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heavinesseheaviness

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

Puritas changed it
938 times in 408 works
Consistency
94.8% (938 of 989)
Reach if approved
~1,039 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: heaviness
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
989 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (938 changes in 408 works, 94.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 938)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
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    … the eater; ſo the Lords people have light out of darkneſſe, joy out of heavineſſeheaviness, peace out of trouble, life out of death; the wounding arrow, the piercing ſword …
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    … the eater; ſo the Lords people have light out of darkneſſe, joy out of heavineſſeheaviness, peace out of trouble, life out of death; the wounding arrow, the piercing ſword …

    Alexander Grosse · Deaths Deliverance and Elijahs Fiery Chariot · p. 1 · Open in the reader

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    … is ſaid in Eſay, God prepares the garment of gladneſſe for the ſpirit of heavineſſeheaviness. When the Lord ſeeth the ſoule prepared and humbled, he takes meaſure of it …
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    … is ſaid in Eſay, God prepares the garment of gladneſſe for the ſpirit of heavineſſeheaviness. When the Lord ſeeth the ſoule prepared and humbled, he takes meaſure of it …

    Thomas Hooker · The Souls Humiliation · p. 95 · Open in the reader

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    … goe cheerefully about their buſineſſe; but you are ſadde and full of griefe and heavineſſeheaviness, ſurely you are not alive; you could not be thus mournfull, ſadd and heavy …
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    … goe cheerefully about their buſineſſe; but you are ſadde and full of griefe and heavineſſeheaviness, ſurely you are not alive; you could not be thus mournfull, ſadd and heavy …

    Paul Baynes · Commentary Upon Colossians 1 and 2 · p. 191 · Open in the reader

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    Thirdly, he must with heavinesseheaviness of heart give sentence against himselfe, acknowledging that hee is worthy of everlasting hell …
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    Thirdly, he must with heavinesseheaviness of heart give sentence against himselfe, acknowledging that hee is worthy of everlasting hell …

    William Perkins · The Nature and Practice of Repentance · p. 37 · Open in the reader

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    … enimies should bee punished more then we, it were not enough to countervaile the heavinesseheaviness of the crosse, which in the mean while the godly must beare. The Prophet …
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    … enimies should bee punished more then we, it were not enough to countervaile the heavinesseheaviness of the crosse, which in the mean while the godly must beare. The Prophet …

    John Rainolds · The Prophecy of Obadiah Opened and Applied · p. 120 · Open in the reader

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    … are all my distressers. Reproach hath broken my heart, and I am full of heavinesseheaviness; and I looked for some to mone me, but none came; and for comforters …
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    … are all my distressers. Reproach hath broken my heart, and I am full of heavinesseheaviness; and I looked for some to mone me, but none came; and for comforters …

    Henry Ainsworth · Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs · p. 103 · Open in the reader

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    … that is, so sufficiently as to keepe us from being too much overcome with heavinesseheaviness, through the multitude of temptations and afflictions, which in this life wee are subject …
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    … that is, so sufficiently as to keepe us from being too much overcome with heavinesseheaviness, through the multitude of temptations and afflictions, which in this life wee are subject …

    Richard Sibbes · Two Sermons · p. 29 · Open in the reader

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    … therfore you have much more cauſe of joy and gladneſſe, than of griefe and heavineſſeheaviness. If all Parents would but give ſuch example as you have done, both at …
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    … therfore you have much more cauſe of joy and gladneſſe, than of griefe and heavineſſeheaviness. If all Parents would but give ſuch example as you have done, both at …

    Stephen Geree · The Ornament of Women · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (51)

35 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 16 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Meditations and Disquisitions Upon the Seven Consolatory Psalms of David A02119

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    … preſently followed with joyes, that it hath made this Aphoriſme be found true ſtill; HeavineſſeHeaviness may endure for a night, but joy commeth in the morning. And now, O …
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    … preſently followed with joyes, that it hath made this Aphoriſme be found true ſtill; HeavineſſeHeaviness may endure for a night, but joy commeth in the morning. And now, O …

    Sir Richard Baker · Meditations and Disquisitions Upon the Seven Consolatory Psalms of David · p. 71 · Open in the reader

The Doctrine of Fasting and Prayer A03339

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    … like affections, which are therefore called the passions and perturbations of the soule, Prov. 12. 25. HeavinesseHeaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop, that is that that humbleth it …
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    … like affections, which are therefore called the passions and perturbations of the soule, Prov. 12. 25. HeavinesseHeaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop, that is that that humbleth it …

    Arthur Hildersham · The Doctrine of Fasting and Prayer · p. 70 · Open in the reader

The Souls Conflict With Itself A12198

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    … and sinne the cause of th… Experience proves that true which th… Wiseman saies, HeavinesseHeaviness in the he… of a man makes it stoope, but a good … makes it …
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    … and sinne the cause of th… Experience proves that true which th… Wiseman saies, HeavinesseHeaviness in the he… of a man makes it stoope, but a good … makes it …

    Richard Sibbes · The Souls Conflict With Itself · p. 44 · Open in the reader

A Commentary on 1 Peter 1-3 A17385

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    HeavinesseHeaviness. Foure sorts of HeavinesseHeaviness,
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    HeavinesseHeaviness. Foure sorts of HeavinesseHeaviness,

    Nicholas Byfield · A Commentary on 1 Peter 1-3 · Open in the reader

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    HeavinesseHeaviness. Foure sorts of HeavinesseHeaviness,
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    HeavinesseHeaviness. Foure sorts of HeavinesseHeaviness,

    Nicholas Byfield · A Commentary on 1 Peter 1-3 · Open in the reader

Two Treatises A21059

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    … feaſt there is mirth, muſick, and delight in the comfortable uſe of the creatures. HeavineſſeHeaviness of heart, penſiveneſſe, and ſorrow, theſe are baniſht from the houſe of feaſting. Faſting …
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    … feaſt there is mirth, muſick, and delight in the comfortable uſe of the creatures. HeavineſſeHeaviness of heart, penſiveneſſe, and ſorrow, theſe are baniſht from the houſe of feaſting. Faſting …

    Jeremiah Dyke · Two Treatises · p. 182 · Open in the reader

The Art of Logic A26578

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    Neat: as Thinness, Thicknes, Lightnesse, HeavinesseHeaviness, Softnesse, Hardnesse, Smoothnesse, Roughnesse, Slipperinesse, Clamminesse, Drinesse.
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    Neat: as Thinness, Thicknes, Lightnesse, HeavinesseHeaviness, Softnesse, Hardnesse, Smoothnesse, Roughnesse, Slipperinesse, Clamminesse, Drinesse.

    Henry Ainsworth · The Art of Logic · p. 37 · Open in the reader

The Bibles Abstract and Epitome A27502

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    … wholly dir…cted: The ignorant men are instructed: Disordered men reformed: The afflicted in HeavinesseHeaviness comforted: The Dull in Memory quickned: The cold in Zeale enflamed: and the distressed …
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    … wholly dir…cted: The ignorant men are instructed: Disordered men reformed: The afflicted in HeavinesseHeaviness comforted: The Dull in Memory quickned: The cold in Zeale enflamed: and the distressed …

    Richard Bernard · The Bibles Abstract and Epitome · p. 17 · Open in the reader

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    H…mmers to break them, Hardnesse and HeavinesseHeaviness of heart for them.
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    H…mmers to break them, Hardnesse and HeavinesseHeaviness of heart for them.

    Richard Bernard · The Bibles Abstract and Epitome · p. 89 · Open in the reader

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    HeavinesseHeaviness may endure for a night: but joy commeth in the morning.
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    HeavinesseHeaviness may endure for a night: but joy commeth in the morning.

    Richard Bernard · The Bibles Abstract and Epitome · p. 102 · Open in the reader

The Marrow of Divinity A33338

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    … loses its lively colour, and good plight, and droops into a lingring consumption, Prov. 12.25. HeavinesseHeaviness in the heart makes it stoop, Prov. 15.13. By sorrow of heart the spirit is …
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    … loses its lively colour, and good plight, and droops into a lingring consumption, Prov. 12.25. HeavinesseHeaviness in the heart makes it stoop, Prov. 15.13. By sorrow of heart the spirit is …

    Samuel Clarke · The Marrow of Divinity · p. 189 · Open in the reader

Divine Characters in Two Parts A35147

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    HeavineſſeHeaviness is the fore-runner of joy to him that is heavy with godly ſorrow …
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    HeavineſſeHeaviness is the fore-runner of joy to him that is heavy with godly ſorrow …

    Samuel Crook · Divine Characters in Two Parts · p. 301 · Open in the reader

Exposition of Job 1-3 A35389

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    … a light. A man will beare any heavineſſeheaviness, when he can ſay as David, HeavineſſeHeaviness may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. Solomon tells us …
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    … a light. A man will beare any heavineſſeheaviness, when he can ſay as David, HeavineſſeHeaviness may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. Solomon tells us …

    Joseph Caryl · Exposition of Job 1-3 · p. 386 · Open in the reader

Exposition of Job 8-10 A35439

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    … ſhew of comfort, when nothing but ſorrow is in the heart. Grief will out. HeavineſſeHeaviness in the heart, is like the ointment in the right hand, of vvhich Solomon …
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    … ſhew of comfort, when nothing but ſorrow is in the heart. Grief will out. HeavineſſeHeaviness in the heart, is like the ointment in the right hand, of vvhich Solomon …

    Joseph Caryl · Exposition of Job 8-10 · p. 347 · Open in the reader

Westminster Annotations A36467

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    V. 25. HeavinesseHeaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop] Chap. 15. 13. As a heavy burden weighs …
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    V. 25. HeavinesseHeaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop] Chap. 15. 13. As a heavy burden weighs …

    John Downame · Westminster Annotations · Open in the reader

The Cause and Cure of a Wounded Conscience A40653

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    Six Reasons may be assigned thereof. The first drawn from the HeavinesseHeaviness of the hand which makes the Wound; namely, God himslfe, conceived under the notion …
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    Six Reasons may be assigned thereof. The first drawn from the HeavinesseHeaviness of the hand which makes the Wound; namely, God himslfe, conceived under the notion …

    Thomas Fuller · The Cause and Cure of a Wounded Conscience · p. 20 · Open in the reader

A Practical and Polemical Commentary Upon 2 Timothy 3-4 A45335

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    … will be still, the condition of Gods servants, whilest they are in the world. HeavinesseHeaviness and Holinesse, weaknesse, dulnesse, and dutifulnesse, may subsist together in the same soul; as …
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    … will be still, the condition of Gods servants, whilest they are in the world. HeavinesseHeaviness and Holinesse, weaknesse, dulnesse, and dutifulnesse, may subsist together in the same soul; as …

    Thomas Hall · A Practical and Polemical Commentary Upon 2 Timothy 3-4 · p. 130 · Open in the reader

Annotations Upon the Books of Poetry A46807

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    Verſ. 25. HeavineſſeHeaviness in the heart of a man maketh it ſtoop; but a good word maketh …
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    Verſ. 25. HeavineſſeHeaviness in the heart of a man maketh it ſtoop; but a good word maketh …

    Arthur Jackson · Annotations Upon the Books of Poetry · p. 796 · Open in the reader

Annotations Upon the New Testament A50050

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    … bad hearers are compared to stones or stony grounds. 1. For their naturall hardnesse. 2. Coldnesse. 3. HeavinesseHeaviness. 4. Vnprofitablenesse. This bad ground goes beyond the former. 1. It receives the seed. 2. Incontinently. 3. With …
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    … bad hearers are compared to stones or stony grounds. 1. For their naturall hardnesse. 2. Coldnesse. 3. HeavinesseHeaviness. 4. Vnprofitablenesse. This bad ground goes beyond the former. 1. It receives the seed. 2. Incontinently. 3. With …

    Edward Leigh · Annotations Upon the New Testament · p. 35 · Open in the reader

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    HeavinesseHeaviness] Such a heavinesseheaviness as may be seen by the casting down of the countenance …
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    HeavinesseHeaviness] Such a heavinesseheaviness as may be seen by the casting down of the countenance …

    Edward Leigh · Annotations Upon the New Testament · p. 372 · Open in the reader

Commentary on 2 Corinthians 1 A60194

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    … joy; there is a night of affliction, and a morning of joy and prosperity, HeavinesseHeaviness may be in the evening, but joy commeth in the morning.
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    … joy; there is a night of affliction, and a morning of joy and prosperity, HeavinesseHeaviness may be in the evening, but joy commeth in the morning.

    Richard Sibbes · Commentary on 2 Corinthians 1 · p. 175 · Open in the reader

Heaven and Hell Epitomized A62050

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    HeavineſſeHeaviness to a Saint, may endure for the night of this life, but joy wil …
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    HeavineſſeHeaviness to a Saint, may endure for the night of this life, but joy wil …

    George Swinnock · Heaven and Hell Epitomized · p. 122 · Open in the reader

The Theater of Gods Judgments Part 2 A64252

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    … passage to Hell and eternall damnation. The fourth beares the title of Dulnesse or HeavinesseHeaviness, when we solely incline our selves to drowsinesse and sleep; and then are the …
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    … passage to Hell and eternall damnation. The fourth beares the title of Dulnesse or HeavinesseHeaviness, when we solely incline our selves to drowsinesse and sleep; and then are the …

    Thomas Taylor · The Theater of Gods Judgments Part 2 · p. 46 · Open in the reader

Commentary Upon Genesis 1-3 A65748

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    … are in the light, prepare for darkneſſe, expecting ſtill a mixture of Joy and HeavineſſeHeaviness, as being, 1. Our portion allotted us by God himſelf, Eccleſ. 7.14. which, upon that very …
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    … are in the light, prepare for darkneſſe, expecting ſtill a mixture of Joy and HeavineſſeHeaviness, as being, 1. Our portion allotted us by God himſelf, Eccleſ. 7.14. which, upon that very …

    John White · Commentary Upon Genesis 1-3 · p. 31 · Open in the reader

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    … our advancement with abaſement, (as he dealt with S. Paul, 2 Cor, 12.7.) our Conſolations with HeavineſſeHeaviness of ſpirit, our Holineſſe with manifold Corruptions. And thus it pleaſeth him to deal …
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    … our advancement with abaſement, (as he dealt with S. Paul, 2 Cor, 12.7.) our Conſolations with HeavineſſeHeaviness of ſpirit, our Holineſſe with manifold Corruptions. And thus it pleaſeth him to deal …

    John White · Commentary Upon Genesis 1-3 · p. 123 · Open in the reader

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    … and the expectation of the Reſt and eaſe at hand, with the bitterneſſe of HeavineſſeHeaviness by trialls and afflictions, that are upon us at preſent: Conſidering that God Himſelf …
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    … and the expectation of the Reſt and eaſe at hand, with the bitterneſſe of HeavineſſeHeaviness by trialls and afflictions, that are upon us at preſent: Conſidering that God Himſelf …

    John White · Commentary Upon Genesis 1-3 · p. 41 · Open in the reader

A Complete Christian Dictionary A66593

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    HeavinesseHeaviness]
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    HeavinesseHeaviness]

    Thomas Wilson · A Complete Christian Dictionary · p. 297 · Open in the reader

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    Isa. 29. 2. HeavinesseHeaviness and sorrow. They are of the same notion, and arising from the same root …
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    Isa. 29. 2. HeavinesseHeaviness and sorrow. They are of the same notion, and arising from the same root …

    Thomas Wilson · A Complete Christian Dictionary · p. 297 · Open in the reader

Of Peace and Contentment of Mind A81837

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    … loſeth his lively colour and his good plight, and droops into a lingering conſumption. HeavineſſeHeaviness in the heart of man makes it ſtoop. By ſorrow of heart the ſpirit …
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    … loſeth his lively colour and his good plight, and droops into a lingering conſumption. HeavineſſeHeaviness in the heart of man makes it ſtoop. By ſorrow of heart the ſpirit …

    Peter du Moulin Jr · Of Peace and Contentment of Mind · p. 459 · Open in the reader

A Dry Rod Blooming and Fruit Bearing A86695

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    … laid upon him: As much is here allowed as on the contrary was prohibited, 1. HeavineſſeHeaviness of ſpirit within, diſcovering that we are deeply affected with Gods frownes and chaſtenings …
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    … laid upon him: As much is here allowed as on the contrary was prohibited, 1. HeavineſſeHeaviness of ſpirit within, diſcovering that we are deeply affected with Gods frownes and chaſtenings …

    George Hughes · A Dry Rod Blooming and Fruit Bearing · p. 7 · Open in the reader

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    … as the teares did ſtreame down from her eyes without: this is heavineſſeheaviness impreſſed. 2. HeavineſſeHeaviness of carriage, or outwardly expreſſed, is under this affirmation and allowance alſo: weeping, faſting …
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    … as the teares did ſtreame down from her eyes without: this is heavineſſeheaviness impreſſed. 2. HeavineſſeHeaviness of carriage, or outwardly expreſſed, is under this affirmation and allowance alſo: weeping, faſting …

    George Hughes · A Dry Rod Blooming and Fruit Bearing · p. 7 · Open in the reader

The Mystery of the Gospel Vindicated and Socinianism Examined A90295

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    … the most perplexing, grievous, and burthensome passions, that humane nature is obnoxious unto, as, 1. HeavinesseHeaviness, His soul was heavy unto death, Math: 26. 37.
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    … the most perplexing, grievous, and burthensome passions, that humane nature is obnoxious unto, as, 1. HeavinesseHeaviness, His soul was heavy unto death, Math: 26. 37.

    John Owen · The Mystery of the Gospel Vindicated and Socinianism Examined · p. 561 · Open in the reader

Moses Prayer A93404

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    … calls our afflictions light and momentary. And God indureth but a while in Anger. HeavineſſeHeaviness may indure for a night, but joy commeth in the morning. And the reaſons …
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    … calls our afflictions light and momentary. And God indureth but a while in Anger. HeavineſſeHeaviness may indure for a night, but joy commeth in the morning. And the reaſons …

    Samuel Smith · Moses Prayer · p. 485 · Open in the reader

Six Sermons A96530

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    … at his right hand for evermore, therefore let us never be caſt downe with HeavineſſeHeaviness, when any of our deareſt friends are lifted up with joy at that happineſſe …
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    … at his right hand for evermore, therefore let us never be caſt downe with HeavineſſeHeaviness, when any of our deareſt friends are lifted up with joy at that happineſſe …

    Edward Willan · Six Sermons · p. 61 · Open in the reader

None but Christ A97021

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    … to them? Yea ſuch will be willing to receive Chriſt upon his own termes; HeavineſſeHeaviness in the heart will make it ſtoope; As we ſee Paul who then cryed …
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    … to them? Yea ſuch will be willing to receive Chriſt upon his own termes; HeavineſſeHeaviness in the heart will make it ſtoope; As we ſee Paul who then cryed …

    John Wall · None but Christ · p. 153 · Open in the reader