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stockesstocks

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

Puritas changed it
694 times in 364 works
Consistency
93.4% (694 of 743)
Reach if approved
~781 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: stocks
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
743 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (694 changes in 364 works, 93.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 694)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
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    … at euery lytyll faulte be redy to caste the ignorant offenders into preson, chenes, stockesstocks & fyre. If ony man doth not of …end wt his tonge, sayth S. Iames …
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    … at euery lytyll faulte be redy to caste the ignorant offenders into preson, chenes, stockesstocks & fyre. If ony man doth not of …end wt his tonge, sayth S. Iames …

    Thomas Becon · Davids Harp · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … trate our …elues before pictures and images? That wee should gadde on pilgrimage to stockesstocks and stoanes? the holy scriptures do call you from nothing more earnestly.
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    … trate our …elues before pictures and images? That wee should gadde on pilgrimage to stockesstocks and stoanes? the holy scriptures do call you from nothing more earnestly.

    John Foxe · The Pope Confuted · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … of sacriledge? but they that robbe God of his honour, and geue it to stockesstocks and stones? who are rather to be charged with incest then they which beside …
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    … of sacriledge? but they that robbe God of his honour, and geue it to stockesstocks and stones? who are rather to be charged with incest then they which beside …

    William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 19 · Open in the reader

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    … the wiſedome of God, working in vs weakelinges what him lyketh. All the ſtomblyng ſtockesstocks whiche myghte offende you, may eaſelie be remoued. There bée two thynges eſpecially whyche …
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    … the wiſedome of God, working in vs weakelinges what him lyketh. All the ſtomblyng ſtockesstocks whiche myghte offende you, may eaſelie be remoued. There bée two thynges eſpecially whyche …

    Anthony Gilby · Of Election and Reprobation · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … foot forward. Through this errour, they were so mad, as to ascribe, first to stockesstocks and stones, insensible creatures; secondly, to men, dust and ashes; thirdly, to wicked men …
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    … foot forward. Through this errour, they were so mad, as to ascribe, first to stockesstocks and stones, insensible creatures; secondly, to men, dust and ashes; thirdly, to wicked men …

    Thomas Adams · Mystical Bedlam · p. 38 · Open in the reader

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    … Auersa. He put sixe Cardinals in a dongion with their feete set in the stockesstocks, and caused them to be myserably tormented and racked, onlye for suspition of falsehoode …
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    … Auersa. He put sixe Cardinals in a dongion with their feete set in the stockesstocks, and caused them to be myserably tormented and racked, onlye for suspition of falsehoode …

    John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · Open in the reader

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    … grieuously scourged, sing merily euen at midnight, euen in the dungeon, euen in the stockesstocks, Acts 16. 25. As we haue also seene in the example of the Martyrs: no threats …
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    … grieuously scourged, sing merily euen at midnight, euen in the dungeon, euen in the stockesstocks, Acts 16. 25. As we haue also seene in the example of the Martyrs: no threats …

    Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon John 4 · p. 336 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … ſome allowance from their inheritance; and Parents wil proue their children with ſome leſſer ſtockesstocks, to ſee how they will huſband them, before they giue them the full eſtate …
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    … ſome allowance from their inheritance; and Parents wil proue their children with ſome leſſer ſtockesstocks, to ſee how they will huſband them, before they giue them the full eſtate …

    Paul Baynes · Commentary Upon Ephesians 1 · p. 241 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (49)

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

The Devils Banket Described A00888

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    … hath left her first loue. Shee committes Idolatrie, (vvhich is the vilest Adulterie) vvith StockesStocks and Stones.
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    … hath left her first loue. Shee committes Idolatrie, (vvhich is the vilest Adulterie) vvith StockesStocks and Stones.

    Thomas Adams · The Devils Banket Described · p. 110 · Open in the reader

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

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    … gotten the Benefice, and put him into the Cage, and ſet him in the StockesStocks, where he founde Iohn Dale, who for reproouing Newall & his Curat, calling them blinde …
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    … gotten the Benefice, and put him into the Cage, and ſet him in the StockesStocks, where he founde Iohn Dale, who for reproouing Newall & his Curat, calling them blinde …

    John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 254 · Open in the reader

An Answer to Blasphemous Cavillations by an Anabaptist A04920

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    … is from heauen, yea that it is the flesh of the Godhead. That in StockesStocks, stones and all creatures, is the substantiall Godhead. If these (I sa…e) be …
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    … is from heauen, yea that it is the flesh of the Godhead. That in StockesStocks, stones and all creatures, is the substantiall Godhead. If these (I sa…e) be …

    John Knox · An Answer to Blasphemous Cavillations by an Anabaptist · p. 212 · Open in the reader

Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion A07769

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    … Citie. To be short, at his word the Nations that worshipped Deuilles, Men, Planets, StockesStocks and Stones, turned to the only true God. The Deuils that had abused them …
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    … Citie. To be short, at his word the Nations that worshipped Deuilles, Men, Planets, StockesStocks and Stones, turned to the only true God. The Deuils that had abused them …

    Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 556 · Open in the reader

A Quench-Coal A10197

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    … the man makes the place h…ly, and ye shall not worshippe your Jdols, StockesStocks, and Stones, neither at Wilsingham, Ipswich, Canterbury, nor Sheve, for God chuses not the …
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    … the man makes the place h…ly, and ye shall not worshippe your Jdols, StockesStocks, and Stones, neither at Wilsingham, Ipswich, Canterbury, nor Sheve, for God chuses not the …

    William Prynne · A Quench-Coal · p. 214 · Open in the reader

The Diseases of the Time A11070

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    … especially for these crying ones, by which God himselfe hath his honor communicated to StockesStocks, the Son of God hath this honour diuided with the sonnes of men; Those …
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    … especially for these crying ones, by which God himselfe hath his honor communicated to StockesStocks, the Son of God hath this honour diuided with the sonnes of men; Those …

    Francis Rous · The Diseases of the Time · p. 199 · Open in the reader

Exposition of Hosea 6 A12523

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    … teach men to pray to Saints and Angels, to the Virgin Mary, and to StockesStocks and Stones, pretending therein humility, that they will not bee ſo bolde to come …
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    … teach men to pray to Saints and Angels, to the Virgin Mary, and to StockesStocks and Stones, pretending therein humility, that they will not bee ſo bolde to come …

    Samuel Smith · Exposition of Hosea 6 · p. 76 · Open in the reader

Davids Learning A13538

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    … followes her as an Oxe to the slaughter, and as a Foole to the StockesStocks for correction; till a Dart strike through his Liuer, he sees and knowes nothing …
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    … followes her as an Oxe to the slaughter, and as a Foole to the StockesStocks for correction; till a Dart strike through his Liuer, he sees and knowes nothing …

    Thomas Taylor · Davids Learning · p. 346 · Open in the reader

Commentary on Romans A14353

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    … ſpirite of God, but are perſwaded, and whatſoeuer we do, we do it willingly. StockesStocks and ſtones whē they are moued, neither vnderſtand they, nor haue they any will …
    With rule
    … ſpirite of God, but are perſwaded, and whatſoeuer we do, we do it willingly. StockesStocks and ſtones whē they are moued, neither vnderſtand they, nor haue they any will …

    Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentary on Romans · Open in the reader

Satan Transformed Into an Angel of Light A19294

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    … may not know whither we go, but euen like fooles be led to the StockesStocks, and oxen to the shambles: And hath not this Practise of Witch-craft many …
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    … may not know whither we go, but euen like fooles be led to the StockesStocks, and oxen to the shambles: And hath not this Practise of Witch-craft many …

    Thomas Cooper · Satan Transformed Into an Angel of Light · p. 32 · Open in the reader

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    For by this meanes these StockesStocks and Stones beeing made to speake and doe wonderfull things, as it confounded the …
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    For by this meanes these StockesStocks and Stones beeing made to speake and doe wonderfull things, as it confounded the …

    Thomas Cooper · Satan Transformed Into an Angel of Light · p. 197 · Open in the reader

The Mystery of Witchcraft Discovering the Truth of Nature A19295

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    … may not know whither we go, but euen like fooles be led to the StockesStocks, and oxen to the shambles: And hath not this Practise of Witch-craft many …
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    … may not know whither we go, but euen like fooles be led to the StockesStocks, and oxen to the shambles: And hath not this Practise of Witch-craft many …

    Thomas Cooper · The Mystery of Witchcraft Discovering the Truth of Nature · p. 32 · Open in the reader

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    For by this meanes these StockesStocks and Stones beeing made to speake and doe wonderfull things, as it confounded the …
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    For by this meanes these StockesStocks and Stones beeing made to speake and doe wonderfull things, as it confounded the …

    Thomas Cooper · The Mystery of Witchcraft Discovering the Truth of Nature · p. 197 · Open in the reader

A Guide to Godliness A20762

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    … as their backes were torne with ſore ſtripes, and their feete locked in the StockesStocks. Thus the Apoſtle found matter enough to glorie in through Ieſus Chriſt, in things …
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    … as their backes were torne with ſore ſtripes, and their feete locked in the StockesStocks. Thus the Apoſtle found matter enough to glorie in through Ieſus Chriſt, in things …

    John Downame · A Guide to Godliness · p. 839 · Open in the reader

The Sum of Sacred Divinity A20766

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    … as an Oxe that goeth to the ſlaughter, and as a Foole to the StockesStocks for correction, till a Dart ſtrike thorow his Liuer, as a Bird haſteth to …
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    … as an Oxe that goeth to the ſlaughter, and as a Foole to the StockesStocks for correction, till a Dart ſtrike thorow his Liuer, as a Bird haſteth to …

    John Downame · The Sum of Sacred Divinity · p. 190 · Open in the reader

Commentary Upon Philemon A22481

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    … indignity or diſhonour to the true Seruants of God, to be clapt in the StockesStocks, to be caſt into Priſon, or to be put to death for the Goſpels …
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    … indignity or diſhonour to the true Seruants of God, to be clapt in the StockesStocks, to be caſt into Priſon, or to be put to death for the Goſpels …

    William Attersoll · Commentary Upon Philemon · p. 12 · Open in the reader

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    … and Silas were caſt into priſon, And had their Feete made fast in the StockesStocks, but they prayed and ſung Pſalmes vnto God, ſo that the Priſoners heard them …
    With rule
    … and Silas were caſt into priſon, And had their Feete made fast in the StockesStocks, but they prayed and ſung Pſalmes vnto God, ſo that the Priſoners heard them …

    William Attersoll · Commentary Upon Philemon · p. 12 · Open in the reader

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    … pleaſure. They doo teach and allowe the worſhip of Images, and bowing downe to StockesStocks and Stones, whereby the people are drawne away from the liuing God, to palpable …
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    … pleaſure. They doo teach and allowe the worſhip of Images, and bowing downe to StockesStocks and Stones, whereby the people are drawne away from the liuing God, to palpable …

    William Attersoll · Commentary Upon Philemon · p. 104 · Open in the reader

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    … caſt the Apoſtles into the inner Priſon, und made their Feete faſt in the StockesStocks, becauſe hee would be more ſure of them: but immediatly after the feeling of …
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    … caſt the Apoſtles into the inner Priſon, und made their Feete faſt in the StockesStocks, becauſe hee would be more ſure of them: but immediatly after the feeling of …

    William Attersoll · Commentary Upon Philemon · p. 228 · Open in the reader

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    … farre better to walke at libertie, then to haue his feete put in the StockesStocks for Correction. Wherefore, let no man blame thoſe men that hang backe, and are …
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    … farre better to walke at libertie, then to haue his feete put in the StockesStocks for Correction. Wherefore, let no man blame thoſe men that hang backe, and are …

    William Attersoll · Commentary Upon Philemon · p. 381 · Open in the reader

Conversion of Nineveh, Gods Trumpet, Physic Against Famine A22562

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    … impriſonment, put manacles and fetters upon hands and feet, and thruſt himſelfe into the StockesStocks or Gaole, whereas he might live abroad at liberty without reſtraint and reſiſtance, or …
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    … impriſonment, put manacles and fetters upon hands and feet, and thruſt himſelfe into the StockesStocks or Gaole, whereas he might live abroad at liberty without reſtraint and reſiſtance, or …

    William Attersoll · Conversion of Nineveh, Gods Trumpet, Physic Against Famine · p. 54 · Open in the reader

Treatise of Divinity A47629

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    … p. 21. l. ult. doth know, live and will, p. 30. l. 10. conceiving. p. 59. l. 20. 1 Themselves. 2 StockesStocks and stones, p. 96. l. 5. suis should be quis, p. 129. l. 5. same should be sonne.
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    … p. 21. l. ult. doth know, live and will, p. 30. l. 10. conceiving. p. 59. l. 20. 1 Themselves. 2 StockesStocks and stones, p. 96. l. 5. suis should be quis, p. 129. l. 5. same should be sonne.

    Edward Leigh · Treatise of Divinity · Open in the reader

A Pleasant Purge for a Roman Catholic A56191

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    To Run, pray, Offer, to their Ladies StockesStocks:
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    To Run, pray, Offer, to their Ladies StockesStocks:

    William Prynne · A Pleasant Purge for a Roman Catholic · p. 51 · Open in the reader

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    VVHat? muſt we have no Images nor StockesStocks
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    VVHat? muſt we have no Images nor StockesStocks

    William Prynne · A Pleasant Purge for a Roman Catholic · p. 62 · Open in the reader

Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 A67927

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    … Philpots beyng in the Colehouse, where he found Thomas Whittle Priest, sittyng in the StockesStocks.
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    … Philpots beyng in the Colehouse, where he found Thomas Whittle Priest, sittyng in the StockesStocks.

    John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · p. 1797 · Open in the reader

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    … of Prison, Paule from his enemies in Damasco, and the Apostles out of the StockesStocks and Prison. These with many mo he deliuered to lyfe: And also he deliuered …
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    … of Prison, Paule from his enemies in Damasco, and the Apostles out of the StockesStocks and Prison. These with many mo he deliuered to lyfe: And also he deliuered …

    John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · p. 1848 · Open in the reader

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    … of Ismaell, Iacob was hated of Esau, Ioseph was prisoned and set in the StockesStocks, the Prophet Esay was cut in two with a Saw, Ieremy was stoned, Micheas …
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    … of Ismaell, Iacob was hated of Esau, Ioseph was prisoned and set in the StockesStocks, the Prophet Esay was cut in two with a Saw, Ieremy was stoned, Micheas …

    John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · p. 1849 · Open in the reader

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    … you not damne soules (sayd she) when you teache the people to worship Idolles, StockesStocks, and Stones, the worke of mens handes? and to worship a false GOD of …
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    … you not damne soules (sayd she) when you teache the people to worship Idolles, StockesStocks, and Stones, the worke of mens handes? and to worship a false GOD of …

    John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · p. 2051 · Open in the reader

Whole Works A68831

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    StockesStocks and ſtones the Papiſtes honor as Goddes. 342
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    StockesStocks and ſtones the Papiſtes honor as Goddes. 342

    William Tyndale · Whole Works · Open in the reader

Commentary on Malachi A71123

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    the Booke, and verroe this StockesStocks improued store.
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    the Booke, and verroe this StockesStocks improued store.

    Richard Stock · Commentary on Malachi · Open in the reader

Good Conscience B01215

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    … in the Stocks of a damnable Co…ſcience. Therfore though they be in the StockesStocks, yet euen then, the righteous doth ſing and reioyce, yea, euen in the StockesStocks …
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    … in the Stocks of a damnable Co…ſcience. Therfore though they be in the StockesStocks, yet euen then, the righteous doth ſing and reioyce, yea, euen in the StockesStocks …

    Jeremiah Dyke · Good Conscience · p. 188 · Open in the reader

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    … StockesStocks, yet euen then, the righteous doth ſing and reioyce, yea, euen in the StockesStocks, and priſon; Paul and Silas ſang in the StockesStocks. Sing in the StockesStocks? Nay …
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    … StockesStocks, yet euen then, the righteous doth ſing and reioyce, yea, euen in the StockesStocks, and priſon; Paul and Silas ſang in the StockesStocks. Sing in the StockesStocks? Nay …

    Jeremiah Dyke · Good Conscience · p. 188 · Open in the reader

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    … reioyce, yea, euen in the StockesStocks, and priſon; Paul and Silas ſang in the StockesStocks. Sing in the StockesStocks? Nay more, they can ſing in the flames, and in …
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    … reioyce, yea, euen in the StockesStocks, and priſon; Paul and Silas ſang in the StockesStocks. Sing in the StockesStocks? Nay more, they can ſing in the flames, and in …

    Jeremiah Dyke · Good Conscience · p. 188 · Open in the reader

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    … the StockesStocks, and priſon; Paul and Silas ſang in the StockesStocks. Sing in the StockesStocks? Nay more, they can ſing in the flames, and in the midſt of the …
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    … the StockesStocks, and priſon; Paul and Silas ſang in the StockesStocks. Sing in the StockesStocks? Nay more, they can ſing in the flames, and in the midſt of the …

    Jeremiah Dyke · Good Conscience · p. 188 · Open in the reader