Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4490 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

fanciefancy

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

Puritas changed it: 1,362 times in 614 works
Consistency: 91.3% (1,362 of 1,491)
Reach if approved: ~1,567 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: fancy
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,491 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,362 changes in 614 works, 91.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,362)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
His fourth exception is likewiſe a verie fanciefancy; viz. that it is infinit trouble & much inconvenience to repaire from all partes of …
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His fourth exception is likewiſe a verie fanciefancy; viz. that it is infinit trouble & much inconvenience to repaire from all partes of …
Henry Jacob · Attestation of Many Learned Godly and Famous Divines · p. 186 · Open in the reader
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… Aeromantick Mushrome, Concipit aethera mente; Mens levior vento, tossed up and downe with every fanciefancy. I have read of Cardanus his father, how hee conjured up seven Divels at …
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… Aeromantick Mushrome, Concipit aethera mente; Mens levior vento, tossed up and downe with every fanciefancy. I have read of Cardanus his father, how hee conjured up seven Divels at …
William Loe · The Incomparable Jewel · p. 16 · Open in the reader
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… refuſe to partake with us in our Prayers and Sacraments, whoſe God is their fanciefancy, and Religion the dreame of their owne heart; who ſeeke to build a Babel …
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… refuſe to partake with us in our Prayers and Sacraments, whoſe God is their fanciefancy, and Religion the dreame of their owne heart; who ſeeke to build a Babel …
Daniel Featley · A Key Opening Mysterious Texts of Scripture · p. 437 · Open in the reader
Printed
If I but slumber, streight my fanciefancy d…eames,
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If I but slumber, streight my fanciefancy d…eames,
Phineas Fletcher · Sicelides a Piscatory · Open in the reader
Printed
… of the pelfe of it, or for ought elſe that we haue ſome fond fanciefancy vnto, the couetous worldling for a litle temporarie treaſure, and the laſciuious wanton for …
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… of the pelfe of it, or for ought elſe that we haue ſome fond fanciefancy vnto, the couetous worldling for a litle temporarie treaſure, and the laſciuious wanton for …
Thomas Gataker · True Contentment in the Gain of Godliness · p. 34 · Open in the reader
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… then a fit petition for them also? And if we give way to this fanciefancy of exposition; it will not goe much a stray from the former: seeing the …
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… then a fit petition for them also? And if we give way to this fanciefancy of exposition; it will not goe much a stray from the former: seeing the …
Sir Richard Baker · Meditations and Disquisitions Upon the Lords Prayer · p. 85 · Open in the reader
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… to heauen, or were tormented in fire. They ſweat much to make good this fanciefancy; but in vaine: ſure we are, the Scripture maketh mention of two only places …
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… to heauen, or were tormented in fire. They ſweat much to make good this fanciefancy; but in vaine: ſure we are, the Scripture maketh mention of two only places …
Samuel Hieron · The Abridgment of the Gospel · p. 70 · Open in the reader
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… to power out his wrath vpon that place, where his righteous servant had a fanciefancy to remaine, and a desire to dwell. O the depth of the riches of …
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… to power out his wrath vpon that place, where his righteous servant had a fanciefancy to remaine, and a desire to dwell. O the depth of the riches of …
Richard Hooker · Two Sermons Upon Jude · p. 35 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (129)

66 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 46 are listed here. 63 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Purple Island A00977

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FancieFancy, a lad that all in feathers wons,
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FancieFancy, a lad that all in feathers wons,
Phineas Fletcher · The Purple Island · p. 91 · Open in the reader
Printed
FancieFancy, do thou with dreams and his sweet presence please her.
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FancieFancy, do thou with dreams and his sweet presence please her.
Phineas Fletcher · The Purple Island · p. 130 · Open in the reader

A Guide to Grand-jury Men A09118

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But now to leaue diseases, it is good to obserue the force of FancieFancy and Feare, whereby may bee found Witches. But where? only in a foolish sconce …
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But now to leaue diseases, it is good to obserue the force of FancieFancy and Feare, whereby may bee found Witches. But where? only in a foolish sconce …
Richard Bernard · A Guide to Grand-jury Men · p. 20 · Open in the reader

The Breastplate of Faith and Love A09950

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

Pilgrimage A10228

Printed
… Sabbaticall streame, & that he now saw the experimēt of that relatiō with his eyes. FancieFancy had no sooner affirmed, but superstition sware to the truth, & credulitie tickles him with …
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… Sabbaticall streame, & that he now saw the experimēt of that relatiō with his eyes. FancieFancy had no sooner affirmed, but superstition sware to the truth, & credulitie tickles him with …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 437 · Open in the reader

Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soul A10663

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… unto sundry operations of differing qualities) … take the two later, to wit, Memorie, and FancieFancy, or Imagination, to have a more excellent degree of perfection in man; as being …
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… unto sundry operations of differing qualities) … take the two later, to wit, Memorie, and FancieFancy, or Imagination, to have a more excellent degree of perfection in man; as being …
Edward Reynolds · Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soul · p. 13 · Open in the reader
Printed
… severitie of Truth, but are (as I may so speake) the Creation of the FancieFancy, having a kind of delightfull libertie in them, wherewith they refresh and doe is …
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… severitie of Truth, but are (as I may so speake) the Creation of the FancieFancy, having a kind of delightfull libertie in them, wherewith they refresh and doe is …
Edward Reynolds · Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soul · p. 20 · Open in the reader
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… Colours of some things, which had made any strong and violent immutation on the FancieFancy, must needs be hereunto ascribed, As wee see commeth often to passe, in the …
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… Colours of some things, which had made any strong and violent immutation on the FancieFancy, must needs be hereunto ascribed, As wee see commeth often to passe, in the …
Edward Reynolds · Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soul · p. 26 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and suddennesse of execution: from which peremptorie adhesion and too violent intension of the FancieFancy on some particular objects, doth many times arise not onely a dulnesse of Mind …
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… and suddennesse of execution: from which peremptorie adhesion and too violent intension of the FancieFancy on some particular objects, doth many times arise not onely a dulnesse of Mind …
Edward Reynolds · Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soul · p. 29 · Open in the reader
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… man unto the government of the Will and Vnderstanding, and not barely of the FancieFancy, as in other creatures. And for calling Passion thus govern'd, Reasonable, I have the …
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… man unto the government of the Will and Vnderstanding, and not barely of the FancieFancy, as in other creatures. And for calling Passion thus govern'd, Reasonable, I have the …
Edward Reynolds · Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soul · p. 38 · Open in the reader

The Souls Conflict With Itself A12198

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7. FancieFancy will the better bee kept within its due bounds, if wee consider the principall …
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7. FancieFancy will the better bee kept within its due bounds, if wee consider the principall …
Richard Sibbes · The Souls Conflict With Itself · p. 193 · Open in the reader

A Preparative to Marriage A12367

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Two spies for a Wise, Discretion, and FancieFancy. Fol. 27.
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Two spies for a Wise, Discretion, and FancieFancy. Fol. 27.
Henry Smith · A Preparative to Marriage · Open in the reader

Temptations A17936

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… that the mention of it, in ſtead of ſtirring hatred of it, often kindles FancieFancy to a liking of it: the diſcovery of divelliſh policies and ſtratagems of wit …
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… that the mention of it, in ſtead of ſtirring hatred of it, often kindles FancieFancy to a liking of it: the diſcovery of divelliſh policies and ſtratagems of wit …
Richard Capel · Temptations · Open in the reader

Eighty Sermons A20637

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… inſpirations thy Law, or the practiſe of Sectaries thy Precedent, thou doeſt but call FancieFancy and Imagination, by the name of Reaſon and Underſtanding, and Opinion by the name …
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… inſpirations thy Law, or the practiſe of Sectaries thy Precedent, thou doeſt but call FancieFancy and Imagination, by the name of Reaſon and Underſtanding, and Opinion by the name …
John Donne · Eighty Sermons · p. 819 · Open in the reader

A Treasury of Ancient Adages and Proverbs A20796

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FancieFancy is a foole.
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FancieFancy is a foole.
Thomas Draxe · A Treasury of Ancient Adages and Proverbs · p. 6 · Open in the reader
Printed
¶ FancieFancy, or affection.
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¶ FancieFancy, or affection.
Thomas Draxe · A Treasury of Ancient Adages and Proverbs · p. 62 · Open in the reader
Printed
FancieFancy may so long boult branne, that at length it may turne to floure.
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FancieFancy may so long boult branne, that at length it may turne to floure.
Thomas Draxe · A Treasury of Ancient Adages and Proverbs · p. 62 · Open in the reader

The Knowledge of God A20943

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… Vnderſtanding is in the body, it comprehendeth nothing but by the helpe of the FancieFancy, and in the act of Vnderſtanding it turneth to the FancieFancy, a fanciefancy which …
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… Vnderſtanding is in the body, it comprehendeth nothing but by the helpe of the FancieFancy, and in the act of Vnderſtanding it turneth to the FancieFancy, a fanciefancy which …
Peter du Moulin Jr · The Knowledge of God · p. 21 · Open in the reader
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… helpe of the FancieFancy, and in the act of Vnderſtanding it turneth to the FancieFancy, a fanciefancy which doth as much annoy, as helpe the Vnderſtanding whiles it repreſenteth …
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… helpe of the FancieFancy, and in the act of Vnderſtanding it turneth to the FancieFancy, a fanciefancy which doth as much annoy, as helpe the Vnderſtanding whiles it repreſenteth …
Peter du Moulin Jr · The Knowledge of God · p. 21 · Open in the reader

Quakerism the Path-Way to Paganism A29753

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… be said, that there are now no diabolical Injections or Delusions, working upon the FancieFancy and Imagination, and casting-in Wilde Fire and Wilde Light in the Minde; or …
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… be said, that there are now no diabolical Injections or Delusions, working upon the FancieFancy and Imagination, and casting-in Wilde Fire and Wilde Light in the Minde; or …
John Brown · Quakerism the Path-Way to Paganism · p. 33 · Open in the reader

Commentary on Matthew 4:1-11 A40659

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… Ess… an▪ or some strict (pretended holy) mortified Order amongst the Jews, have onely FancieFancy for their foundation. But we must be contentedly ignorant in what bodily shape Satan …
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… Ess… an▪ or some strict (pretended holy) mortified Order amongst the Jews, have onely FancieFancy for their foundation. But we must be contentedly ignorant in what bodily shape Satan …
Thomas Fuller · Commentary on Matthew 4:1-11 · p. 34 · Open in the reader

Good Thoughts in Bad Times A40662

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… lasted, when that which was slight, and but seeming, vanished away. Thus an Active FancieFancy in all outward expressions may immitate a lively Faith. For matter of Language, there …
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… lasted, when that which was slight, and but seeming, vanished away. Thus an Active FancieFancy in all outward expressions may immitate a lively Faith. For matter of Language, there …
Thomas Fuller · Good Thoughts in Bad Times · p. 123 · Open in the reader

Sermons A45465

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… ſin in his children, in imitation of Marcus in Irenaeus, whoſe Hereſie, or rather FancieFancy it was foreign, that by the redemption they were become inviſible: Upon theſe I ſay …
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… ſin in his children, in imitation of Marcus in Irenaeus, whoſe Hereſie, or rather FancieFancy it was foreign, that by the redemption they were become inviſible: Upon theſe I ſay …
Henry Hammond · Sermons · p. 10 · Open in the reader

The True Non-Conformist A51082

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… retortion, that where one instance can be given of conceived Prayer, only managed by FancieFancy, and subsisting in its vain exercise, thousands may be found of persons, through the …
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… retortion, that where one instance can be given of conceived Prayer, only managed by FancieFancy, and subsisting in its vain exercise, thousands may be found of persons, through the …
Robert McWard · The True Non-Conformist · p. 243 · Open in the reader
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… talking in this place of the stirrings of the Soul, by the commotion of FancieFancy, and the gratifications of Nature and imagination, is, but the gratification of your own …
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… talking in this place of the stirrings of the Soul, by the commotion of FancieFancy, and the gratifications of Nature and imagination, is, but the gratification of your own …
Robert McWard · The True Non-Conformist · p. 258 · Open in the reader

The Good Old Way Defended A57857

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… them; and afterward set Bishops over them to rule them: this is a groundless FancieFancy, nor can any shadow of Authoritie be given from Scripture for it: if he …
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… them; and afterward set Bishops over them to rule them: this is a groundless FancieFancy, nor can any shadow of Authoritie be given from Scripture for it: if he …
Gilbert Rule · The Good Old Way Defended · p. 72 · Open in the reader
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… Testimony of Antiquity for what he saith, we look on it as a groundless FancieFancy; that he can never make out. I find indeed that some of the Ancients …
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… Testimony of Antiquity for what he saith, we look on it as a groundless FancieFancy; that he can never make out. I find indeed that some of the Ancients …
Gilbert Rule · The Good Old Way Defended · p. 94 · Open in the reader
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… for boldness, folly, iniquitie, preposterous Zeal; if more Reproaches had then occurred to his FancieFancy, it is like we should have had them; it is neither good Manners, nor …
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… for boldness, folly, iniquitie, preposterous Zeal; if more Reproaches had then occurred to his FancieFancy, it is like we should have had them; it is neither good Manners, nor …
Gilbert Rule · The Good Old Way Defended · p. 195 · Open in the reader

Christ Dying and Drawing Sinners to Himself A57963

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… by words; another Physicall and reall, by strong hand. Which may be cleared thus: FancieFancy, led with some gilding of apparent or seeming good, as hope of food, doth …
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… by words; another Physicall and reall, by strong hand. Which may be cleared thus: FancieFancy, led with some gilding of apparent or seeming good, as hope of food, doth …
Samuel Rutherford · Christ Dying and Drawing Sinners to Himself · p. 277 · Open in the reader

Lex Rex A57975

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5. A true cause of convening Parliaments the prelate maketh a FancieFancy at this time▪ it is as if the theeves and robbers should say a …
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5. A true cause of convening Parliaments the prelate maketh a FancieFancy at this time▪ it is as if the theeves and robbers should say a …
Samuel Rutherford · Lex Rex · p. 240 · Open in the reader

George Fox Digged Out of His Burrows A66448

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… and by their parting him (his God-head from his Man-hood) into a FancieFancy, a Dream, a meer Whimsie, and Devellish Imagination.
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… and by their parting him (his God-head from his Man-hood) into a FancieFancy, a Dream, a meer Whimsie, and Devellish Imagination.
Roger Williams · George Fox Digged Out of His Burrows · p. 446 · Open in the reader
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… such sacred Names and Mysteries upon their Lips? yea, is it not a ridiculous FancieFancy thus to prate, and (like Pharisees to scold about washing of Hands, and Pots …
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… such sacred Names and Mysteries upon their Lips? yea, is it not a ridiculous FancieFancy thus to prate, and (like Pharisees to scold about washing of Hands, and Pots …
Roger Williams · George Fox Digged Out of His Burrows · p. 448 · Open in the reader

A Reply to a Relation A69024

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… the King and the Priest must doe all, and that according to their owne FancieFancy in the worship and service of God? When the Priest Vriah had according to …
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… the King and the Priest must doe all, and that according to their owne FancieFancy in the worship and service of God? When the Priest Vriah had according to …
Henry Burton · A Reply to a Relation · p. 87 · Open in the reader

Some Pious Treatises A76799

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… more the soul receives, the more it is able to receive. Besides, though the FancieFancy be the nimblest of all bodily things, yet the Soul in discoursing contains more …
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… more the soul receives, the more it is able to receive. Besides, though the FancieFancy be the nimblest of all bodily things, yet the Soul in discoursing contains more …
Christopher Blackwood · Some Pious Treatises · p. 82 · Open in the reader

A Prayer-Song A81112

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Of Art and FancieFancy;
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Of Art and FancieFancy;
Daniel Cudmore · A Prayer-Song · p. 64 · Open in the reader
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Reader, let thy Orpheus-like FancieFancy
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Reader, let thy Orpheus-like FancieFancy
Daniel Cudmore · A Prayer-Song · p. 67 · Open in the reader

Christ Crucified A81890

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… on Earth, calleth them an offering for ſin. The 2. is that Blaſphemous Conceit, and FancieFancy of the Papiſts, who account their abominable Maſs, a Propitiatory Sacrifice, for taking away …
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… on Earth, calleth them an offering for ſin. The 2. is that Blaſphemous Conceit, and FancieFancy of the Papiſts, who account their abominable Maſs, a Propitiatory Sacrifice, for taking away …
James Durham · Christ Crucified · p. 324 · Open in the reader

England Faithfully Watched A88417

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… a notion of freeneſſe. What did this coſt? why it coſt Chriſts own bloud. FancieFancy works fooliſhly in weak brains, colour is more then the cloth; and ſcarlet colour …
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… a notion of freeneſſe. What did this coſt? why it coſt Chriſts own bloud. FancieFancy works fooliſhly in weak brains, colour is more then the cloth; and ſcarlet colour …
Nicholas Lockyer · England Faithfully Watched · p. 49 · Open in the reader
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… God, when the man goes to make the likeneſſe of him he never ſaw. FancieFancy is but bad at recollection when at a loſſe, yet a little it can …
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… God, when the man goes to make the likeneſſe of him he never ſaw. FancieFancy is but bad at recollection when at a loſſe, yet a little it can …
Nicholas Lockyer · England Faithfully Watched · p. 67 · Open in the reader
Printed
FancieFancy can draw to the life, and it can work at ſecond hand; fancy can …
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FancieFancy can draw to the life, and it can work at ſecond hand; fancy can …
Nicholas Lockyer · England Faithfully Watched · p. 67 · Open in the reader

Treatise of Civil Policy A92147

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5. A true cauſe of convening Parliaments the prelate maketh a FancieFancy at this time; it is as if the theeves and robbers ſhould ſay a …
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5. A true cauſe of convening Parliaments the prelate maketh a FancieFancy at this time; it is as if the theeves and robbers ſhould ſay a …
Samuel Rutherford · Treatise of Civil Policy · p. 240 · Open in the reader

A Voice Tending to the Pacification of Gods Wrath A96785

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A FancieFancy, and pretends the publike-Peace,
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A FancieFancy, and pretends the publike-Peace,
George Wither · A Voice Tending to the Pacification of Gods Wrath · Open in the reader
Printed
Like thoſe which Feare begets, or FancieFancy faines:
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Like thoſe which Feare begets, or FancieFancy faines:
George Wither · A Voice Tending to the Pacification of Gods Wrath · p. 10 · Open in the reader
Printed
Before a troubled FancieFancy let them in:
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Before a troubled FancieFancy let them in:
George Wither · A Voice Tending to the Pacification of Gods Wrath · p. 10 · Open in the reader
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Sometime that hope which thy vaine FancieFancy gives thee;
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Sometime that hope which thy vaine FancieFancy gives thee;
George Wither · A Voice Tending to the Pacification of Gods Wrath · p. 20 · Open in the reader
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To preach what ever FancieFancy ſhall invent;
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To preach what ever FancieFancy ſhall invent;
George Wither · A Voice Tending to the Pacification of Gods Wrath · p. 168 · Open in the reader