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brentiusBrenz

Proper names whose form changes beyond mechanical spelling: Ionas → Jonah. Approve one at a time.

Puritas changed it
484 times in 165 works
Consistency
99.7% (484 of 485)
Reach if approved
~544 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
518 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (484 changes in 165 works, 99.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 484)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … And ſo would I thinke. Theſe who comment vpon Eſter, folowe the ſame, Lyra, BrentiusBrenz, Bullinger, Lauaterus. The argument in the Bible tranſlated at Geneuah, before the booke of …
    With rule
    … And ſo would I thinke. Theſe who comment vpon Eſter, folowe the ſame, Lyra, BrentiusBrenz, Bullinger, Lauaterus. The argument in the Bible tranſlated at Geneuah, before the booke of …

    Hugh Broughton · A Letter to a Friend Touching Mordecais Age · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … sanct: lib. 3. cap. 7. and in his 2 book De effect sacr. he ioyneth herein vvith BrentiusBrenz, Calvin and Chemnitius. I vvill add one vvhom this Def. calleth worthily a judicious …
    With rule
    … sanct: lib. 3. cap. 7. and in his 2 book De effect sacr. he ioyneth herein vvith BrentiusBrenz, Calvin and Chemnitius. I vvill add one vvhom this Def. calleth worthily a judicious …

    William Ames · Reply to Mortons Defense of Ceremonies · p. 35 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … Oaths for renouncing all foreign Jurisdictions. 3. Our Disputants, Luther, (de Conciliis) Zuinglius, Oecolampadius, Melanchthon, BrentiusBrenz, Calvin, Bullinger, Zanchy, Illiricus, Pezelius, Musculus, Aretius, Chamier, Molinaeus, Blondel, Dallaeus, Rivet, Paraeus, Sohnius …
    With rule
    … Oaths for renouncing all foreign Jurisdictions. 3. Our Disputants, Luther, (de Conciliis) Zuinglius, Oecolampadius, Melanchthon, BrentiusBrenz, Calvin, Bullinger, Zanchy, Illiricus, Pezelius, Musculus, Aretius, Chamier, Molinaeus, Blondel, Dallaeus, Rivet, Paraeus, Sohnius …

    Richard Baxter · Against the Revolt to a Foreign Jurisdiction · p. 378 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … ſayd the ſick man, it is in Heaven, but not in the Heaven of BrentiusBrenz, which is no where. He that makes Heaven every where, makes it no where …
    With rule
    … ſayd the ſick man, it is in Heaven, but not in the Heaven of BrentiusBrenz, which is no where. He that makes Heaven every where, makes it no where …

    Joseph Caryl · Exposition of Job 15-17 · p. 369 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    Now of the Law, there is a two-fold worke) (as BrentiusBrenz obſerueth,) The worke of fulfilling it, the worke of knowledge, the latter of which …
    With rule
    Now of the Law, there is a two-fold worke) (as BrentiusBrenz obſerueth,) The worke of fulfilling it, the worke of knowledge, the latter of which …

    Thomas Barnes · The Court of Conscience · p. 22 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … most of the articles of faith: but that was priuate to some men, as BrentiusBrenz and others, and was not receiued of whole Churches: and whereas the men were …
    With rule
    … most of the articles of faith: but that was priuate to some men, as BrentiusBrenz and others, and was not receiued of whole Churches: and whereas the men were …

    William Perkins · Exposition of the Apostles Creed · p. 499 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … towne not to stand constantly in defence of Religion, went to Berne in Switzerland. BrentiusBrenz was compelled to flie from Hala a towne of Sueue and was receiued of …
    With rule
    … towne not to stand constantly in defence of Religion, went to Berne in Switzerland. BrentiusBrenz was compelled to flie from Hala a towne of Sueue and was receiued of …

    Patrick Simson · The History of the Church Since the Days of Christ · p. 197 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … the reſte: ſo alſo in this oure remembrance / the greateſt lerned men as Caluin / BrentiusBrenz / and many other do think. Off theis matters the beſte inſtituted and reformed churches …
    With rule
    … the reſte: ſo alſo in this oure remembrance / the greateſt lerned men as Caluin / BrentiusBrenz / and many other do think. Off theis matters the beſte inſtituted and reformed churches …

    William Whittingham · Brief Discourse of the Troubles at Frankfort · p. CXLVI · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Bloody Tenant Washed and Made White in the Blood of the Lamb A80608

  • Printed
    BRentiusBrenz upon 1 Cor. 3. ſaith, no man hath power to make or give Lawes to Chriſtians …
    With rule
    BRentiusBrenz upon 1 Cor. 3. ſaith, no man hath power to make or give Lawes to Chriſtians …

    John Cotton · The Bloody Tenant Washed and Made White in the Blood of the Lamb · p. 157 · Open in the reader