Præferable

[…]; the via antiqua is probably the ſureſt, our building is Monarchical, conſtantly framed accordingly, nothing is perfect in this World, what hath leaſt imperfection is præferable, offended with that, like Sick-men we have toſt and turn’d, yet find no eaſe, what ſhall we do?

Againſt this ther ware many objections made by the creditors, viz., that quoad the 9000 lƀ. a year contained in his contract of marriage, they ware præferable, being præferable and prior creditors, and ſo he was ſucceſſor titulo lucrativo poſt contractum debitum; and as to the 6000 lƀ. per annum added, 1^(o.) before that letter they had a jus quæſitum by the ſignitor; 2^(do.) They had rights præferable.

Chriſtianity præferable to Deiſm, as ſtated by a deiſt.

This is in the indicative mood (and not the imperative) i. e. “ye do conteſt and ſtrive whoſe particular gift is beſt and moſt præferable;”[…]Alluding to the Jewiſh church, that upon opening the gates of the temple, the ſeſſion of religion is præferable to an hypocritical one;