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wilfulnesswillfulness

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it
530 times in 302 works
Consistency
77.2% (530 of 686)
Reach if approved
~721 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Disagrees: wilfulness
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
686 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (530 changes in 302 works, 77.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 530)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
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    … yet to affirm them requiſite neceſsarily in the Subject Justified. I wonder at the wilfulneſswillfulness in ſome, who accuſe them as a contradiction, when Proteſtant Writers do a thouſand …
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    … yet to affirm them requiſite neceſsarily in the Subject Justified. I wonder at the wilfulneſswillfulness in ſome, who accuſe them as a contradiction, when Proteſtant Writers do a thouſand …

    Anthony Burgess · A Treatise of Original Sin · Open in the reader

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    … that they may be witneſſes of his endeavours for our good, and our own wilfulneſswillfulness.
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    … that they may be witneſſes of his endeavours for our good, and our own wilfulneſswillfulness.

    Stephen Charnock · A Supplement to the Several Discourses Upon Various Divine Subjects · p. 18 · Open in the reader

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    … to perform that vow I there made to thee; and when by my own wilfulnesswillfulness or negligence I have fallen to do ill, yet thou in thy manifold mercies …
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    … to perform that vow I there made to thee; and when by my own wilfulnesswillfulness or negligence I have fallen to do ill, yet thou in thy manifold mercies …

    Richard Allestree · The Exaltation of the Soul · p. 152 · Open in the reader

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    … to purge you, so that if you be filthy still, 'tis through your own wilfulnesswillfulness. Eze, 24. 13. I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged. Jer. 13. 27. O Jerusalem, wilt …
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    … to purge you, so that if you be filthy still, 'tis through your own wilfulnesswillfulness. Eze, 24. 13. I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged. Jer. 13. 27. O Jerusalem, wilt …

    Joseph Alleine · The Way to True Happiness · p. 200 · Open in the reader

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    … you against your wills; he holds you but in the fetters of your own wilfulnesswillfulness, by his meer deceits. Seeing therefore that you may come over to the sanctified …
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    … you against your wills; he holds you but in the fetters of your own wilfulnesswillfulness, by his meer deceits. Seeing therefore that you may come over to the sanctified …

    Richard Baxter · Catholic Unity · p. 104 · Open in the reader

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    … Spirit of God; when it is often the fruit of the manifold weakneſs or wilfulneſswillfulness of the troubled complainers.
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    … Spirit of God; when it is often the fruit of the manifold weakneſs or wilfulneſswillfulness of the troubled complainers.

    Richard Baxter · The Life of Faith · p. 504 · Open in the reader

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    … this were groſs ſinning: or the neerer it comes to this, and the more wilfulneſswillfulness or neglect or evil ends there is in the ſmalleſt forbidden action, the worſe …
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    … this were groſs ſinning: or the neerer it comes to this, and the more wilfulneſswillfulness or neglect or evil ends there is in the ſmalleſt forbidden action, the worſe …

    Richard Baxter · The Right Method for a Settled Peace of Conscience · p. 263 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … it was ſufficient to have brought you nearer to believing; and through your own wilfulneſswillfulness, became not effectual; even as Adam had ſufficient Grace to have ſtood, which was …
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    … it was ſufficient to have brought you nearer to believing; and through your own wilfulneſswillfulness, became not effectual; even as Adam had ſufficient Grace to have ſtood, which was …

    Richard Baxter · Two Treatises to Awaken Secure Sinners · p. 64 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (156)

78 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 60 are listed here. 78 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Reply to the Dean of St Pauls Reflections on the Rector of Sutton A25216

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    … hinder both Ordainers and People from introducing intolerable Men. 3. And when a Peoples Ignorance, WilfulnessWillfulness, Faction, or Division makes them refuse all that are truely fit for them, may …
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    … hinder both Ordainers and People from introducing intolerable Men. 3. And when a Peoples Ignorance, WilfulnessWillfulness, Faction, or Division makes them refuse all that are truely fit for them, may …

    Vincent Alsop · Reply to the Dean of St Pauls Reflections on the Rector of Sutton · p. 103 · Open in the reader

Instructions About Heart-Work A26714

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    … it heartily? What if this word ſhould prevail to fetch you off from your WilfulneſsWillfulness, and the hardneſs of your hearts, and lay your Souls at the Feet, and …
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    … it heartily? What if this word ſhould prevail to fetch you off from your WilfulneſsWillfulness, and the hardneſs of your hearts, and lay your Souls at the Feet, and …

    Richard Alleine · Instructions About Heart-Work · p. 132 · Open in the reader

Catholic Theology Plain Pure Peaceable A26883

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    … that the More Willingneſs, the more culpability. But he that hath Actual and Habitual WilfulneſsWillfulness, and is as ſome Adulterers, drunkards, revengeful perſons, proud, covetous, &c. who are ſo …
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    … that the More Willingneſs, the more culpability. But he that hath Actual and Habitual WilfulneſsWillfulness, and is as ſome Adulterers, drunkards, revengeful perſons, proud, covetous, &c. who are ſo …

    Richard Baxter · Catholic Theology Plain Pure Peaceable · p. 40 · Open in the reader

The Mischiefs of Self-Ignorance A26955

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    … the principal ſeat of ſin; and there is no mere ſinfulneſs, then there is WilfulneſsWillfulness, Rom. 7.15, 16, 19, 20, 21, 22.
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    … the principal ſeat of ſin; and there is no mere ſinfulneſs, then there is WilfulneſsWillfulness, Rom. 7.15, 16, 19, 20, 21, 22.

    Richard Baxter · The Mischiefs of Self-Ignorance · p. 490 · Open in the reader

The Nonconformists Plea for Peace A26965

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    … and People from introducing intollerable men: 3. They may, when a Peoples Ignorance, Faction or WilfulneſsWillfulness maketh them refuſe all that are truly fit for them, urge them to accept …
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    … and People from introducing intollerable men: 3. They may, when a Peoples Ignorance, Faction or WilfulneſsWillfulness maketh them refuſe all that are truly fit for them, urge them to accept …

    Richard Baxter · The Nonconformists Plea for Peace · p. 33 · Open in the reader

The Saints Everlasting Rest A27017

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    … them for it, or exhort them from it: But, alas, the Common Cause is WilfulnessWillfulness and Negligence; Men will not be perswaded to use the Remedy, though it be …
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    … them for it, or exhort them from it: But, alas, the Common Cause is WilfulnessWillfulness and Negligence; Men will not be perswaded to use the Remedy, though it be …

    Richard Baxter · The Saints Everlasting Rest · p. 385 · Open in the reader

Two Treatises to Awaken Secure Sinners A27062

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    … ſay you cannot believe what you would: I anſwer, Feed not your Unbelief by WilfulneſsWillfulness or Unreaſonableneſs; uſe God's Means to overcome it, and ſhut not your Eyes againſt …
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    … ſay you cannot believe what you would: I anſwer, Feed not your Unbelief by WilfulneſsWillfulness or Unreaſonableneſs; uſe God's Means to overcome it, and ſhut not your Eyes againſt …

    Richard Baxter · Two Treatises to Awaken Secure Sinners · p. 104 · Open in the reader

Universal Redemption of Mankind A27064

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    … the fruits only of perſonal proper guilt, in the remembrance of the Folly, or WilfulneſsWillfulness, or Negligence, or Unkindneſs, or the like Evils manifeſted in Sinning. Chriſt had no …
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    … the fruits only of perſonal proper guilt, in the remembrance of the Folly, or WilfulneſsWillfulness, or Negligence, or Unkindneſs, or the like Evils manifeſted in Sinning. Chriſt had no …

    Richard Baxter · Universal Redemption of Mankind · p. 390 · Open in the reader

A Supplement to the Several Discourses Upon Various Divine Subjects A32724

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    WilfulneſsWillfulness the cauſe of mens ruin. Page. 705, 6.
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    WilfulneſsWillfulness the cauſe of mens ruin. Page. 705, 6.

    Stephen Charnock · A Supplement to the Several Discourses Upon Various Divine Subjects · Open in the reader

Directions for the Education of a Young Prince A36847

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    Chap. 8. Of WilfulnessWillfulness. p. 66.
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    Chap. 8. Of WilfulnessWillfulness. p. 66.

    Peter du Moulin Jr · Directions for the Education of a Young Prince · Open in the reader

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    … obstinate: for if he were ashamed indeed, he durst not be disobedient; it is WilfulnessWillfulness that makes him disobey; a Weed that must be rooted out. Every Judicious Person …
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    … obstinate: for if he were ashamed indeed, he durst not be disobedient; it is WilfulnessWillfulness that makes him disobey; a Weed that must be rooted out. Every Judicious Person …

    Peter du Moulin Jr · Directions for the Education of a Young Prince · p. 21 · Open in the reader

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    WIlfulnessWillfulness is the ordinary effect of Pride, a very proud man is always very wilful …
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    WIlfulnessWillfulness is the ordinary effect of Pride, a very proud man is always very wilful …

    Peter du Moulin Jr · Directions for the Education of a Young Prince · p. 66 · Open in the reader

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    … use of his shamefac'dness, of his fear, and of his desire to get praise, WilfulnessWillfulness will never appear; and go not out of the good Rules which you have …
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    … use of his shamefac'dness, of his fear, and of his desire to get praise, WilfulnessWillfulness will never appear; and go not out of the good Rules which you have …

    Peter du Moulin Jr · Directions for the Education of a Young Prince · p. 68 · Open in the reader

Satans Temptations in Three Parts A42781

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    … they, Did we ever think to meet with ſuch diſappointments ſuch Griefs, from the WilfulneſsWillfulness, Pride, Weakneſs, Ignorance, Pettiſhneſs, Inconſtancy, Negligence, and Scandals of Friends? and ſuch Hatred, Contradictions …
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    … they, Did we ever think to meet with ſuch diſappointments ſuch Griefs, from the WilfulneſsWillfulness, Pride, Weakneſs, Ignorance, Pettiſhneſs, Inconſtancy, Negligence, and Scandals of Friends? and ſuch Hatred, Contradictions …

    Richard Gilpin · Satans Temptations in Three Parts · p. 292 · Open in the reader

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    … have accompanied ſuch a Fact. 2. He aggravates the Sins of God's Children from the WilfulneſsWillfulness of their ſinning. 'Tis a thing often too true, that a Child of God …
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    … have accompanied ſuch a Fact. 2. He aggravates the Sins of God's Children from the WilfulneſsWillfulness of their ſinning. 'Tis a thing often too true, that a Child of God …

    Richard Gilpin · Satans Temptations in Three Parts · p. 393 · Open in the reader

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    … reſiſted but ineffectually, or not reſiſted at all, he chargeth them with the higheſt WilfulneſsWillfulness, and will ſo aggravate the matter that they ſhall be put in fear, not …
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    … reſiſted but ineffectually, or not reſiſted at all, he chargeth them with the higheſt WilfulneſsWillfulness, and will ſo aggravate the matter that they ſhall be put in fear, not …

    Richard Gilpin · Satans Temptations in Three Parts · p. 393 · Open in the reader

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    … no caſe muſt we go down to the Battel, in the ſtrength of a WilfulneſsWillfulness, leſt it go againſt us. And thus do they, who when they are reproved …
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    … no caſe muſt we go down to the Battel, in the ſtrength of a WilfulneſsWillfulness, leſt it go againſt us. And thus do they, who when they are reproved …

    Richard Gilpin · Satans Temptations in Three Parts · p. 205 · Open in the reader

Works of Hooker A44334

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    … unreasonable cecity and blindnesse trampled all Laws both of God and Nature under seet; WilfulnessWillfulness tyrannized over Reason; and Brutish Sensuality over Will: An evident token, that his out …
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    … unreasonable cecity and blindnesse trampled all Laws both of God and Nature under seet; WilfulnessWillfulness tyrannized over Reason; and Brutish Sensuality over Will: An evident token, that his out …

    Richard Hooker · Works of Hooker · p. 539 · Open in the reader

The Almost Christian A44431

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    … what it will, yet your Condemnation will lie upon you ſo long as your WilfulneſsWillfulness is much greater than your Weakneſs. No, Sinners, your precious and immortal Souls will …
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    … what it will, yet your Condemnation will lie upon you ſo long as your WilfulneſsWillfulness is much greater than your Weakneſs. No, Sinners, your precious and immortal Souls will …

    Ezekiel Hopkins · The Almost Christian · p. 93 · Open in the reader

Sermons Volume 2 A44439

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    From Weakneſs to WilfulneſsWillfulness; from Ignorance to Preſumption, is its ordinary courſe and progreſs. The Cloud that Elijah's …
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    From Weakneſs to WilfulneſsWillfulness; from Ignorance to Preſumption, is its ordinary courſe and progreſs. The Cloud that Elijah's …

    Ezekiel Hopkins · Sermons Volume 2 · p. 152 · Open in the reader

An Exposition of Genesis A44894

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    D. 5. WilfulnessWillfulness and wantonness eage on yong soules to their own mischief, and grief of parents.
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    D. 5. WilfulnessWillfulness and wantonness eage on yong soules to their own mischief, and grief of parents.

    George Hughes · An Exposition of Genesis · p. 428 · Open in the reader

Apology for the Ministers Who Subscribed A49183

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    … effects on the Soul) it is always from the Interpoſition of an Act of WilfulneſsWillfulness and Stubbornneſs in thoſe Englightned and Convicted, they do not ſincerely improve what they …
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    … effects on the Soul) it is always from the Interpoſition of an Act of WilfulneſsWillfulness and Stubbornneſs in thoſe Englightned and Convicted, they do not ſincerely improve what they …

    William Lorimer · Apology for the Ministers Who Subscribed · p. 147 · Open in the reader

The Kings Authority in Dispensing with Ecclesiastical Laws A52597

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    … reduplicative as an Aggravation; and as if all Omiſſions muſt of neceſſity proceed from WilfulneſsWillfulness and Obſtinacy, but diſtinctive, and to be underſtood ſpecificative, ſome Omiſſions being from WilfulneſsWillfulness …
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    … reduplicative as an Aggravation; and as if all Omiſſions muſt of neceſſity proceed from WilfulneſsWillfulness and Obſtinacy, but diſtinctive, and to be underſtood ſpecificative, ſome Omiſſions being from WilfulneſsWillfulness …

    Philip Nye · The Kings Authority in Dispensing with Ecclesiastical Laws · p. 39 · Open in the reader

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    … WilfulneſsWillfulness and Obſtinacy, but diſtinctive, and to be underſtood ſpecificative, ſome Omiſſions being from WilfulneſsWillfulness and Contempt; but there may be Omiſſions that are not ſo, and being not …
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    … WilfulneſsWillfulness and Obſtinacy, but diſtinctive, and to be underſtood ſpecificative, ſome Omiſſions being from WilfulneſsWillfulness and Contempt; but there may be Omiſſions that are not ſo, and being not …

    Philip Nye · The Kings Authority in Dispensing with Ecclesiastical Laws · p. 39 · Open in the reader

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    3. That all Eccleſiaſtical Tranſgreſſions, even in Matters that are little in themſelves, are from WilfulneſsWillfulness and Obſtinacy, (what this Act ſuppoſeth, if ſo interpreted) is a Maxim in Diſcipline …
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    3. That all Eccleſiaſtical Tranſgreſſions, even in Matters that are little in themſelves, are from WilfulneſsWillfulness and Obſtinacy, (what this Act ſuppoſeth, if ſo interpreted) is a Maxim in Diſcipline …

    Philip Nye · The Kings Authority in Dispensing with Ecclesiastical Laws · p. 41 · Open in the reader

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    … Gal. 6.1. and not to apply Cenſures, and cutting off, but upon the account of WilfulneſsWillfulness and Obſtinacy; only we are willing to believe ſuch is (I am ſure ought …
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    … Gal. 6.1. and not to apply Cenſures, and cutting off, but upon the account of WilfulneſsWillfulness and Obſtinacy; only we are willing to believe ſuch is (I am ſure ought …

    Philip Nye · The Kings Authority in Dispensing with Ecclesiastical Laws · p. 41 · Open in the reader

A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament A52807

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    … might clearly them, that it was not any neceſſary Want, but meer Wantonneſs and WilfulneſsWillfulness, which prompted them ſo to a deſire of an alteration of Government; and hereupon …
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    … might clearly them, that it was not any neceſſary Want, but meer Wantonneſs and WilfulneſsWillfulness, which prompted them ſo to a deſire of an alteration of Government; and hereupon …

    Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 247 · Open in the reader

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    … ſtrong as he will not loſe Weak Thomas (according to Romans 15.1.3.) notwithſtanding all his WilfulneſsWillfulness and Obſtinacy added to his Incredulity: From theſe praemiſes do ariſe practical and profitable …
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    … ſtrong as he will not loſe Weak Thomas (according to Romans 15.1.3.) notwithſtanding all his WilfulneſsWillfulness and Obſtinacy added to his Incredulity: From theſe praemiſes do ariſe practical and profitable …

    Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 302 · Open in the reader

Thirteen Sermons A61630

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    … Part to be governed by the Reasonable. For the less of Reason, the more WilfulnessWillfulness and Stubbornness; and therefore the harder to be brought to Reason and to be …
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    … Part to be governed by the Reasonable. For the less of Reason, the more WilfulnessWillfulness and Stubbornness; and therefore the harder to be brought to Reason and to be …

    Edward Stillingfleet · Thirteen Sermons · p. 108 · Open in the reader

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    3. There are several Degrees of WilfulnessWillfulness and Obstinacy, and Men's Judgments shall be according to them. Some Men's Capacities, Opportunities …
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    3. There are several Degrees of WilfulnessWillfulness and Obstinacy, and Men's Judgments shall be according to them. Some Men's Capacities, Opportunities …

    Edward Stillingfleet · Thirteen Sermons · p. 162 · Open in the reader

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    … so much Folly and Mistake; so much Prejudice and Peevishness in some; so much WilfulnessWillfulness and Stiffness in others; so little Regard to the true Interests of Religion and …
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    … so much Folly and Mistake; so much Prejudice and Peevishness in some; so much WilfulnessWillfulness and Stiffness in others; so little Regard to the true Interests of Religion and …

    Edward Stillingfleet · Thirteen Sermons · p. 197 · Open in the reader

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    … nor to call that an Infirmity in one, which we should judge to be WilfulnessWillfulness, and Presumption in another.
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    … nor to call that an Infirmity in one, which we should judge to be WilfulnessWillfulness, and Presumption in another.

    Edward Stillingfleet · Thirteen Sermons · p. 512 · Open in the reader

Thirty-Six Sermons A62128

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    … remembred Ioseph; thereby shewing his former forgetfulness to have proceeded rather from Negligence than WilfulnessWillfulness: we after so many fresh Remembrances and blessed Opportunities; still continue in a kind …
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    … remembred Ioseph; thereby shewing his former forgetfulness to have proceeded rather from Negligence than WilfulnessWillfulness: we after so many fresh Remembrances and blessed Opportunities; still continue in a kind …

    Robert Sanderson · Thirty-Six Sermons · p. 255 · Open in the reader

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    … be committed, as sometimes through Ignorance, and sometimes through Infirmity, so also sometimes through WilfulnessWillfulness or Presumption.
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    … be committed, as sometimes through Ignorance, and sometimes through Infirmity, so also sometimes through WilfulnessWillfulness or Presumption.

    Robert Sanderson · Thirty-Six Sermons · p. 405 · Open in the reader

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    … sinful actions, (especially those that are compleatly such) a mixture of Ignorance, Infirmity, and WilfulnessWillfulness, or Presumption. Whence it is, that all Sins are in the Scriptures indefinitely and …
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    … sinful actions, (especially those that are compleatly such) a mixture of Ignorance, Infirmity, and WilfulnessWillfulness, or Presumption. Whence it is, that all Sins are in the Scriptures indefinitely and …

    Robert Sanderson · Thirty-Six Sermons · p. 405 · Open in the reader

Twenty Sermons A62137

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    … sinfull actions, (especially those that are compleatly such) a mixture of Ignorance, Infirmity, and WilfulnessWillfulness or Presumption. Whence it is, that all Sins are in the Scriptures indefinitely and …
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    … sinfull actions, (especially those that are compleatly such) a mixture of Ignorance, Infirmity, and WilfulnessWillfulness or Presumption. Whence it is, that all Sins are in the Scriptures indefinitely and …

    Robert Sanderson · Twenty Sermons · p. 70 · Open in the reader

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    … untowardness of the Will, resolvedly bent upon the Evill: the Sin arising from such WilfulnessWillfulness, though probably not free from all mixture of Ignorance and infirmity withall, is yet …
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    … untowardness of the Will, resolvedly bent upon the Evill: the Sin arising from such WilfulnessWillfulness, though probably not free from all mixture of Ignorance and infirmity withall, is yet …

    Robert Sanderson · Twenty Sermons · p. 71 · Open in the reader

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    … or less voluntary. Sithence therefore in sins of Ignorance and Infirmity there is less WilfulnessWillfulness; the will being misled in the one by an Errour in the Judgment, and …
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    … or less voluntary. Sithence therefore in sins of Ignorance and Infirmity there is less WilfulnessWillfulness; the will being misled in the one by an Errour in the Judgment, and …

    Robert Sanderson · Twenty Sermons · p. 75 · Open in the reader

Of Sincerity and Constancy in Faith A62570

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    … and Reasons of what he holds, and professeth to believe. The first is meer WilfulnessWillfulness and Obstinacy. A Man hath entertained, and drank in such Principles of Religion by …
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    … and Reasons of what he holds, and professeth to believe. The first is meer WilfulnessWillfulness and Obstinacy. A Man hath entertained, and drank in such Principles of Religion by …

    John Tillotson · Of Sincerity and Constancy in Faith · p. 142 · Open in the reader

Discourses Proving Jesus to be the Messiah A62634

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    … and made their Caſe ſo near deſperate. The two great aggravations of Crimes are WilfulneſsWillfulness and Ingratitude; if a Crime be wilfully committed, and committed againſt one that hath …
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    … and made their Caſe ſo near deſperate. The two great aggravations of Crimes are WilfulneſsWillfulness and Ingratitude; if a Crime be wilfully committed, and committed againſt one that hath …

    John Tillotson · Discourses Proving Jesus to be the Messiah · p. 184 · Open in the reader

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    … Our Sins are not of a common rate, when they have ſo much of WilfulneſsWillfulness and Unworthineſs in them. If Men ſhall be ſeverely puniſh'd for living againſt the …
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    … Our Sins are not of a common rate, when they have ſo much of WilfulneſsWillfulness and Unworthineſs in them. If Men ſhall be ſeverely puniſh'd for living againſt the …

    John Tillotson · Discourses Proving Jesus to be the Messiah · p. 184 · Open in the reader

Sermons and Discourses Volume 5 A62635

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    … and made their Caſe ſo near deſperate. The two great aggravations of Crimes are WilfulneſsWillfulness and Ingratitude; if a Crime be wilfully committed, and committed againſt one that hath …
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    … and made their Caſe ſo near deſperate. The two great aggravations of Crimes are WilfulneſsWillfulness and Ingratitude; if a Crime be wilfully committed, and committed againſt one that hath …

    John Tillotson · Sermons and Discourses Volume 5 · p. 184 · Open in the reader

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    … Our Sins are not of a common rate, when they have ſo much of WilfulneſsWillfulness and Unworthineſs in them. If Men ſhall be ſeverely puniſh'd for living againſt the …
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    … Our Sins are not of a common rate, when they have ſo much of WilfulneſsWillfulness and Unworthineſs in them. If Men ſhall be ſeverely puniſh'd for living againſt the …

    John Tillotson · Sermons and Discourses Volume 5 · p. 184 · Open in the reader

Natural and Moral Impotency A63764

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    … degree: It is a higher degree of volition or chuſing; you may call it WilfulneſsWillfulness, ſtubbornneſs, Obſtinacy, Moral Impotency, all theſe ſignifie the ſame. Deut. 21.18. If a man have …
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    … degree: It is a higher degree of volition or chuſing; you may call it WilfulneſsWillfulness, ſtubbornneſs, Obſtinacy, Moral Impotency, all theſe ſignifie the ſame. Deut. 21.18. If a man have …

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    … the immediate duty, be it what it will, or call it what you will, WilfulneſsWillfulness, Wickedneſs, Moral Impotency, for, It will excuſe, ſay they, as well as Natural; and …
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    … is preached without difference) without deſtroying mans freedom, take away in part mans great WilfulneſsWillfulness or Unwillingneſs to good; why may he not quite and totally (or however to …
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    Joseph Truman · Natural and Moral Impotency · p. 64 · Open in the reader

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    … Man not only cannot keep the Law through Weakness, but he breaks it through WilfulnessWillfulness. Ier. 44.17. We will do whatsoever goeth out of our Mouth, to burn Incense to …
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    … for their Sins, yet they are resolved to hold fast Iniquity. This is desperate WilfulnessWillfulness: And Voluntas est regula & mensura actionis, The more of the Will in a Sin …
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    … for their Sins, yet they are resolved to hold fast Iniquity. This is desperate WilfulnessWillfulness: And Voluntas est regula & mensura actionis, The more of the Will in a Sin …

    Thomas Watson · A Body of Practical Divinity · p. 393 · Open in the reader

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    Answ. We must distinguish between one who is foiled through Weakness, and through WilfulnessWillfulness. If a Soldier fights, but is foil'd for want of Strength, the General of …
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    Thomas Watson · A Body of Practical Divinity · p. 853 · Open in the reader

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    … have we been araigned at your bar for ſinning againſt light, for Obſtinacy and WilfulneſsWillfulness? & your Cenſures have lighted moſt heavily upon Miniſters, ſparing none, neither Conformiſts nor Non …
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    Obadiah Wills · Infant Baptism Asserted and Vindicated · p. 157 · Open in the reader

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    Who ſhall not, by a final WilfulneſsWillfulness,
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An Exposition of Hosea 4-7 A77979

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    WilfulneſsWillfulness
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    Jeremiah Burroughs · An Exposition of Hosea 4-7 · Open in the reader

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    WilfulneſsWillfulness after enlightning is a note of deſtruction Page 579
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    John Martin · Mary Magdalenes Tears Wiped Off · Open in the reader

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    … more dangerous, by how much the more certain it is, that ſuch ſins of WilfulneſsWillfulness are not reconcilable to a State of regeneracy. The determination whereof, I muſt referr …
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    John Martin · Mary Magdalenes Tears Wiped Off · p. 107 · Open in the reader

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    John Martin · Mary Magdalenes Tears Wiped Off · p. 108 · Open in the reader

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    … ſad is it, that there ſhould be ſuch a Spirit of Profaneneſs, Looſeneſs and WilfulneſsWillfulness againſt Counſel in our dayes! Truly, if the Means we have do not cure …
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    … ſad is it, that there ſhould be ſuch a Spirit of Profaneneſs, Looſeneſs and WilfulneſsWillfulness againſt Counſel in our dayes! Truly, if the Means we have do not cure …

    Thomas Walley · Balm in Gilead to Heal Zions Wounds · p. 9 · Open in the reader

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    Thomas Walley · Balm in Gilead to Heal Zions Wounds · p. 10 · Open in the reader

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    2. Then against Obstinacy and WilfulnessWillfulness; that you malicously shut not your eyes, and wilfully with-draw not your assent …
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    William Nicholson · Exposition of the Apostles Creed · p. 44 · Open in the reader