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comelinessecomeliness

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

Puritas changed it: 939 times in 385 works
Consistency: 95.0% (939 of 988)
Reach if approved: ~1,038 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: comeliness
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 988 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (939 changes in 385 works, 95.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 939)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

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… infirmities, and imperfections, as well as of her afflictions and perſecutions. For with ſome comelineſſecomeliness there may be blackneſſe.
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… infirmities, and imperfections, as well as of her afflictions and perſecutions. For with ſome comelineſſecomeliness there may be blackneſſe.
William Gouge · A Guide to Go to God · p. 52 · Open in the reader
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… much to affect the light mindes of the vulgar. Abſalom therefore to the incomparable comelineſſecomeliness of his perſon, addes the vnuſuall ſtate of a more-then-princely equipage His …
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… much to affect the light mindes of the vulgar. Abſalom therefore to the incomparable comelineſſecomeliness of his perſon, addes the vnuſuall ſtate of a more-then-princely equipage His …
Joseph Hall · History of the Old Testament Volume 5 · p. 318 · Open in the reader
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… worſhip: what he ſaw convenient and fitting he commanded, neither let men think their comelineſſecomeliness and decency ſhall be omitted: for theſe are commanded by the Word. Theſe Ceremonies …
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… worſhip: what he ſaw convenient and fitting he commanded, neither let men think their comelineſſecomeliness and decency ſhall be omitted: for theſe are commanded by the Word. Theſe Ceremonies …
Randal Bate · Certain Observations · p. 234 · Open in the reader
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… Poteſtatibus. When thou goeſt into a Kings Palace, thou compoſeſt thy ſelfe to a comelineſſecomeliness in thy habit, in thy look, in thy gate, and in all thy whole …
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… Poteſtatibus. When thou goeſt into a Kings Palace, thou compoſeſt thy ſelfe to a comelineſſecomeliness in thy habit, in thy look, in thy gate, and in all thy whole …
Joseph Mede · The Reverence of Gods House · p. 29 · Open in the reader
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… doe appeare in a rayment of needle-worke, its but for a more majestike comelinessecomeliness, not gawdy gainesse. Truth is like our first Parents, most beautifull when naked, twas …
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… doe appeare in a rayment of needle-worke, its but for a more majestike comelinessecomeliness, not gawdy gainesse. Truth is like our first Parents, most beautifull when naked, twas …
William Pemble · A Plea for Grace · p. 22 · Open in the reader
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… which before we have not obtained, and by how much the more honesty and comelinessecomeliness accrues to their affaires, we beleeve that our commonweale shall bee so much the …
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… which before we have not obtained, and by how much the more honesty and comelinessecomeliness accrues to their affaires, we beleeve that our commonweale shall bee so much the …
William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 661 · Open in the reader
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… ſome beauty, hath ſhe loſt her face? Becauſe ſhe is blacke, hath ſhe no comelineſſecomeliness at all? What is it they charge vs with, b… with corruptions? (for fundamentall …
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… ſome beauty, hath ſhe loſt her face? Becauſe ſhe is blacke, hath ſhe no comelineſſecomeliness at all? What is it they charge vs with, b… with corruptions? (for fundamentall …
Nehemiah Rogers · The Wild Vine · p. 96 · Open in the reader
Printed
… but ours, hath inſtituted and ordered all theſe, or any of theſe, for the comelineſſecomeliness and honour of God his houſe, I recant.
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… but ours, hath inſtituted and ordered all theſe, or any of theſe, for the comelineſſecomeliness and honour of God his houſe, I recant.
William Fulke · Answer to the Proud Challenge of a Counterset Catholic · p. 21 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (49)

40 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 39 are listed here. 9 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Calling of the Jews A00746

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… the Syrian Creeke of the Mediterranean Sea. The other, at the holy mount of ComelineſſeComeliness, (as Iudaea is called the ComelineſſeComeliness of all Countries. Ezech. 20. 6, 15.) which doth explane the …
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… the Syrian Creeke of the Mediterranean Sea. The other, at the holy mount of ComelineſſeComeliness, (as Iudaea is called the ComelineſſeComeliness of all Countries. Ezech. 20. 6, 15.) which doth explane the …
Henry Finch · The Calling of the Jews · p. 57 · Open in the reader
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… Sea. The other, at the holy mount of ComelineſſeComeliness, (as Iudaea is called the ComelineſſeComeliness of all Countries. Ezech. 20. 6, 15.) which doth explane the former, and more particularly deſigne the …
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… Sea. The other, at the holy mount of ComelineſſeComeliness, (as Iudaea is called the ComelineſſeComeliness of all Countries. Ezech. 20. 6, 15.) which doth explane the former, and more particularly deſigne the …
Henry Finch · The Calling of the Jews · p. 57 · Open in the reader
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… place as he, Harmageddon, the mount of delightfulneſſe, Reu. 16. 16. or Harteſby the mount of ComelineſſeComeliness within the compaſſe of the holy land, Dan. 11. 45. It may be hee ſhall haue …
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… place as he, Harmageddon, the mount of delightfulneſſe, Reu. 16. 16. or Harteſby the mount of ComelineſſeComeliness within the compaſſe of the holy land, Dan. 11. 45. It may be hee ſhall haue …
Henry Finch · The Calling of the Jews · p. 99 · Open in the reader

A Just Defense of Certain Passages A01540

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… is nothing determined. Therefore any meanes that are not against the generall Rules of ComelinesseComeliness, and decencie, Rom. 13. 13. 1 Cor. 14. 40. of conueniencie and expediency, 1 Cor. 6. 12. & 10. 23. Rom. 14 21. of religion and piety …
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… is nothing determined. Therefore any meanes that are not against the generall Rules of ComelinesseComeliness, and decencie, Rom. 13. 13. 1 Cor. 14. 40. of conueniencie and expediency, 1 Cor. 6. 12. & 10. 23. Rom. 14 21. of religion and piety …
Thomas Gataker · A Just Defense of Certain Passages · p. 117 · Open in the reader

Dispute Against the English-Popish Ceremonies A01760

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… against the same, is only in prescribing things that pertaine to comelinessecomeliness and order. ComelinesseComeliness requireth that not only that gravity and modesty doe appeare in the performance of …
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… against the same, is only in prescribing things that pertaine to comelinessecomeliness and order. ComelinesseComeliness requireth that not only that gravity and modesty doe appeare in the performance of …
George Gillespie · Dispute Against the English-Popish Ceremonies · p. 107 · Open in the reader

The Unloveliness of Love-Locks A10199

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… in which the Excellency, Essence, and Happinesse of men consist: This is the onely ComelinesseComeliness, and Beautie, which makes vs Amiable, Beautifull, and Resplendent in the sight of God …
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… in which the Excellency, Essence, and Happinesse of men consist: This is the onely ComelinesseComeliness, and Beautie, which makes vs Amiable, Beautifull, and Resplendent in the sight of God …
William Prynne · The Unloveliness of Love-Locks · p. 51 · Open in the reader
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… embroidered Haire had beene most for his glory, or for our Beautie, Good, and ComelinesseComeliness: himselfe would out of his infinite wisedome and goodnesse haue assigned vs such naturall …
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… embroidered Haire had beene most for his glory, or for our Beautie, Good, and ComelinesseComeliness: himselfe would out of his infinite wisedome and goodnesse haue assigned vs such naturall …
William Prynne · The Unloveliness of Love-Locks · p. 52 · Open in the reader
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… let vs rest contented with that lot and portion, with that naturall Haire, and ComelinesseComeliness which God hath giuen vs, as all other creatures doe, who neuer seeke to …
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… let vs rest contented with that lot and portion, with that naturall Haire, and ComelinesseComeliness which God hath giuen vs, as all other creatures doe, who neuer seeke to …
William Prynne · The Unloveliness of Love-Locks · p. 52 · Open in the reader
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… lowest and most inferiour parts, if parts of man,) is no Ornament, Grace, nor ComelinesseComeliness, but rather a deformitie, and disrespect to men: as being vnsuitable to their Magnanimous …
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… lowest and most inferiour parts, if parts of man,) is no Ornament, Grace, nor ComelinesseComeliness, but rather a deformitie, and disrespect to men: as being vnsuitable to their Magnanimous …
William Prynne · The Unloveliness of Love-Locks · p. 55 · Open in the reader
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… their Magnanimous, Masculine, and Heroicke sexe. A neglected, naturall, an vnaffected Beautie, Face, and ComelinesseComeliness, doeth most adorne, commend, and set out men: The onely meanes therefore for men …
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… their Magnanimous, Masculine, and Heroicke sexe. A neglected, naturall, an vnaffected Beautie, Face, and ComelinesseComeliness, doeth most adorne, commend, and set out men: The onely meanes therefore for men …
William Prynne · The Unloveliness of Love-Locks · p. 55 · Open in the reader

The Diseases of the Time A11070

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… first, but he must take it for orders sake, which commonly brings two Companions, ComelinesseComeliness and Quietnesse.
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… first, but he must take it for orders sake, which commonly brings two Companions, ComelinesseComeliness and Quietnesse.
Francis Rous · The Diseases of the Time · p. 327 · Open in the reader

The Souls Conflict With Itself A12198

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ComelinesseComeliness riseth out of the fit proportion of divers members to make up one body …
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ComelinesseComeliness riseth out of the fit proportion of divers members to make up one body …
Richard Sibbes · The Souls Conflict With Itself · p. 139 · Open in the reader

A Christian Dictionary A15520

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… cloath at the Communion, a Pulpit and a Pulpit-cloath to a Sermon. Sée ComelinesseComeliness. 1. Cor. 14, 40.
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… cloath at the Communion, a Pulpit and a Pulpit-cloath to a Sermon. Sée ComelinesseComeliness. 1. Cor. 14, 40.
Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 91 · Open in the reader
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7 ComelinesseComeliness, beauty, and dignitie. 1. Cor. 12, 24. And hath giuen more Honour to that part that lacked …
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7 ComelinesseComeliness, beauty, and dignitie. 1. Cor. 12, 24. And hath giuen more Honour to that part that lacked …
Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 232 · Open in the reader

A Commentary on 1 Peter 1-3 A17385

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5. There is sobriety in apparell, 1 Tim. 2.9, 10. This sobriety hath in it foure things: 1. ComelinesseComeliness, which takes order for both extreames, that our apparell be neither rude to dishonour …
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5. There is sobriety in apparell, 1 Tim. 2.9, 10. This sobriety hath in it foure things: 1. ComelinesseComeliness, which takes order for both extreames, that our apparell be neither rude to dishonour …
Nicholas Byfield · A Commentary on 1 Peter 1-3 · p. 105 · Open in the reader

Against Human Ceremonies in Gods Worship A19142

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… place signifie no more then placing. But he maketh his retrait to the word ComelinesseComeliness: asking if comelinessecomeliness be nothing? I answer yes, it is some thing: but the …
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… place signifie no more then placing. But he maketh his retrait to the word ComelinesseComeliness: asking if comelinessecomeliness be nothing? I answer yes, it is some thing: but the …
William Ames · Against Human Ceremonies in Gods Worship · p. 76 · Open in the reader
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… the Rejoynder hath given up Order, I will adde a word or …wo concerning ComelinesseComeliness.
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… the Rejoynder hath given up Order, I will adde a word or …wo concerning ComelinesseComeliness.
William Ames · Against Human Ceremonies in Gods Worship · p. 77 · Open in the reader
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… after giveth: all Churches are not bound to this or that particular way of ComelinesseComeliness. All Churches are bound to avoide undecencie, and to doe that which Decencie requireth …
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… after giveth: all Churches are not bound to this or that particular way of ComelinesseComeliness. All Churches are bound to avoide undecencie, and to doe that which Decencie requireth …
William Ames · Against Human Ceremonies in Gods Worship · p. 77 · Open in the reader

The Sum of Sacred Divinity A20766

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… the excellencies of his Nature; as, Wiſedome, and other Graces of the minde, Strength, ComelineſſeComeliness and Beautie, Graciouſneſſe, or an amiable and louely Nature: a complete furniture of Riches …
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… the excellencies of his Nature; as, Wiſedome, and other Graces of the minde, Strength, ComelineſſeComeliness and Beautie, Graciouſneſſe, or an amiable and louely Nature: a complete furniture of Riches …
John Downame · The Sum of Sacred Divinity · Open in the reader
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3. ComelineſſeComeliness and beautie.
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3. ComelineſſeComeliness and beautie.
John Downame · The Sum of Sacred Divinity · p. 17 · Open in the reader

Two Treatises A21041

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… Apoſtle, concerning the Church, That all things ſhould be done there in Order and ComelineſſeComeliness; for God is the God of Order, and not of Confuſion.
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… Apoſtle, concerning the Church, That all things ſhould be done there in Order and ComelineſſeComeliness; for God is the God of Order, and not of Confuſion.
Daniel Dyke · Two Treatises · p. 52 · Open in the reader

Exposition of Ezekiel 14-19 A42015

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ComelineſſeComeliness what ever it bee, is from God 194, 195.
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ComelineſſeComeliness what ever it bee, is from God 194, 195.
William Greenhill · Exposition of Ezekiel 14-19 · Open in the reader

Mixture of Scholastical Divinity with Practical Part 2 A46699

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… place signify no more then placing. But he maketh his retreat to the word ComelinesseComeliness; asking if comelinessecomeliness be nothing? I answer yes, it is something; but the …. did …
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… place signify no more then placing. But he maketh his retreat to the word ComelinesseComeliness; asking if comelinessecomeliness be nothing? I answer yes, it is something; but the …. did …
Henry Jeanes · Mixture of Scholastical Divinity with Practical Part 2 · p. 64 · Open in the reader

The Doctrine of the Saints Perseverance A53688

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… first set forth as a meere Skeleton, its Symetry and Complexion, Its Beauty and ComelinesseComeliness, Its Strength and Vigor, Excellency and Vsefulnesse will in the description of the severall …
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… first set forth as a meere Skeleton, its Symetry and Complexion, Its Beauty and ComelinesseComeliness, Its Strength and Vigor, Excellency and Vsefulnesse will in the description of the severall …
John Owen · The Doctrine of the Saints Perseverance · p. 16 · Open in the reader

Of Communion with God A53713

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1. Grace of Personall Presence and ComelinesseComeliness. So we say a Gracefull and comely person, either from himselfe or his ornaments …
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1. Grace of Personall Presence and ComelinesseComeliness. So we say a Gracefull and comely person, either from himselfe or his ornaments …
John Owen · Of Communion with God · p. 50 · Open in the reader
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… of Christ, as he is vested with the Office of Mediation: His spirituall Eminency, ComelinesseComeliness and Beauty, as appointed and annointed by the Father unto the great worke of …
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… of Christ, as he is vested with the Office of Mediation: His spirituall Eminency, ComelinesseComeliness and Beauty, as appointed and annointed by the Father unto the great worke of …
John Owen · Of Communion with God · p. 51 · Open in the reader
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… it that the Soules of his Saints are very beautifull, even perfect through his ComelinesseComeliness which he puts upon them, Ezek. 15. v. 14. behold thou art faire, thou art faire …
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… it that the Soules of his Saints are very beautifull, even perfect through his ComelinesseComeliness which he puts upon them, Ezek. 15. v. 14. behold thou art faire, thou art faire …
John Owen · Of Communion with God · p. 61 · Open in the reader
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… the Pearle of Price: let others looke upon him as having neither forme nor ComelinesseComeliness, as noe way desireable, He will manifest himselfe and his excellencyes unto them in …
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… the Pearle of Price: let others looke upon him as having neither forme nor ComelinesseComeliness, as noe way desireable, He will manifest himselfe and his excellencyes unto them in …
John Owen · Of Communion with God · p. 135 · Open in the reader

The Disabled Debtor Discharged A57544

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… he gave not onely Indumenta, convering for his nakedneſſe, but Ornamenta, cloathing for his ComelineſſeComeliness, as J have ſhewed more largely in that my Expoſition on the Prodigall, Luke 15.22.
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… he gave not onely Indumenta, convering for his nakedneſſe, but Ornamenta, cloathing for his ComelineſſeComeliness, as J have ſhewed more largely in that my Expoſition on the Prodigall, Luke 15.22.
Nehemiah Rogers · The Disabled Debtor Discharged · p. 191 · Open in the reader

The Doctrine of the Sabbath A59693

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… upon that day) is left to humane prudence from generall rules of Conveniency, Order, ComelinesseComeliness: but Consecration of constant and fixed Time is the Lords propriety, not onely of …
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… upon that day) is left to humane prudence from generall rules of Conveniency, Order, ComelinesseComeliness: but Consecration of constant and fixed Time is the Lords propriety, not onely of …
Thomas Shepard · The Doctrine of the Sabbath · p. 37 · Open in the reader

A Body of Divinity A64622

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… not warrantable by the generall grounds thereof; such as are not for Order, and ComelinesseComeliness, and Edification.
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… not warrantable by the generall grounds thereof; such as are not for Order, and ComelinesseComeliness, and Edification.
James Ussher · A Body of Divinity · p. 228 · Open in the reader

Commentary Upon Genesis 1-3 A65748

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… pleaſant taſte in our food which we receive for the nouriſhing of our bodies; ComelineſſeComeliness and decency in our cloathing, which we weare to keep our bodies from the …
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… pleaſant taſte in our food which we receive for the nouriſhing of our bodies; ComelineſſeComeliness and decency in our cloathing, which we weare to keep our bodies from the …
John White · Commentary Upon Genesis 1-3 · p. 41 · Open in the reader

A Complete Christian Dictionary A66593

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ComelinesseComeliness, help of beauty, or beautifull help; or, the entry, habitacle, or engendring of beauty …
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ComelinesseComeliness, help of beauty, or beautifull help; or, the entry, habitacle, or engendring of beauty …
Thomas Wilson · A Complete Christian Dictionary · p. 281 · Open in the reader
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;;7. ComelinesseComeliness, beauty, and dignity. 1 Cor. 12. 24. And hath given more honour to that part that lacked …
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;;7. ComelinesseComeliness, beauty, and dignity. 1 Cor. 12. 24. And hath given more honour to that part that lacked …
Thomas Wilson · A Complete Christian Dictionary · p. 308 · Open in the reader

Exposition of Ezekiel 20-29 A85668

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… Tyrus, they made it perfect, they became her, and ſet forth her comelineſſecomeliness. Such ComelineſſeComeliness, ſuch beauty, have heatheniſh States and Cities, but there is another beauty, another ComelineſſeComeliness …
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… Tyrus, they made it perfect, they became her, and ſet forth her comelineſſecomeliness. Such ComelineſſeComeliness, ſuch beauty, have heatheniſh States and Cities, but there is another beauty, another ComelineſſeComeliness …
William Greenhill · Exposition of Ezekiel 20-29 · p. 463 · Open in the reader
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… ComelineſſeComeliness, ſuch beauty, have heatheniſh States and Cities, but there is another beauty, another ComelineſſeComeliness, which would far exceed theſe, and make States, Cities very glorious, viz. True Doctrine …
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… ComelineſſeComeliness, ſuch beauty, have heatheniſh States and Cities, but there is another beauty, another ComelineſſeComeliness, which would far exceed theſe, and make States, Cities very glorious, viz. True Doctrine …
William Greenhill · Exposition of Ezekiel 20-29 · p. 463 · Open in the reader

A Survey of the Sum of Church Discipline A86533

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The Circumstantials of Discipline, as Time, Place, outward Decency and ComelinesseComeliness in the managing of Gods Ordinances: these admit of varieties and mutabilities, according to …
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The Circumstantials of Discipline, as Time, Place, outward Decency and ComelinesseComeliness in the managing of Gods Ordinances: these admit of varieties and mutabilities, according to …
Thomas Hooker · A Survey of the Sum of Church Discipline · p. 9 · Open in the reader

Uniformity in Human Doctrinal Ceremonies A87511

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… place ſignify no more then placing. But he maketh his retreat to the word ComelineſſeComeliness; asking if comelineſſecomeliness be nothing? I anſwer yes, it is ſomething; but the Repl …
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… place ſignify no more then placing. But he maketh his retreat to the word ComelineſſeComeliness; asking if comelineſſecomeliness be nothing? I anſwer yes, it is ſomething; but the Repl …
Henry Jeanes · Uniformity in Human Doctrinal Ceremonies · p. 64 · Open in the reader

Exposition of Song of Solomon A91908

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Theſe Curtaines are to ſet forth her ComelineſſeComeliness, as Kedars Tents did her blackneſſe. Sometimes Curtains ſignifie Tents, as the Ark of …
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Theſe Curtaines are to ſet forth her ComelineſſeComeliness, as Kedars Tents did her blackneſſe. Sometimes Curtains ſignifie Tents, as the Ark of …
John Robotham · Exposition of Song of Solomon · p. 90 · Open in the reader