Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6691 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

literallliteral

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 1,401 times in 501 works
Consistency: 95.7% (1,401 of 1,464)
Reach if approved: ~1,539 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: literal
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,465 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,401 changes in 501 works, 95.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,401)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

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… at large debated in the bookes of the City of God, and in the literallliteral exposition vpon the Genesis. And yet after all searche that man can make, this …
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… at large debated in the bookes of the City of God, and in the literallliteral exposition vpon the Genesis. And yet after all searche that man can make, this …
William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 169 · Open in the reader
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… no ſuch circumſtance in this Petition, it is ſafeſt to take it in the literallliteral, vſuall, and proper ſence. If it be not here ſo taken, this forme of …
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… no ſuch circumſtance in this Petition, it is ſafeſt to take it in the literallliteral, vſuall, and proper ſence. If it be not here ſo taken, this forme of …
William Gouge · A Guide to Go to God · p. 98 · Open in the reader
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… it: Theſe things thus conſidered, we ſay plainly, That whatſoeuer appertained vnto Moſes his literallliteral, carnall, legall, perſonall, and terrible miniſtration, or promulgation of the Morall Law, that, together …
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… it: Theſe things thus conſidered, we ſay plainly, That whatſoeuer appertained vnto Moſes his literallliteral, carnall, legall, perſonall, and terrible miniſtration, or promulgation of the Morall Law, that, together …
William Hinde · The Office and Use of the Moral Law · p. 76 · Open in the reader
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… me intreat thee (…ourreous Reader) to bear with errours from the preſſe, as ſome literallliteral faults, defects of Accents, or Points, miſplacing, or wanting of a word. Three Greek …
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… me intreat thee (…ourreous Reader) to bear with errours from the preſſe, as ſome literallliteral faults, defects of Accents, or Points, miſplacing, or wanting of a word. Three Greek …
Alexander Leighton · The Looking Glass of the Holy War · p. 316 · Open in the reader
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… from the letter but in caſe of neceſſity, when the place cannot beare the literallliteral ſenſe, as here we haue ſhewed that it well may. And yet this is …
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… from the letter but in caſe of neceſſity, when the place cannot beare the literallliteral ſenſe, as here we haue ſhewed that it well may. And yet this is …
John Mayer · Exposition on the Catholic Epistles · p. 325 · Open in the reader
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… There is but one true and naturall ſenſe of euerie place, which is the literallliteral ſenſe, that which the holie Ghoſt principally intendeth there: and accordingly can there be …
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… There is but one true and naturall ſenſe of euerie place, which is the literallliteral ſenſe, that which the holie Ghoſt principally intendeth there: and accordingly can there be …
Richard Bernard · The Faithful Shepherd · p. 28 · Open in the reader
Printed
… full and intire sense of euery place of scripture, and that is also the literallliteral sense, sometimes expressed in proper, and sometimes in borrowed or figuratiue speaches. To make …
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… full and intire sense of euery place of scripture, and that is also the literallliteral sense, sometimes expressed in proper, and sometimes in borrowed or figuratiue speaches. To make …
William Perkins · Commentary on Galatians 1-5 · p. 345 · Open in the reader
Printed
… are litterally to be taken, except you can bring some just exception against the literallliteral exposition.
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… are litterally to be taken, except you can bring some just exception against the literallliteral exposition.
Daniel Featley · Transubstantiation Exploded · p. 245 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (63)

44 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 35 are listed here. 19 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Commentary on Galatians 1-5 A09383

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… writers make foure seuerall senses of the Scripture, commending Ierome to excell in the LiterallLiteral, Origen in the Allegoricall, Ambrose in the Anagogicall, Chrysostome in the Tropologicall; they haue …
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… writers make foure seuerall senses of the Scripture, commending Ierome to excell in the LiterallLiteral, Origen in the Allegoricall, Ambrose in the Anagogicall, Chrysostome in the Tropologicall; they haue …
William Perkins · Commentary on Galatians 1-5 · Open in the reader
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… Here the Papists make a double sense of scripture, one literallliteral, the other spirituall. LiterallLiteral is twofold. Proper, when the words are taken in their proper signification. Figuratiue, when …
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… Here the Papists make a double sense of scripture, one literallliteral, the other spirituall. LiterallLiteral is twofold. Proper, when the words are taken in their proper signification. Figuratiue, when …
William Perkins · Commentary on Galatians 1-5 · p. 345 · Open in the reader

Theological Rules to Guide Us in the Understanding and Practice of Scripture A15529

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10 LiterallLiteral sense alone of scripture is the whole substance of faith, and of Christian Theologie.
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10 LiterallLiteral sense alone of scripture is the whole substance of faith, and of Christian Theologie.
Thomas Wilson · Theological Rules to Guide Us in the Understanding and Practice of Scripture · p. 124 · Open in the reader

Five Sermons 1 A20641

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… occaſion to ſay ſomewhat of a ſecond part to. The parts are, firſt, the LiterallLiteral, the Hiſtoricall ſenſe of the words; And then an emergent, a collaterall, an occaſionall …
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… occaſion to ſay ſomewhat of a ſecond part to. The parts are, firſt, the LiterallLiteral, the Hiſtoricall ſenſe of the words; And then an emergent, a collaterall, an occaſionall …
John Donne · Five Sermons 1 · p. 5 · Open in the reader
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… onely State-praepoſitions, Precedencies, and Prerogatiues of Church aboue Church, occaſioned great Schiſmes, but LiterallLiteral Praepoſitions, Praepoſitions in Grammar, occaſioned great Hereſies. That great Hereſie of the Acepbali, againſt …
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… onely State-praepoſitions, Precedencies, and Prerogatiues of Church aboue Church, occaſioned great Schiſmes, but LiterallLiteral Praepoſitions, Praepoſitions in Grammar, occaſioned great Hereſies. That great Hereſie of the Acepbali, againſt …
John Donne · Five Sermons 1 · p. 16 · Open in the reader

Five Sermons 2 A20642

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… occaſion to ſay ſomewhat of a ſecond part to. The parts are, firſt, the LiterallLiteral, the Hiſtoricall ſenſe of the words; And then an emergent, a collaterall, an occaſionall …
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… occaſion to ſay ſomewhat of a ſecond part to. The parts are, firſt, the LiterallLiteral, the Hiſtoricall ſenſe of the words; And then an emergent, a collaterall, an occaſionall …
John Donne · Five Sermons 2 · p. 5 · Open in the reader
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… onely State-praepoſitions, Precedencies, and Prerogatiues of Church aboue Church, occaſioned great Schiſmes, but LiterallLiteral Praepoſitions, Praepoſitions in Grammar, occaſioned great Hereſies. That great Hereſie of the Acephali, againſt …
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… onely State-praepoſitions, Precedencies, and Prerogatiues of Church aboue Church, occaſioned great Schiſmes, but LiterallLiteral Praepoſitions, Praepoſitions in Grammar, occaſioned great Hereſies. That great Hereſie of the Acephali, againſt …
John Donne · Five Sermons 2 · p. 16 · Open in the reader

Three Sermons Upon Special Occasions A20655

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… occasion to say somewhat of a second part to. The parts are, first, the LiterallLiteral, the Historicall sense of the words; And then an emergent, a collaterall, an occasionall …
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… occasion to say somewhat of a second part to. The parts are, first, the LiterallLiteral, the Historicall sense of the words; And then an emergent, a collaterall, an occasionall …
John Donne · Three Sermons Upon Special Occasions · p. 5 · Open in the reader

Fifty Sermons A36296

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… the first emanation of the light thereof, nor in the reflection; neither in the LiterallLiteral, nor in the Figurative sense thereof; for the literallliteral sense is plainly that, that …
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… the first emanation of the light thereof, nor in the reflection; neither in the LiterallLiteral, nor in the Figurative sense thereof; for the literallliteral sense is plainly that, that …
John Donne · Fifty Sermons · p. 199 · Open in the reader

The History of the Worthies of England A40672

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… could never recover a sight) though entitled an A B C, related not to LiterallLiteral reading, but rather to some Elementall grounds of Religion. He flourished Anno Domini 1552.
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… could never recover a sight) though entitled an A B C, related not to LiterallLiteral reading, but rather to some Elementall grounds of Religion. He flourished Anno Domini 1552.
Thomas Fuller · The History of the Worthies of England · Open in the reader

Treatise of Divinity A47629

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The Scripture hath often two senses, one of which the latter Divines call LiterallLiteral, Grammaticall, or Historicall, another mysticall or Spirituall.
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The Scripture hath often two senses, one of which the latter Divines call LiterallLiteral, Grammaticall, or Historicall, another mysticall or Spirituall.
Edward Leigh · Treatise of Divinity · p. 171 · Open in the reader
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The LiterallLiteral sense is that which the letter it selfe, or the words taken in their …
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The LiterallLiteral sense is that which the letter it selfe, or the words taken in their …
Edward Leigh · Treatise of Divinity · p. 171 · Open in the reader

The Covenant of Life Opened A57966

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… too much to the Law and darkned the Gospel, and sayeth the one was 1. LiterallLiteral. 2. Written in stone. 3. A Sermon of death and wrath. 4. To be done away and …
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… too much to the Law and darkned the Gospel, and sayeth the one was 1. LiterallLiteral. 2. Written in stone. 3. A Sermon of death and wrath. 4. To be done away and …
Samuel Rutherford · The Covenant of Life Opened · p. 63 · Open in the reader
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… to have recourse to the fountain and fulnesse of life that is in Christ. LiterallLiteral quickning of our selves, miskenning Christ, out of whose fulnesse we receive, produceth but …
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… to have recourse to the fountain and fulnesse of life that is in Christ. LiterallLiteral quickning of our selves, miskenning Christ, out of whose fulnesse we receive, produceth but …
Samuel Rutherford · The Covenant of Life Opened · p. 350 · Open in the reader

Survey of the Spiritual Antichrist A57980

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The Reformation of Luther and others, was Legall, LiterallLiteral, carnall, not Spirituall, So Del.
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The Reformation of Luther and others, was Legall, LiterallLiteral, carnall, not Spirituall, So Del.
Samuel Rutherford · Survey of the Spiritual Antichrist · p. 9 · Open in the reader
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… know neither Spirit nor Word, but go on with their fleshly prudencie in the LiterallLiteral Scripture, and set forth the same with their fleshly hearts, before the simple people …
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… know neither Spirit nor Word, but go on with their fleshly prudencie in the LiterallLiteral Scripture, and set forth the same with their fleshly hearts, before the simple people …
Samuel Rutherford · Survey of the Spiritual Antichrist · p. 163 · Open in the reader
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Henry Nicholas condemning all Scripture as a LiterallLiteral and carnall thing, and an Elementish, Ceremoniall, and fleshly service; yea, and confession with …
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Henry Nicholas condemning all Scripture as a LiterallLiteral and carnall thing, and an Elementish, Ceremoniall, and fleshly service; yea, and confession with …
Samuel Rutherford · Survey of the Spiritual Antichrist · p. 192 · Open in the reader
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… spirit. David Georgius said, they are Legall and LiterallLiteral Preachers, and Christ but the LiterallLiteral Messiah, and he the true spirituall Sonne of David, borne of the spirit, not …
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… spirit. David Georgius said, they are Legall and LiterallLiteral Preachers, and Christ but the LiterallLiteral Messiah, and he the true spirituall Sonne of David, borne of the spirit, not …
Samuel Rutherford · Survey of the Spiritual Antichrist · p. 212 · Open in the reader
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… against the Text, and a horrible blasphemy, to wit, that Christ should be a LiterallLiteral Preacher, as David Georgius said, and so a Legall Presbyterian, as Familists and Antinomians …
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… against the Text, and a horrible blasphemy, to wit, that Christ should be a LiterallLiteral Preacher, as David Georgius said, and so a Legall Presbyterian, as Familists and Antinomians …
Samuel Rutherford · Survey of the Spiritual Antichrist · p. 214 · Open in the reader

The Trial and Triumph of Faith A57982

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LiterallLiteral knowledge worketh as a naturall Agent, p. 334.
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LiterallLiteral knowledge worketh as a naturall Agent, p. 334.
Samuel Rutherford · The Trial and Triumph of Faith · Open in the reader
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… light, far lesse can I infuse love in the soul of a lost man. 3. LiterallLiteral knowledge of Christ, is not in the power of naturall men; but laying down …
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… light, far lesse can I infuse love in the soul of a lost man. 3. LiterallLiteral knowledge of Christ, is not in the power of naturall men; but laying down …
Samuel Rutherford · The Trial and Triumph of Faith · p. 331 · Open in the reader

The Mystery of the Marriage Song A63268

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… The fleſ… luſteth againſt the Spirit, Gal. 5.17. That is (ſaith he) the Hiſtoricall or LiterallLiteral Sence, fighteth againſt the Spirituall or Allegoricall ſenſe of Scripture; and again, th… LiterallLiteral …
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… The fleſ… luſteth againſt the Spirit, Gal. 5.17. That is (ſaith he) the Hiſtoricall or LiterallLiteral Sence, fighteth againſt the Spirituall or Allegoricall ſenſe of Scripture; and again, th… LiterallLiteral …
William Troughton · The Mystery of the Marriage Song · p. 2 · Open in the reader
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… LiterallLiteral Sence, fighteth againſt the Spirituall or Allegoricall ſenſe of Scripture; and again, th… LiterallLiteral Senſe, which is Carnall, keeps men from, Bu… the Allegoricall Senſe, opens the Kingdome …
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… LiterallLiteral Sence, fighteth againſt the Spirituall or Allegoricall ſenſe of Scripture; and again, th… LiterallLiteral Senſe, which is Carnall, keeps men from, Bu… the Allegoricall Senſe, opens the Kingdome …
William Troughton · The Mystery of the Marriage Song · p. 2 · Open in the reader
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Firſt, whereas Papiſts and others make ſeverall Senſe of Scripture, a LiterallLiteral and a Spiritual ſenſe; and the Spirituall they divide into Allegoricall, Tropologicall, and Anagogicall …
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Firſt, whereas Papiſts and others make ſeverall Senſe of Scripture, a LiterallLiteral and a Spiritual ſenſe; and the Spirituall they divide into Allegoricall, Tropologicall, and Anagogicall …
William Troughton · The Mystery of the Marriage Song · p. 2 · Open in the reader
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… and entire ſenſe of Scripture, intended by the holy Ghoſt, and that is the LiterallLiteral ſenſe; which is ſomtimes expreſſed by the Spirit of God in proper, and ſomtimes …
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… and entire ſenſe of Scripture, intended by the holy Ghoſt, and that is the LiterallLiteral ſenſe; which is ſomtimes expreſſed by the Spirit of God in proper, and ſomtimes …
William Troughton · The Mystery of the Marriage Song · p. 2 · Open in the reader
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… in a hundred ſeverall ſenſes, as two or three varying one from another. The LiterallLiteral and Spirituall are no… ſeverall ſenſes, but ſeverall Illuſtrations, applications or uſes of Scripture …
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… in a hundred ſeverall ſenſes, as two or three varying one from another. The LiterallLiteral and Spirituall are no… ſeverall ſenſes, but ſeverall Illuſtrations, applications or uſes of Scripture …
William Troughton · The Mystery of the Marriage Song · p. 2 · Open in the reader

The Sum of Christian Religion A64611

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… in our hearts. Yea, there hath growne an opinion heretofore, That the Grammaticall and LiterallLiteral meaning of the Scripture is pernicious, except all be transformed into allegories. But a …
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… in our hearts. Yea, there hath growne an opinion heretofore, That the Grammaticall and LiterallLiteral meaning of the Scripture is pernicious, except all be transformed into allegories. But a …
Zacharias Ursinus · The Sum of Christian Religion · p. 23 · Open in the reader

Works of Joseph Hall A68126

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… for a Legendary fable, that Luther was begotten by an Incubus. Yet had the LiterallLiteral (not myſticall) Melchiſedec both Father and Mother: and if Sem were Melchiſedec (as wiſer …
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… for a Legendary fable, that Luther was begotten by an Incubus. Yet had the LiterallLiteral (not myſticall) Melchiſedec both Father and Mother: and if Sem were Melchiſedec (as wiſer …
Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 747 · Open in the reader

The Healing of Israels Breaches A77502

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… I take up: Even Iſrael is ſubiect to Breaches. So it was with the LiterallLiteral typicall Iſrael, Davids Kingdome, ſo it may be with ſpirituall, Myſticall Iſrael, the Kingdome …
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… I take up: Even Iſrael is ſubiect to Breaches. So it was with the LiterallLiteral typicall Iſrael, Davids Kingdome, ſo it may be with ſpirituall, Myſticall Iſrael, the Kingdome …
John Brinsley · The Healing of Israels Breaches · p. 7 · Open in the reader

The Quarrel of the Covenant A81249

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That is, The LiterallLiteral or Inchoative Day.
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That is, The LiterallLiteral or Inchoative Day.
Thomas Case · The Quarrel of the Covenant · p. 29 · Open in the reader
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… pat, and full upon our times, as if we were not got beyond the LiterallLiteral; a little variance will do it.
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… pat, and full upon our times, as if we were not got beyond the LiterallLiteral; a little variance will do it.
Thomas Case · The Quarrel of the Covenant · p. 31 · Open in the reader

A Way to Zion Sought out and Found for Believers A87749

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… saith, This principle of local Separation, he findeth is both Jewish, and Legall, and LiterallLiteral; and is sucked in by the Saints from the first Gospell discovery, and from …
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… saith, This principle of local Separation, he findeth is both Jewish, and Legall, and LiterallLiteral; and is sucked in by the Saints from the first Gospell discovery, and from …
Daniel King · A Way to Zion Sought out and Found for Believers · p. 220 · Open in the reader

The Mystery of the Gospel Vindicated and Socinianism Examined A90295

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… them according to the figurative import of them, and that interpretation gives you the LiterallLiteral, and not a mysticall sence, if such figures belong to speech and not to …
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… them according to the figurative import of them, and that interpretation gives you the LiterallLiteral, and not a mysticall sence, if such figures belong to speech and not to …
John Owen · The Mystery of the Gospel Vindicated and Socinianism Examined · p. 12 · Open in the reader

The Fast Friend A91943

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… God of his mercy recover them, and all will be recovered. Thus of the LiterallLiteral, now of the Spirtuall meaning.
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… God of his mercy recover them, and all will be recovered. Thus of the LiterallLiteral, now of the Spirtuall meaning.
Nehemiah Rogers · The Fast Friend · p. 264 · Open in the reader

The Plain Mans Senses Exercised to Discern Good and Evil B26357

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… any place of Scripture, Rule. 3 must be such as the words in their true LiterallLiteral and Gra…aticall Construction will yeild and beare, else it is a false sense …
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… any place of Scripture, Rule. 3 must be such as the words in their true LiterallLiteral and Gra…aticall Construction will yeild and beare, else it is a false sense …
William Lyford · The Plain Mans Senses Exercised to Discern Good and Evil · p. 54 · Open in the reader