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

preceptesprecepts

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

Puritas changed it: 575 times in 194 works
Consistency: 94.5% (575 of 608)
Reach if approved: ~639 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: precepts
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 608 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (575 changes in 194 works, 94.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 575)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

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… Hic digitus Dei, This is the Finger of God. Thus, one Moses shall giue preceptesprecepts to sixe hundred thousand men, able to beare Armes. One Peter conuert three thousand …
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… Hic digitus Dei, This is the Finger of God. Thus, one Moses shall giue preceptesprecepts to sixe hundred thousand men, able to beare Armes. One Peter conuert three thousand …
Thomas Adams · Heaven and Earth Reconciled · p. 3 · Open in the reader
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… that wyll not fayle them. Non other doctryne do they couete / nor yet other preceptesprecepts of lyuynge. Though they be here in the earthye / yet dwelle they not vpō …
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… that wyll not fayle them. Non other doctryne do they couete / nor yet other preceptesprecepts of lyuynge. Though they be here in the earthye / yet dwelle they not vpō …
John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation 2 · p. 58 · Open in the reader
Printed
… mention in diuers places, That they worſhipped God in vaine, teaching for doctrine mens preceptesprecepts. They made their proſelites the Children of Hell Two fold more then they were …
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… mention in diuers places, That they worſhipped God in vaine, teaching for doctrine mens preceptesprecepts. They made their proſelites the Children of Hell Two fold more then they were …
Henry Jacob · Defense of the Churches and Ministry of England · p. 5 · Open in the reader
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… approched againſt hi. Thou art become foliſh (ſaieth Samuel) y^u haſt not obſerued y^e preceptesprecepts of y^e lord, which he hath cōmā ded y^e. Truely y^e lord had prepared …
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… approched againſt hi. Thou art become foliſh (ſaieth Samuel) y^u haſt not obſerued y^e preceptesprecepts of y^e lord, which he hath cōmā ded y^e. Truely y^e lord had prepared …
John Knox · Letter to Lady Mary · Open in the reader
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… hym w^t a cōpanion for his comforte: He gaue vnto him incō tinētly certeyne preceptesprecepts, which he commaunded moste diligently to be obserued, that is, to vse all his …
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… hym w^t a cōpanion for his comforte: He gaue vnto him incō tinētly certeyne preceptesprecepts, which he commaunded moste diligently to be obserued, that is, to vse all his …
David Lindsay · The Tragical Death of David Beaton · Open in the reader
Printed
Doctryne and preceptesprecepts of men.
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Doctryne and preceptesprecepts of men.
Henrich Bullinger · Historical Table of the Bible · Open in the reader
Printed
… enemies, as he hymselfe testifieth, sayeng: If ye walke in my commaundementes, & & kepe my preceptesprecepts, ye shall pursue your enemies, and they shall fall before you. Fyue of you …
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… enemies, as he hymselfe testifieth, sayeng: If ye walke in my commaundementes, & & kepe my preceptesprecepts, ye shall pursue your enemies, and they shall fall before you. Fyue of you …
Thomas Becon · The New Policy of War · Open in the reader
Printed
… of this world, had rather be inhabitantes of the cursed earthe, carelesly contemning the preceptesprecepts of God, they haue no right in the holy citie, into which nothing that …
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… of this world, had rather be inhabitantes of the cursed earthe, carelesly contemning the preceptesprecepts of God, they haue no right in the holy citie, into which nothing that …
William Fulke · Prelections Upon Revelation · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (33)

21 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 12 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Catechism A01712

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… is corrupte: therefore GOD ſayeth, they woorſhippe mee in vaine, teachinge for doctrines the PreceptesPrecepts of men.
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… is corrupte: therefore GOD ſayeth, they woorſhippe mee in vaine, teachinge for doctrines the PreceptesPrecepts of men.
George Gifford · A Catechism · Open in the reader

Heaven and Earth Reconciled A02054

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… iter per verba, breue et compendiosum per exempla,) It is a long way by PreceptesPrecepts, a short by Examples: The force of a hundred good Sermons, is loft by …
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… iter per verba, breue et compendiosum per exempla,) It is a long way by PreceptesPrecepts, a short by Examples: The force of a hundred good Sermons, is loft by …
Thomas Adams · Heaven and Earth Reconciled · Open in the reader

Attestation of Many Learned Godly and Famous Divines A04207

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… hee will ſay perhaps, that he graunteth this change of the Apoſtolike Ordinances and PreceptesPrecepts only Vpon neceſsitie. Fy! What neceſſitie may breake the Apoſtles Ordinances and PreceptesPrecepts? Yea …
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… hee will ſay perhaps, that he graunteth this change of the Apoſtolike Ordinances and PreceptesPrecepts only Vpon neceſsitie. Fy! What neceſſitie may breake the Apoſtles Ordinances and PreceptesPrecepts? Yea …
Henry Jacob · Attestation of Many Learned Godly and Famous Divines · p. 140 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and PreceptesPrecepts only Vpon neceſsitie. Fy! What neceſſitie may breake the Apoſtles Ordinances and PreceptesPrecepts? Yea ſuch preceptesprecepts, whereof the Apoſtle ſaith, I charge thee in the ſight of …
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… and PreceptesPrecepts only Vpon neceſsitie. Fy! What neceſſitie may breake the Apoſtles Ordinances and PreceptesPrecepts? Yea ſuch preceptesprecepts, whereof the Apoſtle ſaith, I charge thee in the ſight of …
Henry Jacob · Attestation of Many Learned Godly and Famous Divines · p. 140 · Open in the reader

Letter to Lady Mary A04924

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… any thinge before God) inuented in y^e coūſal…ye neuer are able to proue. PreceptesPrecepts were geuē, but neither ſuche, nor to that entent that ye alledge. All preceptesprecepts …
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… any thinge before God) inuented in y^e coūſal…ye neuer are able to proue. PreceptesPrecepts were geuē, but neither ſuche, nor to that entent that ye alledge. All preceptesprecepts …
John Knox · Letter to Lady Mary · Open in the reader

Historical Table of the Bible A06660

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PreceptesPrecepts ¶ Seke in doctrine.
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PreceptesPrecepts ¶ Seke in doctrine.
Henrich Bullinger · Historical Table of the Bible · Open in the reader

Sermons Upon all the Sunday Gospels A06932

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… be the chiefe thynges of the worlde. And the Philosophers haue prescribed Rules and PreceptesPrecepts of the Offices and dueties of Righteousnesse, and of other vertues, that menne myght …
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… be the chiefe thynges of the worlde. And the Philosophers haue prescribed Rules and PreceptesPrecepts of the Offices and dueties of Righteousnesse, and of other vertues, that menne myght …
Thomas Becon · Sermons Upon all the Sunday Gospels · p. 242 · Open in the reader
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… vndefyled creatures, whyche alwayes obeye God, and neuer doo declyne and swarue frome hys PreceptesPrecepts: But thys is the truthe of the matter, hee gaue hym to the worlde …
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… vndefyled creatures, whyche alwayes obeye God, and neuer doo declyne and swarue frome hys PreceptesPrecepts: But thys is the truthe of the matter, hee gaue hym to the worlde …
Thomas Becon · Sermons Upon all the Sunday Gospels · p. 292 · Open in the reader

History of the First Ten Persecutions A13296

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… Master Caruer of this most holy banquet, & who haue acquainted themselues better with his PreceptesPrecepts, than with the heauenlie doctrine of the Apostles: yet in this point they haue …
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… Master Caruer of this most holy banquet, & who haue acquainted themselues better with his PreceptesPrecepts, than with the heauenlie doctrine of the Apostles: yet in this point they haue …
Patrick Simson · History of the First Ten Persecutions · p. 148 · Open in the reader
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… ancient Fathers, and the Pastorall booke of Gregorie, to the ende, that by the PreceptesPrecepts contained in these bookes, the enormitie of mens liues might be corrected. In the …
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… ancient Fathers, and the Pastorall booke of Gregorie, to the ende, that by the PreceptesPrecepts contained in these bookes, the enormitie of mens liues might be corrected. In the …
Patrick Simson · History of the First Ten Persecutions · p. 193 · Open in the reader
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… necessarie for the estate of this time. The 9. and 10. Canon, prescribeth to the Clergie PreceptesPrecepts of a modest and sober life, with abstinence from the delicate pleasures of the …
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… necessarie for the estate of this time. The 9. and 10. Canon, prescribeth to the Clergie PreceptesPrecepts of a modest and sober life, with abstinence from the delicate pleasures of the …
Patrick Simson · History of the First Ten Persecutions · p. 193 · Open in the reader

Answer to a Supplicatory Epistle for the Pretended Catholics A13877

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… in the former, and no other in this, then ſhould there not bee tenne PreceptesPrecepts and Commaundementes but onely nine. This alſo the Apoſtle teacheth, who declareth how harde …
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… in the former, and no other in this, then ſhould there not bee tenne PreceptesPrecepts and Commaundementes but onely nine. This alſo the Apoſtle teacheth, who declareth how harde …
Walter Travers · Answer to a Supplicatory Epistle for the Pretended Catholics · p. 244 · Open in the reader

Commentary on Romans A14353

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… another place teacheth, that he will make vs able to walke in his wayes. PreceptesPrecepts therefore and exhortations, and conditions are to that end added, that we ſhould vnderſtand …
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… another place teacheth, that he will make vs able to walke in his wayes. PreceptesPrecepts therefore and exhortations, and conditions are to that end added, that we ſhould vnderſtand …
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentary on Romans · Open in the reader

The Art of Rhetoric A15530

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… other talke of learnynge, earnestlye to wyshe that ye myghte one daye see the PreceptesPrecepts of Rhetorique sette forthe by me in Englyshe, as I hadde erste done the …
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… other talke of learnynge, earnestlye to wyshe that ye myghte one daye see the PreceptesPrecepts of Rhetorique sette forthe by me in Englyshe, as I hadde erste done the …
Thomas Wilson · The Art of Rhetoric · Open in the reader

Certain Precepts of the Instruction of Youth A15875

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❧Certeyne PreceptesPrecepts / gathered by Hulrichus Zuinglius / declaring howe the Ingenious youth ought to be inſtructed and …
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❧Certeyne PreceptesPrecepts / gathered by Hulrichus Zuinglius / declaring howe the Ingenious youth ought to be inſtructed and …
Ulrich Zwingli · Certain Precepts of the Instruction of Youth · Open in the reader
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… called brefe ſentences partetly declaring the abſolute meaning of the thing) of the fyrſt PreceptesPrecepts.
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… called brefe ſentences partetly declaring the abſolute meaning of the thing) of the fyrſt PreceptesPrecepts.
Ulrich Zwingli · Certain Precepts of the Instruction of Youth · Open in the reader
Printed
The Aphoryſmes of the laſte PreceptesPrecepts.
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The Aphoryſmes of the laſte PreceptesPrecepts.
Ulrich Zwingli · Certain Precepts of the Instruction of Youth · Open in the reader

Harmony of the Gospels A16078

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PreceptesPrecepts differ from iustifyinges, 6. 6.
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PreceptesPrecepts differ from iustifyinges, 6. 6.
John Calvin · Harmony of the Gospels · Open in the reader

The Last Battle of the Soul A16539

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… droue, which either by secret hypocrisie or publicke prophaning, biddeth Battells to all the PreceptesPrecepts of Gods Lawe: Sharpe is that sauce which commeth after the sweet…st worldlie …
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… droue, which either by secret hypocrisie or publicke prophaning, biddeth Battells to all the PreceptesPrecepts of Gods Lawe: Sharpe is that sauce which commeth after the sweet…st worldlie …
Zacharie Boyd · The Last Battle of the Soul · p. 1244 · Open in the reader

Twenty-Two Sermons on Psalm 119 A17724

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4 Thou haſt commaunded to keepe thy PreceptesPrecepts diligently.
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4 Thou haſt commaunded to keepe thy PreceptesPrecepts diligently.
John Calvin · Twenty-Two Sermons on Psalm 119 · Open in the reader

A Short Explanation of Hebrews A20414

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… in the Fayth, and bolde profession thereof, be givith them a number of wholsome PreceptesPrecepts, for ordering of their lyfe, and conversation.
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… in the Fayth, and bolde profession thereof, be givith them a number of wholsome PreceptesPrecepts, for ordering of their lyfe, and conversation.
David Dickson · A Short Explanation of Hebrews · p. 293 · Open in the reader