Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #39550 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

gospellsgospel's

Apostrophes added or expanded, mostly possessives: gods → god's. Approve one at a time: some places are plurals.

Puritas changed it: 158 times in 112 works
Consistency: 93.4% (158 of 169)
Reach if approved: ~178 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: gospels
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 169 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (158 changes in 112 works, 93.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 158)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… the word ſo long as it keeps within it ſelf; he loves Epiſtles and GoſpellsGospel's, the firſt and ſecond leſſon ſo long as the word keeps in the Scriptures …
With rule
… the word ſo long as it keeps within it ſelf; he loves Epiſtles and GoſpellsGospel's, the firſt and ſecond leſſon ſo long as the word keeps in the Scriptures …
William Fenner · Twenty-Nine Sermons · p. 334 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſhall looſe it, but whoſoever ſhall looſe his life for my ſake, and the GoſpellsGospel's, he ſhall ſave it.
With rule
… ſhall looſe it, but whoſoever ſhall looſe his life for my ſake, and the GoſpellsGospel's, he ſhall ſave it.
John Forbes · Four Sermons · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Law is improoved by the Gospell? seeing it is no more in the GospellsGospel's phrase, to hallow Gods Name; then it was in the Lawes; not to take …
With rule
… the Law is improoved by the Gospell? seeing it is no more in the GospellsGospel's phrase, to hallow Gods Name; then it was in the Lawes; not to take …
Sir Richard Baker · Meditations and Disquisitions Upon the Lords Prayer · p. 53 · Open in the reader
Printed
… forth this Postill, conteynynge moste godlye, learned, and fruitefull sermons vppon all the Sondaye GospellsGospel's that are redde in the Churche thorowe out the yeare. This woorke nedeth no …
With rule
… forth this Postill, conteynynge moste godlye, learned, and fruitefull sermons vppon all the Sondaye GospellsGospel's that are redde in the Churche thorowe out the yeare. This woorke nedeth no …
Thomas Becon · Sermons Upon all the Sunday Gospels · Open in the reader
Printed
Then come to the GospellsGospel's working. Is it easie for a man pressed under the terrours of the Law …
With rule
Then come to the GospellsGospel's working. Is it easie for a man pressed under the terrours of the Law …
John Rogers · The Doctrine of Faith · p. 288 · Open in the reader
Printed
… admoniſheth them not to be troubled at the bonds which he ſuffereth for the GoſpellsGospel's ſake, aſſuring them that his impriſonment, afflictions, and all things that came to him …
With rule
… admoniſheth them not to be troubled at the bonds which he ſuffereth for the GoſpellsGospel's ſake, aſſuring them that his impriſonment, afflictions, and all things that came to him …
Henry Airay · Lectures Upon Philippians · p. 309 · Open in the reader
Printed
… When the matter forceth them to ſpeake trueth: wee relinquiſh their grant, to our GoſpellsGospel's ſtrength: and folow them in a lye, to our GoſpellsGospel's ouerthrow. Heere we haue …
With rule
… When the matter forceth them to ſpeake trueth: wee relinquiſh their grant, to our GoſpellsGospel's ſtrength: and folow them in a lye, to our GoſpellsGospel's ouerthrow. Heere we haue …
Hugh Broughton · A Revelation of the Holy Apocalypse · p. 161 · Open in the reader
Printed
… give notable encouragements not to faint under the afflictions they meet with for the GoſpellsGospel's ſake; yea to rejoyce in it, and to account themſelves happy becauſe of it …
With rule
… give notable encouragements not to faint under the afflictions they meet with for the GoſpellsGospel's ſake; yea to rejoyce in it, and to account themſelves happy becauſe of it …
Anthony Burgess · An Expository Comment on 2 Corinthians 1 · p. 496 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (11)

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

A Retentive to Stay Good Christians A01325

Printed
… writing vnto Tecla, in which many absurd things were contayned. Againe so many Apocriphall gospellsgospel's, epistles, itineraryes and passions, as are counterfaited vnder the name of Apostles, and auncient …
With rule
… writing vnto Tecla, in which many absurd things were contayned. Againe so many Apocriphall gospellsgospel's, epistles, itineraryes and passions, as are counterfaited vnder the name of Apostles, and auncient …
William Fulke · A Retentive to Stay Good Christians · p. 263 · Open in the reader

Answer to Reynolds Book A15061

Printed
… and boldly auoucheth, that they were not meete witneſſes of the trueth of thoſe goſpellsgospel's which they writ, & therefore euen while they liued, that credit was not giuen to …
With rule
… and boldly auoucheth, that they were not meete witneſſes of the trueth of thoſe goſpellsgospel's which they writ, & therefore euen while they liued, that credit was not giuen to …
William Whitaker · Answer to Reynolds Book · p. 14 · Open in the reader