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selfloveself-love

Words joined or split: to day → today, it selfe → itself, aswell → as well.

Puritas changed it
53 times in 43 works
Consistency
67.9% (53 of 78)
Reach if approved
~83 places (estimated)
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Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
79 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
self (1)
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (53 changes in 43 works, 67.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 53)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … heart of man abounding with ſo much hypocriſy as it doth, and ſo much ſelfloveself-love, and uncharitableneſs withal, is the moſt deceitful thing (yea and the moſt deceivable too …
    With rule
    … heart of man abounding with ſo much hypocriſy as it doth, and ſo much ſelfloveself-love, and uncharitableneſs withal, is the moſt deceitful thing (yea and the moſt deceivable too …

    Robert Sanderson · Sermon Preached October 1648 · p. 22 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … seek our own good, but also the common good of our brethren. Covetousnesse and selfloveself-love say, Give me this day my daily bread, without care of others: but brotherly …
    With rule
    … seek our own good, but also the common good of our brethren. Covetousnesse and selfloveself-love say, Give me this day my daily bread, without care of others: but brotherly …

    George Downame · A Godly and Learned Treatise of Prayer · p. 337 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    2. He that would not dangerouſly erre in this neceſſary point, he muſt mortifie ſelfloveself-love, he muſt above all things take breed of a ſelf-righteouſneſs and ſelf-admiration …
    With rule
    2. He that would not dangerouſly erre in this neceſſary point, he muſt mortifie ſelfloveself-love, he muſt above all things take breed of a ſelf-righteouſneſs and ſelf-admiration …

    Anthony Burgess · A Treatise of Original Sin · p. 426 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … and shame of a hypocrite (as all his other seeming graces) are rooted in selfloveself-love, not in the love of God: he hath not this in all his thoughts …
    With rule
    … and shame of a hypocrite (as all his other seeming graces) are rooted in selfloveself-love, not in the love of God: he hath not this in all his thoughts …

    George Gillespie · Sermon Preached 27 March 1644 · p. 25 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … doth not believe aright, that its faith is not ſaving. Take heed therefore of ſelfloveself-love, and ſinful jealouſie, and prejudice upon either account, when you ſet about this work …
    With rule
    … doth not believe aright, that its faith is not ſaving. Take heed therefore of ſelfloveself-love, and ſinful jealouſie, and prejudice upon either account, when you ſet about this work …

    Thomas Mall · The Axe at the Root of Professors Miscarriages · p. 42 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … the Law, righteousness of Man; Psal. 50. 20. Isa. 66. 5. In them, is the highest strain of selfloveself-love. For, they have the most plausible, beautiful self, to love; the mystical visage, or …
    With rule
    … the Law, righteousness of Man; Psal. 50. 20. Isa. 66. 5. In them, is the highest strain of selfloveself-love. For, they have the most plausible, beautiful self, to love; the mystical visage, or …

    George Sikes · Exposition of Ecclesiastes · p. 309 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … will be farre better. And who is not cheerfully willing in a way of ſelfloveself-love, to part with that which is worſe for what is much better?
    With rule
    … will be farre better. And who is not cheerfully willing in a way of ſelfloveself-love, to part with that which is worſe for what is much better?

    Simeon Ashe · Christ the Riches of the Gospel and the Hope of Christians · p. 30 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … the great ones that have power in the world, being flattered into pride and ſelfloveself-love, and forgetting that they are ſervants of the Communaltie for the publick good thereof …
    With rule
    … the great ones that have power in the world, being flattered into pride and ſelfloveself-love, and forgetting that they are ſervants of the Communaltie for the publick good thereof …

    John Dury · Concerning Ministers Meddling with State Matters in their Sermons · p. 78 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (24)

10 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 14 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Treatise of Self-Denial A27053

  • Printed
    CHAP. XIII. 1. Selfiſh Diſpoſitions to be denied: And 1. SelfloveSelf-love, p. 88
    With rule
    CHAP. XIII. 1. Selfiſh Diſpoſitions to be denied: And 1. SelfloveSelf-love, p. 88

    Richard Baxter · A Treatise of Self-Denial · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    CHAP. XIII. 1. Selfiſh Diſpoſitions muſt be denyed, and 1. SelfloveSelf-love.
    With rule
    CHAP. XIII. 1. Selfiſh Diſpoſitions muſt be denyed, and 1. SelfloveSelf-love.

    Richard Baxter · A Treatise of Self-Denial · p. 88 · Open in the reader

Sermons A47646

  • Printed
    … of all impurity, both of Flesh and Spirit, as the Apostle speaks 2 Cor. 7. 1. Pride, SelfloveSelf-love, Profanness of Spirit and Irreligion, though they do not so properly pollute the Body …
    With rule
    … of all impurity, both of Flesh and Spirit, as the Apostle speaks 2 Cor. 7. 1. Pride, SelfloveSelf-love, Profanness of Spirit and Irreligion, though they do not so properly pollute the Body …

    Robert Leighton · Sermons · p. 14 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … Flesh, and as more hardly discerned, so when discerned, more hardly purged out▪ Pride. SelfloveSelf-love, Unbeleif, Curiosity, &c. Which though more retired and refined sins, yet are pollutions and …
    With rule
    … Flesh, and as more hardly discerned, so when discerned, more hardly purged out▪ Pride. SelfloveSelf-love, Unbeleif, Curiosity, &c. Which though more retired and refined sins, yet are pollutions and …

    Robert Leighton · Sermons · p. 258 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … holiness that leads to it, is more rare, and depends on a higher principle. SelfloveSelf-love inclines a man to desire the rest of Love, but to love and desire …
    With rule
    … holiness that leads to it, is more rare, and depends on a higher principle. SelfloveSelf-love inclines a man to desire the rest of Love, but to love and desire …

    Robert Leighton · Sermons · p. 265 · Open in the reader

The Life of God in the Soul of Man A58838

  • Printed
    … to suspect that they are all but the effects of Nature, the issues of SelfloveSelf-love acting under several disguises: and this principle is so powerful and so deeply rooted …
    With rule
    … to suspect that they are all but the effects of Nature, the issues of SelfloveSelf-love acting under several disguises: and this principle is so powerful and so deeply rooted …

    Henry Scougal · The Life of God in the Soul of Man · p. 66 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … long kept the possession, yet from the begining it was not so. That inordinate SelfloveSelf-love which one would think were rooted in our very being, and interwoven with the …
    With rule
    … long kept the possession, yet from the begining it was not so. That inordinate SelfloveSelf-love which one would think were rooted in our very being, and interwoven with the …

    Henry Scougal · The Life of God in the Soul of Man · p. 72 · Open in the reader

The Book of Nature Translated and Epitomized A62084

  • Printed
    The love of God render's the will divine, universal, communicative and bountiful to others. SelfloveSelf-love renders it narrow, private, incommunicative to others; all for itself. The love of god …
    With rule
    The love of God render's the will divine, universal, communicative and bountiful to others. SelfloveSelf-love renders it narrow, private, incommunicative to others; all for itself. The love of god …

    George Sikes · The Book of Nature Translated and Epitomized · p. 57 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … love of god makes the will just, holy, righteous, meek, good, peaceable, friendly, humble. SelfloveSelf-love makes it unjust, evil, perverse, proud, unquiet, litigious, ful of discord, tumult, and confusion …
    With rule
    … love of god makes the will just, holy, righteous, meek, good, peaceable, friendly, humble. SelfloveSelf-love makes it unjust, evil, perverse, proud, unquiet, litigious, ful of discord, tumult, and confusion …

    George Sikes · The Book of Nature Translated and Epitomized · p. 57 · Open in the reader

Vindication of the Truth of the Christian Religion A69506

  • Printed
    … themſelves: They prayed for thoſe that deſpitefully us'd them; and as Charity, and not SelfloveSelf-love, was the Rule of their Affections, ſo all the Motions of their Heart tended …
    With rule
    … themſelves: They prayed for thoſe that deſpitefully us'd them; and as Charity, and not SelfloveSelf-love, was the Rule of their Affections, ſo all the Motions of their Heart tended …

    Jacques Abbadie · Vindication of the Truth of the Christian Religion · p. 359 · Open in the reader