Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2877 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

performesperforms

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

Puritas changed it: 484 times in 295 works
Consistency: 99.7% (484 of 485)
Reach if approved: ~510 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: performs
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 485 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (484 changes in 295 works, 99.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 484)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… For, the Commandements are duties, and duties are burthens; and in abridging them hee performesperforms his promise, Come unto me and I will ease you: and well hee might …
With rule
… For, the Commandements are duties, and duties are burthens; and in abridging them hee performesperforms his promise, Come unto me and I will ease you: and well hee might …
Sir Richard Baker · Meditations and Disquisitions Upon the Lords Prayer · p. 48 · Open in the reader
Printed
… doth what it pretends; if it promiſe faire to the workers thereof and never performesperforms it, then ſinne is deceitfull, ſinne is a lyer: you might ſave mee a …
With rule
… doth what it pretends; if it promiſe faire to the workers thereof and never performesperforms it, then ſinne is deceitfull, ſinne is a lyer: you might ſave mee a …
Thomas Hooker · Four Learned and Godly Treatises · p. 184 · Open in the reader
Printed
He Prophesieth this blessings vnto them, he performesperforms it. He prophesieth it long before by Esayas his Euangelicall Prophet: But in the …
With rule
He Prophesieth this blessings vnto them, he performesperforms it. He prophesieth it long before by Esayas his Euangelicall Prophet: But in the …
William Loe · The Mystery of Mankind · p. 163 · Open in the reader
Printed
… owne; namely, That mans Conversion to God begins in some act which man himselfe performesperforms, and not in a worke first wrought in us by God. Now that act …
With rule
… owne; namely, That mans Conversion to God begins in some act which man himselfe performesperforms, and not in a worke first wrought in us by God. Now that act …
William Pemble · A Plea for Grace · p. 89 · Open in the reader
Printed
… them because he is not strong in the inward man: hee promiseth, but he performesperforms not; hee yeilds, and yeilds not; he yeilds to something, but not to every …
With rule
… them because he is not strong in the inward man: hee promiseth, but he performesperforms not; hee yeilds, and yeilds not; he yeilds to something, but not to every …
John Preston · Remains · p. 93 · Open in the reader
Printed
Thirdly, the workes of Pietie, which Ciuilitie performesperforms, are but ceremoniouſly obſerued, to preſerue credite, or for faſhion ſake; it reſteth contented …
With rule
Thirdly, the workes of Pietie, which Ciuilitie performesperforms, are but ceremoniouſly obſerued, to preſerue credite, or for faſhion ſake; it reſteth contented …
Nehemiah Rogers · The True Convert · p. 22 · Open in the reader
Printed
… he makes good his owne to be a gracious Saviour to us, and he performesperforms our part too, or else the second covenant, the covenant of grace should be …
With rule
… he makes good his owne to be a gracious Saviour to us, and he performesperforms our part too, or else the second covenant, the covenant of grace should be …
Richard Sibbes · Christs Exaltation Purchased by Humiliation · p. 142 · Open in the reader
Printed
… In observing the use of a garment we shall see what usefull offices Christ performesperforms to his Church his body.
With rule
… In observing the use of a garment we shall see what usefull offices Christ performesperforms to his Church his body.
Thomas Taylor · Christs Victory Over the Dragon · p. 39 · 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.