Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50348 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

melanctonMelanchthon

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

Puritas changed it: 192 times in 116 works
Consistency: 99.4% (192 of 193)
Reach if approved: ~203 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: melanchthon
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 193 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (192 changes in 116 works, 99.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 192)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… not to be blamed, yea, ſometimes it is to be encouraged. When Luther and MelanctonMelanchthon gave over their former corrupt Doctrines, and ſuperſtitious Practices, the Papiſts condemned them for …
With rule
… not to be blamed, yea, ſometimes it is to be encouraged. When Luther and MelanctonMelanchthon gave over their former corrupt Doctrines, and ſuperſtitious Practices, the Papiſts condemned them for …
Anthony Burgess · An Expository Comment on 2 Corinthians 1 · p. 523 · Open in the reader
Printed
It was a pious speech of Luther in an Epistle to MelanctonMelanchthon, God is able to preserve his own cause from falling, or to raise it …
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It was a pious speech of Luther in an Epistle to MelanctonMelanchthon, God is able to preserve his own cause from falling, or to raise it …
Edward Corbet · Gods Providence · p. 28 · Open in the reader
Printed
… being the manifeſtation of truth, and the ſtinting of ſtrife. Heb. 6.16. it being, as MelanctonMelanchthon calleth it, the chief Bond of civil order; hereby right and juſtice is maintained …
With rule
… being the manifeſtation of truth, and the ſtinting of ſtrife. Heb. 6.16. it being, as MelanctonMelanchthon calleth it, the chief Bond of civil order; hereby right and juſtice is maintained …
William Gearing · A Bridle for the Tongue · p. 82 · Open in the reader
Printed
… out of Scotus, or Aquinas; and we remember, they were not ashamed, when Luther, MelanctonMelanchthon, &c. restored in some degree the true kind of Preaching, to petition Magistrates for …
With rule
… out of Scotus, or Aquinas; and we remember, they were not ashamed, when Luther, MelanctonMelanchthon, &c. restored in some degree the true kind of Preaching, to petition Magistrates for …
Thomas Manton · Sermons Volume 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… for euery mans boate, shall haue none left to row his owne. They, sayth MelanctonMelanchthon, that will know aliquid in omnibus, shall indéed know nihil in toto. Their admiration …
With rule
… for euery mans boate, shall haue none left to row his owne. They, sayth MelanctonMelanchthon, that will know aliquid in omnibus, shall indéed know nihil in toto. Their admiration …
Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 235 · Open in the reader
Printed
… above a score of errours. Where hee telleth vs that Luther varieth from himselfe MelanctonMelanchthon agreeth not with him, nor Kemnitius with either of them, because Luther alowed divorcement …
With rule
… above a score of errours. Where hee telleth vs that Luther varieth from himselfe MelanctonMelanchthon agreeth not with him, nor Kemnitius with either of them, because Luther alowed divorcement …
John Rainolds · Defense of Divorce and Remarriage · p. 73 · Open in the reader
Printed
… other performance) is like a bird without wings; If I cared for nothing (ſaid MelanctonMelanchthon) I ſhould pray for nothing; They are the ſprings of all our ſervices to …
With rule
… other performance) is like a bird without wings; If I cared for nothing (ſaid MelanctonMelanchthon) I ſhould pray for nothing; They are the ſprings of all our ſervices to …
Hezekiah Woodward · A Childs Patrimony · p. 96 · Open in the reader
Printed
… halfe as old agayne. And what so euer his iudgement were, he writeth as MelanctonMelanchthon sayth, his testimony of the fayth of the Sacrament, as it was in his …
With rule
… halfe as old agayne. And what so euer his iudgement were, he writeth as MelanctonMelanchthon sayth, his testimony of the fayth of the Sacrament, as it was in his …
Archishop Thomas Cranmer · Answer unto a Crafy and Sophistical Cavillation · p. 208 · 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 Estate of Children of Church Members and their Right to Baptism A33523

Printed
MElanctonMelanchthon is the next witneſſe, who is called in to give evidence to confirme the …
With rule
MElanctonMelanchthon is the next witneſſe, who is called in to give evidence to confirme the …
Thomas Cobbet · The Estate of Children of Church Members and their Right to Baptism · p. 236 · Open in the reader