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devillishdevilish

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it
610 times in 338 works
Consistency
84.7% (610 of 720)
Reach if approved
~757 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: devilish
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
720 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (610 changes in 338 works, 84.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 610)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
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    … holy and spiritual both in life and doctrine, that he silenced even desperate and devillishdevilish opposers of Religion. It was a discredit for any to speak evil of him …
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    … holy and spiritual both in life and doctrine, that he silenced even desperate and devillishdevilish opposers of Religion. It was a discredit for any to speak evil of him …

    Samuel Clarke · The Lives of Twenty-Two Eminent English Divines · p. 210 · Open in the reader

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    … but his murther was, Hee maligned Adam in his innocency: this therefore is a devilliſhdevilish ſinne. Sathan doth not ſteale, neither is he drunke, but he is envious as …
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    … but his murther was, Hee maligned Adam in his innocency: this therefore is a devilliſhdevilish ſinne. Sathan doth not ſteale, neither is he drunke, but he is envious as …

    Thomas Hooker · The Pattern of Perfection Exhibited in Gods Image on Adam · p. 105 · Open in the reader

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    … ſelfe give but little, therefore thou wilt give juſt nothing at all: a curſed, devilliſhdevilish and damnable conſequence. Secondly, there bee many examples of rich men which doe give …
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    … ſelfe give but little, therefore thou wilt give juſt nothing at all: a curſed, devilliſhdevilish and damnable conſequence. Secondly, there bee many examples of rich men which doe give …

    Richard Bernard · The Ready Way to Good Works · p. 449 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … him, and who would not receive offered Gold? But here is a deale of devillishdevilish deceit; for first, God gave them over to themselves, and they gave themselves, and …
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    … him, and who would not receive offered Gold? But here is a deale of devillishdevilish deceit; for first, God gave them over to themselves, and they gave themselves, and …

    Richard Sibbes · Evangelical Sacrifices · p. 28 · Open in the reader

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    … to the ſupreme, the higheſt cauſe. Philoſophers diſpute of the inferiour cauſes; It is devilliſhdevilish knowledge that in the contemplation of nature holds us in nature, and keepes us …
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    … to the ſupreme, the higheſt cauſe. Philoſophers diſpute of the inferiour cauſes; It is devilliſhdevilish knowledge that in the contemplation of nature holds us in nature, and keepes us …

    Jeremiah Burroughs · The Seamans Direction in Time of Storm · p. 58 · Open in the reader

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    Now valiant Bedlam, drunken, devillishdevilish wit,
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    Now valiant Bedlam, drunken, devillishdevilish wit,

    Richard Baxter · Additions to the Poetical Fragments of Baxter · p. 27 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … This strange judgement happened before many witnesses, who searching him, found about him five devillishdevilish books of conjuration and most abhominable practises, with a picture in tin of a …
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    … This strange judgement happened before many witnesses, who searching him, found about him five devillishdevilish books of conjuration and most abhominable practises, with a picture in tin of a …

    Thomas Beard · The Theater of Gods Judgments · p. 79 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … ordereth them according to his deſire: but theſe, though bruitiſh in knowledge, yet are devilliſhdevilish in wilfulneſs and obſtinacy, and therefore, as they ignorant, ſo they will live and …
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    … ordereth them according to his deſire: but theſe, though bruitiſh in knowledge, yet are devilliſhdevilish in wilfulneſs and obſtinacy, and therefore, as they ignorant, ſo they will live and …

    Anthony Burgess · An Expository Comment on 2 Corinthians 1 · p. 473 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (110)

40 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 70 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Players Scourge A10187

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    … see how many Christian soules are there swall…wed up in the whirlpoole of DevillishDevilish impudency. Whosoever shall visit the Chappell of Satan, I meane the Theater, shall finds …
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    … see how many Christian soules are there swall…wed up in the whirlpoole of DevillishDevilish impudency. Whosoever shall visit the Chappell of Satan, I meane the Theater, shall finds …

    William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 391 · Open in the reader

The Theater of Gods Judgments A27163

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    … Histories witnesse, and also made therein the Bathes) addicted himselfe so much to the DevillishDevilish art of Necromancy, that hee wrought wonders thereby, insomuch that he made himselfe wings …
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    … Histories witnesse, and also made therein the Bathes) addicted himselfe so much to the DevillishDevilish art of Necromancy, that hee wrought wonders thereby, insomuch that he made himselfe wings …

    Thomas Beard · The Theater of Gods Judgments · p. 78 · Open in the reader

A Mirror both for Saints and Sinners A33339

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    Revenge DevillishDevilish, p. 76 e. 29, 30. p. 157, &c.
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    Revenge DevillishDevilish, p. 76 e. 29, 30. p. 157, &c.

    Samuel Clarke · A Mirror both for Saints and Sinners · Open in the reader

The Tears of Ireland A34925

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    … Phariſees. For the works of their father they doe) I ſay now acting their DevilliſhDevilish deſigne on the State of Ireland our ſiſter Nation, ayming no lower then the …
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    … Phariſees. For the works of their father they doe) I ſay now acting their DevilliſhDevilish deſigne on the State of Ireland our ſiſter Nation, ayming no lower then the …

    James Cranford · The Tears of Ireland · p. 2 · Open in the reader

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    … horrid a manner that it was not poſſible to know her, having acted his DevilliſhDevilish part he triumph'd over her dead corps, and waſhed his hands in her bloud …
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    … horrid a manner that it was not poſſible to know her, having acted his DevilliſhDevilish part he triumph'd over her dead corps, and waſhed his hands in her bloud …

    James Cranford · The Tears of Ireland · p. 73 · Open in the reader

The Harmony of the Gospels A39227

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    … did inrage them. Therefore we may ſee that they we…e acted by a DevilliſhDevilish ſpirit. They were reſolved to execute their envy againſt Jeſus Chriſt by putting him …
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    … did inrage them. Therefore we may ſee that they we…e acted by a DevilliſhDevilish ſpirit. They were reſolved to execute their envy againſt Jeſus Chriſt by putting him …

    John Eliot · The Harmony of the Gospels · p. 92 · Open in the reader

A Divine Message to the Elect Soul A41110

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    … all other good duties, but they could not help me: my heart is a DevilliſhDevilish heart, ſtill my heart is wicked, and rebellious ſtill, the Devill, oh! the Devill …
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    … all other good duties, but they could not help me: my heart is a DevilliſhDevilish heart, ſtill my heart is wicked, and rebellious ſtill, the Devill, oh! the Devill …

    William Fenner · A Divine Message to the Elect Soul · p. 47 · Open in the reader

The Beautify of Magistracy A45330

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    … God, (as the Holy Ghost speakethl fully, Rom. 13.) though he exercised it in a DevillishDevilish manner, oppressing and killing the good, encourageing and acquitting such as were evil. The …
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    … God, (as the Holy Ghost speakethl fully, Rom. 13.) though he exercised it in a DevillishDevilish manner, oppressing and killing the good, encourageing and acquitting such as were evil. The …

    Thomas Hall · The Beautify of Magistracy · p. 207 · Open in the reader

History of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland A47584

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    … strength to that Reverend Father in God, Thomas Granmer, to cut the knots of DevillishDevilish Sophistry linked and knit by the Devils Gardener, and his blinde Buzzards, to hold …
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    … strength to that Reverend Father in God, Thomas Granmer, to cut the knots of DevillishDevilish Sophistry linked and knit by the Devils Gardener, and his blinde Buzzards, to hold …

    John Knox · History of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland · p. 51 · Open in the reader

Memorable Providences A50139

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    … be mischievous in the World. These are they by whom Witches do exert their DevillishDevilish and malignant Rage upon their Neighbours: And especially Two Acts concur hereunto. The First …
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    … be mischievous in the World. These are they by whom Witches do exert their DevillishDevilish and malignant Rage upon their Neighbours: And especially Two Acts concur hereunto. The First …

    Cotton Mather · Memorable Providences · p. 6 · Open in the reader

Discourses on Divers Texts of Scripture A50529

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    … double death I speak of: This is that damnable head of the Serpent, the DevillishDevilish Soveraignty of Satan. Now the Sword whereby this Soveraignty was obtained, the Scepter whereby …
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    … double death I speak of: This is that damnable head of the Serpent, the DevillishDevilish Soveraignty of Satan. Now the Sword whereby this Soveraignty was obtained, the Scepter whereby …

    Joseph Mede · Discourses on Divers Texts of Scripture · p. 464 · Open in the reader

The Antipathy of the English Lordly Prelacy A56127

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    … malice, goeth about to stirre all Christian Nations that will give eare to his DevillishDevilish enchantments, to move warre against this Realme of England, giving it in prey to …
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    … malice, goeth about to stirre all Christian Nations that will give eare to his DevillishDevilish enchantments, to move warre against this Realme of England, giving it in prey to …

    William Prynne · The Antipathy of the English Lordly Prelacy · p. 136 · Open in the reader

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    … is my decree against those proud puffed Bulls of the Devill, and of the DevillishDevilish Romanists and their factors. Neither doe they heare and obey me, but they heare …
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    … is my decree against those proud puffed Bulls of the Devill, and of the DevillishDevilish Romanists and their factors. Neither doe they heare and obey me, but they heare …

    William Prynne · The Antipathy of the English Lordly Prelacy · p. 393 · Open in the reader

The Christian Life A58787

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    … but that the worst of their Hell is within themselves, and that their own DevillishDevilish Passions are severer Furies to them than all those Devils that are without them …
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    … but that the worst of their Hell is within themselves, and that their own DevillishDevilish Passions are severer Furies to them than all those Devils that are without them …

    John Scott · The Christian Life · p. 82 · Open in the reader

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    … the Creatures of God; yet, as Devils, they are the Creatures of these their DevillishDevilish Affections; they were these that transformed them from Blessed Angels into Cursed Fiends, and …
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    … the Creatures of God; yet, as Devils, they are the Creatures of these their DevillishDevilish Affections; they were these that transformed them from Blessed Angels into Cursed Fiends, and …

    John Scott · The Christian Life · p. 82 · Open in the reader

The True Christians T est A59607

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    … full of Mercy; therefore that which is Cruel and Mercileſs, is Senſual, Worldly, and DevilliſhDevilish.
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    … full of Mercy; therefore that which is Cruel and Mercileſs, is Senſual, Worldly, and DevilliſhDevilish.

    Samuel Shaw · The True Christians T est · p. 181 · Open in the reader

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    … Spirit of Chriſt, calleth Chriſt accurſed; but doubtleſs men curſe the Devil by a DevilliſhDevilish Spirit. Perhaps the hatred of the perſon of the Devil is not a thing …
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    … Spirit of Chriſt, calleth Chriſt accurſed; but doubtleſs men curſe the Devil by a DevilliſhDevilish Spirit. Perhaps the hatred of the perſon of the Devil is not a thing …

    Samuel Shaw · The True Christians T est · p. 218 · Open in the reader

Commentary on 2 Corinthians 1 A60194

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    … the brutish slavery, and ignorance that is in Spain, and other Countreys where that DevillishDevilish Inquisition reigns, which is a great help to Popish Tyranny.
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    … the brutish slavery, and ignorance that is in Spain, and other Countreys where that DevillishDevilish Inquisition reigns, which is a great help to Popish Tyranny.

    Richard Sibbes · Commentary on 2 Corinthians 1 · p. 523 · Open in the reader

Men are Gods A62049

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    … God, (as the Holy Ghoſt ſpeaketh! fully, Rom. 13.) though he exerciſed it in a DevilliſhDevilish manner, oppreſſing and killing the good, encourageing and acquitting ſuch as were evil. The …
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    … God, (as the Holy Ghoſt ſpeaketh! fully, Rom. 13.) though he exerciſed it in a DevilliſhDevilish manner, oppreſſing and killing the good, encourageing and acquitting ſuch as were evil. The …

    George Swinnock · Men are Gods · p. 207 · Open in the reader

Thirty-Six Sermons A62128

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    … a part. The Quality of the Doctrines foretold Vers. 1. contrary to the Faith, Erroneous, DevillishDevilish; [ Now the Spirit speaketh expresly, that in the latter times some shall depart from …
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    … a part. The Quality of the Doctrines foretold Vers. 1. contrary to the Faith, Erroneous, DevillishDevilish; [ Now the Spirit speaketh expresly, that in the latter times some shall depart from …

    Robert Sanderson · Thirty-Six Sermons · p. 233 · Open in the reader

George Fox Digged Out of His Burrows A66448

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    … have been believed to have come in mightily upon them by the power of DevillishDevilish spirits (for many Reasons of which afterward) However G. Fox in 370th. page of …
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    … have been believed to have come in mightily upon them by the power of DevillishDevilish spirits (for many Reasons of which afterward) However G. Fox in 370th. page of …

    Roger Williams · George Fox Digged Out of His Burrows · p. 28 · Open in the reader

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    2. I observe throughout his Book a DevillishDevilish Black Line of despising those that are Good (as the Scripture speaketh) He counts …
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    2. I observe throughout his Book a DevillishDevilish Black Line of despising those that are Good (as the Scripture speaketh) He counts …

    Roger Williams · George Fox Digged Out of His Burrows · p. 279 · Open in the reader

A Complete Christian Dictionary A66593

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    DevillishDevilish]
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    DevillishDevilish]

    Thomas Wilson · A Complete Christian Dictionary · p. 159 · Open in the reader

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    DevillishDevilish, that is, that which the Devil practises, Job 1. 10, 11. Rev. 12. 10. Annot.
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    DevillishDevilish, that is, that which the Devil practises, Job 1. 10, 11. Rev. 12. 10. Annot.

    Thomas Wilson · A Complete Christian Dictionary · p. 159 · Open in the reader

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    3. DevillishDevilish; as of Turks, Jews, and Papists, who are driven by the spirit of Satan …
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    3. DevillishDevilish; as of Turks, Jews, and Papists, who are driven by the spirit of Satan …

    Thomas Wilson · A Complete Christian Dictionary · p. 752 · Open in the reader

Sermon Preached Several Times A72143

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    It is but a DevilliſhDevilish Proverb, A young Saint, and an old Devill. The Holy Ghoſt by Salomon aſſureth …
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    It is but a DevilliſhDevilish Proverb, A young Saint, and an old Devill. The Holy Ghoſt by Salomon aſſureth …

    Thomas Gataker · Sermon Preached Several Times · p. 17 · Open in the reader

Baxters Aphorisms A80762

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    … viz. a dead faith, ver. 17. 20. 26. A faith of Devils, ver. 19. But a dead and DevilliſhDevilish faith are not a true Goſpel faith, but at the beſt a figment and …
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    … viz. a dead faith, ver. 17. 20. 26. A faith of Devils, ver. 19. But a dead and DevilliſhDevilish faith are not a true Goſpel faith, but at the beſt a figment and …

    John Crandon · Baxters Aphorisms · p. 98 · Open in the reader

A Sincere Believer Comforted and Encouraged A81485

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    Tempting men to ſinne, a DevilliſhDevilish office, and a fearfull ſin. Page 19. & 67, 68
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    Tempting men to ſinne, a DevilliſhDevilish office, and a fearfull ſin. Page 19. & 67, 68

    Robert Dingley · A Sincere Believer Comforted and Encouraged · Open in the reader

Tears of Repentance A84357

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    … their lives have been in hazard; yea, eight of their Pawwaws have forſaken their DevilliſhDevilish craft, and profitable trade as they accounted it, for to embrace the Word and …
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    … their lives have been in hazard; yea, eight of their Pawwaws have forſaken their DevilliſhDevilish craft, and profitable trade as they accounted it, for to embrace the Word and …

    John Eliot · Tears of Repentance · Open in the reader

Exposition of Ezekiel 20-29 A85668

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    … ſaw not their cloſe wickedneſſe. Woe to them for abuſing Religion to further their DevilliſhDevilish deſigns. Woe to them for deceiving others by their painted ſhews and profeſſions, and …
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    … ſaw not their cloſe wickedneſſe. Woe to them for abuſing Religion to further their DevilliſhDevilish deſigns. Woe to them for deceiving others by their painted ſhews and profeſſions, and …

    William Greenhill · Exposition of Ezekiel 20-29 · p. 12 · Open in the reader

The Sealed Book Opened A85768

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    … ver. 20. is justly called the worshipping of Devils, so it is no marvell that DevillishDevilish sorcery was joyned therewith; as is evident, both in Popes and Priests,
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    … ver. 20. is justly called the worshipping of Devils, so it is no marvell that DevillishDevilish sorcery was joyned therewith; as is evident, both in Popes and Priests,

    William Guild · The Sealed Book Opened · p. 92 · Open in the reader

Heaven Upon Earth A87500

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    … Sin; which he thought a more ſignificant Epithite, then if he had called it DevilliſhDevilish Sin. What makes the children of God to be ſo weary of this world …
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    … Sin; which he thought a more ſignificant Epithite, then if he had called it DevilliſhDevilish Sin. What makes the children of God to be ſo weary of this world …

    James Janeway · Heaven Upon Earth · p. 188 · Open in the reader

The Ancient Doctrine of the Church of England A88669

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    … of Prieſts be malum in ſe, evill in it ſelfe, you comply with the DevilliſhDevilish doctrine of Tatianus; If it be evill quia prohibetur, becauſe it is forbidden onely …
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    … of Prieſts be malum in ſe, evill in it ſelfe, you comply with the DevilliſhDevilish doctrine of Tatianus; If it be evill quia prohibetur, becauſe it is forbidden onely …

    Humphrey Lynde · The Ancient Doctrine of the Church of England · p. 187 · Open in the reader

Sermon to House of Commons A90288

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    … of Conſtance, when he was lead to the ſtake) the ugly vizard, of ſome DevilliſhDevilish Appearance, that under that forme, they might fit them for Fire and Fagot.
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    … of Conſtance, when he was lead to the ſtake) the ugly vizard, of ſome DevilliſhDevilish Appearance, that under that forme, they might fit them for Fire and Fagot.

    John Owen · Sermon to House of Commons · p. 57 · Open in the reader

A Treatise of Self-Denial A90811

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    … ſcil. corruptivo, with an infectious touch, ſo as to make any impreſſion of his DevilliſhDevilish nature upon him; hee ſtands upon his guard (il ſe garde ſeymeſme Fren.) and …
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    … ſcil. corruptivo, with an infectious touch, ſo as to make any impreſſion of his DevilliſhDevilish nature upon him; hee ſtands upon his guard (il ſe garde ſeymeſme Fren.) and …

    Theophilus Polwheile · A Treatise of Self-Denial · p. 291 · Open in the reader

Three Decades of Sermons A96523

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    And wee of this Nation, being wonderfully delivered from a Romiſh, DevilliſhDevilish deſign of the Gun-powder Treaſon, are here on purpoſe met to commemorate with …
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    And wee of this Nation, being wonderfully delivered from a Romiſh, DevilliſhDevilish deſign of the Gun-powder Treaſon, are here on purpoſe met to commemorate with …

    Dean Henry Wilkinson · Three Decades of Sermons · p. 105 · Open in the reader

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    … udy bad enough: Shall I call it Savage, Farbarous, Stupendious, nay rather, Romiſh, Jeſuitical, DevilliſhDevilish: This was their deſigne at one blow to deſtroy Kings, Lords, and Commens. This …
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    … udy bad enough: Shall I call it Savage, Farbarous, Stupendious, nay rather, Romiſh, Jeſuitical, DevilliſhDevilish: This was their deſigne at one blow to deſtroy Kings, Lords, and Commens. This …

    Dean Henry Wilkinson · Three Decades of Sermons · p. 115 · Open in the reader

Works A97360

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    Doct. 4. It is an ordinary inſtigation and temptation of the Devil, or a DevilliſhDevilish ſpirit, to uſe unlawful means in our want to help our ſelves. Becauſe Chriſt …
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    Doct. 4. It is an ordinary inſtigation and temptation of the Devil, or a DevilliſhDevilish ſpirit, to uſe unlawful means in our want to help our ſelves. Becauſe Chriſt …

    Thomas Taylor · Works · p. 61 · Open in the reader

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    … deadly plots into their heads, and hands, againſt the Lords anointed. A treacherous and DevilliſhDevilish Doctrin.
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    … deadly plots into their heads, and hands, againſt the Lords anointed. A treacherous and DevilliſhDevilish Doctrin.

    Thomas Taylor · Works · p. 198 · Open in the reader

A Case for the Spectacles B14661

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    … of Priests be malum in se, evill in it selfe, you comply with the DevillishDevilish doctrine of Tatianus; If it be evill quia prohibetur, because it is forbidden onely …
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    … of Priests be malum in se, evill in it selfe, you comply with the DevillishDevilish doctrine of Tatianus; If it be evill quia prohibetur, because it is forbidden onely …

    Humphrey Lynde · A Case for the Spectacles · p. 187 · Open in the reader