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privatprivate

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

Puritas changed it
1,024 times in 250 works
Consistency
95.7% (1,024 of 1,070)
Reach if approved
~1,124 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: private
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,070 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,024 changes in 250 works, 95.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,024)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … ceremonie, ſo muſt the riſing of the croſſe be held baſe, becauſe frō a privatprivate memoriall ſuch as the image of Ch. was: & from an opinion that Ch. is …
    With rule
    … ceremonie, ſo muſt the riſing of the croſſe be held baſe, becauſe frō a privatprivate memoriall ſuch as the image of Ch. was: & from an opinion that Ch. is …

    Robert Parker · Against Symbolizing with Antichrist in Ceremonies · p. 121 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … the Censures, we propound to our selves the Rule of Christ Math. 18. 17. touching sins privatprivate… in themselves, but to be made publique by the sinners refuseing to hear admonition …
    With rule
    … the Censures, we propound to our selves the Rule of Christ Math. 18. 17. touching sins privatprivate… in themselves, but to be made publique by the sinners refuseing to hear admonition …

    John Robinson · Of Religious Communion Private and Public · p. 24 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … it. Mat. 22.20. But ſome goe further and allow them, not onely for ornaments in privatprivate houſes, but alſo in Churches, as the Lutherans doe. Fourthly, ſome allow them for …
    With rule
    … it. Mat. 22.20. But ſome goe further and allow them, not onely for ornaments in privatprivate houſes, but alſo in Churches, as the Lutherans doe. Fourthly, ſome allow them for …

    John Weemes · Exposition of the Moral Law · p. 59 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … should be Emperour. Where obserue we two things: first that these visions were touching privatprivate mens ma…ere, & not to teach; & much lesse to broch any new or vncertain …
    With rule
    … should be Emperour. Where obserue we two things: first that these visions were touching privatprivate mens ma…ere, & not to teach; & much lesse to broch any new or vncertain …

    Archbishop George Abbot · Doctor Hills Reasons for Upholding of Papistry Unmasked · p. 295 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … privatprivate houses. The publike is the lesse regarded when people may have them in privatprivate, as they thinke they have need, nor yet are they so reverently used, as …
    With rule
    … privatprivate houses. The publike is the lesse regarded when people may have them in privatprivate, as they thinke they have need, nor yet are they so reverently used, as …

    David Calderwood · A Reexamination of the Five Articles Enacted at Perth in 1618 · p. 222 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … Obſeſſion meaneth, as we ſhall ſhew more afterwards. And therefore as beſeemeth men of privatprivate opinion, you bring vs ſignifications forged in your owne mynt.
    With rule
    … Obſeſſion meaneth, as we ſhall ſhew more afterwards. And therefore as beſeemeth men of privatprivate opinion, you bring vs ſignifications forged in your owne mynt.

    John Darrell · A Survey of Dialogical Discourses · p. 2 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … the public, for God expects his solemn homage: and their hudling it up in privatprivate, as it may give men Ground to suspect they pay none at all; so …
    With rule
    … the public, for God expects his solemn homage: and their hudling it up in privatprivate, as it may give men Ground to suspect they pay none at all; so …

    Richard Allestree · The Ladys Calling · p. 105 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … Where he sheweth out of Augustine, that an Idolothyte may not be kept for privatprivate use, except 1. Omnis honor Idoli, cum apertissima destructione subvertatur. 2 That not only his honour …
    With rule
    … Where he sheweth out of Augustine, that an Idolothyte may not be kept for privatprivate use, except 1. Omnis honor Idoli, cum apertissima destructione subvertatur. 2 That not only his honour …

    George Gillespie · Dispute Against the English-Popish Ceremonies · p. 30 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (46)

25 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 21 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Godly and Learned Treatises A00635

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    … preached, in praying, and adminiſtring of the Sacramentes. Eze. 46.1.2.3.10. Nehe. 9. Eſd. 3, Act. 15.20.21. & 17.2. & 18.4. Luk. 4.2, 2. King. 4.23. PrivatPrivate exerciſes are for our ſelues to encreaſe godlines, or others their comfort. Nehem. 8.13.
    With rule
    … preached, in praying, and adminiſtring of the Sacramentes. Eze. 46.1.2.3.10. Nehe. 9. Eſd. 3, Act. 15.20.21. & 17.2. & 18.4. Luk. 4.2, 2. King. 4.23. PrivatPrivate exerciſes are for our ſelues to encreaſe godlines, or others their comfort. Nehem. 8.13.

    Dudley Fenner · Godly and Learned Treatises · p. 114 · Open in the reader

Dispute Against the English-Popish Ceremonies A01760

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    … this fraternall: that comes from Auctority, this only from Charity: that is Publike, this PrivatPrivate: that is given by many, this by one: And finally, the Church hath a …
    With rule
    … this fraternall: that comes from Auctority, this only from Charity: that is Publike, this PrivatPrivate: that is given by many, this by one: And finally, the Church hath a …

    George Gillespie · Dispute Against the English-Popish Ceremonies · p. 10 · Open in the reader

Attestation of Many Learned Godly and Famous Divines A04207

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    … totius Eccleſia. The Keyes belong to the whole Church. In his booke of the PrivatPrivate Maſſe, hee ſpeaketh to the Biſhops of his time, thus: Spiritus Sanctus vui Civitats …
    With rule
    … totius Eccleſia. The Keyes belong to the whole Church. In his booke of the PrivatPrivate Maſſe, hee ſpeaketh to the Biſhops of his time, thus: Spiritus Sanctus vui Civitats …

    Henry Jacob · Attestation of Many Learned Godly and Famous Divines · p. 31 · Open in the reader

A Looking Glass for Princes and Peoples Delivered A13078

  • Printed
    … selfe in the perfect way: That is a good government that beginneth at himselfe: PrivatPrivate men are tolerablie called Kings, when by Gods grace they command their own passions …
    With rule
    … selfe in the perfect way: That is a good government that beginneth at himselfe: PrivatPrivate men are tolerablie called Kings, when by Gods grace they command their own passions …

    William Struther · A Looking Glass for Princes and Peoples Delivered · p. 67 · Open in the reader

True Happiness A13083

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    PrivatPrivate prayers have greater libertie to feele and expresse these divine operations, and is the …
    With rule
    PrivatPrivate prayers have greater libertie to feele and expresse these divine operations, and is the …

    William Struther · True Happiness · p. 107 · Open in the reader

Commentary on Genesis and Exodus A15408

  • Printed
    … as the Apostle sheweth, Otherwise were your children uncleane, 1 Cor. 7.14. that is, without mariage. 4. PrivatPrivate honore, &c. It depriveth of honour, and purchaseth an everlasting blot, Prov. 6.32. Hee shall …
    With rule
    … as the Apostle sheweth, Otherwise were your children uncleane, 1 Cor. 7.14. that is, without mariage. 4. PrivatPrivate honore, &c. It depriveth of honour, and purchaseth an everlasting blot, Prov. 6.32. Hee shall …

    Andrew Willet · Commentary on Genesis and Exodus · p. 342 · Open in the reader

The Altar of Damascus A17571

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    … regenerated, and grafted into the body of Christs congregation, and not before the crossing. PrivatPrivate baptisme is administred in privatprivate houses, sometime by a privatprivate person, sometime by a …
    With rule
    … regenerated, and grafted into the body of Christs congregation, and not before the crossing. PrivatPrivate baptisme is administred in privatprivate houses, sometime by a privatprivate person, sometime by a …

    David Calderwood · The Altar of Damascus · p. 203 · Open in the reader

The Ladys Calling A23744

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    46. But PrivatPrivate Devotion, tho of excellent effect, cannot commute for the omission of public, nor indeed …
    With rule
    46. But PrivatPrivate Devotion, tho of excellent effect, cannot commute for the omission of public, nor indeed …

    Richard Allestree · The Ladys Calling · p. 116 · Open in the reader

The Anatomy of the Mass A36867

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    … Judges, is a new thing, and of the dregges of the latter ages. Item PrivatPrivate Maſſes without Communicants and without aſſiſtants, ſaid at the Intention of thoſe that pay …
    With rule
    … Judges, is a new thing, and of the dregges of the latter ages. Item PrivatPrivate Maſſes without Communicants and without aſſiſtants, ſaid at the Intention of thoſe that pay …

    Peter du Moulin Jr · The Anatomy of the Mass · p. 139 · Open in the reader

The Reformed School A37084

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    … Conferences about the word of God: whereof, the exerciſes ought to bee regulated in PrivatPrivate and Public, jointly & ſeverally, according to the capacity and free willing inclinations of thoſe …
    With rule
    … Conferences about the word of God: whereof, the exerciſes ought to bee regulated in PrivatPrivate and Public, jointly & ſeverally, according to the capacity and free willing inclinations of thoſe …

    John Dury · The Reformed School · p. 15 · Open in the reader

Of Regeneration and Baptism A38629

  • Printed
    … reduce and bring back what POWERS have or ſhall think meet to caſt away: PrivatPrivate hands are too daring that would meddle with Churches and men too bold that …
    With rule
    … reduce and bring back what POWERS have or ſhall think meet to caſt away: PrivatPrivate hands are too daring that would meddle with Churches and men too bold that …

    Christopher Elderfield · Of Regeneration and Baptism · p. 109 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … With leſs ſolemnity men not having been, nor needing to be let out from PrivatPrivate to Publique in the Church, then they were at firſt admitted and let into …
    With rule
    … With leſs ſolemnity men not having been, nor needing to be let out from PrivatPrivate to Publique in the Church, then they were at firſt admitted and let into …

    Christopher Elderfield · Of Regeneration and Baptism · p. 150 · Open in the reader

The Hierarchical Bishops Claim Tried at the Scripture-Bar A39998

  • Printed
    … subject) is as great Non-Sense, as to say, a Man succeeding to a PrivatPrivate Cure, succeeds a Metropolitans Place, or that the Person who succeeds to an Episcopal …
    With rule
    … subject) is as great Non-Sense, as to say, a Man succeeding to a PrivatPrivate Cure, succeeds a Metropolitans Place, or that the Person who succeeds to an Episcopal …

    Thomas Forrester · The Hierarchical Bishops Claim Tried at the Scripture-Bar · p. 112 · Open in the reader

Review and Examination of the Doctrine A39999

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    … neither can this be Timothy's sole prerogative, for either it is meaned of a PrivatPrivate rebuke, and this every Christian hath authority in: Thou shalt in any wise rebuke …
    With rule
    … neither can this be Timothy's sole prerogative, for either it is meaned of a PrivatPrivate rebuke, and this every Christian hath authority in: Thou shalt in any wise rebuke …

    Thomas Forrester · Review and Examination of the Doctrine · p. 148 · Open in the reader

An Exposition of Genesis A44894

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    D. 6. PrivatPrivate revenge may be and must be denied, where publick judgment is according to Gods …
    With rule
    D. 6. PrivatPrivate revenge may be and must be denied, where publick judgment is according to Gods …

    George Hughes · An Exposition of Genesis · p. 922 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    D. 2. PrivatPrivate grudges are not allowed, though supposed, in them that are under the law of …
    With rule
    D. 2. PrivatPrivate grudges are not allowed, though supposed, in them that are under the law of …

    George Hughes · An Exposition of Genesis · p. 942 · Open in the reader

Answer to a Book A50898

  • Printed
    … have shut the dore, and pray'd in secret, not heer in the High Street. PrivatPrivate praiers in publick, ask something of whom they ask not, and that shall be …
    With rule
    … have shut the dore, and pray'd in secret, not heer in the High Street. PrivatPrivate praiers in publick, ask something of whom they ask not, and that shall be …

    John Milton · Answer to a Book · p. 97 · Open in the reader

The True Non-Conformist A51082

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    … Non-conforming Meetings, you would have stumbled into such a mistake? Our exception against PrivatPrivate Baptisme is therefore, not the want of a dedicated House, as you do vainly …
    With rule
    … Non-conforming Meetings, you would have stumbled into such a mistake? Our exception against PrivatPrivate Baptisme is therefore, not the want of a dedicated House, as you do vainly …

    Robert McWard · The True Non-Conformist · p. 291 · Open in the reader

The Peoples Right to Defend Themselves and their Covenanted Religion A61509

  • Printed
    21. PrivatPrivate perſons without the concurrence of Parliaments, may reſiſt and oppoſe the Prince, yea and …
    With rule
    21. PrivatPrivate perſons without the concurrence of Parliaments, may reſiſt and oppoſe the Prince, yea and …

    James Stewart · The Peoples Right to Defend Themselves and their Covenanted Religion · p. 264 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    22. PrivatPrivate perſons, vvithout the concurrence of inferiour Magiſtrates, may reſiſt the Soveraigne, vvhen in a …
    With rule
    22. PrivatPrivate perſons, vvithout the concurrence of inferiour Magiſtrates, may reſiſt the Soveraigne, vvhen in a …

    James Stewart · The Peoples Right to Defend Themselves and their Covenanted Religion · p. 265 · Open in the reader

Christ Crucified A81890

  • Printed
    … Concure in this D…ſign, (if we may ſpeak ſo) in their Publick and PrivatPrivate Stations, in reference to themſelves, and in reference to others; As it is the …
    With rule
    … Concure in this D…ſign, (if we may ſpeak ſo) in their Publick and PrivatPrivate Stations, in reference to themſelves, and in reference to others; As it is the …

    James Durham · Christ Crucified · p. 348 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … His Deſign, who ever they be, and in whatever Station, or Capacity, Publick or PrivatPrivate; As it is no Wiſdom, ſo it will be no Advantage, to ſtrugle, or …
    With rule
    … His Deſign, who ever they be, and in whatever Station, or Capacity, Publick or PrivatPrivate; As it is no Wiſdom, ſo it will be no Advantage, to ſtrugle, or …

    James Durham · Christ Crucified · p. 348 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … very comfortable one; look, whatever is promiſed to the Mediator in reference to Particular, PrivatPrivate, or Publick Mercies, all ſhall be moſt certainly and infruſtrably performed: Chriſt is the …
    With rule
    … very comfortable one; look, whatever is promiſed to the Mediator in reference to Particular, PrivatPrivate, or Publick Mercies, all ſhall be moſt certainly and infruſtrably performed: Chriſt is the …

    James Durham · Christ Crucified · p. 511 · Open in the reader

Sermon 28 May 1645 A86197

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    … are the center, and all the lines of their actions have their concentration there. PrivatPrivate ſpirits are evill ſpirits, whether they be in Church or Parliament; and I may …
    With rule
    … are the center, and all the lines of their actions have their concentration there. PrivatPrivate ſpirits are evill ſpirits, whether they be in Church or Parliament; and I may …

    Alexander Henderson · Sermon 28 May 1645 · p. 25 · Open in the reader

The Unsearchable Riches of Christ B02840

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    … of the Ordinances, word and Sacraments, and of all appointed means of edification, Publick, PrivatPrivate and ſecret, and to be making right uſe of the comforts of the Goſpel …
    With rule
    … of the Ordinances, word and Sacraments, and of all appointed means of edification, Publick, PrivatPrivate and ſecret, and to be making right uſe of the comforts of the Goſpel …

    James Durham · The Unsearchable Riches of Christ · p. 80 · Open in the reader