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euangelistsevangelists

u and v used by position, not sound: haue → have, vnto → unto.

Puritas changed it
1,512 times in 397 works
Consistency
99.3% (1,512 of 1,522)
Reach if approved
~1,599 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: evangelists
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,522 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,512 changes in 397 works, 99.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,512)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … and contrarius to the other trew & laufull Testament of Christe, writt…n by the EuangelistsEvangelists, yea, and if I should affirme euerie masse to be as a certane and …
    With rule
    … and contrarius to the other trew & laufull Testament of Christe, writt…n by the EuangelistsEvangelists, yea, and if I should affirme euerie masse to be as a certane and …

    George Hay · The Confutation of the Abbot of Crosraguels Mass · p. 32 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    Either becauſe the EuangeliſtsEvangelists did not bind themſelues to a preciſe forme of words, or becauſe this prayer …
    With rule
    Either becauſe the EuangeliſtsEvangelists did not bind themſelues to a preciſe forme of words, or becauſe this prayer …

    Robert Hill · Christs Prayer Expounded · p. 83 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … vvhat they did (for a time) in the ſeverall Churches, where they came, being EuangeliſtsEvangelists: the ſame (in al things ordinarie and perpetual) should ſtill be done by the …
    With rule
    … vvhat they did (for a time) in the ſeverall Churches, where they came, being EuangeliſtsEvangelists: the ſame (in al things ordinarie and perpetual) should ſtill be done by the …

    Francis Johnson · A Christian Plea · p. 271 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … ſuch a picture as is the meere deuice of man, whereof none of the EuangeliſtsEvangelists make any mention, who remembring matters of leſſer moment, would neuer haue forgotten ſuch …
    With rule
    … ſuch a picture as is the meere deuice of man, whereof none of the EuangeliſtsEvangelists make any mention, who remembring matters of leſſer moment, would neuer haue forgotten ſuch …

    Thomas Beard · Antichrist the Pope of Rome · p. 361 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … our precise brethrens reason euidently declared. The Apostle (say they) speketh of Apostles / prophets / EuangelistsEvangelists / pastors / doctors / and their functions (for this M.D. confesseth) therfore he speaketh of …
    With rule
    … our precise brethrens reason euidently declared. The Apostle (say they) speketh of Apostles / prophets / EuangelistsEvangelists / pastors / doctors / and their functions (for this M.D. confesseth) therfore he speaketh of …

    Martin Marprelate · Read John Bridges · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … way. And this is confirmed both by ye Prophetes, by the writings of the EuangeliſtsEvangelists and Apoſtles, and chiefly by the Apoſtle Paule in diuers of hys epiſtles. If …
    With rule
    … way. And this is confirmed both by ye Prophetes, by the writings of the EuangeliſtsEvangelists and Apoſtles, and chiefly by the Apoſtle Paule in diuers of hys epiſtles. If …

    John Frewen · Fruitful Instructions and Necessary Doctrines · p. 180 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … and changeable iudgement. She is not bewtified with eſtates commended in Scripture, as Apoſtles, EuangeliſtsEvangelists, Prophets, Paſtors and Teachers, but with Popes, Cardinalls, Monkes, Chanons, Fryers, &c. In ſteede …
    With rule
    … and changeable iudgement. She is not bewtified with eſtates commended in Scripture, as Apoſtles, EuangeliſtsEvangelists, Prophets, Paſtors and Teachers, but with Popes, Cardinalls, Monkes, Chanons, Fryers, &c. In ſteede …

    William Fulke · Answer to the Proud Challenge of a Counterset Catholic · p. 84 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    Two EuangeliſtsEvangelists record the Summe of that which Chriſt deliuered, concerning the ſinne againſt the holy …
    With rule
    Two EuangeliſtsEvangelists record the Summe of that which Chriſt deliuered, concerning the ſinne againſt the holy …

    William Gouge · The Whole Armor of God · p. 566 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (10)

7 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Rejoinder to Bristows Reply A01324

  • Printed
    … hath cōmaunded? but in ye law & ye prophets, in ye writings of ye apostles & euangelistsevangelists, which are able to make vs wise to saluation, which are profitable to make …
    With rule
    … hath cōmaunded? but in ye law & ye prophets, in ye writings of ye apostles & euangelistsevangelists, which are able to make vs wise to saluation, which are profitable to make …

    William Fulke · Rejoinder to Bristows Reply · p. 103 · Open in the reader

Conferences Between Two Fathers and Martyrs A10777

  • Printed
    … briefelye to sette forth the saiyngs of thy sonne our Sauiour Christ / of his euangelistsevangelists / and of his Apostles / that in this aforesayd controuersie the light of thy trueth …
    With rule
    … briefelye to sette forth the saiyngs of thy sonne our Sauiour Christ / of his euangelistsevangelists / and of his Apostles / that in this aforesayd controuersie the light of thy trueth …

    Nicholas Ridley · Conferences Between Two Fathers and Martyrs · Open in the reader

Brotherly Persuasion to Unity and Uniformity A12700

  • Printed
    … they ſtood need beſides the helpe they then had of Synods, the ouerſight of euangeliſtsevangelists & the viſitation againe, and againe, both by their letters & perſonall preſence, of the apoſtles …
    With rule
    … they ſtood need beſides the helpe they then had of Synods, the ouerſight of euangeliſtsevangelists & the viſitation againe, and againe, both by their letters & perſonall preſence, of the apoſtles …

    Thomas Sparke · Brotherly Persuasion to Unity and Uniformity · p. 86 · Open in the reader

A Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift A18078

  • Printed
    … your meaning is belike / that although they be no paſtors / yet they may be euangeliſtsevangelists whych goe about the countrey heere and there▪ But this office is ceaſed in …
    With rule
    … your meaning is belike / that although they be no paſtors / yet they may be euangeliſtsevangelists whych goe about the countrey heere and there▪ But this office is ceaſed in …

    Thomas Cartwright · A Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift · p. 64 · Open in the reader

A Defense of the Sermon Preached at the Consecration of the Bishop of Bath A20733

  • Printed
    … the assumption; viz. that they had no assignment to those Churches, but onely as euangelistsevangelists , which doth not touch the assumption: no more then that which followeth. Neither by …
    With rule
    … the assumption; viz. that they had no assignment to those Churches, but onely as euangelistsevangelists , which doth not touch the assumption: no more then that which followeth. Neither by …

    George Downame · A Defense of the Sermon Preached at the Consecration of the Bishop of Bath · p. 98 · Open in the reader

Westminster Annotations A36467

  • Printed
    … These represent the ministers of the Gospel, comprehended as it were in the four euangelistsevangelists, chap. 5. 8, 10.
    With rule
    … These represent the ministers of the Gospel, comprehended as it were in the four euangelistsevangelists, chap. 5. 8, 10.

    John Downame · Westminster Annotations · Open in the reader

Exhortation to the Ministers of Gods Word B40355

  • Printed
    … the body and blood of the Lord in the last Supper as the other euangelistsevangelists haue doon, for that the Lord him self in an other place, (to wit …
    With rule
    … the body and blood of the Lord in the last Supper as the other euangelistsevangelists haue doon, for that the Lord him self in an other place, (to wit …

    Henrich Bullinger · Exhortation to the Ministers of Gods Word · Open in the reader