Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2220 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

writingeswritings

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

Puritas changed it: 716 times in 197 works
Consistency: 99.0% (716 of 723)
Reach if approved: ~760 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: writings
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 723 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (716 changes in 197 works, 99.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 716)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… vnderſtand the nature of faith, thou ſhalt perceiue nothing or very litle in the writingeswritings of Paul.
With rule
… vnderſtand the nature of faith, thou ſhalt perceiue nothing or very litle in the writingeswritings of Paul.
Martin Luther · Collected Sermons · p. 308 · Open in the reader
Printed
… it not for Thomas Aquinas, the olde Serpent would easily destroy the Church, whose writingeswritings were confirmed by myracle (or else Fame is a lyar) the Crucisixe speaking to …
With rule
… it not for Thomas Aquinas, the olde Serpent would easily destroy the Church, whose writingeswritings were confirmed by myracle (or else Fame is a lyar) the Crucisixe speaking to …
Thomas Bedford · The Sin Unto Death · p. 9 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſacraments; the former I haue written, the latter I neuer did; & they doe my writingeswritings great iniurie, that report the contrary.
With rule
… ſacraments; the former I haue written, the latter I neuer did; & they doe my writingeswritings great iniurie, that report the contrary.
John Penry · Defense of Writings on the Ignorant Ministry · p. 61 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Can. 63 You should haue done more wisely, to haue confirmed it, by theyr Canonicall writingeswritings, rather then by those Apocriphall Canons, which if we should receiue thē as authentical …
With rule
… Can. 63 You should haue done more wisely, to haue confirmed it, by theyr Canonicall writingeswritings, rather then by those Apocriphall Canons, which if we should receiue thē as authentical …
William Fulke · A Brief Confutation of a Popish Discourse · Open in the reader
Printed
… doe you leaue to the scriptures of God aboue other writingeswritings? nay all other writingeswritings are in better case then the scriptures are with you. For other writings may …
With rule
… doe you leaue to the scriptures of God aboue other writingeswritings? nay all other writingeswritings are in better case then the scriptures are with you. For other writings may …
William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 218 · Open in the reader
Printed
4. The Application also of the pretended writingeswritings of the most ancient Doctors, vnto those times where-in they lived, will serue …
With rule
4. The Application also of the pretended writingeswritings of the most ancient Doctors, vnto those times where-in they lived, will serue …
William Guild · Popish Glorying in Antiquity Turned to their Shame · p. 145 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Scriptures) doe paſſe by, ſeldome or never touching them in their Teachings, or writingeswritings, being taynted (wee doubt not) with their owne inſufficiencie therein, which if they would …
With rule
… the Scriptures) doe paſſe by, ſeldome or never touching them in their Teachings, or writingeswritings, being taynted (wee doubt not) with their owne inſufficiencie therein, which if they would …
Thomas Helwys · Short Declaration of the Mystery of Iniquity · p. 5 · Open in the reader
Printed
… wrought and fullie finiſhed on the Croſſe, euen to the Cancelling of the very writingeswritings, and taking away of whatſoeuer was anie way againſt vs: as hath bene ſhewed …
With rule
… wrought and fullie finiſhed on the Croſſe, euen to the Cancelling of the very writingeswritings, and taking away of whatſoeuer was anie way againſt vs: as hath bene ſhewed …
Henry Jacob · The Sufferings and Victory of Christ in the Work of Redemption · p. 163 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (7)

5 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Gallants Burden A01573

Printed
… of errours, of Vices; so hard is it to distinguish betwixt profitable and vaine WritingesWritings; and hauing culled out the best, so easie is it with much good Meate …
With rule
… of errours, of Vices; so hard is it to distinguish betwixt profitable and vaine WritingesWritings; and hauing culled out the best, so easie is it with much good Meate …
Thomas Adams · The Gallants Burden · Open in the reader
Printed
… as it hath Patrons to defende it: But I find not onely the best WritingesWritings of the best Men, but euen some of those Holy Bookes, inspired from Heauen …
With rule
… as it hath Patrons to defende it: But I find not onely the best WritingesWritings of the best Men, but euen some of those Holy Bookes, inspired from Heauen …
Thomas Adams · The Gallants Burden · Open in the reader

Popish Glorying in Antiquity Turned to their Shame A02358

Printed
… answereth, Non multum fidendum est Graecis condicibus Ignatii: that is, (sayeth hee) The Greeke WritingesWritings of Ignatius, are not greatlie to bee trusted.
With rule
… answereth, Non multum fidendum est Graecis condicibus Ignatii: that is, (sayeth hee) The Greeke WritingesWritings of Ignatius, are not greatlie to bee trusted.
William Guild · Popish Glorying in Antiquity Turned to their Shame · p. 77 · Open in the reader

The Bee Hive of the Romish Church A07026

Printed
… see, that the Church is aboue the Scriptures, and aboue all the doctrine and WritingesWritings of the olde Fathers, yet they thinke, that her power and authoritie maye be …
With rule
… see, that the Church is aboue the Scriptures, and aboue all the doctrine and WritingesWritings of the olde Fathers, yet they thinke, that her power and authoritie maye be …
Phillips Marnix · The Bee Hive of the Romish Church · p. 37 · Open in the reader

Commentary Upon Philemon A22481

Printed
… into the hand of the Caldeans: Men ſhall buy Fieldes for Siluer, and make WritingesWritings, and ſeale them, and take witneſſes in the Lande of Beniamin, and rounde about …
With rule
… into the hand of the Caldeans: Men ſhall buy Fieldes for Siluer, and make WritingesWritings, and ſeale them, and take witneſſes in the Lande of Beniamin, and rounde about …
William Attersoll · Commentary Upon Philemon · p. 385 · Open in the reader