Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4260 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

calamitiecalamity

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

Puritas changed it: 1,250 times in 465 works
Consistency: 95.4% (1,250 of 1,309)
Reach if approved: ~1,375 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: calamity
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,309 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,250 changes in 465 works, 95.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,250)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

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… Court; admitting the righteous into the offices of the vnrighteous. As in case of calamitiecalamity… …he godly are deliuered out of trouble, and the wicked comes in his roome …
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… Court; admitting the righteous into the offices of the vnrighteous. As in case of calamitiecalamity… …he godly are deliuered out of trouble, and the wicked comes in his roome …
Thomas Adams · Five Sermons Preached Upon Special Occasions · p. 49 · Open in the reader
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… how abſurd a thing is this, y^t one ſhould be carefull to eaſe the calamitiecalamity which laſteth but for a daye, and not reſpect that which is eternall, I …
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… how abſurd a thing is this, y^t one ſhould be carefull to eaſe the calamitiecalamity which laſteth but for a daye, and not reſpect that which is eternall, I …
George Gifford · A Godly Zealous and Profitable Sermon Upon James 2 · Open in the reader
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… man ſince the fall, ſinfull and luſtfull liuing, the Gentiles that know not God, calamitiecalamity, and miſerie, death. Theſe things are generally ſignified by Light and Darkeneſſe.
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… man ſince the fall, ſinfull and luſtfull liuing, the Gentiles that know not God, calamitiecalamity, and miſerie, death. Theſe things are generally ſignified by Light and Darkeneſſe.
Thomas Granger · The Light of the World · p. 7 · Open in the reader
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… those thinges that we be teached in the myddest of a great trouble, and calamitiecalamity, nor with those that be repdited vnto vs in al quietnes and securitie, for …
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… those thinges that we be teached in the myddest of a great trouble, and calamitiecalamity, nor with those that be repdited vnto vs in al quietnes and securitie, for …
George Hay · The Confutation of the Abbot of Crosraguels Mass · Open in the reader
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… repent, and ſo to prepare himſelfe for death, aſſuring him, becauſe of this ſtrange calamitiecalamity, that he must bee, not onely ſtained and ſpotted with ſome light crimes, but …
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… repent, and ſo to prepare himſelfe for death, aſſuring him, becauſe of this ſtrange calamitiecalamity, that he must bee, not onely ſtained and ſpotted with ſome light crimes, but …
Henry Holland · The Christian Exercise of Fasting · Open in the reader
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… in dede, being wel enabled to haue know ledge thereof, both by mine owne calamitiecalamity, and by those that with their owne eyes beheld a great part of the …
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… in dede, being wel enabled to haue know ledge thereof, both by mine owne calamitiecalamity, and by those that with their owne eyes beheld a great part of the …
François Hotman · The Furious Outrages of France and the Horrible Slaughter · p. V · Open in the reader
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… worship of Baal the Sidonian idoll, brought in by Iezabel (Ahabs wife) 1 King. 16. What calamitiecalamity followed hereupon, he sheweth in one word: See more in the hiſtorie. The family …
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… worship of Baal the Sidonian idoll, brought in by Iezabel (Ahabs wife) 1 King. 16. What calamitiecalamity followed hereupon, he sheweth in one word: See more in the hiſtorie. The family …
Francis Johnson · A Christian Plea · p. 92 · Open in the reader
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Aduerſitie and calamitiecalamity which happeneth to men in this life, is not to bee feared becauſe it …
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Aduerſitie and calamitiecalamity which happeneth to men in this life, is not to bee feared becauſe it …
John Foorthe · The Apostles Catechism · p. 59 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (59)

39 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 20 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Gallants Burden A01573

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… with the menaces of God: You talke of a Night, and an houre of CalamitieCalamity; but threatned men draw long breathes: You pretend Visions in the night, which portend …
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… with the menaces of God: You talke of a Night, and an houre of CalamitieCalamity; but threatned men draw long breathes: You pretend Visions in the night, which portend …
Thomas Adams · The Gallants Burden · p. 15 · Open in the reader
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… so farre) in Gods debt, is arrested by one of Gods Serieants, Sicknesse, or CalamitieCalamity, or an afflicted Conscience; then those Friends begin to slinke; Pleasure is gone sodainely …
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… so farre) in Gods debt, is arrested by one of Gods Serieants, Sicknesse, or CalamitieCalamity, or an afflicted Conscience; then those Friends begin to slinke; Pleasure is gone sodainely …
Thomas Adams · The Gallants Burden · Open in the reader

Appeal to the Parliament A05285

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… groanes, and also vented by their patheticall complaints; the moving cause whereof is our CalamitieCalamity, partlie alreadye seized, & partlie making hast (as it is further threatned) to seize upon …
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… groanes, and also vented by their patheticall complaints; the moving cause whereof is our CalamitieCalamity, partlie alreadye seized, & partlie making hast (as it is further threatned) to seize upon …
Alexander Leighton · Appeal to the Parliament · p. 1 · Open in the reader
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… now doth discover this verye same to be the verye chiefe cause of our CalamitieCalamity that wee pitch upon. Wee doe not seclude our owne sinnes, nor others sinnes …
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… now doth discover this verye same to be the verye chiefe cause of our CalamitieCalamity that wee pitch upon. Wee doe not seclude our owne sinnes, nor others sinnes …
Alexander Leighton · Appeal to the Parliament · p. 1 · Open in the reader

Commentary on Peter and Jude A06502

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… Man, or that whiche ſhalbee his happe willinglie to ſuffer and beare: what Miſerie, CalamitieCalamity, Vexation, or neceſſitie ſo euer it bee. For there are a greate ſorte, that …
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… Man, or that whiche ſhalbee his happe willinglie to ſuffer and beare: what Miſerie, CalamitieCalamity, Vexation, or neceſſitie ſo euer it bee. For there are a greate ſorte, that …
Martin Luther · Commentary on Peter and Jude · Open in the reader

The Ready Way to Good Works A09275

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The generall CalamitieCalamity of Gods owne peculiar people and inheritance, muſt be reſpected and regarded, eſpecially when …
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The generall CalamitieCalamity of Gods owne peculiar people and inheritance, muſt be reſpected and regarded, eſpecially when …
Richard Bernard · The Ready Way to Good Works · p. 398 · Open in the reader

Three Treatises A10659

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… God, as Salvian speakes. We reade often in their writings that in any generall CalamitieCalamity they did joyntly implore the peace and favour of their idolatrous gods; that in …
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… God, as Salvian speakes. We reade often in their writings that in any generall CalamitieCalamity they did joyntly implore the peace and favour of their idolatrous gods; that in …
Edward Reynolds · Three Treatises · p. 29 · Open in the reader

Sermon 2 November 1606 A12983

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… threateneth it ſhuld come to paſſe cleane contrary: as it is ſaid in Ezek. CalamitieCalamity ſhal come vpon calamitiecalamity, & rumour ſhal be vpō rumor: then ſhal they …ke a …
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… threateneth it ſhuld come to paſſe cleane contrary: as it is ſaid in Ezek. CalamitieCalamity ſhal come vpon calamitiecalamity, & rumour ſhal be vpō rumor: then ſhal they …ke a …
Richard Stock · Sermon 2 November 1606 · p. 48 · Open in the reader

Answer to a Supplicatory Epistle for the Pretended Catholics A13877

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… not ſparinge his naturall Brother, nor the Father the bloud of his owne Sonne. CalamitieCalamity and deſtruction haue beene in their wayes, as it is in the Prophet, and …
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… not ſparinge his naturall Brother, nor the Father the bloud of his owne Sonne. CalamitieCalamity and deſtruction haue beene in their wayes, as it is in the Prophet, and …
Walter Travers · Answer to a Supplicatory Epistle for the Pretended Catholics · p. 17 · Open in the reader

The Treasure of the Church A15434

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There be then foure things which make this life miserable, Iniquitie, Necessitie, CalamitieCalamity and Mortalitie: all these the next life shall free vs from. There shall be …
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There be then foure things which make this life miserable, Iniquitie, Necessitie, CalamitieCalamity and Mortalitie: all these the next life shall free vs from. There shall be …
Andrew Willet · The Treasure of the Church · p. 40 · Open in the reader

The Hymns and Songs of the Church A15647

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… whom his people haue beene afflicted. This Elegy may be sung, whensoeuer any generall CalamitieCalamity falleth on the Commonwealth in which we liue; we hauing first considered and applyed …
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… whom his people haue beene afflicted. This Elegy may be sung, whensoeuer any generall CalamitieCalamity falleth on the Commonwealth in which we liue; we hauing first considered and applyed …
George Wither · The Hymns and Songs of the Church · p. 73 · Open in the reader
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… of those vnder whose tyranny they were brought: And by the generalitie of their CalamitieCalamity, from which no s…x…, age, nor degree, escaped. Then (ingenuously confessing their sin …
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… of those vnder whose tyranny they were brought: And by the generalitie of their CalamitieCalamity, from which no s…x…, age, nor degree, escaped. Then (ingenuously confessing their sin …
George Wither · The Hymns and Songs of the Church · p. 93 · Open in the reader

Latin Grammar A16877

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CalamitieCalamity [is] to be vpbraided to no man.
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CalamitieCalamity [is] to be vpbraided to no man.
Leonhard Culmann · Latin Grammar · Open in the reader

Sermons on Deuteronomy A17698

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CalamitieCalamity.
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CalamitieCalamity.
John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · Open in the reader
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Why in a common CalamitieCalamity the good and the euill are wrapped vp together.
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Why in a common CalamitieCalamity the good and the euill are wrapped vp together.
John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · Open in the reader

A Treasury of Similes A18271

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CalamitieCalamity.
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CalamitieCalamity.
Robert Cawdrey · A Treasury of Similes · p. 190 · Open in the reader
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EVen as a cloud darkneth the ayre, and couereth the ſunne: So CalamitieCalamity and miſerie, maketh cloudie the mind of man, & taking from him all his ioy …
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EVen as a cloud darkneth the ayre, and couereth the ſunne: So CalamitieCalamity and miſerie, maketh cloudie the mind of man, & taking from him all his ioy …
Robert Cawdrey · A Treasury of Similes · p. 190 · Open in the reader
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… find in the earth, except the Lawrel tree, as Plinie affirmeth: Euen ſo great CalamitieCalamity, is able to take away, and to ouerthrow whatſoeuer is in man, or that …
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… find in the earth, except the Lawrel tree, as Plinie affirmeth: Euen ſo great CalamitieCalamity, is able to take away, and to ouerthrow whatſoeuer is in man, or that …
Robert Cawdrey · A Treasury of Similes · p. 190 · Open in the reader
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CAlamitieCalamity. Folio. 190.
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CAlamitieCalamity. Folio. 190.
Robert Cawdrey · A Treasury of Similes · Open in the reader

Londons Lamentation for Her Sins A19581

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… to make publike this Meditation, Confeſſion, and Prayer, which in theſe dayes of publike CalamitieCalamity, I walking hourely through the valley of the ſhadow of Death, (burying forty, fifty …
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… to make publike this Meditation, Confeſſion, and Prayer, which in theſe dayes of publike CalamitieCalamity, I walking hourely through the valley of the ſhadow of Death, (burying forty, fifty …
William Crashaw · Londons Lamentation for Her Sins · Open in the reader
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… let them not lay their hands vpon our ſubſtance, in this Day of our CalamitieCalamity, ſuffer them not to ſtand in the croſſewayes, to cut off thoſe whom thou …
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… let them not lay their hands vpon our ſubſtance, in this Day of our CalamitieCalamity, ſuffer them not to ſtand in the croſſewayes, to cut off thoſe whom thou …
William Crashaw · Londons Lamentation for Her Sins · Open in the reader

The Bibles Abstract and Epitome A27502

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CalamitieCalamity upon calamitiecalamity, and rumour on rumour to vex them.
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CalamitieCalamity upon calamitiecalamity, and rumour on rumour to vex them.
Richard Bernard · The Bibles Abstract and Epitome · p. 88 · Open in the reader
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… of Visitation, of Recompence, of Treading downe of Perplexitie, of Vengeance, of Slaughter, of CalamitieCalamity, of Destruction, of Affliction, of Ruine, of Distresse, of Darknesse and Gloominesse, of Desolation …
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… of Visitation, of Recompence, of Treading downe of Perplexitie, of Vengeance, of Slaughter, of CalamitieCalamity, of Destruction, of Affliction, of Ruine, of Distresse, of Darknesse and Gloominesse, of Desolation …
Richard Bernard · The Bibles Abstract and Epitome · p. 90 · Open in the reader

Stand Still A29529

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… that we might see the Rod of Aaron (which at the present through the CalamitieCalamity of the times seemes to lye secure and dead) to Bud and Blossome, and …
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… that we might see the Rod of Aaron (which at the present through the CalamitieCalamity of the times seemes to lye secure and dead) to Bud and Blossome, and …
John Brinsley · Stand Still · p. 21 · Open in the reader

Tears for Jerusalem A29531

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… alſo of Exprobration. As pitying, ſo upbraiding them. Pitying them in regard of the CalamitieCalamity which he ſaw coming upon them, but withall upbraiding them with the mercies and …
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… alſo of Exprobration. As pitying, ſo upbraiding them. Pitying them in regard of the CalamitieCalamity which he ſaw coming upon them, but withall upbraiding them with the mercies and …
John Brinsley · Tears for Jerusalem · p. 54 · Open in the reader
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… have called and ye have refuſed, &c. Therefore I will alſo laugh at your CalamitieCalamity, I will mock when your fear cometh. When your fear cometh as deſolation, and …
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… have called and ye have refuſed, &c. Therefore I will alſo laugh at your CalamitieCalamity, I will mock when your fear cometh. When your fear cometh as deſolation, and …
John Brinsley · Tears for Jerusalem · p. 96 · Open in the reader

Two Treatises 3 A29533

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… also of Exprobration. As pitying, so upbraiding them. Pitying them in regard of the CalamitieCalamity which he saw coming upon them, but withall upbraiding them with the mercies and …
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… also of Exprobration. As pitying, so upbraiding them. Pitying them in regard of the CalamitieCalamity which he saw coming upon them, but withall upbraiding them with the mercies and …
John Brinsley · Two Treatises 3 · p. 54 · Open in the reader
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… have called and ye have refused, &c. Therefore I will also laugh at your CalamitieCalamity, I will mock when your fear cometh. When your fear cometh as desolation, and …
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… have called and ye have refused, &c. Therefore I will also laugh at your CalamitieCalamity, I will mock when your fear cometh. When your fear cometh as desolation, and …
John Brinsley · Two Treatises 3 · p. 96 · Open in the reader

Exposition of Job 1-3 A35389

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… almoſt deſperate: Some are flying, others are preparing to flie; and in this great CalamitieCalamity, no man is found to comfort his Brother: But every one encreaſes his Neighbours …
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… almoſt deſperate: Some are flying, others are preparing to flie; and in this great CalamitieCalamity, no man is found to comfort his Brother: But every one encreaſes his Neighbours …
Joseph Caryl · Exposition of Job 1-3 · Open in the reader

Two Sermons A40658

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The first, COMFORT IN CALAMITIECALAMITY, teaching to Live well.
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The first, COMFORT IN CALAMITIECALAMITY, teaching to Live well.
Thomas Fuller · Two Sermons · Open in the reader
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COMFORT IN CALAMITIECALAMITY.
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COMFORT IN CALAMITIECALAMITY.
Thomas Fuller · Two Sermons · p. 1 · Open in the reader
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… from one place to another, and none would receive it: So, in a common CalamitieCalamity, none will acknowledge, that he himselfe is especicially interested in it, but plead, What …
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… from one place to another, and none would receive it: So, in a common CalamitieCalamity, none will acknowledge, that he himselfe is especicially interested in it, but plead, What …
Thomas Fuller · Two Sermons · p. 80 · Open in the reader

Israels Prayer in Time of Trouble A57143

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… respect to sinne. And the Anger of God is the bitterest thing in any CalamitieCalamity.
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… respect to sinne. And the Anger of God is the bitterest thing in any CalamitieCalamity.
Edward Reynolds · Israels Prayer in Time of Trouble · p. 23 · Open in the reader

Two Speeches A65191

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… up to bee Active and Excellent Instruments in this time of Common danger and CalamitieCalamity, solemnly to protest; That were they able to come in, and carry on the …
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… up to bee Active and Excellent Instruments in this time of Common danger and CalamitieCalamity, solemnly to protest; That were they able to come in, and carry on the …
Henry Vane · Two Speeches · p. 9 · Open in the reader

Lectures Upon Hosea 1-4 A69234

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… them as a man that rebuketh, for they are a rebellious houſe. And chap. 7. 26. CalamitieCalamity ſhall come vpon calamitiecalamity, and rumour vpon rumour; then ſhall they ſeeke a viſion …
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… them as a man that rebuketh, for they are a rebellious houſe. And chap. 7. 26. CalamitieCalamity ſhall come vpon calamitiecalamity, and rumour vpon rumour; then ſhall they ſeeke a viſion …
John Downame · Lectures Upon Hosea 1-4 · p. 10 · Open in the reader

The Wisemans Forecast Against the Evil Time A72475

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… againſt the euill day when he ſees the times dangerous, and threatning ſome future CalamitieCalamity he ſeekes Sanctuary, to which when the euill commeth he may be take himſelfe …
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… againſt the euill day when he ſees the times dangerous, and threatning ſome future CalamitieCalamity he ſeekes Sanctuary, to which when the euill commeth he may be take himſelfe …
Thomas Barnes · The Wisemans Forecast Against the Evil Time · p. 61 · Open in the reader

Exposition of Ezekiel 20-29 A85668

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Calamity, ſuddain, and what it ſhould work, 365. laughing at CalamitieCalamity grievous, 395. why we ſhould not, Pag 396, 397
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Calamity, ſuddain, and what it ſhould work, 365. laughing at CalamitieCalamity grievous, 395. why we ſhould not, Pag 396, 397
William Greenhill · Exposition of Ezekiel 20-29 · Open in the reader

A Good Conscience the Strongest Hold A93060

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… be concerned, and very many utterly undone. A ſhipwrack is more dreadfull then the CalamitieCalamity of fire ordinarily; The water being the more mercileſs and maſterleſs Element of the …
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… be concerned, and very many utterly undone. A ſhipwrack is more dreadfull then the CalamitieCalamity of fire ordinarily; The water being the more mercileſs and maſterleſs Element of the …
John Sheffeild · A Good Conscience the Strongest Hold · p. 304 · Open in the reader

Good Conscience B01215

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2. The Time of Common feare, and Common CalamitieCalamity.
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2. The Time of Common feare, and Common CalamitieCalamity.
Jeremiah Dyke · Good Conscience · Open in the reader