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sriptureScripture

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

Puritas changed it
38 times in 37 works
Consistency
97.4% (38 of 39)
Reach if approved
~41 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: scripture
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
39 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (38 changes in 37 works, 97.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 38)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    THorns (as Glaſſius and others obſerve) in theſe Places of holy SriptureScripture, ſignify wicked, miſchievous Men. Numb. 33.55.
    With rule
    THorns (as Glaſſius and others obſerve) in theſe Places of holy SriptureScripture, ſignify wicked, miſchievous Men. Numb. 33.55.

    Benjamin Keach · Tropes and Figures · p. 224 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … things are ordained to be figures of other things; and they vilifie the ſacred SriptureScripture, while by ſuch fiction they giue occaſion to beleeue that the things which are …
    With rule
    … things are ordained to be figures of other things; and they vilifie the ſacred SriptureScripture, while by ſuch fiction they giue occaſion to beleeue that the things which are …

    Robert Parker · Against Symbolizing with Antichrist in Ceremonies · p. 97 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … for your Head, and the Holy Ghoſt for your Sanctifier and Comforter, and the SriptureScripture for your guide, and Saints for your Brethren, Companions and Aſſiſtants, engaged to you …
    With rule
    … for your Head, and the Holy Ghoſt for your Sanctifier and Comforter, and the SriptureScripture for your guide, and Saints for your Brethren, Companions and Aſſiſtants, engaged to you …

    Richard Baxter · A Treatise of Self-Denial · p. 406 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … confeſs in other caſes, according to his Tenent, to be often found in the SriptureScripture; in theſe words, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory, it is …
    With rule
    … confeſs in other caſes, according to his Tenent, to be often found in the SriptureScripture; in theſe words, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory, it is …

    Samuel Eaton · A Vindication · p. 109 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … to writing. And for theſe things which men urge as unwritten traditions, beſide the SriptureScripture, they are ſuch toyes as Chriſt needed not ſay, ye cannot bear them, ſeeing …
    With rule
    … to writing. And for theſe things which men urge as unwritten traditions, beſide the SriptureScripture, they are ſuch toyes as Chriſt needed not ſay, ye cannot bear them, ſeeing …

    George Hutcheson · Exposition of John · p. 324 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … demand, and to shew you some of the positive warrants that I finde in SriptureScripture, for Subjects their sighting for Religion, and although, as doubtful of the old Testament …
    With rule
    … demand, and to shew you some of the positive warrants that I finde in SriptureScripture, for Subjects their sighting for Religion, and although, as doubtful of the old Testament …

    Robert McWard · The True Non-Conformist · p. 9 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … not ordaine, it shall follow either that Officers may minister without ordination, against the SriptureScripture, 1 Tim. 4. 14. Heb. 6. 1. or, by vertue of ordination received in another Church, they might minister …
    With rule
    … not ordaine, it shall follow either that Officers may minister without ordination, against the SriptureScripture, 1 Tim. 4. 14. Heb. 6. 1. or, by vertue of ordination received in another Church, they might minister …

    Samuel Rutherford · The Due Right of Presbyteries · p. 199 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    B. So in the next page. 191. he intelerably abuſeth the SriptureScripture in affirming that of 2. Theſ. 2. 12., to be the voice of the Law, and ſo …
    With rule
    B. So in the next page. 191. he intelerably abuſeth the SriptureScripture in affirming that of 2. Theſ. 2. 12., to be the voice of the Law, and ſo …

    John Crandon · Baxters Aphorisms · p. 160 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

0 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.