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dumbedumb

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

Puritas changed it
2,089 times in 786 works
Consistency
97.1% (2,089 of 2,150)
Reach if approved
~2,260 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: dumb
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
2,151 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,089 changes in 786 works, 97.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,089)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … your bold assertions, and abhorre your impudent enforcements. As for other contradictions, notorious absurdities, dumbedumb blanks, & I know not what other monsters you feine vnto him, without all proofe …
    With rule
    … your bold assertions, and abhorre your impudent enforcements. As for other contradictions, notorious absurdities, dumbedumb blanks, & I know not what other monsters you feine vnto him, without all proofe …

    William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 23 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    Vpon examination all will confesse themselves guilty, except a dumbedumb Devill, or a Pharisaicall spirit hath possessed any. Yet are there degrees of guiltinesse …
    With rule
    Vpon examination all will confesse themselves guilty, except a dumbedumb Devill, or a Pharisaicall spirit hath possessed any. Yet are there degrees of guiltinesse …

    Thomas Fuller · Josephs Party-Colored Coat · p. 74 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … what was their deſire? Was it no more then for to deſtroy the poore dumbedumb beaſtes? Yes verely they had a further reach, & a deeper practiſe. This it was …
    With rule
    … what was their deſire? Was it no more then for to deſtroy the poore dumbedumb beaſtes? Yes verely they had a further reach, & a deeper practiſe. This it was …

    George Gifford · Sermons Upon Divers Texts · p. 62 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … their way, as hee did Balaam; reproves them, as he did him by a dumbedumb Aſſe, 2 Pet. 2. 16. ſo there by ſome ſilent paſſage of providence, and not onely ſo …
    With rule
    … their way, as hee did Balaam; reproves them, as he did him by a dumbedumb Aſſe, 2 Pet. 2. 16. ſo there by ſome ſilent paſſage of providence, and not onely ſo …

    Thomas Goodwin · Aggravation of Sin · p. 72 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … their diſeaſes, and infirmities, Mat. 15. 30. Great multitudes came, hauing with them the halt, blind, dumbedumb, maimed, &c. Thus the ten leapers followed him, and eſpecially the nine, that returned …
    With rule
    … their diſeaſes, and infirmities, Mat. 15. 30. Great multitudes came, hauing with them the halt, blind, dumbedumb, maimed, &c. Thus the ten leapers followed him, and eſpecially the nine, that returned …

    Thomas Granger · The Light of the World · p. 17 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … with vs, and therefore he that woulde nowe be resolued in the point, whether dumbedumb ministers be ministers or no, neede noe more but ride to Cambridge, to know …
    With rule
    … with vs, and therefore he that woulde nowe be resolued in the point, whether dumbedumb ministers be ministers or no, neede noe more but ride to Cambridge, to know …

    Job Throckmorton · Some Laid Open in his Colors · p. 69 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … verie neceſſarie, for it is not meete for the Miniſter in deliuering to be dumbedumb, but he ſheweth vs our duetie: and he ſheweth what is offred and giuen …
    With rule
    … verie neceſſarie, for it is not meete for the Miniſter in deliuering to be dumbedumb, but he ſheweth vs our duetie: and he ſheweth what is offred and giuen …

    Dudley Fenner · The Whole Doctrine of the Sacraments · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … owne credit: who alwayes, & everie where, vantingly & vainly gloried, that we were all mad dumbedumb in the matter of our callings. And albeit I know, that, according to their …
    With rule
    … owne credit: who alwayes, & everie where, vantingly & vainly gloried, that we were all mad dumbedumb in the matter of our callings. And albeit I know, that, according to their …

    Patrick Forbes · Defense of the Lawful Calling of Ministers of Reformed Churches · p. 27 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (61)

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

The Purple Island A00977

  • Printed
    DumbeDumb, deaf, lame, blinde, and maim'd; yet fishers all:
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    DumbeDumb, deaf, lame, blinde, and maim'd; yet fishers all:

    Phineas Fletcher · The Purple Island · p. 23 · Open in the reader

Some Laid Open in his Colors A02200

  • Printed
    … the question being whether we may be assured to receiue a Sacrament at the DumbeDumb Ministers hands, the very marrow and life of the whole controuersie lying in this …
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    … the question being whether we may be assured to receiue a Sacrament at the DumbeDumb Ministers hands, the very marrow and life of the whole controuersie lying in this …

    Job Throckmorton · Some Laid Open in his Colors · p. 91 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … is his loose defence of Bare reading and pronouncing the words of th'institution by DumbeDumb Ministers, M. Penri denying that vnpreaching Ministers doe adde an edifying worde to the …
    With rule
    … is his loose defence of Bare reading and pronouncing the words of th'institution by DumbeDumb Ministers, M. Penri denying that vnpreaching Ministers doe adde an edifying worde to the …

    Job Throckmorton · Some Laid Open in his Colors · p. 115 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … bringeth doth point as directly, and conclude as forcibly for sorcerers & conlurers, as for DumbeDumb Ministers, and therein I pray you be judg your self. The sum of christs …
    With rule
    … bringeth doth point as directly, and conclude as forcibly for sorcerers & conlurers, as for DumbeDumb Ministers, and therein I pray you be judg your self. The sum of christs …

    Job Throckmorton · Some Laid Open in his Colors · p. 115 · Open in the reader

The Sacrifice of Thankfulness A02367

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    … them not Sacrificia, but Sacrilegia, Not Sacrifices, but Sacriledges: They are so Opera muta, DumbeDumb deedes: nay, rather Opera mendacij, Loude lying workes; as if they told God a …
    With rule
    … them not Sacrificia, but Sacrilegia, Not Sacrifices, but Sacriledges: They are so Opera muta, DumbeDumb deedes: nay, rather Opera mendacij, Loude lying workes; as if they told God a …

    Thomas Adams · The Sacrifice of Thankfulness · p. 16 · Open in the reader

The Pathway to Prayer and Piety A03356

  • Printed
    … bee, 1 Carefull. 2 Faithfull. 3 Patient. 4 Neate. 5 Chearfull. 6 Cleanly. 7 Quicke. 8 Honeſt. 9 Skilfull. And laſt of all DumbeDumb.
    With rule
    … bee, 1 Carefull. 2 Faithfull. 3 Patient. 4 Neate. 5 Chearfull. 6 Cleanly. 7 Quicke. 8 Honeſt. 9 Skilfull. And laſt of all DumbeDumb.

    Robert Hill · The Pathway to Prayer and Piety · p. 97 · Open in the reader

Answer to Mr Jacobs Defense of the Churches and Ministry of England A04537

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    … be deemed true Chriſtians, as towching their outward eſtate: even all your Prelates, Prieſts, DumbeDumb dogs, Non-reſidents, Thieves, Coniurers. &c. Which you may ſpeak with ſhame ynough. Sure …
    With rule
    … be deemed true Chriſtians, as towching their outward eſtate: even all your Prelates, Prieſts, DumbeDumb dogs, Non-reſidents, Thieves, Coniurers. &c. Which you may ſpeak with ſhame ynough. Sure …

    Francis Johnson · Answer to Mr Jacobs Defense of the Churches and Ministry of England · p. 181 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … ſufficient men for Paſtors, ſet him tell vs plainlie what he thinketh of their DumbeDumb Miniſters, and of the reſt among them othewiſe vnmeet and inſufficient: viz, Whether the …
    With rule
    … ſufficient men for Paſtors, ſet him tell vs plainlie what he thinketh of their DumbeDumb Miniſters, and of the reſt among them othewiſe vnmeet and inſufficient: viz, Whether the …

    Francis Johnson · Answer to Mr Jacobs Defense of the Churches and Ministry of England · p. 187 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … Miniſters, and of the reſt among them othewiſe vnmeet and inſufficient: viz, Whether the DumbeDumb Miniſters and Formaliſts, have not the ſame calling of the Prelates, that the other …
    With rule
    … Miniſters, and of the reſt among them othewiſe vnmeet and inſufficient: viz, Whether the DumbeDumb Miniſters and Formaliſts, have not the ſame calling of the Prelates, that the other …

    Francis Johnson · Answer to Mr Jacobs Defense of the Churches and Ministry of England · p. 187 · Open in the reader

A Looking Glass for All Lordly Prelates A10189

  • Printed
    … the discovery of this their diobolicall fraud (they speaking in these prating Birds, though DumbeDumb for the most part themselues, and singing the self same ditties when they speake …
    With rule
    … the discovery of this their diobolicall fraud (they speaking in these prating Birds, though DumbeDumb for the most part themselues, and singing the self same ditties when they speake …

    William Prynne · A Looking Glass for All Lordly Prelates · p. 35 · Open in the reader

A Quench-Coal A10197

  • Printed
    If Romes DumbeDumb-Showes be from the Britans banisht,
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    If Romes DumbeDumb-Showes be from the Britans banisht,

    William Prynne · A Quench-Coal · p. 164 · Open in the reader

Exposition of Hosea 6 A12523

  • Printed
    … when he ſaw the people ſcattered abroad as ſheepe, hauing no ſhepheard: But theſe DumbeDumb-dogs that cannot barke, ſo they may haue the Fleſh and the Fleece, they …
    With rule
    … when he ſaw the people ſcattered abroad as ſheepe, hauing no ſhepheard: But theſe DumbeDumb-dogs that cannot barke, ſo they may haue the Fleſh and the Fleece, they …

    Samuel Smith · Exposition of Hosea 6 · p. 136 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    The Prophet Eſay cryes out againſt ſuch Paſtors, calling them DumbeDumb Dogges that cannot barke: They looke to the Fleece, but not to the Flocke.
    With rule
    The Prophet Eſay cryes out againſt ſuch Paſtors, calling them DumbeDumb Dogges that cannot barke: They looke to the Fleece, but not to the Flocke.

    Samuel Smith · Exposition of Hosea 6 · p. 301 · Open in the reader

A Christian Dictionary A15520

  • Printed
    … Dogs can neuer haue enough, they looke euery one to their owne way, &c. DumbeDumb and greedy Dogs be carelesse and couetous Shepheards, which minde not the safety of …
    With rule
    … Dogs can neuer haue enough, they looke euery one to their owne way, &c. DumbeDumb and greedy Dogs be carelesse and couetous Shepheards, which minde not the safety of …

    Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 108 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    DumbeDumb. sig: pro
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    DumbeDumb. sig: pro

    Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 112 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … and teach others, for lacke of grace and knowledge. Esay 56, 10. Their Watchmen are all DumbeDumb, they haue no knowledge.
    With rule
    … and teach others, for lacke of grace and knowledge. Esay 56, 10. Their Watchmen are all DumbeDumb, they haue no knowledge.

    Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 113 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … speake though he can, being quiet and silent vnder Gods hande. Psal. 39, 9. I was DumbeDumb and opened not my mouth.
    With rule
    … speake though he can, being quiet and silent vnder Gods hande. Psal. 39, 9. I was DumbeDumb and opened not my mouth.

    Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 113 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    DumbeDumb spirit. sig:
    With rule
    DumbeDumb spirit. sig:

    Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 113 · Open in the reader

The Hymns and Songs of the Church A15647

  • Printed
    The Blind did see, the DumbeDumb could talke,
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    The Blind did see, the DumbeDumb could talke,

    George Wither · The Hymns and Songs of the Church · p. 179 · Open in the reader

The Autumn Part from the Twelfth Sunday after Trinity A16554

  • Printed
    … Deafe, when he did not heare the voice of God, Adam, where arte thou? DumbeDumb, when he did not vpon that summons ingenuously confesse his sinne. Now the Scripture …
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    … Deafe, when he did not heare the voice of God, Adam, where arte thou? DumbeDumb, when he did not vpon that summons ingenuously confesse his sinne. Now the Scripture …

    John Boys · The Autumn Part from the Twelfth Sunday after Trinity · p. 13 · Open in the reader

An Exposition Upon Colossians A17389

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    … c. but libertie, courage, power &c. And it greatly taxeth foure sorts of Ministers. 1. DumbeDumb Ministers, that vtter nothing. 2. Fantasticall Ministers that vtter the falshood of their owne braines …
    With rule
    … c. but libertie, courage, power &c. And it greatly taxeth foure sorts of Ministers. 1. DumbeDumb Ministers, that vtter nothing. 2. Fantasticall Ministers that vtter the falshood of their owne braines …

    Nicholas Byfield · An Exposition Upon Colossians · p. 162 · Open in the reader

Commentary on Isaiah A17640

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    DumbeDumb dogges 56. 10
    With rule
    DumbeDumb dogges 56. 10

    John Calvin · Commentary on Isaiah · Open in the reader

Against Human Ceremonies in Gods Worship A19142

  • Printed
    Pluralists, Non-residents, and DumbeDumb Ministers.
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    Pluralists, Non-residents, and DumbeDumb Ministers.

    William Ames · Against Human Ceremonies in Gods Worship · Open in the reader

Reply to a Book A19884

  • Printed
    … place which can not ſpeake Dutch, is, in great meaſure, no better then a DumbeDumb Miniſter, in reſpect of one ſpeciall worke of his calling, which is to give …
    With rule
    … place which can not ſpeake Dutch, is, in great meaſure, no better then a DumbeDumb Miniſter, in reſpect of one ſpeciall worke of his calling, which is to give …

    John Davenport · Reply to a Book · p. 91 · Open in the reader

Two Treatises A21059

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    … darkneſſe. Integrity of Conſcience may be without Peace. Peace can never be without Integrity. DumbeDumb Miniſters go in the world for good Miniſters, becauſe quiet ones, but the day …
    With rule
    … darkneſſe. Integrity of Conſcience may be without Peace. Peace can never be without Integrity. DumbeDumb Miniſters go in the world for good Miniſters, becauſe quiet ones, but the day …

    Jeremiah Dyke · Two Treatises · p. 27 · Open in the reader

The Bibles Abstract and Epitome A27502

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    DumbeDumb So war Zacharias For a time, till his Son Iohn was Named,
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    DumbeDumb So war Zacharias For a time, till his Son Iohn was Named,

    Richard Bernard · The Bibles Abstract and Epitome · p. 36 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    Makes some DumbeDumb, So that they cannot Praise God for his Goodnesse.
    With rule
    Makes some DumbeDumb, So that they cannot Praise God for his Goodnesse.

    Richard Bernard · The Bibles Abstract and Epitome · p. 168 · Open in the reader

Diatribe Triplex A31437

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    … muſt meane it, of Ceremoniall Worſhip, as oppoſed to Moral; And that not, for DumbeDumb or Non-ſignificant Ceremonies: thoſe he diſlikes, in the Church of Rome; but for …
    With rule
    … muſt meane it, of Ceremoniall Worſhip, as oppoſed to Moral; And that not, for DumbeDumb or Non-ſignificant Ceremonies: thoſe he diſlikes, in the Church of Rome; but for …

    Daniel Cawdry · Diatribe Triplex · p. 137 · Open in the reader

Annotations Upon the New Testament A50050

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    … for here were foure wonders in one, the Blind saw, the Deafe heard, the DumbeDumb spake, the Demoniacke is delivered; rarity and difficulty are wont to cause wonder, but …
    With rule
    … for here were foure wonders in one, the Blind saw, the Deafe heard, the DumbeDumb spake, the Demoniacke is delivered; rarity and difficulty are wont to cause wonder, but …

    Edward Leigh · Annotations Upon the New Testament · p. 25 · Open in the reader

A Trial of the New Church Way in New England A63200

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    … ſuffered to entermeddle in the holy things of God, they have none from God. DumbeDumb Dogs, greedy Dogs, Idol-ſheepheards, falſe Prophets, Strangers, are unworthy Miniſters, but they that …
    With rule
    … ſuffered to entermeddle in the holy things of God, they have none from God. DumbeDumb Dogs, greedy Dogs, Idol-ſheepheards, falſe Prophets, Strangers, are unworthy Miniſters, but they that …

    John Ball · A Trial of the New Church Way in New England · p. 11 · Open in the reader

George Fox Digged Out of His Burrows A66448

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    What Spirits are their Dumb Spirits in their DumbeDumb Meetings but those foul dumbedumb Spirits mentioned in that Gospel, which the Lord Jesus …
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    What Spirits are their Dumb Spirits in their DumbeDumb Meetings but those foul dumbedumb Spirits mentioned in that Gospel, which the Lord Jesus …

    Roger Williams · George Fox Digged Out of His Burrows · p. 134 · Open in the reader

Of the Childs Portion A67002

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    … Him (for I ſaw I had need of Him) Who made mans Mouth , the DumbeDumb and Deafe, &c. The very thought of my Infirmitie kept me low, every way …
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    … Him (for I ſaw I had need of Him) Who made mans Mouth , the DumbeDumb and Deafe, &c. The very thought of my Infirmitie kept me low, every way …

    Hezekiah Woodward · Of the Childs Portion · p. 14 · Open in the reader

A Sons Patrimony and Daughters Portion A67005

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    … Him (for I ſaw I had need of Him) Who made mans Mouth , the DumbeDumb and Deafe, &c. The very thought of my Infirmitie kept me low, every way …
    With rule
    … Him (for I ſaw I had need of Him) Who made mans Mouth , the DumbeDumb and Deafe, &c. The very thought of my Infirmitie kept me low, every way …

    Hezekiah Woodward · A Sons Patrimony and Daughters Portion · p. 14 · Open in the reader

The Life of William Archbishop of Canterbury Examined A67904

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    … babes, yea stones must finde a tongue when Pharisees deny their testimonie to CHRIST: `DumbeDumb men will get words when a father, when a King, let bee a whole …
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    … babes, yea stones must finde a tongue when Pharisees deny their testimonie to CHRIST: `DumbeDumb men will get words when a father, when a King, let bee a whole …

    Robert Baillie · The Life of William Archbishop of Canterbury Examined · Open in the reader

The Canterburians Self-Conviction A68103

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    … babes, yea ſtones muſt finde a tongue, when Phariſees deny their teſtimonie to Chriſt: DumbeDumb men will gett words when a Father, when a King, let be a whole …
    With rule
    … babes, yea ſtones muſt finde a tongue, when Phariſees deny their teſtimonie to Chriſt: DumbeDumb men will gett words when a Father, when a King, let be a whole …

    Robert Baillie · The Canterburians Self-Conviction · Open in the reader

Works of Joseph Hall A68126

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    … theſe Cozenages, who dares auerre that his fellow Xauier, not onely healed the Deafe, DumbeDumb, and Blinde, but raiſed the Dead, to which I adde (whiles his Brother Acoſta …
    With rule
    … theſe Cozenages, who dares auerre that his fellow Xauier, not onely healed the Deafe, DumbeDumb, and Blinde, but raiſed the Dead, to which I adde (whiles his Brother Acoſta …

    Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 717 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    The DumbeDumb Deuill eiected.
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    The DumbeDumb Deuill eiected.

    Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 1285 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … our Maker, to confeſſe our ſinnes, to informe our brethren? How rife is this DumbeDumb Deuill euerywhere, whiles hee ſtops the mouthes of Chriſtians from theſe vſefull and neceſſarie …
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    … our Maker, to confeſſe our ſinnes, to informe our brethren? How rife is this DumbeDumb Deuill euerywhere, whiles hee ſtops the mouthes of Chriſtians from theſe vſefull and neceſſarie …

    Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 1286 · Open in the reader

Letter of Ministers Requesting Judgment Concerning Nine Positions A70435

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    … ſuffered to entermeddle in the holy things of God, they have none from God. DumbeDumb Dogs, greedy Dogs, Idol-ſheepheards, falſe Prophets, Strangers, are unworthy Miniſters, but they that …
    With rule
    … ſuffered to entermeddle in the holy things of God, they have none from God. DumbeDumb Dogs, greedy Dogs, Idol-ſheepheards, falſe Prophets, Strangers, are unworthy Miniſters, but they that …

    Simeon Ashe · Letter of Ministers Requesting Judgment Concerning Nine Positions · p. 11 · Open in the reader

Christian Concord A74901

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    … to be done. Nor would I dare to reproach them with the name of DumbeDumb doggs on one side, or Lay-Eldeers (as dumbedumb) on the other.
    With rule
    … to be done. Nor would I dare to reproach them with the name of DumbeDumb doggs on one side, or Lay-Eldeers (as dumbedumb) on the other.

    Richard Baxter · Christian Concord · p. 7 · Open in the reader

Good Conscience B01215

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    … darkeneſſe. Integrity of conſcience may be without Peace, Peace can neuer be without Integritie. DumbeDumb Miniſters goe in the world for good Miniſters, becauſe quiet ones, but the day …
    With rule
    … darkeneſſe. Integrity of conſcience may be without Peace, Peace can neuer be without Integritie. DumbeDumb Miniſters goe in the world for good Miniſters, becauſe quiet ones, but the day …

    Jeremiah Dyke · Good Conscience · p. 32 · Open in the reader