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Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2034 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

scriptursscriptures

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

Puritas changed it
524 times in 130 works
Consistency
100% (524 of 524)
Reach if approved
~551 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: scriptures
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
524 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (524 changes in 130 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 524)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … ſome follow him, and others followe him, doe you trye the doctrines by the ScriptursScriptures, as the men of Beroea did, and chooſe that which is beſt, and ſoundeſt …
    With rule
    … ſome follow him, and others followe him, doe you trye the doctrines by the ScriptursScriptures, as the men of Beroea did, and chooſe that which is beſt, and ſoundeſt …

    Henry Smith · Sermon on 1 Thessalonians 5 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … hope in Iesus Christ: which is moste largely handeled in many places of the ScriptursScriptures at large, and euen (as it were) discoursed vpon of purpose. Especially by the …
    With rule
    … hope in Iesus Christ: which is moste largely handeled in many places of the ScriptursScriptures at large, and euen (as it were) discoursed vpon of purpose. Especially by the …

    John Udall · Obedience to the Gospel · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … how carelesly the worlde doth deride those things which are spokē in ye holy scriptursscriptures cōcerning ye dissolutiō of this frame of ye world, & the faithfull are somtime a …
    With rule
    … how carelesly the worlde doth deride those things which are spokē in ye holy scriptursscriptures cōcerning ye dissolutiō of this frame of ye world, & the faithfull are somtime a …

    William Fulke · Prelections Upon Revelation · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … De diffinitionibus potest esse scientia. A scyence may be of dyffynicions. For of the scriptursscriptures can we make neither art nor sciēce nomore than we cā make an arte …
    With rule
    … De diffinitionibus potest esse scientia. A scyence may be of dyffynicions. For of the scriptursscriptures can we make neither art nor sciēce nomore than we cā make an arte …

    John Bale · Against a Rank Papist · p. xxvi · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … in the fyre for vtterynge the truthe. Antiochus cō maunded the bokes of the ſcriptursscriptures to be brent alſo, and the readers of them to be putt vnto deathe …
    With rule
    … in the fyre for vtterynge the truthe. Antiochus cō maunded the bokes of the ſcriptursscriptures to be brent alſo, and the readers of them to be putt vnto deathe …

    John Bale · A Disclosing or Opening of the Man of Sin · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … a fore tyme, are wrytten for our learnynge, that we through pacience & comforte of scriptursscriptures, might haue hope. In takynge thys parte of scripture (moste nobill audience) I playe …
    With rule
    … a fore tyme, are wrytten for our learnynge, that we through pacience & comforte of scriptursscriptures, might haue hope. In takynge thys parte of scripture (moste nobill audience) I playe …

    Hugh Latimer · First Sermon to His Majesty · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … henseforth there nedeth no reiteraciō nor no renewing therof. If ther were no mo scriptursscriptures to cōdemne this wicked opinion of the Sacrifice of the masse but thys one …
    With rule
    … henseforth there nedeth no reiteraciō nor no renewing therof. If ther were no mo scriptursscriptures to cōdemne this wicked opinion of the Sacrifice of the masse but thys one …

    Thomas Becon · The Jewel of Joy · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … particular application. Such a general assent there is in the Diuels, who know the ScriptursScriptures to be of God, and acknowledge the things contained in them to be in …
    With rule
    … particular application. Such a general assent there is in the Diuels, who know the ScriptursScriptures to be of God, and acknowledge the things contained in them to be in …

    William Pemble · A Plea for Grace · p. 226 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.