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Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1993 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

lampelamp

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

Puritas changed it
817 times in 423 works
Consistency
99.8% (817 of 818)
Reach if approved
~859 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: lamp
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
818 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (817 changes in 423 works, 99.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 817)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … will to us, is to faith as a ſeaſonable ſupply of oile to a lampelamp, which continueth to preſerve the light thereof. Now by faith we have boldneſſe and …
    With rule
    … will to us, is to faith as a ſeaſonable ſupply of oile to a lampelamp, which continueth to preſerve the light thereof. Now by faith we have boldneſſe and …

    William Gouge · The Saints Sacrifice · p. 100 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … were not mad-mē, or worse, they would neuer set vp ignorance as a LampeLamp to light men to heauen: assuring it for the damme to produce, and nurse …
    With rule
    … were not mad-mē, or worse, they would neuer set vp ignorance as a LampeLamp to light men to heauen: assuring it for the damme to produce, and nurse …

    Thomas Adams · Mystical Bedlam · p. 39 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    And their iust sauer, as a lampelamp extende hys lyght.
    With rule
    And their iust sauer, as a lampelamp extende hys lyght.

    John Bale · A Tragedy Manifesting the Chief Promises of God Unto Man · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … knew that the Law of God was a light vnto their feet, and a lampelamp vnto their paths, and God did call them to the Law and to the …
    With rule
    … knew that the Law of God was a light vnto their feet, and a lampelamp vnto their paths, and God did call them to the Law and to the …

    William Hinde · The Office and Use of the Moral Law · p. 98 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … understanding, and a spotlesse conversation; a glow-worme requisite in the braine, and a lampelamp in the hand of a Minister of the Gospell. Loe a cloud of witnesses …
    With rule
    … understanding, and a spotlesse conversation; a glow-worme requisite in the braine, and a lampelamp in the hand of a Minister of the Gospell. Loe a cloud of witnesses …

    John Jackson · The Worthy Churchman · p. 11 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … prepared for Gods children, albeit they haue neither oyle in their Lamps, nor a LampeLamp in their hands. Historie telleth me that Marcus Marcellus a Romane dedicated a Temple …
    With rule
    … prepared for Gods children, albeit they haue neither oyle in their Lamps, nor a LampeLamp in their hands. Historie telleth me that Marcus Marcellus a Romane dedicated a Temple …

    David Lindsay · The Godly Mans Journey to Heaven · p. 578 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … the weeds; why hath not then the good ground such cursed effects? The euerlasting lampelamp of heauen sends forth his sauing rayes: and the sacred deawes of the Gospell …
    With rule
    … the weeds; why hath not then the good ground such cursed effects? The euerlasting lampelamp of heauen sends forth his sauing rayes: and the sacred deawes of the Gospell …

    Thomas Adams · A Divine Herbal Together with a Forest of Thorns · p. 111 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … they were. Gods Church may stand firme and stable still, though wee fall. The LampeLamp may burne cleare else-where, though the Light be done out with vs. If …
    With rule
    … they were. Gods Church may stand firme and stable still, though wee fall. The LampeLamp may burne cleare else-where, though the Light be done out with vs. If …

    Thomas Gataker · An Anniversary Memorial · p. 22 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 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.

A Candle Lighted at the Lamp of Sacred Scripture B07429

  • Printed
    A CANDLE LIGHTED AT THE LAMPELAMP OF SACRED SCRIPTVRES. Or A Catechiſme conteining all truths fundamentall, and none but fundamentalls.
    With rule
    A CANDLE LIGHTED AT THE LAMPELAMP OF SACRED SCRIPTVRES. Or A Catechiſme conteining all truths fundamentall, and none but fundamentalls.

    Richard Byfield · A Candle Lighted at the Lamp of Sacred Scripture · Open in the reader