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counsellescounsels

Two or more mechanical changes in one word: sinne → sin, vnderstande → understand.

Puritas changed it
139 times in 58 works
Consistency
84.2% (139 of 165)
Reach if approved
~173 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: counsels
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
165 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (139 changes in 58 works, 84.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 139)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … teacheth: but ſuch as liked men of the ſeuerall ages and times, ſuch as counſellescounsels decreed, and Biſhoppes ordained. Which thing Eraſmus being a great Scholler did ſee to …
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    … teacheth: but ſuch as liked men of the ſeuerall ages and times, ſuch as counſellescounsels decreed, and Biſhoppes ordained. Which thing Eraſmus being a great Scholler did ſee to …

    Josias Nichols · Abrahams Faith · p. 260 · Open in the reader

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    5 They onely deviſe counſellescounsels to thruſte him downe from his dignity: they take pleaſure in a lye: they …
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    5 They onely deviſe counſellescounsels to thruſte him downe from his dignity: they take pleaſure in a lye: they …

    Robert Rollock · Exposition Upon Select Psalms · p. 352 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … muſt be ſought in cauſes more neare vnto vs, leauing a parte the ſecrete counſellescounsels & iudgments of God, which is in ſuch ſorte the cauſe of cauſes, yt no …
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    … muſt be ſought in cauſes more neare vnto vs, leauing a parte the ſecrete counſellescounsels & iudgments of God, which is in ſuch ſorte the cauſe of cauſes, yt no …

    Pierre Viret · A Christian Instruction Containing the Law and the Gospel · p. 480 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … deuiſe. The Lord our God therfore who is the onely giuer of wyſe & perfect counſellescounsels doth farre more briefly and better knit vpp all ſhortly, and ſay in the …
    With rule
    … deuiſe. The Lord our God therfore who is the onely giuer of wyſe & perfect counſellescounsels doth farre more briefly and better knit vpp all ſhortly, and ſay in the …

    Henrich Bullinger · Fifty Sermons Containing the Chief Points of the Christian Religion · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … euery region or prouince / wythout all clokinges / ought to geue place to the generall counsellescounsels / whiche are made of all Christendome: yea and the former generall counsels / oughte ofttimes …
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    … euery region or prouince / wythout all clokinges / ought to geue place to the generall counsellescounsels / whiche are made of all Christendome: yea and the former generall counsels / oughte ofttimes …

    Archishop Thomas Cranmer · Confutation of Unwritten Verities · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … chriſtendome. And alſo thoſe full coū ſelles oftentymes muſt bée amended by the full counſellescounsels that come afterwarde, if any thing bée opened by experience, that was before ſhutte …
    With rule
    … chriſtendome. And alſo thoſe full coū ſelles oftentymes muſt bée amended by the full counſellescounsels that come afterwarde, if any thing bée opened by experience, that was before ſhutte …

    William Tyndale · Whole Works · p. 254 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … conſent of the church, and allowed by the ſentence and interpretation of the holy counſellescounsels, fathers & doctors and yet (beeing rightly and truely examined) it is nothing ſo.
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    … conſent of the church, and allowed by the ſentence and interpretation of the holy counſellescounsels, fathers & doctors and yet (beeing rightly and truely examined) it is nothing ſo.

    John Frewen · Fruitful Instructions and Necessary Doctrines · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … think, that as he had felt what miserie he susteined, by folowing his own counsellescounsels, he wold in tymes comming with all diligence attend the counsellescounsels of his father.
    With rule
    … think, that as he had felt what miserie he susteined, by folowing his own counsellescounsels, he wold in tymes comming with all diligence attend the counsellescounsels of his father.

    John Knox · An Answer to Blasphemous Cavillations by an Anabaptist · p. 188 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (26)

15 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 13 are listed here. 11 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Fruitful Instructions and Necessary Doctrines A01262

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    … other, or elſe for all other. Whatſoeuer glorious names they bring of Fathers, Doctors, CounſellesCounsels and ſuch like boſting wordes, wee neither knowe them, nor their names: if they …
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    … other, or elſe for all other. Whatſoeuer glorious names they bring of Fathers, Doctors, CounſellesCounsels and ſuch like boſting wordes, wee neither knowe them, nor their names: if they …

    John Frewen · Fruitful Instructions and Necessary Doctrines · p. 363 · Open in the reader

Exposition of Ecclesiastes A06504

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    … Goddes workes after thine owne iudgement, let God rather ſpeake: diſpute not of Gods CounſellesCounsels, nor goe not about to bringe thine own matters to paſſe through thine owne …
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    … Goddes workes after thine owne iudgement, let God rather ſpeake: diſpute not of Gods CounſellesCounsels, nor goe not about to bringe thine own matters to paſſe through thine owne …

    Martin Luther · Exposition of Ecclesiastes · p. 79 · Open in the reader

Commentary on Romans A14353

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    … preſerueth vnto himſelfe many both in the Papacy, and vnder the Turke, and in CounſellesCounsels, whome we know not: but vnto him vnto whome it belongeth they are perfectly …
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    … preſerueth vnto himſelfe many both in the Papacy, and vnder the Turke, and in CounſellesCounsels, whome we know not: but vnto him vnto whome it belongeth they are perfectly …

    Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentary on Romans · p. 333 · Open in the reader

Fifty Sermons Containing the Chief Points of the Christian Religion A17183

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    SINCE THE TIME OF THE APOSTLES, MANY CounſellesCounsels haue beene celebrated in ſundrye Prouinces. Thoſe (Counſels) then were Synodes or aſſemblies of …
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    SINCE THE TIME OF THE APOSTLES, MANY CounſellesCounsels haue beene celebrated in ſundrye Prouinces. Thoſe (Counſels) then were Synodes or aſſemblies of …

    Henrich Bullinger · Fifty Sermons Containing the Chief Points of the Christian Religion · Open in the reader

Answer to a Popish Antichristian Catholic A19658

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    … popiſh Catholiques, for all their care is (as in the Decrées of their generall CounſellesCounsels it dooth appéere) to aduance them ſelues in degrée, aboue all other ſortes of …
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    … popiſh Catholiques, for all their care is (as in the Decrées of their generall CounſellesCounsels it dooth appéere) to aduance them ſelues in degrée, aboue all other ſortes of …

    Robert Crowley · Answer to a Popish Antichristian Catholic · p. 72 · Open in the reader

Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 A67927

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    … into gaeat daunger by the same. The one of them is cast by the CounsellesCounsels commaundemente, into the gatehouse at Westminster, the other is fled foorth of the Countrey …
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    … into gaeat daunger by the same. The one of them is cast by the CounsellesCounsels commaundemente, into the gatehouse at Westminster, the other is fled foorth of the Countrey …

    John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · p. 1929 · Open in the reader

Sum of the Christian Faith A68595

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    … not onelye aboue, but contrarye to the Scriptures? For concernynge the au…thorytie of CounſellesCounsels, it hath beene ſuffycyentlye declared howe farre it extendeth. And put the caſe it …
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    … not onelye aboue, but contrarye to the Scriptures? For concernynge the au…thorytie of CounſellesCounsels, it hath beene ſuffycyentlye declared howe farre it extendeth. And put the caſe it …

    Theodore Beza · Sum of the Christian Faith · Open in the reader

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    If they beléeue not vs, nor the actes of the CounſellesCounsels, let them beléeue the requeſtes, interceſſions, and excuſes contayned in the Epyſtles of Leo …
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    If they beléeue not vs, nor the actes of the CounſellesCounsels, let them beléeue the requeſtes, interceſſions, and excuſes contayned in the Epyſtles of Leo …

    Theodore Beza · Sum of the Christian Faith · Open in the reader

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    … goodes of the Churche, where is the diſtrybution of fowre partes, ordayned by auncient CounſellesCounsels, as it hath bene amplye declared, in the thyrtie Article of the fyfte poynt?
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    … goodes of the Churche, where is the diſtrybution of fowre partes, ordayned by auncient CounſellesCounsels, as it hath bene amplye declared, in the thyrtie Article of the fyfte poynt?

    Theodore Beza · Sum of the Christian Faith · Open in the reader

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    … Yet the Archebyſhoppes and Byſhoppes whiche onelye wyll haue theyr voyce delyberatiue in the CounſellesCounsels, notwithſtanding muſte come behynde bothe in ſyght and knowledge, of thoſe whiche haue not …
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    … Yet the Archebyſhoppes and Byſhoppes whiche onelye wyll haue theyr voyce delyberatiue in the CounſellesCounsels, notwithſtanding muſte come behynde bothe in ſyght and knowledge, of thoſe whiche haue not …

    Theodore Beza · Sum of the Christian Faith · p. 176 · Open in the reader

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    … meekeneſſe lowly to repentaunce? Where is the woorde of God? Where is the auncient CounſellesCounsels and Cannons, for to vanquiſhe and conuince Heretickes? Which bee thoſe that haue the …
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    … meekeneſſe lowly to repentaunce? Where is the woorde of God? Where is the auncient CounſellesCounsels and Cannons, for to vanquiſhe and conuince Heretickes? Which bee thoſe that haue the …

    Theodore Beza · Sum of the Christian Faith · p. 177 · Open in the reader

A Hundred Sermons on Revelation B11837

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    … fayre and wel plucked of the viſure from this beaſte. Therefore haue Synodes and CounſellesCounsels not to be cōtemned condemned this Gregory: and firſt in dede the Coūſell of …
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    … fayre and wel plucked of the viſure from this beaſte. Therefore haue Synodes and CounſellesCounsels not to be cōtemned condemned this Gregory: and firſt in dede the Coūſell of …

    Henrich Bullinger · A Hundred Sermons on Revelation · p. 414 · Open in the reader

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    … Authenticall, vnleſſe it be firſt made authenticall by the approbation of the church and CounſellesCounsels. Moreouer we vnderſtande that the doctrine of this whole boke belongeth not only to …
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    … Authenticall, vnleſſe it be firſt made authenticall by the approbation of the church and CounſellesCounsels. Moreouer we vnderſtande that the doctrine of this whole boke belongeth not only to …

    Henrich Bullinger · A Hundred Sermons on Revelation · p. 688 · Open in the reader