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Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #3314 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

maximesmaxims

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

Puritas changed it
372 times in 219 works
Consistency
99.4% (372 of 374)
Reach if approved
~393 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: maxims
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
374 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (372 changes in 219 works, 99.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 372)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … bodily diſeaſes and diſtempers at once. And thus I have done with theſe Divine MaximesMaxims and Concluſions; the Lord make them as ſo many heavenly Cordials to the Chriſtian …
    With rule
    … bodily diſeaſes and diſtempers at once. And thus I have done with theſe Divine MaximesMaxims and Concluſions; the Lord make them as ſo many heavenly Cordials to the Chriſtian …

    Thomas Brooks · A Heavenly Cordial for All that Have had the Plague · p. 78 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … controverſie; and this not being againſt any former Statute Law, & agreeable to the received MaximesMaxims of Common Law, it is to be accounted Law, although we finde not that …
    With rule
    … controverſie; and this not being againſt any former Statute Law, & agreeable to the received MaximesMaxims of Common Law, it is to be accounted Law, although we finde not that …

    Jeremiah Burroughs · The Glorious Name of God the Lord of Hosts Opened in Two Sermons · p. 30 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … days, and be continually feeding upon. 'Tis not doubtful Disputations, but clear undeniable Gospel-MaximesMaxims, that a trembling Soul flies to and argues from.—
    With rule
    … days, and be continually feeding upon. 'Tis not doubtful Disputations, but clear undeniable Gospel-MaximesMaxims, that a trembling Soul flies to and argues from.—

    Thomas Cole · The Old Apostolical Way of Preaching · p. 15 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … God, and the like: and in stead thereof to resolve upon certaine more tolerable maximesmaxims of their owne to goe to heaven by, certaine mediocrities betweene piety and prophanenesse …
    With rule
    … God, and the like: and in stead thereof to resolve upon certaine more tolerable maximesmaxims of their owne to goe to heaven by, certaine mediocrities betweene piety and prophanenesse …

    Edward Reynolds · Explication of Psalm 110 · p. 363 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … a good conscience, & they would have sent S. Peter to his owne principles, and maximesmaxims, and woulde much muse how Saint Peter shoulde be ignorant of his owne faith …
    With rule
    … a good conscience, & they would have sent S. Peter to his owne principles, and maximesmaxims, and woulde much muse how Saint Peter shoulde be ignorant of his owne faith …

    William Twisse · The Doctrine of the Synod of Dort · p. 89 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … true, are abused to denie things propounded in the Gospell aboue nature. As those maximesmaxims, that of nothing nothing is made. And that of a priuation to a habit …
    With rule
    … true, are abused to denie things propounded in the Gospell aboue nature. As those maximesmaxims, that of nothing nothing is made. And that of a priuation to a habit …

    Nicholas Byfield · An Exposition Upon Colossians · p. 30 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … would furniſh out a large volume. The whole rabble of them hath theſe three maximesmaxims for their foundation.
    With rule
    … would furniſh out a large volume. The whole rabble of them hath theſe three maximesmaxims for their foundation.

    Peter du Moulin Jr · A Learned Treatise of Traditions · p. 139 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … men to deviſe rules out of their owne braines, and lay them downe as MaximesMaxims to try their Adverſaries tenents by, and to reject them as not ſound, becauſe …
    With rule
    … men to deviſe rules out of their owne braines, and lay them downe as MaximesMaxims to try their Adverſaries tenents by, and to reject them as not ſound, becauſe …

    Richard Bernard · A Threefold Treatise of the Sabbath · p. 197 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

1 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.

A Heavenly Cordial for All that Have had the Plague A29694

  • Printed
    … and Friends have been either viſited, or ſwept away by it. OR, Thirteen DIVINE MAXIMESMAXIMS or CONCLƲSIONS in reſpect of the PESTILENCE, which may be as ſo many ſupports …
    With rule
    … and Friends have been either viſited, or ſwept away by it. OR, Thirteen DIVINE MAXIMESMAXIMS or CONCLƲSIONS in reſpect of the PESTILENCE, which may be as ſo many ſupports …

    Thomas Brooks · A Heavenly Cordial for All that Have had the Plague · Open in the reader