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bethinkebethink

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

Puritas changed it
762 times in 246 works
Consistency
95.9% (762 of 794)
Reach if approved
~834 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: bethink
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
794 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (762 changes in 246 works, 95.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 762)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
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    … friends, whom I thought had beene better minded, and may (in Gods good time) bethinkebethink themselues better: Yet, were either the one abroad, or this seruice at home to …
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    … friends, whom I thought had beene better minded, and may (in Gods good time) bethinkebethink themselues better: Yet, were either the one abroad, or this seruice at home to …

    William Loe · A Still Voice · Open in the reader

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    … the dreadfull meſſenger to the damned commeth, if thoſe wofull ones doe but once bethinkebethink themſelues that they are going before God, that now they muſt away to their …
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    … the dreadfull meſſenger to the damned commeth, if thoſe wofull ones doe but once bethinkebethink themſelues that they are going before God, that now they muſt away to their …

    Richard Bernard · Christian See to Thy Conscience · p. 391 · Open in the reader

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    … yeares winter and sommer in cold irons, when he obtaines libertie, he will often bethinkebethink himselfe of his old miserie, and take heede for euer least he fall into …
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    … yeares winter and sommer in cold irons, when he obtaines libertie, he will often bethinkebethink himselfe of his old miserie, and take heede for euer least he fall into …

    William Perkins · A Golden Chain · p. 509 · Open in the reader

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    … lot of his birth and education, actually fixed vpon ſauing truths yet vntil he bethinkebethink himſelfe of more proper and ſolid reaſons for his choice, he retaines ſtill in …
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    … lot of his birth and education, actually fixed vpon ſauing truths yet vntil he bethinkebethink himſelfe of more proper and ſolid reaſons for his choice, he retaines ſtill in …

    William Pinke · The Trial of a Christians Sincere Love Unto Christ · p. 22 · Open in the reader

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    … make use thereof. Here then such people are to be exhorted that they would bethinkebethink themselves, and while life and meanes of grace last, that they lay about them …
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    … make use thereof. Here then such people are to be exhorted that they would bethinkebethink themselves, and while life and meanes of grace last, that they lay about them …

    John Rogers · The Doctrine of Faith · p. 369 · Open in the reader

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    … marke the behauiour of angry men, that seeing how vnseemely it is we may bethinkebethink to take heede of it in our selues. And that we cause not anger …
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    … marke the behauiour of angry men, that seeing how vnseemely it is we may bethinkebethink to take heede of it in our selues. And that we cause not anger …

    George Estey · Exposition Upon the Ten Commandments · Open in the reader

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    … sitting. well, the D. hath unhappily raised this spirit, to disquiet himself: let him bethinkebethink how to lay him againe. If he can not, J wil assay to make …
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    … sitting. well, the D. hath unhappily raised this spirit, to disquiet himself: let him bethinkebethink how to lay him againe. If he can not, J wil assay to make …

    George Gillespie · Dispute Against the English-Popish Ceremonies · p. 77 · Open in the reader

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    … haue neither leisure to mind mercy, nor vnderstanding to study it, nor memories to bethinkebethink themselues of it, nor hearts to affect it, nor eye to pitty those that …
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    … haue neither leisure to mind mercy, nor vnderstanding to study it, nor memories to bethinkebethink themselues of it, nor hearts to affect it, nor eye to pitty those that …

    Robert Harris · The Way to True Happiness · p. 196 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (32)

21 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 17 are listed here. 11 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Pope Confuted A01130

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    … this point: The sacrament, sayth he, is turned into the nourishment of the body. BethinkeBethink your selfe now, Lombarde, what nourishment may bee in fourmes and coloures, where abideth …
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    … this point: The sacrament, sayth he, is turned into the nourishment of the body. BethinkeBethink your selfe now, Lombarde, what nourishment may bee in fourmes and coloures, where abideth …

    John Foxe · The Pope Confuted · p. 84 · Open in the reader

The Ready Way to Good Works A09275

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    … me bowels of compaſſion and a fellowfeeling affection towards my needy and diſconſolate brethren. BethinkeBethink thy ſelfe a while and call thy ſelfe to rememberance, if not, Oh then …
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    … me bowels of compaſſion and a fellowfeeling affection towards my needy and diſconſolate brethren. BethinkeBethink thy ſelfe a while and call thy ſelfe to rememberance, if not, Oh then …

    Richard Bernard · The Ready Way to Good Works · p. 196 · Open in the reader

Ten Sermons A11454

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    … Christ backe into his owne face, and renounce their part in the holy Ghost. BethinkeBethink thy selfe well therefore before-hand, and consider what thou art in doing, when …
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    … Christ backe into his owne face, and renounce their part in the holy Ghost. BethinkeBethink thy selfe well therefore before-hand, and consider what thou art in doing, when …

    Robert Sanderson · Ten Sermons · p. 463 · Open in the reader

Sermons Upon John 1 A15738

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    … are you that condemne him of errour, whome God ſent immediatly, for your inſtruction? BethinkeBethink yourſelues in time, whome you refuſe, and deſpiſe. Through Iohns ſides you ſtrike at …
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    … are you that condemne him of errour, whome God ſent immediatly, for your inſtruction? BethinkeBethink yourſelues in time, whome you refuſe, and deſpiſe. Through Iohns ſides you ſtrike at …

    Anthony Wotton · Sermons Upon John 1 · p. 300 · Open in the reader

A Trial of the Romish Clergys Title to the Church A15739

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    … that is giuen vp by God to ſtrong deluſions, that he may beleeue lies? BethinkeBethink your ſelues, and returne ere it be too late. The Lord will be mercifull …
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    … that is giuen vp by God to ſtrong deluſions, that he may beleeue lies? BethinkeBethink your ſelues, and returne ere it be too late. The Lord will be mercifull …

    Anthony Wotton · A Trial of the Romish Clergys Title to the Church · p. 413 · Open in the reader

Sermons on Jonah A16485

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    … of the Lyon, and of the Beare, will deliuer me also from this Philistine. BethinkeBethink thy selfe in the like. Thy God hath euer fauoured thee euen from thy …
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    … of the Lyon, and of the Beare, will deliuer me also from this Philistine. BethinkeBethink thy selfe in the like. Thy God hath euer fauoured thee euen from thy …

    Archbishop George Abbot · Sermons on Jonah · p. 244 · Open in the reader

Paraphrase on the Book of Job A17248

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    29. BethinkeBethink your selves I pray you of the cruell wrong you have offered me, I …
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    29. BethinkeBethink your selves I pray you of the cruell wrong you have offered me, I …

    George Abbot · Paraphrase on the Book of Job · p. 45 · Open in the reader

Sermons on Deuteronomy A17698

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    … by his mighty hand. Therefore it is all one as if hee should say, BethinkeBethink your selues well of the good which your GOD hath done for you: for …
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    … by his mighty hand. Therefore it is all one as if hee should say, BethinkeBethink your selues well of the good which your GOD hath done for you: for …

    John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · p. 297 · Open in the reader

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    Yet notwithstanding, it is not for naught that Moses sayth here, BethinkeBethink thee of the way wherethrough the Lorde thy God hath led thee. True it …
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    Yet notwithstanding, it is not for naught that Moses sayth here, BethinkeBethink thee of the way wherethrough the Lorde thy God hath led thee. True it …

    John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · p. 347 · Open in the reader

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    27 BethinkeBethink thee of thy seruants Abraham, Isaac, and Iacob. Haue not an eye to the …
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    27 BethinkeBethink thee of thy seruants Abraham, Isaac, and Iacob. Haue not an eye to the …

    John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · p. 413 · Open in the reader

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    … more moued, Moses confirming here the matter yt we heard euen now, saith thus: BethinkeBethink you therfore: for it is not spoken to your children which haue neither seen …
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    … more moued, Moses confirming here the matter yt we heard euen now, saith thus: BethinkeBethink you therfore: for it is not spoken to your children which haue neither seen …

    John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · p. 456 · Open in the reader

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    As concerning the Iewes, he sayd, BethinkeBethink thee of the olde time, call to minde the dayes that are past. As …
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    As concerning the Iewes, he sayd, BethinkeBethink thee of the olde time, call to minde the dayes that are past. As …

    John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · p. 1115 · Open in the reader

Two Treatises 2 A21038

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    … thee? Thou ſayeſt, Peraduenture he will: what ſayeſt thou peraduenture, and ſometimes, and oftentimes. BethinkeBethink thy ſelfe, that the buſineſſe thou haſt in hand concernes thy ſoule. Therefore ſuppoſe …
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    … thee? Thou ſayeſt, Peraduenture he will: what ſayeſt thou peraduenture, and ſometimes, and oftentimes. BethinkeBethink thy ſelfe, that the buſineſſe thou haſt in hand concernes thy ſoule. Therefore ſuppoſe …

    Daniel Dyke · Two Treatises 2 · p. 151 · Open in the reader

Works of Joseph Hall A68126

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    … confuſed thankes fauours of careleſneſſe, and neither doth affect vs, nor win acceptance aboue. BethinkeBethink your ſelfe then of all theſe externall, inferiour, earthly graces: that your being, breathing …
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    … confuſed thankes fauours of careleſneſſe, and neither doth affect vs, nor win acceptance aboue. BethinkeBethink your ſelfe then of all theſe externall, inferiour, earthly graces: that your being, breathing …

    Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 329 · Open in the reader

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    … When your hand is at the plow, it is too late to looke backe. BethinkeBethink your ſelfe ſeriouſly of the weight of this charge: and let your holy deſire …
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    … When your hand is at the plow, it is too late to looke backe. BethinkeBethink your ſelfe ſeriouſly of the weight of this charge: and let your holy deſire …

    Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 344 · Open in the reader

Paraphrase of the Hard Texts of Scripture B13871

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    BethinkeBethink your selves well of the cruell wrong ye have offered me; and goe not …
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    BethinkeBethink your selves well of the cruell wrong ye have offered me; and goe not …

    Joseph Hall · Paraphrase of the Hard Texts of Scripture · p. 139 · Open in the reader

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    BEthinkeBethink your selves, and look back to your first originall, consider how easie it is …
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    BEthinkeBethink your selves, and look back to your first originall, consider how easie it is …

    Joseph Hall · Paraphrase of the Hard Texts of Scripture · p. 348 · Open in the reader