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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4950 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

mynisterminister

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

Puritas changed it
189 times in 34 works
Consistency
91.7% (189 of 206)
Reach if approved
~216 places (estimated)
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Agrees: minister
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
206 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (189 changes in 34 works, 91.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 189)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    1 Apply thée also (my friend Iohn) with all festination, to write vnto the faithfull mynisterminister of the congregacion of Smyrna, which trauaylyng in thys vayle, of myserie, as the …
    With rule
    1 Apply thée also (my friend Iohn) with all festination, to write vnto the faithfull mynisterminister of the congregacion of Smyrna, which trauaylyng in thys vayle, of myserie, as the …

    John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation · p. 26 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … thou do …, feare. For he beareth not … swearde wythout a cause, but is the mynisterminister of GOD to aduenge in wrath hym that doeth euyll. All these wordes Peter …
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    … thou do …, feare. For he beareth not … swearde wythout a cause, but is the mynisterminister of GOD to aduenge in wrath hym that doeth euyll. All these wordes Peter …

    Thomas Lever · A Fruitful Sermon · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    Epaphara, a true and a faithfull myniſterminister of Chriſt. Coloſſ. i.a
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    Epaphara, a true and a faithfull myniſterminister of Chriſt. Coloſſ. i.a

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

  4. Printed
    … when they vnderſtād that it is the lordes will and cōmandemēt whoſe embaſſador the myniſterminister is. For they reuerēce only that authoritie which they knowe to be off god …
    With rule
    … when they vnderſtād that it is the lordes will and cōmandemēt whoſe embaſſador the myniſterminister is. For they reuerēce only that authoritie which they knowe to be off god …

    Walter Travers · Declaration of Ecclesiastical Discipline out of the Word of God · p. 31 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … Epistle of Paule / the custome ād manier of the primatiue churche / which was to mynisterminister this holy supper in both kindes / dothe accuse them / which dyd continue euen vntill …
    With rule
    … Epistle of Paule / the custome ād manier of the primatiue churche / which was to mynisterminister this holy supper in both kindes / dothe accuse them / which dyd continue euen vntill …

    Peter Martyr Vermigli · The Cohabitation of the Faithful with the Unfaithful · p. 62 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … our lord. And yet we rede not, that at anye time, the Apoſtles dyd myniſterminister it vnto women. Wher nowe, ſhall we take certitude, of this matter? That ſhal …
    With rule
    … our lord. And yet we rede not, that at anye time, the Apoſtles dyd myniſterminister it vnto women. Wher nowe, ſhall we take certitude, of this matter? That ſhal …

    John Calvin · Against the Errors of the Anabaptists · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … and Hesychius also, and what ought to be done when by negligence of the mynisterminister, it were reserued ouerlong. Mary where it liketh the Author of these differences, to …
    With rule
    … and Hesychius also, and what ought to be done when by negligence of the mynisterminister, it were reserued ouerlong. Mary where it liketh the Author of these differences, to …

    Archishop Thomas Cranmer · Answer unto a Crafy and Sophistical Cavillation · p. 56 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … yt were marryed, to cōpany with their wyues, and would not admit them to myniſterminister, béefore they had forſaken their wiues.
    With rule
    … yt were marryed, to cōpany with their wyues, and would not admit them to myniſterminister, béefore they had forſaken their wiues.

    William Tyndale · Whole Works · p. 322 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (17)

11 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 6 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Sermons Upon all the Sunday Gospels A06932

  • Printed
    … Baptisme? So whenne thou wouldest bee absolued frome thy synnes, and comest to the MynisterMinister or to any other Christian, wyth the hope to heare the woorde of GOD …
    With rule
    … Baptisme? So whenne thou wouldest bee absolued frome thy synnes, and comest to the MynisterMinister or to any other Christian, wyth the hope to heare the woorde of GOD …

    Thomas Becon · Sermons Upon all the Sunday Gospels · Open in the reader

Declaration of Ecclesiastical Discipline out of the Word of God A13881

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    … to this day: not only becauſe they do no duty off a Biſhopp or MyniſterMinister / But alſo becauſe they wrongfully vſurpe that / which belongeth vnto other. For a great …
    With rule
    … to this day: not only becauſe they do no duty off a Biſhopp or MyniſterMinister / But alſo becauſe they wrongfully vſurpe that / which belongeth vnto other. For a great …

    Walter Travers · Declaration of Ecclesiastical Discipline out of the Word of God · p. 123 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … appoynted to teache / and Cathechize the rude and ignorant: Let Paſtors be ordeyned to MyniſterMinister the Sacramentes and to applye the generall Docrine to the particuler vſes and occaſions …
    With rule
    … appoynted to teache / and Cathechize the rude and ignorant: Let Paſtors be ordeyned to MyniſterMinister the Sacramentes and to applye the generall Docrine to the particuler vſes and occaſions …

    Walter Travers · Declaration of Ecclesiastical Discipline out of the Word of God · p. 151 · Open in the reader

A Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift A18078

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    … ſtraunge and monſtrous ſight? aſſuredly the ſelfe ſame deformity it is / when as the MyniſterMinister of the word / is made a Iuſtice of peace / of Quorum / a Commyſſioner / an …
    With rule
    … ſtraunge and monſtrous ſight? aſſuredly the ſelfe ſame deformity it is / when as the MyniſterMinister of the word / is made a Iuſtice of peace / of Quorum / a Commyſſioner / an …

    Thomas Cartwright · A Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift · p. 208 · Open in the reader

A Second Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift Part 1 A18080

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    … denie that a Miniſter owght to learne: but that yt is vnmeete for a MyniſterMinister to be enioyned to learne Cathechiſmes. And as for all the argumentes which the …
    With rule
    … denie that a Miniſter owght to learne: but that yt is vnmeete for a MyniſterMinister to be enioyned to learne Cathechiſmes. And as for all the argumentes which the …

    Thomas Cartwright · A Second Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift Part 1 · p. XXVII · Open in the reader

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    … onely by reading / but alſo and that eſpecially / by the lyuely voice off the MyniſterMinister: what is els to betray the ſheep vnto the woulf / yf this be not …
    With rule
    … onely by reading / but alſo and that eſpecially / by the lyuely voice off the MyniſterMinister: what is els to betray the ſheep vnto the woulf / yf this be not …

    Thomas Cartwright · A Second Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift Part 1 · p. CCCXLIII · Open in the reader

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    … whileſt he draweth thoſe thinges to priuate men / vvhich the Apoſtle ſpeaketh off the MyniſterMinister off the word: vvhom he calleth the man off God, as the manner of …
    With rule
    … whileſt he draweth thoſe thinges to priuate men / vvhich the Apoſtle ſpeaketh off the MyniſterMinister off the word: vvhom he calleth the man off God, as the manner of …

    Thomas Cartwright · A Second Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift Part 1 · p. CCCXLIII · Open in the reader

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    … I hearde off vndowbted witneſſes / that althowghe he had no preheminence before the loweſt MyniſterMinister / but onely to propounde the cauſes / gather the voices / &c. and was choſen therunto …
    With rule
    … I hearde off vndowbted witneſſes / that althowghe he had no preheminence before the loweſt MyniſterMinister / but onely to propounde the cauſes / gather the voices / &c. and was choſen therunto …

    Thomas Cartwright · A Second Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift Part 1 · p. DCXXX · Open in the reader

A Second Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift Part 2 A18081

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    … and waſt of tyme, in that the people rehears word for word after the MyniſterMinister certeyn prayers, which they may as wel doe by conſent and affection of minde …
    With rule
    … and waſt of tyme, in that the people rehears word for word after the MyniſterMinister certeyn prayers, which they may as wel doe by conſent and affection of minde …

    Thomas Cartwright · A Second Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift Part 2 · p. 211 · Open in the reader

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    But eſpecially, in contenting yt ſelf, with a MyniſterMinister which can doe no more thē a childe of ten yeares ould, 185. Or els …
    With rule
    But eſpecially, in contenting yt ſelf, with a MyniſterMinister which can doe no more thē a childe of ten yeares ould, 185. Or els …

    Thomas Cartwright · A Second Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift Part 2 · Open in the reader

Sum of the Christian Faith A68595

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    … death: the powring forth of the wine, the ſhedding of his precious bloud: the MyniſterMinister geuing vs bread & wyne, repreſenteth Ieſus Chriſt geuing him ſelfe to vs. In that …
    With rule
    … death: the powring forth of the wine, the ſhedding of his precious bloud: the MyniſterMinister geuing vs bread & wyne, repreſenteth Ieſus Chriſt geuing him ſelfe to vs. In that …

    Theodore Beza · Sum of the Christian Faith · p. 194 · Open in the reader