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speculatiuespeculative

u and v used by position, not sound: haue → have, vnto → unto.

Puritas changed it: 152 times in 85 works
Consistency: 92.6% (152 of 164)
Reach if approved: ~172 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: speculative
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 164 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (152 changes in 85 works, 92.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 152)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… life there is no such praeeminency of Charity aboue Faith? Wherefore we despise these speculatiuespeculative Sophismes, which with much faire glozing, our Aduersaries draw from the Text: but yet …
With rule
… life there is no such praeeminency of Charity aboue Faith? Wherefore we despise these speculatiuespeculative Sophismes, which with much faire glozing, our Aduersaries draw from the Text: but yet …
William Pemble · Of Justification By Faith · p. 217 · Open in the reader
Printed
… they heard, that good men in other ages haue beene giuen to any ſuch ſpeculatiuespeculative life, except the monks and friers, and other of that rable: they will not …
With rule
… they heard, that good men in other ages haue beene giuen to any ſuch ſpeculatiuespeculative life, except the monks and friers, and other of that rable: they will not …
Richard Rogers · Seven Treatises · p. 575 · Open in the reader
Printed
WEe doubt not, but the world hath heard, of Mr. IOHN COSENS his ſpeculatiuespeculative and theoricall Popery, which hee hath audaciouſly broached in his Booke of Priuate Devotions …
With rule
WEe doubt not, but the world hath heard, of Mr. IOHN COSENS his ſpeculatiuespeculative and theoricall Popery, which hee hath audaciouſly broached in his Booke of Priuate Devotions …
Peter Smart · The Vanity and Downfall of Superstitious Popish Ceremonies · Open in the reader
Printed
… which he purposeth to permit: and this prescience is practicall, the former is onely speculatiuespeculative. 3. it is vsed yet in a more strict sense, as when it signifieth the …
With rule
… which he purposeth to permit: and this prescience is practicall, the former is onely speculatiuespeculative. 3. it is vsed yet in a more strict sense, as when it signifieth the …
Andrew Willet · Commentary on Romans · p. 489 · Open in the reader
Printed
… it, but such colde stuffe, as may at this daye be seene in the speculatiuespeculative dignitie of popery. Those maysters doe imperiously thunder out what soeuer they thinke good …
With rule
… it, but such colde stuffe, as may at this daye be seene in the speculatiuespeculative dignitie of popery. Those maysters doe imperiously thunder out what soeuer they thinke good …
John Calvin · Harmony of the Gospels · p. 150 · Open in the reader
Printed
… such as is not in the compasse of Gods promises in Christ: but either speculatiuespeculative precepts, or morall doctrines, or other Propheticall predictions, or historicall relations. So that by …
With rule
… such as is not in the compasse of Gods promises in Christ: but either speculatiuespeculative precepts, or morall doctrines, or other Propheticall predictions, or historicall relations. So that by …
Henry Burton · Truths Triumph Over Trent · p. 60 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſermon concluded, hee diſmiſſed the people with this ſentence, ſaying: I will in the ſpeculatiuespeculative doctrine, as pertaining to the matter of the Sacrament of the altar, kéepe ſilence …
With rule
… ſermon concluded, hee diſmiſſed the people with this ſentence, ſaying: I will in the ſpeculatiuespeculative doctrine, as pertaining to the matter of the Sacrament of the altar, kéepe ſilence …
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 280 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and all-ſufficient God, in euery ſeaſon, which the other haue not, though in ſpeculatiuespeculative knowledge, they farre out-ſtrippe them. Hence likewiſe, loue muſt needes be imperfect; for …
With rule
… and all-ſufficient God, in euery ſeaſon, which the other haue not, though in ſpeculatiuespeculative knowledge, they farre out-ſtrippe them. Hence likewiſe, loue muſt needes be imperfect; for …
Paul Baynes · A Help to True Happiness · p. 283 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (12)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 9 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Institutes of the Christian Religion A17662

Printed
… lyfe agayn, and shoulde heare suche an arte of brawlyng whiche these men call SpeculatiueSpeculative Diuinitie, they woulde beleue y^t nothyng lesse is doone than any disputation had of …
With rule
… lyfe agayn, and shoulde heare suche an arte of brawlyng whiche these men call SpeculatiueSpeculative Diuinitie, they woulde beleue y^t nothyng lesse is doone than any disputation had of …
John Calvin · The Institutes of the Christian Religion · Open in the reader

Conscience with the Power and Cases Thereof A69129

Printed
Secondly, doubting is either SpeculatiueSpeculative, or Practicall. SpeculatiueSpeculative is that, which is not immediately conversant about a practise or …
With rule
Secondly, doubting is either SpeculatiueSpeculative, or Practicall. SpeculatiueSpeculative is that, which is not immediately conversant about a practise or …
William Ames · Conscience with the Power and Cases Thereof · p. 17 · Open in the reader
Printed
Secondly, doubting is either SpeculatiueSpeculative, or Practicall. SpeculatiueSpeculative is that, which is not immediately conversant about a practise or action: as when …
With rule
Secondly, doubting is either SpeculatiueSpeculative, or Practicall. SpeculatiueSpeculative is that, which is not immediately conversant about a practise or action: as when …
William Ames · Conscience with the Power and Cases Thereof · p. 17 · Open in the reader