Selected quad for the lemma: authority_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
authority_n	according_a	church_n	scripture_n	3,690	5	6.1129	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59121	Remarques relating to the state of the church of the first centuries wherein are intersperst animadversions on J.H.'s View of antiquity.	Seller, Abednego, 1646?-1705.	1680 (1680)	Wing S2460; ESTC R27007	303,311	521

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