Selected quad for the lemma: act_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
act_n	church_n	member_n	visible_a	3,063	5	9.7114	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B20531	English Presbytery, or, An account of the main opinions of those ministers and people in England, who go under the name of Presbyterians published for the vindication of divers noble and worthy persons, who by papists, and their adherents are without any ground aspersed with that name : and also of those who indeed do hold those principles, appealing to the judgement of all sober Christians, what there is of falshood or unpeaceableness in them.	Collinges, John, 1623-1690.	1680 (1680)	Wing C5315; ESTC R9925	10,428	16

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