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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4290 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

voluntarievoluntary

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

Puritas changed it
1,252 times in 436 works
Consistency
96.3% (1,252 of 1,299)
Reach if approved
~1,365 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: voluntary
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,299 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,252 changes in 436 works, 96.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,252)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
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    … do. And therefore they think themſelues bound in conſcience to make this free and voluntarievoluntary offer vnto their Calumniators; the very propounding whereof is ſufficient to all honeſt and …
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    … do. And therefore they think themſelues bound in conſcience to make this free and voluntarievoluntary offer vnto their Calumniators; the very propounding whereof is ſufficient to all honeſt and …

    Henry Jacob · A Christian and Modest Offer · p. 9 · Open in the reader

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    … with vs, and prouoked vs vnto loue, and not wee hym. This loue was voluntarievoluntary and not forced. It had likewiſe the preheminence of beginning and prouoking: and was …
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    … with vs, and prouoked vs vnto loue, and not wee hym. This loue was voluntarievoluntary and not forced. It had likewiſe the preheminence of beginning and prouoking: and was …

    John Knewstubs · Sermon Preached 1579 · p. 38 · Open in the reader

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    … nor allured with the promiſes thereof, but euen for that they do of their voluntarievoluntary will beare a loue to honeſtie, and hate that which is diſhoneſt, and are …
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    … nor allured with the promiſes thereof, but euen for that they do of their voluntarievoluntary will beare a loue to honeſtie, and hate that which is diſhoneſt, and are …

    Martin Luther · Collected Sermons · p. 302 · Open in the reader

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    … written word, and was also long practised in the primitive Church? and how that voluntarievoluntary abstinence in both kindes: first to hyperbolically praised; next, too superstitiously admired; albeit no …
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    … written word, and was also long practised in the primitive Church? and how that voluntarievoluntary abstinence in both kindes: first to hyperbolically praised; next, too superstitiously admired; albeit no …

    Patrick Forbes · Defense of the Lawful Calling of Ministers of Reformed Churches · p. 8 · Open in the reader

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    … for it shalbe no constrayned subiection, suche as is seene in tyrannie, but a voluntarievoluntary submission, suche as is of sonnes to there Father, vnder whome they shall liue …
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    … for it shalbe no constrayned subiection, suche as is seene in tyrannie, but a voluntarievoluntary submission, suche as is of sonnes to there Father, vnder whome they shall liue …

    William Fulke · Prelections Upon Revelation · p. 147 · Open in the reader

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    … as free as the Emperors: Conscience is a Castle, and there is nothing so voluntarievoluntary as religion: faith comes by perswasion, not by compulsion. Yield all this: and say …
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    … as free as the Emperors: Conscience is a Castle, and there is nothing so voluntarievoluntary as religion: faith comes by perswasion, not by compulsion. Yield all this: and say …

    Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 64 · Open in the reader

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    … Peter: But he may remember that first Gardiner with sundrie others, did take a voluntarievoluntary and solemne oath against the Pope, as by the copie thereof yet extant may …
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    … Peter: But he may remember that first Gardiner with sundrie others, did take a voluntarievoluntary and solemne oath against the Pope, as by the copie thereof yet extant may …

    Francis Hastings · Defense of the Watch-Word Against the Ward-Word · p. 130 · Open in the reader

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    … and Faſting, and ſuch like. The rule of good workes is Gods reuealed will : voluntarievoluntary ſeruices God eſteemeth not : the Feare taught by the precepts of men, he accounts …
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    … and Faſting, and ſuch like. The rule of good workes is Gods reuealed will : voluntarievoluntary ſeruices God eſteemeth not : the Feare taught by the precepts of men, he accounts …

    Samuel Hieron · The Life and Death of Dorcas · p. 7 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (47)

33 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 28 are listed here. 14 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Logic Newly Translated A05111

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    … laye downe an heyfer for a gage. The confeſſion is eyther voluntarievoluntary, or forced. VoluntarieVoluntary, when we do graunte any thing of our owne wyll. Forced, when by tormentes …
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    … laye downe an heyfer for a gage. The confeſſion is eyther voluntarievoluntary, or forced. VoluntarieVoluntary, when we do graunte any thing of our owne wyll. Forced, when by tormentes …

    Petrus Ramus · The Logic Newly Translated · p. 66 · Open in the reader

A Golden Chain A09339

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    … we for our parts hold, that sacraments are not phisicall, but meere voluntarievoluntary instruments. VoluntarieVoluntary, because it is the will and appointment of God, to vse them as certaine …
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    … we for our parts hold, that sacraments are not phisicall, but meere voluntarievoluntary instruments. VoluntarieVoluntary, because it is the will and appointment of God, to vse them as certaine …

    William Perkins · A Golden Chain · p. 1000 · Open in the reader

A Reformed Catholic A09453

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    … we for our parts holde, that Sacraments are not physicall but meere voluntarievoluntary instruments. VoluntarieVoluntary, because it is the will and appointment of God, to vse them as certen …
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    … we for our parts holde, that Sacraments are not physicall but meere voluntarievoluntary instruments. VoluntarieVoluntary, because it is the will and appointment of God, to vse them as certen …

    William Perkins · A Reformed Catholic · p. 295 · Open in the reader

Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soul A10663

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    … a subtill Impostor shall administer unto them? Such a great force there is in VoluntarieVoluntary Humilitie, neglecting of the Body, and other the like pretended pious Frauds, to insinuate …
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    … a subtill Impostor shall administer unto them? Such a great force there is in VoluntarieVoluntary Humilitie, neglecting of the Body, and other the like pretended pious Frauds, to insinuate …

    Edward Reynolds · Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soul · p. 66 · Open in the reader

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    And this is the Reason of that affected and VoluntarieVoluntary Ignorance, which Saint Pet… speakes of; whereby Minds prepossessed with a love of inordinate …
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    And this is the Reason of that affected and VoluntarieVoluntary Ignorance, which Saint Pet… speakes of; whereby Minds prepossessed with a love of inordinate …

    Edward Reynolds · Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soul · p. 68 · Open in the reader

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    … observed, directly agreeable to the phrase of Saint Peter, there is foreign, an elected or VoluntarieVoluntary Ignorance, which for their Securities sake, men nourish themselves in.
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    … observed, directly agreeable to the phrase of Saint Peter, there is foreign, an elected or VoluntarieVoluntary Ignorance, which for their Securities sake, men nourish themselves in.

    Edward Reynolds · Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soul · p. 69 · Open in the reader

Light from Heaven A12186

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    VoluntarieVoluntary.
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    VoluntarieVoluntary.

    Richard Sibbes · Light from Heaven · Open in the reader

The Debt Book A15369

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    … or to the Poore. Debts procured by our ſelues, are either neceſſary, or voluntary. VoluntarieVoluntary are either caſuall and tranſient, or permanent and ſtanding debts: The remedies whereof are …
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    … or to the Poore. Debts procured by our ſelues, are either neceſſary, or voluntary. VoluntarieVoluntary are either caſuall and tranſient, or permanent and ſtanding debts: The remedies whereof are …

    Henry Wilkinson Sr · The Debt Book · p. 10 · Open in the reader

Commentary on Genesis and Exodus A15408

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    … done, as to eat, drinke, sleepe, so they be done in order, and measure. 2. VoluntarieVoluntary works, are either good or evill: evill workes are at all times unlawfall, much …
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    … done, as to eat, drinke, sleepe, so they be done in order, and measure. 2. VoluntarieVoluntary works, are either good or evill: evill workes are at all times unlawfall, much …

    Andrew Willet · Commentary on Genesis and Exodus · p. 595 · Open in the reader

A General View of Papistry A15422

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    VOluntarieVoluntary, or rather wilfull pouertie, for a man, hauing no vrgent cause, to leaue all …
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    VOluntarieVoluntary, or rather wilfull pouertie, for a man, hauing no vrgent cause, to leaue all …

    Andrew Willet · A General View of Papistry · p. 245 · Open in the reader

The Four Principal Pillars of Papistry A15431

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    … The Iesuite maketh two kindes of voluntarievoluntary worship: that is properly called, Cultus voluntarius, VoluntarieVoluntary worship, Qui sine ratione suscipitur: Which is taken in hand without any reason or …
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    … The Iesuite maketh two kindes of voluntarievoluntary worship: that is properly called, Cultus voluntarius, VoluntarieVoluntary worship, Qui sine ratione suscipitur: Which is taken in hand without any reason or …

    Andrew Willet · The Four Principal Pillars of Papistry · p. 132 · Open in the reader

A Dangerous Plot Discovered A15734

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    VoluntarieVoluntary workes, beſides, ouer and aboue Gods commandements, cannot be taught. Arti. 14. And further it …
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    VoluntarieVoluntary workes, beſides, ouer and aboue Gods commandements, cannot be taught. Arti. 14. And further it …

    Anthony Wotton · A Dangerous Plot Discovered · p. 113 · Open in the reader

Fifty Sermons Containing the Chief Points of the Christian Religion A17183

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    VoluntarieVoluntary ſinne. &c. 497. 511
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    VoluntarieVoluntary ſinne. &c. 497. 511

    Henrich Bullinger · Fifty Sermons Containing the Chief Points of the Christian Religion · Open in the reader

Gods Holy Mind Touching Matters Moral A21266

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    Obiection. 1 VoluntarieVoluntary Combate, or Single fight is a triall of Innocencie, and of trueth and right …
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    Obiection. 1 VoluntarieVoluntary Combate, or Single fight is a triall of Innocencie, and of trueth and right …

    Edward Elton · Gods Holy Mind Touching Matters Moral · p. 210 · Open in the reader

The Bibles Abstract and Epitome A27502

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    OBedience is two-fold: the one VoluntarieVoluntary, the other Constrained.
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    OBedience is two-fold: the one VoluntarieVoluntary, the other Constrained.

    Richard Bernard · The Bibles Abstract and Epitome · p. 150 · Open in the reader

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    VoluntarieVoluntary: When the Creature doth Gods Command without compulsion. This Adam did before his fall …
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    VoluntarieVoluntary: When the Creature doth Gods Command without compulsion. This Adam did before his fall …

    Richard Bernard · The Bibles Abstract and Epitome · p. 150 · Open in the reader

The Life of Justification Opened A29752

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    … of various sorts of Conditions; Some Possible, Some impossible; Some certaine, some uncertaine; Some ... VoluntarieVoluntary conditions, say they, do suspend the whole obligation, untill they be performed, Casual (& also …
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    … of various sorts of Conditions; Some Possible, Some impossible; Some certaine, some uncertaine; Some ... VoluntarieVoluntary conditions, say they, do suspend the whole obligation, untill they be performed, Casual (& also …

    John Brown · The Life of Justification Opened · p. 340 · Open in the reader

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    … justitia imputatur &c. Qui nostram & induit carnem & subiit mortens, putas suam nobis negabit justitiam? VoluntarieVoluntary incarnatus, voluntarit passus, voluntarievoluntary crucifixus, solam à nobi… retinebit justitiam; afterward ibid. Unus peccavit …
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    … justitia imputatur &c. Qui nostram & induit carnem & subiit mortens, putas suam nobis negabit justitiam? VoluntarieVoluntary incarnatus, voluntarit passus, voluntarievoluntary crucifixus, solam à nobi… retinebit justitiam; afterward ibid. Unus peccavit …

    John Brown · The Life of Justification Opened · p. 521 · Open in the reader

The Court of the Gentiles Part 2 A41659

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    Eſſential Adjunct of Human Acts, Voluntarineſſe, or Libertie: VoluntarieVoluntary defined. 398
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    Eſſential Adjunct of Human Acts, Voluntarineſſe, or Libertie: VoluntarieVoluntary defined. 398

    Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 2 · Open in the reader

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    … though it be not ſully extenſive thereto: Ethic. lib. 3. cap. 4. foreign. Election ſeems to be VoluntarieVoluntary, though with ſome difference 4. Hence follows the Act of Election, which according to Ariſtotle …
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    … though it be not ſully extenſive thereto: Ethic. lib. 3. cap. 4. foreign. Election ſeems to be VoluntarieVoluntary, though with ſome difference 4. Hence follows the Act of Election, which according to Ariſtotle …

    Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 2 · p. 395 · Open in the reader

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    … or Definition. Thence Ariſtotle, Eth. lib. 3. cap. 1. Art. …0. foreign. Thoſe things are ſaid to be VoluntarieVoluntary, whoſe principle is in him, that does them, who has a (radical) power of …
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    … or Definition. Thence Ariſtotle, Eth. lib. 3. cap. 1. Art. …0. foreign. Thoſe things are ſaid to be VoluntarieVoluntary, whoſe principle is in him, that does them, who has a (radical) power of …

    Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 2 · p. 398 · Open in the reader

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    … a more adequate, and proper definition of VoluntarieVoluntary, given by Ariſt. Eth. lib. 3. cap. 3. foreign. VoluntarieVoluntary ſeems to be that, which has its principle in him that acteth it, who …
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    … a more adequate, and proper definition of VoluntarieVoluntary, given by Ariſt. Eth. lib. 3. cap. 3. foreign. VoluntarieVoluntary ſeems to be that, which has its principle in him that acteth it, who …

    Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 2 · p. 398 · Open in the reader

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    … is farther evident by Plato's Ideas of Voluntarines, and Libertie. Platon. defin. fol. 415. foreign, &c. VoluntarieVoluntary is that which moves it ſelf according to judgment, &c. which is the ſame …
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    … is farther evident by Plato's Ideas of Voluntarines, and Libertie. Platon. defin. fol. 415. foreign, &c. VoluntarieVoluntary is that which moves it ſelf according to judgment, &c. which is the ſame …

    Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 2 · p. 398 · Open in the reader

The Court of the Gentiles Part 3 A41681

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    … as Mediators in the room of Chriſt. Therefore v. 18. we find mention of a VoluntarieVoluntary humilitie and worſhip, which theſe Pythagoriſing Gnoſtics gave unto their Angelic Powers or Aeones …
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    … as Mediators in the room of Chriſt. Therefore v. 18. we find mention of a VoluntarieVoluntary humilitie and worſhip, which theſe Pythagoriſing Gnoſtics gave unto their Angelic Powers or Aeones …

    Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 3 · p. 125 · Open in the reader

The Saints Amity with God in Christ A41751

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    (4.) Moſt VoluntarieVoluntary. p. 145, 146
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    (4.) Moſt VoluntarieVoluntary. p. 145, 146

    Theophilus Gale · The Saints Amity with God in Christ · Open in the reader

The True Non-Conformist A51082

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    … That our Lord, did not only begin, but found the Gospel upon his most VoluntarieVoluntary, free and desired, as well as commanded suffering, is a Truth so high and …
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    … That our Lord, did not only begin, but found the Gospel upon his most VoluntarieVoluntary, free and desired, as well as commanded suffering, is a Truth so high and …

    Robert McWard · The True Non-Conformist · p. 23 · Open in the reader

Plea for the Lords and House of Peers A56189

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    … Burgeſſes now firſt ſummoned to that Parliament to ſettle peace, moſt of them being VOLUNTARIEVOLUNTARY SUMMONITI, and not bound of right to come, not holding of the King by …
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    … Burgeſſes now firſt ſummoned to that Parliament to ſettle peace, moſt of them being VOLUNTARIEVOLUNTARY SUMMONITI, and not bound of right to come, not holding of the King by …

    William Prynne · Plea for the Lords and House of Peers · p. 259 · Open in the reader

Exposition of the Laws of Moses A73378

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    VoluntarieVoluntary
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    VoluntarieVoluntary

    John Weemes · Exposition of the Laws of Moses · p. 55 · Open in the reader