Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2391 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

selvsselves

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

Puritas changed it: 418 times in 155 works
Consistency: 99.7% (418 of 419)
Reach if approved: ~579 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: selves
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 551 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: 132 places (not counted against it)

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (418 changes in 155 works, 99.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 418)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… try our hearts for us, or to put us to the triall of our ſelvsselves any more, we ſhall ſtand, as he ſets us up to all eternity.
With rule
… try our hearts for us, or to put us to the triall of our ſelvsselves any more, we ſhall ſtand, as he ſets us up to all eternity.
Joseph Caryl · Exposition of Job 4-7 · p. 670 · Open in the reader
Printed
… obeied in things that are good; I know not why wee should trouble our selvsselves further, then the Holie Ghost doth give us caus, by limiting and defining the …
With rule
… obeied in things that are good; I know not why wee should trouble our selvsselves further, then the Holie Ghost doth give us caus, by limiting and defining the …
John Dury · A Second Parcel of Objections Answered · p. 62 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ly hid of themselvs, and cannot be descried and discovered of us concerning our selvsselves save by their effects and fruits; the Apostles according to the Rule, a notioribus …
With rule
… ly hid of themselvs, and cannot be descried and discovered of us concerning our selvsselves save by their effects and fruits; the Apostles according to the Rule, a notioribus …
Thomas Gataker · Antidote Against Error Concerning Justification · p. 3 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Iſraelites, ye are idle, ye are idle; tis but our duty to buſy our ſelvsselves with both hands, to build with the one and ſtrive with the other to …
With rule
… Iſraelites, ye are idle, ye are idle; tis but our duty to buſy our ſelvsselves with both hands, to build with the one and ſtrive with the other to …
Thomas Hodges · A Scripture Catechism · Open in the reader
Printed
… trueth of this position; why should we either doubt of it, or give our selvsselves rest, till we enjoy the happie experience of it? wicked men putting far from …
With rule
… trueth of this position; why should we either doubt of it, or give our selvsselves rest, till we enjoy the happie experience of it? wicked men putting far from …
Alexander Leighton · Appeal to the Parliament · p. 251 · Open in the reader
Printed
… disgrace, be not too forward. Therefore there must be a perpetuall deniall of our selvsselves against our whole thwart nature. Those that are Christians know experimentally what belongs to …
With rule
… disgrace, be not too forward. Therefore there must be a perpetuall deniall of our selvsselves against our whole thwart nature. Those that are Christians know experimentally what belongs to …
Richard Sibbes · Yea and Amen · p. 422 · Open in the reader
Printed
Vse. This may serve to admonish us, to prepare our selvsselves accordingly against this comming of the Lord. For this use the Apostle presseth and …
With rule
Vse. This may serve to admonish us, to prepare our selvsselves accordingly against this comming of the Lord. For this use the Apostle presseth and …
William Ames · Analytical Exposition of Peters Epistles · p. 245 · Open in the reader
Printed
… take heed how we build, for herein we do not only endanger our own ſelvsselves, but others. The blind lead the blind, ſaith our Saviour, and both fall in …
With rule
… take heed how we build, for herein we do not only endanger our own ſelvsselves, but others. The blind lead the blind, ſaith our Saviour, and both fall in …
Anthony Burgess · The Scripture Directory for Church Officers and People · p. 143 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.