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christanChristian

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

Puritas changed it
143 times in 131 works
Consistency
93.4% (143 of 153)
Reach if approved
~161 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
153 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (143 changes in 131 works, 93.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 143)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … it will do as much to grieve and amaze the Soul of a Sober ChriſtanChristian, almoſt as an Hiſtory in the world that he can peruſe.
    With rule
    … it will do as much to grieve and amaze the Soul of a Sober ChriſtanChristian, almoſt as an Hiſtory in the world that he can peruſe.

    Richard Baxter · A Treatise of Episcopacy · p. 165 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … the Heathen, They were worſhipped as a God, or Numen, as divers of the ChriſtanChristian Fathers have obſerved in their learned reports of Heatheniſh idolatry. Which alſo their own …
    With rule
    … the Heathen, They were worſhipped as a God, or Numen, as divers of the ChriſtanChristian Fathers have obſerved in their learned reports of Heatheniſh idolatry. Which alſo their own …

    Joseph Caryl · Exposition of Job 4-7 · p. 372 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … truth hath its proper ſphere where it is fixed, and shines forth in the ChriſtanChristian Chureh; ſo the whole world beſide, is a place where horror, falshood, and impiety …
    With rule
    … truth hath its proper ſphere where it is fixed, and shines forth in the ChriſtanChristian Chureh; ſo the whole world beſide, is a place where horror, falshood, and impiety …

    Robert Flemming · The True Settlement of a Christians Faith · p. 6 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … Salvation, and uphold me with thy free Spirit. This is that which makes a ChristanChristian full of comfort, and joy, and lightsomeness, and chearfulness indeed, when as nothing else …
    With rule
    … Salvation, and uphold me with thy free Spirit. This is that which makes a ChristanChristian full of comfort, and joy, and lightsomeness, and chearfulness indeed, when as nothing else …

    Thomas Horton · Choice and Practical Expositions on Four Select Psalms · p. 73 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … Hearer and a good Diſciple are all one. Againe, No man can be a ChriſtanChristian indeed, vnleſſe he be a beleeuer: for what is a Chriſtian, but a man …
    With rule
    … Hearer and a good Diſciple are all one. Againe, No man can be a ChriſtanChristian indeed, vnleſſe he be a beleeuer: for what is a Chriſtian, but a man …

    Samuel Hieron · The Life and Death of Dorcas · p. 3 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … the growth of grace in this world; for is not a Christian, a glorious ChristanChristian, when he is a growne Christian, when he sends a luster as a pearle …
    With rule
    … the growth of grace in this world; for is not a Christian, a glorious ChristanChristian, when he is a growne Christian, when he sends a luster as a pearle …

    Richard Sibbes · The Excellency of the Gospel Above the Law · p. 498 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … take occasion to shew another peculiar & proper adjunct belonging to the patience of a ChristanChristian, which a Philosopher may sooner envie than imitate; yea, it must put him besides …
    With rule
    … take occasion to shew another peculiar & proper adjunct belonging to the patience of a ChristanChristian, which a Philosopher may sooner envie than imitate; yea, it must put him besides …

    Richard Younge · The Victory of Patience · p. 155 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    ChriſtanChristian loue knits together all Chriſtian graces, vertues, and duties p. 1022
    With rule
    ChriſtanChristian loue knits together all Chriſtian graces, vertues, and duties p. 1022

    Edward Elton · Exposition of Colossians · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (10)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 9 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Image of Both Churches in Revelation A02872

  • Printed
    … Englande, as dyd Philyp Repyngedone, made than of a false brother or p…riuired christanChristian, byshoppe of Lincolne.
    With rule
    … Englande, as dyd Philyp Repyngedone, made than of a false brother or p…riuired christanChristian, byshoppe of Lincolne.

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