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habelAbel

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

Puritas changed it
88 times in 33 works
Consistency
96.7% (88 of 91)
Reach if approved
~98 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
93 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (88 changes in 33 works, 96.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 88)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … obiected, that the Sacraments may aswell be administred without preaching at this day, as HabelAbel his sacrifice was offred, and the Passeouer celebrated without preaching in former time: The …
    With rule
    … obiected, that the Sacraments may aswell be administred without preaching at this day, as HabelAbel his sacrifice was offred, and the Passeouer celebrated without preaching in former time: The …

    John Frewen · Choice Grounds and Principles of our Christian Religion · p. 352 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … and done in Faith, as the Epiſtle to the Hebrewes declareth, ſaying: Through Faith HabelAbel offered vp a better ſacrifice: Through Faith Enoch vvas taken avvay: Through Faith Abraham …
    With rule
    … and done in Faith, as the Epiſtle to the Hebrewes declareth, ſaying: Through Faith HabelAbel offered vp a better ſacrifice: Through Faith Enoch vvas taken avvay: Through Faith Abraham …

    Martin Luther · Commentary on Galatians · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … subiect to reproches, then any other people. Examples hereof bee in all ages, as, HabelAbel, Isaac, Israel often, Dauid, the Prophets, Christ, and his Apostles. The reason is, first …
    With rule
    … subiect to reproches, then any other people. Examples hereof bee in all ages, as, HabelAbel, Isaac, Israel often, Dauid, the Prophets, Christ, and his Apostles. The reason is, first …

    John Udall · Commentary Upon Lamentations · p. 102 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … to haue entrance vnto God. As it is said Gen. 4. 4. God had respect vnto HabelAbel, and vnto his offring: first his person by faith was accepted, and then his …
    With rule
    … to haue entrance vnto God. As it is said Gen. 4. 4. God had respect vnto HabelAbel, and vnto his offring: first his person by faith was accepted, and then his …

    Andrew Willet · Commentary on Daniel · p. 364 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … Chriſt Ieſus ſaith: Suffer little Children to come vnto me, and forbid them not. HabelAbel beeing thus ſchooled by his Parents Adam and Heuah, being yet but young, offered …
    With rule
    … Chriſt Ieſus ſaith: Suffer little Children to come vnto me, and forbid them not. HabelAbel beeing thus ſchooled by his Parents Adam and Heuah, being yet but young, offered …

    John Carpenter · The Institution of Children in the Christian Religion · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    Therefore the Lord had reſpect vnto HabelAbel his offering, becauſe he had reſpect to HabelAbel. And why had hee reſpect to HabelAbel? Becauſe he was his godly faithfull ſeruant …
    With rule
    Therefore the Lord had reſpect vnto HabelAbel his offering, becauſe he had reſpect to HabelAbel. And why had hee reſpect to HabelAbel? Becauſe he was his godly faithfull ſeruant …

    John Dod · Exposition of Proverbs 15-17 · p. 6 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … that Solomon uſes here ſtill for vanity. Becauſe his parents repoſe no confidence in HabelAbel, for they thought that Cain was the Meſſias, they called him vanity. Becauſe God …
    With rule
    … that Solomon uſes here ſtill for vanity. Becauſe his parents repoſe no confidence in HabelAbel, for they thought that Cain was the Meſſias, they called him vanity. Becauſe God …

    John Donne · Twenty-Six Sermons · p. 131 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    Idem Christus eademque fides ab HabelAbel ad finem mundi per varia …aecula regnavit in electis.
    With rule
    Idem Christus eademque fides ab HabelAbel ad finem mundi per varia …aecula regnavit in electis.

    Samuel Rutherford · Survey of the Spiritual Antichrist · p. 147 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

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