Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2413 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

searchesearch

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

Puritas changed it: 418 times in 148 works
Consistency: 94.7% (418 of 441)
Reach if approved: ~463 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: search
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 441 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (418 changes in 148 works, 94.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 418)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

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2 For so moche as Christ hath willed vs diligentlye to searchesearch the scripturs / and the holye Ghost here doth committ the iudgement of this secrete …
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2 For so moche as Christ hath willed vs diligentlye to searchesearch the scripturs / and the holye Ghost here doth committ the iudgement of this secrete …
John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation 2 · Open in the reader
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… wicked (if it be not worſe) with the tyme of Ieremye. Now let vs ſearchesearch what folowed in Iuda? Miſchefe vpon miſchefe / notwithſtādinge the continuall and long cryeng of …
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… wicked (if it be not worſe) with the tyme of Ieremye. Now let vs ſearchesearch what folowed in Iuda? Miſchefe vpon miſchefe / notwithſtādinge the continuall and long cryeng of …
John Knox · A Godly Letter to the Faithful in London · Open in the reader
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… come. This is it therfore that Salomon ſayth: I haue founde this by my ſearchesearch, that no mā liueth contented with his eſtate, that all men caſt their eyes …
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… come. This is it therfore that Salomon ſayth: I haue founde this by my ſearchesearch, that no mā liueth contented with his eſtate, that all men caſt their eyes …
Martin Luther · Exposition of Ecclesiastes · p. 133 · Open in the reader
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… Owles and blynd Andabates looke vpon the holye scriptures? w^t what spirite do they searchesearch the misteries of God? Let vs heare what y^e Psalmograph sayth: Prayse ye the …
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… Owles and blynd Andabates looke vpon the holye scriptures? w^t what spirite do they searchesearch the misteries of God? Let vs heare what y^e Psalmograph sayth: Prayse ye the …
Thomas Becon · A New Years Gift More Precious than Gold · Open in the reader
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… to trie and search them: but when they search themselues, then God spareth to searchesearch them by his iust iudgements.
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… to trie and search them: but when they search themselues, then God spareth to searchesearch them by his iust iudgements.
William Perkins · Exposition of Zephaniah 2 · p. 26 · Open in the reader
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… eight. In the meane tyme the Chriſtian Reader, which loueth with godly reuerence to ſearchesearch the Scriptures, in ſearchinge ſhall finde that there be many more giftes of the …
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… eight. In the meane tyme the Chriſtian Reader, which loueth with godly reuerence to ſearchesearch the Scriptures, in ſearchinge ſhall finde that there be many more giftes of the …
Thomas Sampson · Warning to Take Heed of Fowlers Psalter · p. 18 · Open in the reader
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… cause. As because of an ēsample we fyrst se the mone darke, and then searchesearch the cause, and fynde that the puttyng of the earth betwene the sonne and …
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… cause. As because of an ēsample we fyrst se the mone darke, and then searchesearch the cause, and fynde that the puttyng of the earth betwene the sonne and …
William Tyndale · The Parable of the Wicked Mammon · Open in the reader
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… this life, be called of holy writers, conformably to scripture, Inferna. But with curious searchesearch of these thinges, as we be not charged, so to beleue that iustice is …
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… this life, be called of holy writers, conformably to scripture, Inferna. But with curious searchesearch of these thinges, as we be not charged, so to beleue that iustice is …
William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 171 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (23)

19 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 4 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Sermon Preached at the Christening of a Jew A01136

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… vs, aboue all other, to be guyded by his conduct and coun…el chiefely. SearcheSearch the Scriptures (sayth he) for they beare witnes of me. Which saying S. Peter …
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… vs, aboue all other, to be guyded by his conduct and coun…el chiefely. SearcheSearch the Scriptures (sayth he) for they beare witnes of me. Which saying S. Peter …
John Foxe · A Sermon Preached at the Christening of a Jew · Open in the reader

Commentary Upon Micah A01754

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… Neither is the ſpirit of God afraid of them any more thē of other. SearcheSearch your own conſciēces therfore you that haue thys power in yuur handes, for all …
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… Neither is the ſpirit of God afraid of them any more thē of other. SearcheSearch your own conſciēces therfore you that haue thys power in yuur handes, for all …
Anthony Gilby · Commentary Upon Micah · Open in the reader

Commentary on Peter and Jude A06502

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… ſhall ſee thoſe promiſes concernyng Chriſt, whereof Chriſt himſelf alſo hath admoniſhed vs Iohn. 5. SearcheSearch, ſaieth he, the Scriptures, for they beare witneſſe of mee. And againe: If ye …
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… ſhall ſee thoſe promiſes concernyng Chriſt, whereof Chriſt himſelf alſo hath admoniſhed vs Iohn. 5. SearcheSearch, ſaieth he, the Scriptures, for they beare witneſſe of mee. And againe: If ye …
Martin Luther · Commentary on Peter and Jude · Open in the reader

Exposition of Zephaniah 2 A09417

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SearcheSearch your selues, euen searchesearch you ô Nation, not worthy to be beloued: before the …
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SearcheSearch your selues, euen searchesearch you ô Nation, not worthy to be beloued: before the …
William Perkins · Exposition of Zephaniah 2 · Open in the reader
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… that euer wee sawe this daye, if nowe wee haue grace to repent, and SearcheSearch our heartes, for then wee shall stay his iudgement decreed, that it shall neuer …
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… that euer wee sawe this daye, if nowe wee haue grace to repent, and SearcheSearch our heartes, for then wee shall stay his iudgement decreed, that it shall neuer …
William Perkins · Exposition of Zephaniah 2 · p. 110 · Open in the reader

Conferences Between Two Fathers and Martyrs A10777

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… embraced of all that be his. Christe biddeth vs aske and wee shall haue / SearcheSearch and we shall finde / Knocke and it shal be opened vnto vs. Therfore O …
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… embraced of all that be his. Christe biddeth vs aske and wee shall haue / SearcheSearch and we shall finde / Knocke and it shal be opened vnto vs. Therfore O …
Nicholas Ridley · Conferences Between Two Fathers and Martyrs · Open in the reader

Lectures Upon the Epistles to the Thessalonians A11010

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… to read the ſcripture▪ and if ye cannot read them, to heare them red, SearcheSearch the Scriptures, ſayes the Lord, in Iohn 5. chap. 39. verſe, for by them ye ſhall …
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… to read the ſcripture▪ and if ye cannot read them, to heare them red, SearcheSearch the Scriptures, ſayes the Lord, in Iohn 5. chap. 39. verſe, for by them ye ſhall …
Robert Rollock · Lectures Upon the Epistles to the Thessalonians · p. 343 · Open in the reader

The Theater of the Popes Monarchy A13105

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… the Scriptures saying. Scrutamini Scripturas eae sunt enim qui testificantur de me. Whiche is, SearcheSearch the scriptures, for those are they that beare witnesse of me. In an other …
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… the Scriptures saying. Scrutamini Scripturas eae sunt enim qui testificantur de me. Whiche is, SearcheSearch the scriptures, for those are they that beare witnesse of me. In an other …
Philip Stubbes · The Theater of the Popes Monarchy · Open in the reader

Confutation of Unwritten Verities A19566

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SearcheSearch the scriptures / for in them ye thinke ye haue eternal life / and thei art …
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SearcheSearch the scriptures / for in them ye thinke ye haue eternal life / and thei art …
Archishop Thomas Cranmer · Confutation of Unwritten Verities · Open in the reader
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… the Apostles Epistles / the Actes of the Apostles / and the Apocalypsis of Sayncte Iohn. SearcheSearch all these / bryng foorth some plaine thing / wherbi you may declare that the churche …
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… the Apostles Epistles / the Actes of the Apostles / and the Apocalypsis of Sayncte Iohn. SearcheSearch all these / bryng foorth some plaine thing / wherbi you may declare that the churche …
Archishop Thomas Cranmer · Confutation of Unwritten Verities · Open in the reader

An Answer to Six Reasons of Thomas Pound A19649

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… conſider well theſe words of our Sauiour in ſending vs to the Scriptures, ſaying: SearcheSearch the Scriptures, for you thinke to haue eternall life in them. And theſe are …
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… conſider well theſe words of our Sauiour in ſending vs to the Scriptures, ſaying: SearcheSearch the Scriptures, for you thinke to haue eternall life in them. And theſe are …
Robert Crowley · An Answer to Six Reasons of Thomas Pound · Open in the reader
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… firſt conſidered, the wordes of our Sauiour, in ſending vs to the Scriptures, ſaying: SearcheSearch the Scriptures. &c. I haue founde that the concluſion that you make vppon the …
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… firſt conſidered, the wordes of our Sauiour, in ſending vs to the Scriptures, ſaying: SearcheSearch the Scriptures. &c. I haue founde that the concluſion that you make vppon the …
Robert Crowley · An Answer to Six Reasons of Thomas Pound · Open in the reader

A Sparing Restraint of Many Lavish Untruths A20303

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… the truthe shall moue thee, and vvay the Pope, and Papistry, vvhat it is. SearcheSearch the scriptures saith▪ our sauior Christ. For they doe beare vvitnesse of me. But …
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… the truthe shall moue thee, and vvay the Pope, and Papistry, vvhat it is. SearcheSearch the scriptures saith▪ our sauior Christ. For they doe beare vvitnesse of me. But …
Edward Dering · A Sparing Restraint of Many Lavish Untruths · Open in the reader
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… contrary, and beside the vvorde of God. What should I here recite all particulares? SearcheSearch the scriptures, thou shalt not finde neither Masse nor Mattens, Diriges, Trentals, Dispensations, Iubileis …
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… contrary, and beside the vvorde of God. What should I here recite all particulares? SearcheSearch the scriptures, thou shalt not finde neither Masse nor Mattens, Diriges, Trentals, Dispensations, Iubileis …
Edward Dering · A Sparing Restraint of Many Lavish Untruths · Open in the reader

Twenty-Seven Lectures Upon Hebrews A20304

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… therefore our sauiour Christ him selfe, said vnto these Iewes whiche yet beleeue not: SearcheSearch the Scriptures, for they beare witnesse of mee.
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… therefore our sauiour Christ him selfe, said vnto these Iewes whiche yet beleeue not: SearcheSearch the Scriptures, for they beare witnesse of mee.
Edward Dering · Twenty-Seven Lectures Upon Hebrews · p. 58 · Open in the reader

Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 A67927

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Hereby sayde I. Our sauioure Christ sayth: SearcheSearch the Scriptures, for in them you thinke to haue eternall lyfe. For they be …
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Hereby sayde I. Our sauioure Christ sayth: SearcheSearch the Scriptures, for in them you thinke to haue eternall lyfe. For they be …
John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · p. 1949 · Open in the reader
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SearcheSearch made in Cambridge for bookes, 1192
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SearcheSearch made in Cambridge for bookes, 1192
John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · Open in the reader

Sermons on Job A69056

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… them that liue at this day: but of thoſe that are departed long ago. SearcheSearch from age to age, and thou ſhalt finde, that God neuer reiected ſuch as …
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… them that liue at this day: but of thoſe that are departed long ago. SearcheSearch from age to age, and thou ſhalt finde, that God neuer reiected ſuch as …
John Calvin · Sermons on Job · p. 157 · Open in the reader

Certain Godly and Very Comfortable Letters B12393

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… the ſafetie of your life, cō mended vnto you in the worde of Christ. SearcheSearch the Scriptures, and ſeale it in your heart with a good perſwaſion that it …
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… the ſafetie of your life, cō mended vnto you in the worde of Christ. SearcheSearch the Scriptures, and ſeale it in your heart with a good perſwaſion that it …
Edward Dering · Certain Godly and Very Comfortable Letters · Open in the reader