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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4415 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

byblebible

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

Puritas changed it
197 times in 80 works
Consistency
83.1% (197 of 237)
Reach if approved
~249 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: bible
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
237 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (197 changes in 80 works, 83.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 197)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … prouokynge them most pestylentlye to depryue the cō mon people all together of the BybleBible readyng. Onlye was it than admitted to. iii. degrees of menne / to gentyll menne …
    With rule
    … prouokynge them most pestylentlye to depryue the cō mon people all together of the BybleBible readyng. Onlye was it than admitted to. iii. degrees of menne / to gentyll menne …

    John Bale · Exhortation of an English Christian unto his Beloved Country · p. 15 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … to be oure doctrine. All thynges that be wrytten in Gods holye Boke, the BybleBible, were wrytten to be oure doctrine longe before our tyme, to serue from tyme …
    With rule
    … to be oure doctrine. All thynges that be wrytten in Gods holye Boke, the BybleBible, were wrytten to be oure doctrine longe before our tyme, to serue from tyme …

    Hugh Latimer · The Second to Seventh Sermon to His Majesty · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … tounge) and I perceiued it to be mooſt diligently gathered out of the holy BybleBible and ſet in ſuche order that wyth in it lyghtelly as much maye be …
    With rule
    … tounge) and I perceiued it to be mooſt diligently gathered out of the holy BybleBible and ſet in ſuche order that wyth in it lyghtelly as much maye be …

    Henrich Bullinger · Historical Table of the Bible · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    In the BybleBible, conteyning the auld & new testament, the law and Gospell.
    With rule
    In the BybleBible, conteyning the auld & new testament, the law and Gospell.

    James Melville · A Spiritual Propine of a Pastor to his People · p. 44 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … of Iſraell ſuffyce. For howe many ſo euer of thoſe kyngꝭ thiſtorie of the BybleBible doth nombre among wycked & vngodly ꝑſons / the ſame kyngꝭ it doth recorde to haue …
    With rule
    … of Iſraell ſuffyce. For howe many ſo euer of thoſe kyngꝭ thiſtorie of the BybleBible doth nombre among wycked & vngodly ꝑſons / the ſame kyngꝭ it doth recorde to haue …

    Martin Bucer · Images Not to be Suffered in Churches · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    Our BybleBible they haue taken awaye
    With rule
    Our BybleBible they haue taken awaye

    John Bradford · The Complaint of Verity · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … of God be made, that is a booke, that is as good as the BybleBible, say the Papists: and it is their chiefe ankerholde that they flee to in …
    With rule
    … of God be made, that is a booke, that is as good as the BybleBible, say the Papists: and it is their chiefe ankerholde that they flee to in …

    John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · p. 136 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … of Scripture. Then he calleth for triall not by thoſe darke places of the BybleBible which are ſpoken in figures and may be expounded diuers waies in probable ſenſe …
    With rule
    … of Scripture. Then he calleth for triall not by thoſe darke places of the BybleBible which are ſpoken in figures and may be expounded diuers waies in probable ſenſe …

    George Gifford · Plain Declaration that Brownists be Full Donatists · p. 35 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (40)

19 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 21 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Caveat for Parsons Howlet A00714

  • Printed
    … vvas so much talke of …, since euery cobler and Tinker … vvith it, and a byblebible must stande in euery vvindovv. VVel, the Queene cannot liue alvvaies, and when our …
    With rule
    … vvas so much talke of …, since euery cobler and Tinker … vvith it, and a byblebible must stande in euery vvindovv. VVel, the Queene cannot liue alvvaies, and when our …

    John Field · A Caveat for Parsons Howlet · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … should beleeue lies, and preferre the … fables of a lying legend, before the blessed byblebible, receiuing as a iust recompēce, the fruits of their … rebellion, to vvit, ignorance, blindnes …
    With rule
    … should beleeue lies, and preferre the … fables of a lying legend, before the blessed byblebible, receiuing as a iust recompēce, the fruits of their … rebellion, to vvit, ignorance, blindnes …

    John Field · A Caveat for Parsons Howlet · Open in the reader

A Disclosing or Opening of the Man of Sin A02947

  • Printed
    … true dyſcyple of Chriſt (whom my lorde latelye quelled in preſon for readynge the byblebible) had ſubmytted hymſelfe to thys ſymple office and profeſſyon of papyſtrye, forſwerynge Chriſt and …
    With rule
    … true dyſcyple of Chriſt (whom my lorde latelye quelled in preſon for readynge the byblebible) had ſubmytted hymſelfe to thys ſymple office and profeſſyon of papyſtrye, forſwerynge Chriſt and …

    John Bale · A Disclosing or Opening of the Man of Sin · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … for ye haue yowr hyred ſlaughter menne in ſoche hydden corners for ſoche buſye byblebible readers. Remember what ye ſayd, whan he came before yow, that ye were glad …
    With rule
    … for ye haue yowr hyred ſlaughter menne in ſoche hydden corners for ſoche buſye byblebible readers. Remember what ye ſayd, whan he came before yow, that ye were glad …

    John Bale · A Disclosing or Opening of the Man of Sin · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … As though ther wayne, Idell, and blaſphemouſe ſuperſticyons were onlye gods ſeruice and the byblebible readynge no part therof, but a verye prophane thynge Vpon thys polycie ded he …
    With rule
    … As though ther wayne, Idell, and blaſphemouſe ſuperſticyons were onlye gods ſeruice and the byblebible readynge no part therof, but a verye prophane thynge Vpon thys polycie ded he …

    John Bale · A Disclosing or Opening of the Man of Sin · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … thys polycie ded he ſett them vpp there, to knowe whych were the buſy byblebible menne of Londō, that he myght ſpeake with thē at layſer. For he had …
    With rule
    … thys polycie ded he ſett them vpp there, to knowe whych were the buſy byblebible menne of Londō, that he myght ſpeake with thē at layſer. For he had …

    John Bale · A Disclosing or Opening of the Man of Sin · Open in the reader

Twenty-Seven Sermons A05143

  • Printed
    … wrytten to be our doctrine. All thynges that be wrytten in goddes … booke, the byblebible, were wrytten to be oure doctrin long before our time, to serue from tyme …
    With rule
    … wrytten to be our doctrine. All thynges that be wrytten in goddes … booke, the byblebible, were wrytten to be oure doctrin long before our time, to serue from tyme …

    Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · p. 41 · Open in the reader

The Conjectures of the End of the World A08559

  • Printed
    … owne addicions, & abuses and the articles of our faythe he blotteth out of the byblebible with his owne false added articles. The doctrynes of ye deuil he stablissheth with …
    With rule
    … owne addicions, & abuses and the articles of our faythe he blotteth out of the byblebible with his owne false added articles. The doctrynes of ye deuil he stablissheth with …

    Andreas Osiander · The Conjectures of the End of the World · Open in the reader

The Theater of the Popes Monarchy A13105

  • Printed
    … may well bee called the mother of damnatiō) he not only locketh vp the byblebible vnder strong lockes, & keyes, but also turneth it into a straunge tongue, contrary to …
    With rule
    … may well bee called the mother of damnatiō) he not only locketh vp the byblebible vnder strong lockes, & keyes, but also turneth it into a straunge tongue, contrary to …

    Philip Stubbes · The Theater of the Popes Monarchy · Open in the reader

Exposition Upon Matthew 27(1) A14133

  • Printed
    … fered nor hys promyſes beleued. And when thou ſwereſte by the goſpell boke or byblebible, the meanynge is, that God yf thou lye. ſhall not fulfyll vnto the, the …
    With rule
    … fered nor hys promyſes beleued. And when thou ſwereſte by the goſpell boke or byblebible, the meanynge is, that God yf thou lye. ſhall not fulfyll vnto the, the …

    William Tyndale · Exposition Upon Matthew 27(1) · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … texte of hatynge a mannes enemye / ſtandeth not in any one place of the byblebible / but is gathered of many places in which God commaundeth the chyldren of Iſrael …
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    … texte of hatynge a mannes enemye / ſtandeth not in any one place of the byblebible / but is gathered of many places in which God commaundeth the chyldren of Iſrael …

    William Tyndale · Exposition Upon Matthew 27(1) · p. lvii · Open in the reader

Reproof of Howlets Untimely Shrieking A15295

  • Printed
    … canonicall Scriptures of the olde and newe Testament, which is commonly called The holy byblebible, as directly contrary to your Romane and Popish religion at this day, as white …
    With rule
    … canonicall Scriptures of the olde and newe Testament, which is commonly called The holy byblebible, as directly contrary to your Romane and Popish religion at this day, as white …

    Perceval Wiburn · Reproof of Howlets Untimely Shrieking · p. 113 · Open in the reader

The Golden Book of Christian Matrimony A17171

  • Printed
    … yee the holy ghost is not ashamed, euen in the fyrst boke of the byblebible, very playnely to ta…ke & wryte nothyng els for the moost parte, then of …
    With rule
    … yee the holy ghost is not ashamed, euen in the fyrst boke of the byblebible, very playnely to ta…ke & wryte nothyng els for the moost parte, then of …

    Henrich Bullinger · The Golden Book of Christian Matrimony · p. xxiii · Open in the reader

The Old Faith an Evident Probation out of the Holy Scripture A17216

  • Printed
    … other mē) theſe were the chefe, mooſte famous, and oldeſt prophetes, of whom the byblebible maketh mencion wyth worſhyppe: Semeias, whyche lyued vnder Roboam kyng of Juda, Ah…as …
    With rule
    … other mē) theſe were the chefe, mooſte famous, and oldeſt prophetes, of whom the byblebible maketh mencion wyth worſhyppe: Semeias, whyche lyued vnder Roboam kyng of Juda, Ah…as …

    Henrich Bullinger · The Old Faith an Evident Probation out of the Holy Scripture · Open in the reader

Sermons on Deuteronomy A17698

  • Printed
    … come to the Church to be taught, or when any of vs openeth the byblebible at home in his owne house; Iesus christ must needs be there as though …
    With rule
    … come to the Church to be taught, or when any of vs openeth the byblebible at home in his owne house; Iesus christ must needs be there as though …

    John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · p. 704 · Open in the reader

A Humble Motion A21448

  • Printed
    … do. 1538. there was an injunction by the noble king Henry the eight, that the byblebible ſhould be ſet in churches to bee reade of all men: and anno 1540. the …
    With rule
    … do. 1538. there was an injunction by the noble king Henry the eight, that the byblebible ſhould be ſet in churches to bee reade of all men: and anno 1540. the …

    John Penry · A Humble Motion · p. 44 · Open in the reader

Answer to Thomas More B16147

  • Printed
    … to damne the beleuers. And the contrary doeth Master More se in all the byblebible / how aftir all was receaued in scripture confirmed with miracles and though miracles ceased …
    With rule
    … to damne the beleuers. And the contrary doeth Master More se in all the byblebible / how aftir all was receaued in scripture confirmed with miracles and though miracles ceased …

    William Tyndale · Answer to Thomas More · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … felynge in the herte / where with I maye beleue the hole story of the byblebible ād yet not sett myne herte ernestly therto / takynge yt for the sode of …
    With rule
    … felynge in the herte / where with I maye beleue the hole story of the byblebible ād yet not sett myne herte ernestly therto / takynge yt for the sode of …

    William Tyndale · Answer to Thomas More · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … there ys a god ād that chryst ys and all the story off the byblebible and maye yet stonde wyth all wekednesse and full consent too euell) kynne vnto …
    With rule
    … there ys a god ād that chryst ys and all the story off the byblebible and maye yet stonde wyth all wekednesse and full consent too euell) kynne vnto …

    William Tyndale · Answer to Thomas More · Open in the reader