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Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50941 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

scritureScripture

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

Puritas changed it
43 times in 37 works
Consistency
95.5% (43 of 45)
Reach if approved
~47 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: scripture
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
45 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (43 changes in 37 works, 95.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 43)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … is Valid which is performed by such Bishops as were instituted and existent in ScritureScripture times. But our Ordination (used in England and other refo…med Churches) is performed …
    With rule
    … is Valid which is performed by such Bishops as were instituted and existent in ScritureScripture times. But our Ordination (used in England and other refo…med Churches) is performed …

    Richard Baxter · Five Disputations of Church Government · p. 198 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … clear. That we are obliged to believe under pain of Damnation all that the ScritureScripture propoſes as neceſſary to our Salvation, is agreed on all hands; but how can …
    With rule
    … clear. That we are obliged to believe under pain of Damnation all that the ScritureScripture propoſes as neceſſary to our Salvation, is agreed on all hands; but how can …

    John Scott · The Christian Life 2 · p. 326 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … prouokes him? Such is this, the cleare head-spring of all ensuing brookes in ScritureScripture and other writers concerning Magistracy. All those texts (which I wish were set as …
    With rule
    … prouokes him? Such is this, the cleare head-spring of all ensuing brookes in ScritureScripture and other writers concerning Magistracy. All those texts (which I wish were set as …

    Samuel Ward · Jethros Justice of Peace · p. 2 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    That Religion which is moſt conform to the Holy ScritureScripture is moſt conform to the doctrine and practice of Chriſt and his Apoſtles: But …
    With rule
    That Religion which is moſt conform to the Holy ScritureScripture is moſt conform to the doctrine and practice of Chriſt and his Apoſtles: But …

    Richard Baxter · A Key for Catholics · p. 116 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … our own will for what is done afterwards: But what haſt thou, ſaith the ScritureScripture, that thou haſt not received? 1 Cor. 4. 7. Its a general aſſertion, Every good and perfect …
    With rule
    … our own will for what is done afterwards: But what haſt thou, ſaith the ScritureScripture, that thou haſt not received? 1 Cor. 4. 7. Its a general aſſertion, Every good and perfect …

    Anthony Burgess · Spiritual Refining · p. 551 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … ſome miſtakes which may readily retard thee. As for the miſprinting of Books of ScritureScripture (as Pſal. is ſometime put for Iſai. and Gal. for Eccleſ.) or the Chapters …
    With rule
    … ſome miſtakes which may readily retard thee. As for the miſprinting of Books of ScritureScripture (as Pſal. is ſometime put for Iſai. and Gal. for Eccleſ.) or the Chapters …

    George Hutcheson · Exposition of Job · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … oft urged in Scripture: Melchisedek is said to be without Father, &c because the ScritureScripture is silent as to his geniallogie, so Heb. 6.—our Lord sprang of Iuda of …
    With rule
    … oft urged in Scripture: Melchisedek is said to be without Father, &c because the ScritureScripture is silent as to his geniallogie, so Heb. 6.—our Lord sprang of Iuda of …

    Matthew Poole · Warrantableness of the Preaching of Unordained Persons · p. 159 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    And by the way you may ſee how contrary to Reaſon (as well as ScritureScripture) that way of theirs is, who hold, That Chriſt's fulfilling of, and Chriſt's obedience …
    With rule
    And by the way you may ſee how contrary to Reaſon (as well as ScritureScripture) that way of theirs is, who hold, That Chriſt's fulfilling of, and Chriſt's obedience …

    Joseph Truman · The Great Propitiation · p. 115 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

1 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.

Mount Pisgah A35583

  • Printed
    Union between Chriſt and believers how expreſſed in ſcritureScripture, 1.22
    With rule
    Union between Chriſt and believers how expreſſed in ſcritureScripture, 1.22

    Thomas Case · Mount Pisgah · Open in the reader