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Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #51072 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

chruchesChurches

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

Puritas changed it
25 times in 25 works
Consistency
92.5% (25 of 27)
Reach if approved
~28 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: churches
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
27 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (25 changes in 25 works, 92.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 25)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … Apostles builded by Constantine the great, whereof mention is before &c. Of so manie ChruchesChurches as he builded, onely in building that one, he had that erronious conceit. Where …
    With rule
    … Apostles builded by Constantine the great, whereof mention is before &c. Of so manie ChruchesChurches as he builded, onely in building that one, he had that erronious conceit. Where …

    William Fulke · Rejoinder to Bristows Reply · p. 284 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … prejudice his Church. Hee hath universall authoritie over all things, and all for the ChruchesChurches cause.
    With rule
    … prejudice his Church. Hee hath universall authoritie over all things, and all for the ChruchesChurches cause.

    Richard Sibbes · The Christians End · p. 61 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    11. Theſe Warnings of the Spirit to the ChruchesChurches are recorded, as of great Concernment for all. It is they that overcome the …
    With rule
    11. Theſe Warnings of the Spirit to the ChruchesChurches are recorded, as of great Concernment for all. It is they that overcome the …

    Richard Baxter · A Paraphrase on the New Testament · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    Infects your Bowels? Muſt your ChruchesChurches Food
    With rule
    Infects your Bowels? Muſt your ChruchesChurches Food

    Benjamin Keach · Zion in Distress · p. 7 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … Chriſt. ☞ God hath ſtill this way open whereby to give Reſt to his Afflicted ChruchesChurches, He can Convert as well as Confound the worſt of their Perſecutors: 'Tis plain …
    With rule
    … Chriſt. ☞ God hath ſtill this way open whereby to give Reſt to his Afflicted ChruchesChurches, He can Convert as well as Confound the worſt of their Perſecutors: 'Tis plain …

    Christopher Ness · A Complete and Compendious Church History · p. 376 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … twentieth, but from the fourteenth to the twentieth, just as the Brittish and Scottish ChruchesChurches did, as appears by the second, fifth and eighteenth of his Cycle published out …
    With rule
    … twentieth, but from the fourteenth to the twentieth, just as the Brittish and Scottish ChruchesChurches did, as appears by the second, fifth and eighteenth of his Cycle published out …

    Edward Stillingfleet · Answer to Cressys Epistle · p. 315 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … but a mother of harlots like her self, that is, of particular and national ChruchesChurches idolatrous like her self, which, c. 16.19. are called the Cities of the Nations, that …
    With rule
    … but a mother of harlots like her self, that is, of particular and national ChruchesChurches idolatrous like her self, which, c. 16.19. are called the Cities of the Nations, that …

    William Guild · The Sealed Book Opened · p. 251 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … their own necks, unto whom not only I give thanks, but alſo all the ChruchesChurches of the Gentiles.
    With rule
    … their own necks, unto whom not only I give thanks, but alſo all the ChruchesChurches of the Gentiles.

    Robert Purnell · A Little Cabinet · p. 347 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.