awoyde / remembrynge that he that is ſoche …
John Johnsone · An Comfortable Exhortation · Open in the reader
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… and boldenes do ſtand. And ſo doth the Tyranne of the world, and the ſectessects ſtrengthen the hertes of the Chriſtians.
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… and boldenes do ſtand. And ſo doth the Tyranne of the world, and the ſectessects ſtrengthen the hertes of the Chriſtians.
Martin Luther · Exposition of Jeremiah 22 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (84)

69 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 44 are listed here. 15 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright A01115

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… the trueth, as Iohn Baptiſt did to Herod. The Franciſcans be deuided into many SectesSects: ſome goe in tréene ſhooes, or pattins, ſome barefooted, ſome regular Frāciſcās, or obſeruāts …
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… the trueth, as Iohn Baptiſt did to Herod. The Franciſcans be deuided into many SectesSects: ſome goe in tréene ſhooes, or pattins, ſome barefooted, ſome regular Frāciſcās, or obſeruāts …
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 191 · Open in the reader

Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue A01309

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… and, secte, in so much that for an Heretike, they sayd, an author of SectesSects, what may we iudge of it but as of wilfull corruption? See chap. 4. numb. 3.
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… and, secte, in so much that for an Heretike, they sayd, an author of SectesSects, what may we iudge of it but as of wilfull corruption? See chap. 4. numb. 3.
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 17 · Open in the reader
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… translated in their Bible of the yeare 1562, A man that is an author of SectesSects. And where the Greeke is, Heresie, reckened among damnable sinnes, they say, SectesSects: fauouring …
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… translated in their Bible of the yeare 1562, A man that is an author of SectesSects. And where the Greeke is, Heresie, reckened among damnable sinnes, they say, SectesSects: fauouring …
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 135 · Open in the reader
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… of SectesSects. And where the Greeke is, Heresie, reckened among damnable sinnes, they say, SectesSects: fauouring that name for their owne sakes, and dissembling it, as though the holy …
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… of SectesSects. And where the Greeke is, Heresie, reckened among damnable sinnes, they say, SectesSects: fauouring that name for their owne sakes, and dissembling it, as though the holy …
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 135 · Open in the reader

A Retentive to Stay Good Christians A01325

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… slations of the Byble, where we cal Hereticum a man that is author of SectesSects, as though we feared to call hym an Heretike, least men should thinke the …
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… slations of the Byble, where we cal Hereticum a man that is author of SectesSects, as though we feared to call hym an Heretike, least men should thinke the …
William Fulke · A Retentive to Stay Good Christians · p. 9 · Open in the reader

Short Treatise Against the Donatists of England A01736

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… I knowe it is complayned of, that there be ſo many and ſo diuers SectesSects and Hereſies dayly ſpringing vp where the Goſpell is preached, for it ſeemeth a …
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… I knowe it is complayned of, that there be ſo many and ſo diuers SectesSects and Hereſies dayly ſpringing vp where the Goſpell is preached, for it ſeemeth a …
George Gifford · Short Treatise Against the Donatists of England · Open in the reader

The Image of Both Churches in Revelation 2 A02825

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… Ioye / Rose / Rydleye / Warde / Becō / ād other els / leauynge her neyther Rellyques nor Rodes / SectesSects nor Shrynes / Abbeyes nor Pryoryes / manye more cō mynge after them of the same …
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… Ioye / Rose / Rydleye / Warde / Becō / ād other els / leauynge her neyther Rellyques nor Rodes / SectesSects nor Shrynes / Abbeyes nor Pryoryes / manye more cō mynge after them of the same …
John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation 2 · Open in the reader
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… they haue in the vnyte of his Godlye truthe / to the abolyshment of all SectesSects / false Prophetes / and coniurers of Egypte.
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… they haue in the vnyte of his Godlye truthe / to the abolyshment of all SectesSects / false Prophetes / and coniurers of Egypte.
John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation 2 · Open in the reader

An Answer to Blasphemous Cavillations by an Anabaptist A04920

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Of all sortes and SectesSects of men, I haue iudged them to be most abhorred which are called Athei …
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Of all sortes and SectesSects of men, I haue iudged them to be most abhorred which are called Athei …
John Knox · An Answer to Blasphemous Cavillations by an Anabaptist · p. 73 · Open in the reader

The Chief and Principal Articles of the Christian Faith A06491

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… and ſpoyl vs agayne of thy mooſt holy worde, or ſtirre vp diſcorde and SectesSects amonge vs, or leade vs otherwyſe into ſynne & ſhame, both ſpiritually and corporally, but …
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… and ſpoyl vs agayne of thy mooſt holy worde, or ſtirre vp diſcorde and SectesSects amonge vs, or leade vs otherwyſe into ſynne & ſhame, both ſpiritually and corporally, but …
Martin Luther · The Chief and Principal Articles of the Christian Faith · Open in the reader

Commentary on Galatians A06492

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… I ſay (as I haue often times ſaid) that there is no remedie againſt SectesSects or power to reſiſt them, but this onely article of Chriſtian righteouſnes. If we …
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… I ſay (as I haue often times ſaid) that there is no remedie againſt SectesSects or power to reſiſt them, but this onely article of Chriſtian righteouſnes. If we …
Martin Luther · Commentary on Galatians · Open in the reader
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… the Faithfull, not to be offended nor diſmayed when they ſhall ſee ſuch vprours, SectesSects and offences raiſed vppe in the time of the Goſpell: but rather to reioyce …
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… the Faithfull, not to be offended nor diſmayed when they ſhall ſee ſuch vprours, SectesSects and offences raiſed vppe in the time of the Goſpell: but rather to reioyce …
Martin Luther · Commentary on Galatians · Open in the reader
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… alſo diſagreeing among them ſelues, were diuided into three ſundry SectesSects. And how many SectesSects haue we at this day ſpringing vppe one after an other? One Sect bringeth …
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… alſo diſagreeing among them ſelues, were diuided into three ſundry SectesSects. And how many SectesSects haue we at this day ſpringing vppe one after an other? One Sect bringeth …
Martin Luther · Commentary on Galatians · Open in the reader
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… riſe in the Church about doctrine, Faith and workes. Hereſies, that is to ſay, SectesSects haue alwayes bene in the Church, as we haue ſayd before in diuers places …
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… riſe in the Church about doctrine, Faith and workes. Hereſies, that is to ſay, SectesSects haue alwayes bene in the Church, as we haue ſayd before in diuers places …
Martin Luther · Commentary on Galatians · p. 260 · Open in the reader
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… fame and eſtimation therby. Wherfore they can not but be authors of diſſenſion and SectesSects.
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… fame and eſtimation therby. Wherfore they can not but be authors of diſſenſion and SectesSects.
Martin Luther · Commentary on Galatians · p. 264 · Open in the reader

Commentary on Peter and Jude A06502

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… awaie. Herevpon it grewe that the worlde was peſtered with ſuche a number of SectesSects, and all thynges torne a ſonder and diſordered, while euery manne framed after his …
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… awaie. Herevpon it grewe that the worlde was peſtered with ſuche a number of SectesSects, and all thynges torne a ſonder and diſordered, while euery manne framed after his …
Martin Luther · Commentary on Peter and Jude · p. 22 · Open in the reader
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… in the ſtate of perdition. Thei ſhall priuillie (ſaith he) bring in Hereſies and SectesSects. For thei ſhall not openly detecte the Goſpell and Scripture of falſhood, nor directly …
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… in the ſtate of perdition. Thei ſhall priuillie (ſaith he) bring in Hereſies and SectesSects. For thei ſhall not openly detecte the Goſpell and Scripture of falſhood, nor directly …
Martin Luther · Commentary on Peter and Jude · Open in the reader
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… If any man in zeale of truthe ſhould preache and tell them, that their SectesSects bee contrarie to the doctrine laied downe in the Goſpell, for that, thei carie …
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… If any man in zeale of truthe ſhould preache and tell them, that their SectesSects bee contrarie to the doctrine laied downe in the Goſpell, for that, thei carie …
Martin Luther · Commentary on Peter and Jude · Open in the reader
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… and fruictleſſe SectesSects: ſith they here maie learne, that they are nothyng els then SectesSects of perdition and condemnation. For albeit there bee ſome, not altogether peruerted and deſperatelie …
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… and fruictleſſe SectesSects: ſith they here maie learne, that they are nothyng els then SectesSects of perdition and condemnation. For albeit there bee ſome, not altogether peruerted and deſperatelie …
Martin Luther · Commentary on Peter and Jude · p. 139 · Open in the reader
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THei extoll, praiſe, and vaunte their holie Orders, their religious SectesSects, and ſinneleſſe profeſſions: into the whiche, who ſoeuer doeth enter, ſhall bee ſaued, as …
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THei extoll, praiſe, and vaunte their holie Orders, their religious SectesSects, and ſinneleſſe profeſſions: into the whiche, who ſoeuer doeth enter, ſhall bee ſaued, as …
Martin Luther · Commentary on Peter and Jude · p. 152 · Open in the reader

Exposition of Jeremiah 22 A06508

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Euen ſo goeth it alſo with the SectesSects and Hereſyes, and with all other aduerſities, whiche all can not hurte vs, for …
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Euen ſo goeth it alſo with the SectesSects and Hereſyes, and with all other aduerſities, whiche all can not hurte vs, for …
Martin Luther · Exposition of Jeremiah 22 · Open in the reader
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… peace preached, vnder the whiche is contayned mere diſcorde, becauſe of the Tyrauntes and SectesSects. Therfore becauſe that nowe the holye Goſpel ryſeth, whiche beginneth to laye hand vpon …
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… peace preached, vnder the whiche is contayned mere diſcorde, becauſe of the Tyrauntes and SectesSects. Therfore becauſe that nowe the holye Goſpel ryſeth, whiche beginneth to laye hand vpon …
Martin Luther · Exposition of Jeremiah 22 · Open in the reader
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… are kylled and murthered euermore lyke the Cattell, and the vngodly ſwymme alofte. The SectesSects and Hereſyes haue the victory and triumphe. But what is it? It laſteth not …
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… are kylled and murthered euermore lyke the Cattell, and the vngodly ſwymme alofte. The SectesSects and Hereſyes haue the victory and triumphe. But what is it? It laſteth not …
Martin Luther · Exposition of Jeremiah 22 · Open in the reader
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… and naturall God. Therefore let vs marke diligently this texte, that when heretykes and SectesSects ſhall aryſe, and aſſaulte this Artycle of oure faythe, that Chriſte is not a …
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… and naturall God. Therefore let vs marke diligently this texte, that when heretykes and SectesSects ſhall aryſe, and aſſaulte this Artycle of oure faythe, that Chriſte is not a …
Martin Luther · Exposition of Jeremiah 22 · Open in the reader
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… it can not eaſely be taken oute agayne. Euen ſo goeth it alſo with SectesSects and hereſies and with oure Imaginations, when this diſeaſe is rooted in, then may …
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… it can not eaſely be taken oute agayne. Euen ſo goeth it alſo with SectesSects and hereſies and with oure Imaginations, when this diſeaſe is rooted in, then may …
Martin Luther · Exposition of Jeremiah 22 · Open in the reader

Against Symbolizing with Antichrist in Ceremonies A09002

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… of her Croſſe, which is her cheefe cognifance, when ariſeth a confuſion euen of SectesSects. Laſtly, conſider the religious ceremonies themſelues which were ſhewed in the paterne vpon the …
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… of her Croſſe, which is her cheefe cognifance, when ariſeth a confuſion euen of SectesSects. Laſtly, conſider the religious ceremonies themſelues which were ſhewed in the paterne vpon the …
Robert Parker · Against Symbolizing with Antichrist in Ceremonies · p. 77 · Open in the reader

The Right Reckoning of Years and Ages of the World A09841

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… Astrologues, Saturne being Lorde of the revolution of the great Circle this yeare, signifieth SectesSects, changing of estates and Kingdomes. Seeing then all these things threatten vnvnto vs the …
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… Astrologues, Saturne being Lorde of the revolution of the great Circle this yeare, signifieth SectesSects, changing of estates and Kingdomes. Seeing then all these things threatten vnvnto vs the …
Robert Pont · The Right Reckoning of Years and Ages of the World · p. 99 · Open in the reader

Pilgrimage A10228

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… is secretly punished by the iudge thereof: And although the Priests of these seuerall SectesSects vse differing Liturgies and rites, yet doe they not take one the other for …
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… is secretly punished by the iudge thereof: And although the Priests of these seuerall SectesSects vse differing Liturgies and rites, yet doe they not take one the other for …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 486 · Open in the reader

Answer to John De Albines A12701

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… make the number ſeeme the greater, you haue here reckoned vp them as different SectesSects, & heades of hereſies, amongſt whom either there is full agreement, as betwixt them, whom …
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… make the number ſeeme the greater, you haue here reckoned vp them as different SectesSects, & heades of hereſies, amongſt whom either there is full agreement, as betwixt them, whom …
Thomas Sparke · Answer to John De Albines · p. 244 · Open in the reader
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… ſchoolemen as you haue, differing amongſt themſelues, in queſtions of diuinitie, ſo manie ſeuerall SectesSects there are amongſt you: all which would riſe to a marueilous long beadrole. And …
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… ſchoolemen as you haue, differing amongſt themſelues, in queſtions of diuinitie, ſo manie ſeuerall SectesSects there are amongſt you: all which would riſe to a marueilous long beadrole. And …
Thomas Sparke · Answer to John De Albines · p. 244 · Open in the reader

Answer to a Supplicatory Epistle for the Pretended Catholics A13877

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… reaſons, without any ſufficient reaſon, that there muſt needes be infinite varieties of ſondrie SectesSects and opinions amongeſt vs: He addeth this, that wee make the Temporall Prince heade …
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… reaſons, without any ſufficient reaſon, that there muſt needes be infinite varieties of ſondrie SectesSects and opinions amongeſt vs: He addeth this, that wee make the Temporall Prince heade …
Walter Travers · Answer to a Supplicatory Epistle for the Pretended Catholics · p. 133 · Open in the reader

The Parable of the Wicked Mammon A14146

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… false teachers or doctours a monge you which priuely shall brynge in sectessects damnable. SectesSects is partetakyng as one holdeth of frauces a nother of domynyck whiche thinge also …
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… false teachers or doctours a monge you which priuely shall brynge in sectessects damnable. SectesSects is partetakyng as one holdeth of frauces a nother of domynyck whiche thinge also …
William Tyndale · The Parable of the Wicked Mammon · Open in the reader

The Sum of Christian Religion 2 A14216

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1 This doctrine was deliuered from God: other SectesSects are ſprung from men, and haue beene inuented by Diuels.
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1 This doctrine was deliuered from God: other SectesSects are ſprung from men, and haue beene inuented by Diuels.
Zacharias Ursinus · The Sum of Christian Religion 2 · p. 10 · Open in the reader
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… grow in the Church, but they are not maintained, as falleth out in other SectesSects. For the true Church is the firſt her ſelfe that doth comprehend and condemne …
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… grow in the Church, but they are not maintained, as falleth out in other SectesSects. For the true Church is the firſt her ſelfe that doth comprehend and condemne …
Zacharias Ursinus · The Sum of Christian Religion 2 · p. 12 · Open in the reader

Reproof of Howlets Untimely Shrieking A15295

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… you that will needes bee called Catholikes, there bee by your owne confession, diuers SectesSects, that ye neede not so hotly condemne vs your aduersaries and our Religion, because …
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… you that will needes bee called Catholikes, there bee by your owne confession, diuers SectesSects, that ye neede not so hotly condemne vs your aduersaries and our Religion, because …
Perceval Wiburn · Reproof of Howlets Untimely Shrieking · Open in the reader
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… neede not so hotly condemne vs your aduersaries and our Religion, because there be SectesSects among vs, and diuers opinions, whereof your selues and your Religion is no cleerer …
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… neede not so hotly condemne vs your aduersaries and our Religion, because there be SectesSects among vs, and diuers opinions, whereof your selues and your Religion is no cleerer …
Perceval Wiburn · Reproof of Howlets Untimely Shrieking · Open in the reader

A Wholesome Antidote Against Anabaptists A17186

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Of the Vnitie of the Churche, againſt the SectesSects of the Anabaptiſtes.
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Of the Vnitie of the Churche, againſt the SectesSects of the Anabaptiſtes.
Henrich Bullinger · A Wholesome Antidote Against Anabaptists · Open in the reader

Questions of Religion A17219

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… and the seruice of GOD contrary to Gods woorde, and hauing among themselues insimte SectesSects, yet wyll they bée called the Catholyke Churche. And in thys Churche the godly …
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… and the seruice of GOD contrary to Gods woorde, and hauing among themselues insimte SectesSects, yet wyll they bée called the Catholyke Churche. And in thys Churche the godly …
Henrich Bullinger · Questions of Religion · p. 144 · Open in the reader

Sermons on Galatians A17706

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… true that there were many wicked corruptions in the Churche of the Iewes. For SectesSects were ſprung vp, and the Phariſies (whiche were yet the pureſt and ſoundeſt of …
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… true that there were many wicked corruptions in the Churche of the Iewes. For SectesSects were ſprung vp, and the Phariſies (whiche were yet the pureſt and ſoundeſt of …
John Calvin · Sermons on Galatians · Open in the reader

Dialogue Between a Soldier and a Chaplain A68098

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… at the leaſt, they ſhoulde weare a ſurples alſo, as you doe. The other SectesSects had likewiſe their Sutes: ſome Cattes tayles, ſome graye Amices, ſome Lambeſkinnes, ſome white …
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… at the leaſt, they ſhoulde weare a ſurples alſo, as you doe. The other SectesSects had likewiſe their Sutes: ſome Cattes tayles, ſome graye Amices, ſome Lambeſkinnes, ſome white …
Anthony Gilby · Dialogue Between a Soldier and a Chaplain · Open in the reader

Whole Works A68831

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SectesSects through mans wiſedome, innumerable in Popery. 300. b. damnable amongeſt Papiſtes and heretiques. 173. a
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SectesSects through mans wiſedome, innumerable in Popery. 300. b. damnable amongeſt Papiſtes and heretiques. 173. a
William Tyndale · Whole Works · Open in the reader
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SectesSects of heretickes. 51
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SectesSects of heretickes. 51
William Tyndale · Whole Works · Open in the reader

Answer Unto Assertion that Church of Rome is the True Church B14350

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… is directly against your Assertion, for there were (as he affirmeth in that chapter) SectesSects and Schismes amongest them, one holding of Paule, another of Apollo, which he praieth …
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… is directly against your Assertion, for there were (as he affirmeth in that chapter) SectesSects and Schismes amongest them, one holding of Paule, another of Apollo, which he praieth …
John Knewstubs · Answer Unto Assertion that Church of Rome is the True Church · Open in the reader

Answer to Thomas More B16147

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SectesSects / whether the best se…es prayde to sayntes or not lxxviij lxxix
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SectesSects / whether the best se…es prayde to sayntes or not lxxviij lxxix
William Tyndale · Answer to Thomas More · Open in the reader