Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50489 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

melanchtonMelanchthon

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

Puritas changed it: 133 times in 76 works
Consistency: 97.0% (133 of 137)
Reach if approved: ~144 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: melanchthon
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 137 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (133 changes in 76 works, 97.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 133)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

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Philip MelanchtonMelanchthon, in his Theologicall Common places, loco de Praedeſtin. doth repeate theſe words more then …
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Philip MelanchtonMelanchthon, in his Theologicall Common places, loco de Praedeſtin. doth repeate theſe words more then …
Peter du Moulin Jr · The Anatomy of Arminianism · p. 502 · Open in the reader
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… yet bewtye. Considre what Iohā Reuclin / Martyne Luther / Erasmus / Occolampadius / …winglius / Pomeran / Buter / Capito / MelanchtonMelanchthon / Grineus / Calninus / Brencyus / Frances Lābert / Bullinger / ād soche other hath done agaynst her alredye …
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… yet bewtye. Considre what Iohā Reuclin / Martyne Luther / Erasmus / Occolampadius / …winglius / Pomeran / Buter / Capito / MelanchtonMelanchthon / Grineus / Calninus / Brencyus / Frances Lābert / Bullinger / ād soche other hath done agaynst her alredye …
John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation 2 · Open in the reader
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… an ignorant and franticke boy, and heard him in his madnesse to speake Greeke. MelanchtonMelanchthon saith, that hee saw a Damoniacke woman in Saxony, who could neither write nor …
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… an ignorant and franticke boy, and heard him in his madnesse to speake Greeke. MelanchtonMelanchthon saith, that hee saw a Damoniacke woman in Saxony, who could neither write nor …
Richard Bernard · A Guide to Grand-jury Men · p. 51 · Open in the reader
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… others, who I haue formerly cited, as S. Auguſtine, Peter Martyr, Paraeus, Chemnitius, Zuinglius, MelanchtonMelanchthon, Hemingius, Baſtingius, the two godly Matyrs M. Fryth, & M. Tindall, with the whole Parliament …
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… others, who I haue formerly cited, as S. Auguſtine, Peter Martyr, Paraeus, Chemnitius, Zuinglius, MelanchtonMelanchthon, Hemingius, Baſtingius, the two godly Matyrs M. Fryth, & M. Tindall, with the whole Parliament …
Theophilus Brabourne · A Defense of the Sabbath Day · p. 403 · Open in the reader
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… of the Biſhop of Rome according to the Canons is none of theſe, as MelanchtonMelanchthon confeſſeth.] I think this is the Engliſh of Grotius words (be it ſpoken with …
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… of the Biſhop of Rome according to the Canons is none of theſe, as MelanchtonMelanchthon confeſſeth.] I think this is the Engliſh of Grotius words (be it ſpoken with …
Richard Baxter · A Key for Catholics · p. 383 · Open in the reader
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… at his firſt appearance excommunicated by the Pope, proſcribed by the Emperour, and good MelanchtonMelanchthon was oft made to faint, when he thought on ſo great a ſpeat of …
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… at his firſt appearance excommunicated by the Pope, proſcribed by the Emperour, and good MelanchtonMelanchthon was oft made to faint, when he thought on ſo great a ſpeat of …
Robert Flemming · The Fulfilling of the Scripture · p. 223 · Open in the reader
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… Chriſ. St. Auſtin, St. Jerome, Tho. Aquinas, Dionyſius Carthus, Gabriel, Biel, Lyra, Raynerus, Luther, MelanchtonMelanchthon, Brenchius, Muſculus, Chemnitius, Aretius, Hemingius, Wigandus, Zegedinus, Molanus, Viguerius Wolvius, enough for the preſent.
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… Chriſ. St. Auſtin, St. Jerome, Tho. Aquinas, Dionyſius Carthus, Gabriel, Biel, Lyra, Raynerus, Luther, MelanchtonMelanchthon, Brenchius, Muſculus, Chemnitius, Aretius, Hemingius, Wigandus, Zegedinus, Molanus, Viguerius Wolvius, enough for the preſent.
Christopher Jelinger · Usury Stated Overthrown · p. 187 · Open in the reader
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… ruine of the Church, Monendus est iste Philippus ut desinat esse mundi gubernator. Let MelanchtonMelanchthon cease (says he) to govern the World. Men when they overlook a supreme over …
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… ruine of the Church, Monendus est iste Philippus ut desinat esse mundi gubernator. Let MelanchtonMelanchthon cease (says he) to govern the World. Men when they overlook a supreme over …
John Spalding · Sermon Preached 11 May 1690 · p. 12 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

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

A Disclosing or Opening of the Man of Sin A02947

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Philippus melanchtonMelanchthon a lerned manne. 51. a. 53. b. 91. a
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Philippus melanchtonMelanchthon a lerned manne. 51. a. 53. b. 91. a
John Bale · A Disclosing or Opening of the Man of Sin · Open in the reader

The Justification of Man by Faith Only A07407

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☞ THE IVDGEMENTE OF PHILIP MELANCHTONMELANCHTHON concernynge the artycle of the iuſtyfycatyon of man which is by fayth only.
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☞ THE IVDGEMENTE OF PHILIP MELANCHTONMELANCHTHON concernynge the artycle of the iuſtyfycatyon of man which is by fayth only.
Philipp Melanchthon · The Justification of Man by Faith Only · p. x · Open in the reader

Usury Stated Overthrown A46740

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… not onely ſay it, but alſo ſyllogiſtically prove it: I will now name great melanchtonMelanchthon, the Phoenix of Germany, whoſe ſyllogiſtical Arguments do prove that Uſury is againſt the …
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… not onely ſay it, but alſo ſyllogiſtically prove it: I will now name great melanchtonMelanchthon, the Phoenix of Germany, whoſe ſyllogiſtical Arguments do prove that Uſury is againſt the …
Christopher Jelinger · Usury Stated Overthrown · p. 171 · Open in the reader