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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #3940 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

easieeasy

ie for a final y, y for i: mercie → mercy, tyme → time.

Puritas changed it
23,451 times in 3,922 works
Consistency
98.9% (23,451 of 23,692)
Reach if approved
~24,902 places (estimated)
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Agrees: easy
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
23,700 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (23,451 changes in 3,922 works, 98.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 23,451)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
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    … the deuil. But now I haue a further doubt. I confesse it is an easieeasy thing for the deuill to tell where a thing is that is lost or …
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    … the deuil. But now I haue a further doubt. I confesse it is an easieeasy thing for the deuill to tell where a thing is that is lost or …

    George Gifford · Dialogue Concerning Witches and Witchcrafts · Open in the reader

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    … not so with those that are truly regenerate, for to them his yoke is easieeasy, and his burthen light. Lastly, this obiection may be retorted against the Aduersaries thus;
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    … not so with those that are truly regenerate, for to them his yoke is easieeasy, and his burthen light. Lastly, this obiection may be retorted against the Aduersaries thus;

    Daniel Featley · A Second Parallel · p. 30 · Open in the reader

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    … of. For as by writing ſhee lifteth vp her voice, ſo by conuenient, orderly & eaſieeasy maner of hādling the doctrines of God, ſhe ſtandeth in the toppe of the …
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    … of. For as by writing ſhee lifteth vp her voice, ſo by conuenient, orderly & eaſieeasy maner of hādling the doctrines of God, ſhe ſtandeth in the toppe of the …

    Henry Finch · The Sacred Doctrine of Divinity · Open in the reader

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    … diuell? His lawes are true burdens, and his seruice drudgerie. But Christs yoke is easieeasy, and his burden light.
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    … diuell? His lawes are true burdens, and his seruice drudgerie. But Christs yoke is easieeasy, and his burden light.

    Thomas Adams · A Divine Herbal Together with a Forest of Thorns · p. 40 · Open in the reader

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    For whom its eaſieeasy to burne eadem
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    For whom its eaſieeasy to burne eadem

    John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · Open in the reader

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    … with such thornie & doubtful questions, as these are, imagine that they haue founde an easieeasy way vnto wisedome, and a solutiō for all controuersies of religion when they say …
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    … with such thornie & doubtful questions, as these are, imagine that they haue founde an easieeasy way vnto wisedome, and a solutiō for all controuersies of religion when they say …

    William Fulke · Sermon 26 February 1580 · p. 16 · Open in the reader

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    But to come to Tarqueminus; He being one of these Mammalukes, and perceiving how easieeasy it was for those that did support, to supplant the Turkish Kings, with another …
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    But to come to Tarqueminus; He being one of these Mammalukes, and perceiving how easieeasy it was for those that did support, to supplant the Turkish Kings, with another …

    Thomas Fuller · The History of the Holy War · p. 201 · Open in the reader

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    … the kingdome of Heaven. As if our Sauiour ſhould haue ſaid; It is as eaſieeasy a matter, nay an eaſier, to thred a ſmall Spaniſh Needle with a thicke …
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    … the kingdome of Heaven. As if our Sauiour ſhould haue ſaid; It is as eaſieeasy a matter, nay an eaſier, to thred a ſmall Spaniſh Needle with a thicke …

    Thomas Gataker · True Contentment in the Gain of Godliness · p. 24 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (241)

216 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 49 are listed here. 25 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

An Answer to Blasphemous Cavillations by an Anabaptist A04920

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    EasieEasy it is in dede to solute those argumētes wc in our names ye falsly …
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    EasieEasy it is in dede to solute those argumētes wc in our names ye falsly …

    John Knox · An Answer to Blasphemous Cavillations by an Anabaptist · p. 108 · Open in the reader

Commentary on Galatians A06492

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    … there is no way to life ſo eaſieeasy, ſo is there none ſo hard: EaſieEasy to whom it is geuen from aboue: hard to the carnall ſenſe not yet …
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    … there is no way to life ſo eaſieeasy, ſo is there none ſo hard: EaſieEasy to whom it is geuen from aboue: hard to the carnall ſenſe not yet …

    Martin Luther · Commentary on Galatians · Open in the reader

Exposition on the Catholic Epistles A07348

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    … taking ſuch things as are ſpoken in the worſt ſenſe, but in the beſt. 4. EaſieEasy to be intreated, or gently intreating, for foreign may be taken either actiuely or paſſiuely …
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    … taking ſuch things as are ſpoken in the worſt ſenſe, but in the beſt. 4. EaſieEasy to be intreated, or gently intreating, for foreign may be taken either actiuely or paſſiuely …

    John Mayer · Exposition on the Catholic Epistles · p. 43 · Open in the reader

Commentary on Galatians 1-5 A09383

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    … in other places like a booke that is opened. Apoc. 5. 5. beeing both easieeasy & difficult. EasieEasy, in that the enterance into the word, giueth light and vnderstanding so the simple …
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    … in other places like a booke that is opened. Apoc. 5. 5. beeing both easieeasy & difficult. EasieEasy, in that the enterance into the word, giueth light and vnderstanding so the simple …

    William Perkins · Commentary on Galatians 1-5 · Open in the reader

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    … some things are hard to be vnderstood. 2. Pet. 3. 16. and hard to be interpreted. Ebr. 5. 11. EasieEasy, to inuite vs to reade and learne thē: Difficult, to exercise vs lest we …
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    … some things are hard to be vnderstood. 2. Pet. 3. 16. and hard to be interpreted. Ebr. 5. 11. EasieEasy, to inuite vs to reade and learne thē: Difficult, to exercise vs lest we …

    William Perkins · Commentary on Galatians 1-5 · Open in the reader

The Breastplate of Faith and Love A09950

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    EasieEasy.
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    EasieEasy.

    John Preston · The Breastplate of Faith and Love · Open in the reader

Pilgrimage A10228

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    … yet would I rather chuse to enter the Sangenotocoro-scale; then your Confession-schoole. EasieEasy it may be indeede to seared Iesuiticall Consciences that account Treason Religion, yea pleasant …
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    … yet would I rather chuse to enter the Sangenotocoro-scale; then your Confession-schoole. EasieEasy it may be indeede to seared Iesuiticall Consciences that account Treason Religion, yea pleasant …

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 445 · Open in the reader

Propositions and Principles of Divinity Disputed A10250

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    EaſieEasy to be inſtructed
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    EaſieEasy to be inſtructed

    Theodore Beza · Propositions and Principles of Divinity Disputed · p. 66 · Open in the reader

Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soul A10663

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    6 Give not an easieeasy Eare to Reports▪ nor an EasieEasy entertainement to suspicio…s, bee not greedy to know who or wherein another hath …
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    6 Give not an easieeasy Eare to Reports▪ nor an EasieEasy entertainement to suspicio…s, bee not greedy to know who or wherein another hath …

    Edward Reynolds · Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soul · p. 321 · Open in the reader

Rules of Construction in English Grammar A12988

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    A PLAINE AND EASIEEASY LAYING open of the meaning and vnderſtanding of the Rules of Construction in the …
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    A PLAINE AND EASIEEASY LAYING open of the meaning and vnderſtanding of the Rules of Construction in the …

    John Stockwood · Rules of Construction in English Grammar · Open in the reader

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    … after nounes adiectiues may be turned into the infinitiue moode paſſiue, as, Facile fieri, EaſieEasy to be done, Turpe dici, vnhoneſt to be ſpoken.
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    … after nounes adiectiues may be turned into the infinitiue moode paſſiue, as, Facile fieri, EaſieEasy to be done, Turpe dici, vnhoneſt to be ſpoken.

    John Stockwood · Rules of Construction in English Grammar · p. 75 · Open in the reader

The Arraignment of Covetousness A13005

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    1 EaſieEasy. 31.
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    1 EaſieEasy. 31.

    John Stoughton · The Arraignment of Covetousness · Open in the reader

True Happiness A13083

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    … had painfully laboured for his happinesse, he had kept it better than he did: EasieEasy finding, maketh slack keeping, but a painfull conquest is carefully preserved: It is but …
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    … had painfully laboured for his happinesse, he had kept it better than he did: EasieEasy finding, maketh slack keeping, but a painfull conquest is carefully preserved: It is but …

    William Struther · True Happiness · p. 36 · Open in the reader

Commentary on Titus A13535

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    … doth he effectually worke in vnconscionable men who are all flesh, and all corruption. EasieEasy were it in all ages to discouer this eminent note of Satans mallice in …
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    … doth he effectually worke in vnconscionable men who are all flesh, and all corruption. EasieEasy were it in all ages to discouer this eminent note of Satans mallice in …

    Thomas Taylor · Commentary on Titus · p. 696 · Open in the reader

A Prospective Glass to Look into Heaven A14380

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    EasieEasy to those, to these most intricate.
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    EasieEasy to those, to these most intricate.

    John Vicars · A Prospective Glass to Look into Heaven · Open in the reader

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    EasieEasy partaking and a full fruition
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    EasieEasy partaking and a full fruition

    John Vicars · A Prospective Glass to Look into Heaven · Open in the reader

A Christian Dictionary A15520

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    EasieEasy. sig:
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    EasieEasy. sig:

    Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 119 · Open in the reader

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    EasieEasy to be known, being alwayes open to euery mans vnderstanding. Gal. 5, 19. The works of …
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    EasieEasy to be known, being alwayes open to euery mans vnderstanding. Gal. 5, 19. The works of …

    Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 310 · Open in the reader

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    EasieEasy Doctrine, shortly and familiarly taught. Heb. 5, 12.
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    EasieEasy Doctrine, shortly and familiarly taught. Heb. 5, 12.

    Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 225 · Open in the reader

The Art of Rhetoric A15530

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    iij. EasieEasy to be doen,
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    iij. EasieEasy to be doen,

    Thomas Wilson · The Art of Rhetoric · p. 10 · Open in the reader

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    iij. EasieEasy to be doen.
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    iij. EasieEasy to be doen.

    Thomas Wilson · The Art of Rhetoric · p. 13 · Open in the reader

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    EasieEasy.
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    EasieEasy.

    Thomas Wilson · The Art of Rhetoric · p. 16 · Open in the reader

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    Honest to be doen. Profitable. EasieEasy. Necessarie.
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    Honest to be doen. Profitable. EasieEasy. Necessarie.

    Thomas Wilson · The Art of Rhetoric · Open in the reader

A Model of Divinity A15824

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    … too: It is the power of ſinne, to turne men into ſtockes and ſtones. EaſieEasy warnings neglected, end ever in deſtruction. His a mercy of God to warne vs …
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    … too: It is the power of ſinne, to turne men into ſtockes and ſtones. EaſieEasy warnings neglected, end ever in deſtruction. His a mercy of God to warne vs …

    John Yates · A Model of Divinity · p. 207 · Open in the reader

Of the Head Cornerstone A17242

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    … withall, as wherein we may see the iust iudgement of God to haue concurred. EasieEasy enough we shall finde it to bee, if wee marke in the Story how …
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    … withall, as wherein we may see the iust iudgement of God to haue concurred. EasieEasy enough we shall finde it to bee, if wee marke in the Story how …

    Edmund Bunny · Of the Head Cornerstone · p. 246 · Open in the reader

Exposition of Proverbs 15-17 A20556

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    Doct. EaſieEasy corrections, where grace is, preuaile more than great ſeueritie doth with graceleſſe perſons.
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    Doct. EaſieEasy corrections, where grace is, preuaile more than great ſeueritie doth with graceleſſe perſons.

    John Dod · Exposition of Proverbs 15-17 · Open in the reader

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    Doct. EaſieEasy corrections, where grace is, preuaile more than great ſeueritie doth with them that are …
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    Doct. EaſieEasy corrections, where grace is, preuaile more than great ſeueritie doth with them that are …

    John Dod · Exposition of Proverbs 15-17 · p. 131 · Open in the reader

Eighty Sermons A20637

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    … that are eaſieeasy to admit ſcruples, and jealouſies, and ſuſpitions in matter of Religion: EaſieEasy to think, that that Religion, and that Church, in which they have lived ill …
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    … that are eaſieeasy to admit ſcruples, and jealouſies, and ſuſpitions in matter of Religion: EaſieEasy to think, that that Religion, and that Church, in which they have lived ill …

    John Donne · Eighty Sermons · p. 810 · Open in the reader

Gods Holy Mind Touching Matters Moral A21266

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    A PLAINE AND EASIEEASY EXPOSITION VPON THE LORDS Prayer in Questions and Answers. By that faithfull Servant of …
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    A PLAINE AND EASIEEASY EXPOSITION VPON THE LORDS Prayer in Questions and Answers. By that faithfull Servant of …

    Edward Elton · Gods Holy Mind Touching Matters Moral · Open in the reader

The Life and Death of Joseph Alleine A23622

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    LETTERS IX. [EasieEasy Sufferings.]
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    LETTERS IX. [EasieEasy Sufferings.]

    Theodosia Alleine · The Life and Death of Joseph Alleine · p. 35 · Open in the reader

The Whole Duty of Prayer A23804

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    … and even a shamefull death; but thou, O my God canst make my passage EasieEasy.
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    … and even a shamefull death; but thou, O my God canst make my passage EasieEasy.

    Richard Allestree · The Whole Duty of Prayer · p. 133 · Open in the reader

Opposition to Errors of William Sherlock A25202

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    … displeased with it, for you must know that his Justice is so Facile, and EasieEasy an Attribute (and if it be one at all, it's but a Secondary one …
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    … displeased with it, for you must know that his Justice is so Facile, and EasieEasy an Attribute (and if it be one at all, it's but a Secondary one …

    Vincent Alsop · Opposition to Errors of William Sherlock · p. 226 · Open in the reader

Vindication of the Faithful Rebuke to a False Report A25220

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    … blame you, that you would not afford a few gentle words to determine an EasieEasy Question: So Cheaply and Honourably you might have worn the Title of an Industrious …
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    … blame you, that you would not afford a few gentle words to determine an EasieEasy Question: So Cheaply and Honourably you might have worn the Title of an Industrious …

    Vincent Alsop · Vindication of the Faithful Rebuke to a False Report · p. 8 · Open in the reader

Gods Anger and Mans Comfort A26344

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    … and benefit of these motions is not in the receit, but in the retention. EasieEasy occasions will fright away good thoughts from a carnall heart: like children, which if …
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    … and benefit of these motions is not in the receit, but in the retention. EasieEasy occasions will fright away good thoughts from a carnall heart: like children, which if …

    Thomas Adams · Gods Anger and Mans Comfort · p. 47 · Open in the reader

Christian Letters Full of Spiritual Instructions A26687

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    LETTER. IX. [EasieEasy Sufferings.] To the most Loving and Beloved, my Christian Friends at …aunton, Salvation.
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    LETTER. IX. [EasieEasy Sufferings.] To the most Loving and Beloved, my Christian Friends at …aunton, Salvation.

    Joseph Alleine · Christian Letters Full of Spiritual Instructions · p. 33 · Open in the reader

A Rebuke to Backsliders and a Spur for Loiterers A26717

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    Short Writing; the moſt EaſieEasy, Exact, Lineal, and ſpeedy Method that hath ever yet been obtained, as thouſands in …
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    Short Writing; the moſt EaſieEasy, Exact, Lineal, and ſpeedy Method that hath ever yet been obtained, as thouſands in …

    Richard Alleine · A Rebuke to Backsliders and a Spur for Loiterers · Open in the reader

The Catechizing of Families A26879

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    … here stay to handle all this: But in a small Book call'd Full and EasieEasy Satisfaction which is the true Religin, I have shewed thirty one Miracles with twenty …
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    … here stay to handle all this: But in a small Book call'd Full and EasieEasy Satisfaction which is the true Religin, I have shewed thirty one Miracles with twenty …

    Richard Baxter · The Catechizing of Families · p. 417 · Open in the reader

The Cure of Church Divisions A26906

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    … when our Passions are Religious the mistake is both most easieeasy and most perillous: EasieEasy, because we are apt to be most confident, and not suspect them, the matter …
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    … when our Passions are Religious the mistake is both most easieeasy and most perillous: EasieEasy, because we are apt to be most confident, and not suspect them, the matter …

    Richard Baxter · The Cure of Church Divisions · p. 121 · Open in the reader

The English Nonconformity Under King Charles II and James II A26924

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    … em, we resolve to put the Severest of the Laws (which we find too EasieEasy and Gentle, unless enlivened by a vigorous Execution) in force against 'em.
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    … em, we resolve to put the Severest of the Laws (which we find too EasieEasy and Gentle, unless enlivened by a vigorous Execution) in force against 'em.

    Richard Baxter · The English Nonconformity Under King Charles II and James II · Open in the reader

Full and Easy Satisfaction A26931

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    Full and EaſieEasy SATISFACTION WHICH IS THE TRUE AND SAFE RELIGION. In a CONFERENCE Between
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    Full and EaſieEasy SATISFACTION WHICH IS THE TRUE AND SAFE RELIGION. In a CONFERENCE Between

    Richard Baxter · Full and Easy Satisfaction · Open in the reader

The Right Method for a Settled Peace of Conscience A27009

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    … the Papiſts that deny Aſſurance, and many forreign Writers who make it farre more EaſieEasy, Common, and Neceſſary then it is (much more both them and the Antinomiſts, who …
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    … the Papiſts that deny Aſſurance, and many forreign Writers who make it farre more EaſieEasy, Common, and Neceſſary then it is (much more both them and the Antinomiſts, who …

    Richard Baxter · The Right Method for a Settled Peace of Conscience · p. 150 · Open in the reader

The Saints Everlasting Rest A27017

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    … Heart to task in good earnest, and think with thy self, Is it so EasieEasy, so Common, and so Dangerous to be Mistaken? Are there so many wrong ways …
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    … Heart to task in good earnest, and think with thy self, Is it so EasieEasy, so Common, and so Dangerous to be Mistaken? Are there so many wrong ways …

    Richard Baxter · The Saints Everlasting Rest · p. 426 · Open in the reader

A Treatise of Knowledge and Love A27051

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    … excuſe for your averſation: But to accuſe and refuſe, and reproach ſo Compendious, ſo EaſieEasy, ſo Sweet, ſo Neceſſary a Doctrine and Religion, as that which is brought and …
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    … excuſe for your averſation: But to accuſe and refuſe, and reproach ſo Compendious, ſo EaſieEasy, ſo Sweet, ſo Neceſſary a Doctrine and Religion, as that which is brought and …

    Richard Baxter · A Treatise of Knowledge and Love · p. 254 · Open in the reader

Universal Redemption of Mankind A27064

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    … this La Grant is nothing unreaſonable nor of Natural proper impoſſibility, (it is an EaſieEasy Yoake, and Commands that are not grievous) it being not the leaſt repenſum, price …
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    … this La Grant is nothing unreaſonable nor of Natural proper impoſſibility, (it is an EaſieEasy Yoake, and Commands that are not grievous) it being not the leaſt repenſum, price …

    Richard Baxter · Universal Redemption of Mankind · p. 41 · Open in the reader

Which is the True Church A27069

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    Answ. EasieEasy Disputing: Cannot a Quaker say so too, by us and you? But how unhappy …
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    Answ. EasieEasy Disputing: Cannot a Quaker say so too, by us and you? But how unhappy …

    Richard Baxter · Which is the True Church · p. 149 · Open in the reader

The Doctrine of Free Grace No Doctrine of Licentiousness A29090

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    … Spirit of God, and thoſe, to whom that Spirit makes them both Plain and EaſieEasy; that the Apoſtle urgeth that Sentence, not as a Truth then newly diſcovered to …
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    … Spirit of God, and thoſe, to whom that Spirit makes them both Plain and EaſieEasy; that the Apoſtle urgeth that Sentence, not as a Truth then newly diſcovered to …

    Edward Bagshaw · The Doctrine of Free Grace No Doctrine of Licentiousness · Open in the reader

Saintship No Ground of Sovereignty A29196

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    … to an Affecting of Temporall Greatneſſe, let them reſolve who love a Secure, an EaſieEasy, a Specious, a Proſperous Religion, ſuch an one as Chriſt never came to teach …
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    … to an Affecting of Temporall Greatneſſe, let them reſolve who love a Secure, an EaſieEasy, a Specious, a Proſperous Religion, ſuch an one as Chriſt never came to teach …

    Edward Bagshaw · Saintship No Ground of Sovereignty · p. 29 · Open in the reader

Come and Welcome to Jesus Christ A30130

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    … is also discovered by his preparing of the Way, in his making of it EasieEasy (as may be) to the Coming-Sinner; which Preparation is manifest by them Blessed …
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    … is also discovered by his preparing of the Way, in his making of it EasieEasy (as may be) to the Coming-Sinner; which Preparation is manifest by them Blessed …

    John Bunyan · Come and Welcome to Jesus Christ · p. 123 · Open in the reader

The Scripture Directory for Church Officers and People A30242

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    … as Chriſt ſaith, His yoke is eaſieeasy, and yet alſo it is very hard: EaſieEasy to the heart ſanctified, but grieveous to the unregenerate. So it is here: The …
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    … as Chriſt ſaith, His yoke is eaſieeasy, and yet alſo it is very hard: EaſieEasy to the heart ſanctified, but grieveous to the unregenerate. So it is here: The …

    Anthony Burgess · The Scripture Directory for Church Officers and People · p. 15 · Open in the reader