Selected quad for the lemma: authority_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
authority_n	acknowledge_v	church_n	scripture_n	3,085	5	6.3603	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91879	The falsehood of Mr. VVilliam Pryn's Truth triumphing, in the antiquity of popish princes and Parliaments. To which, he attributes a sole, sovereigne, legislative, coercive power in all matters of religion; discovered to be full of absurdities, contradictions, sacriledge, and to make more in favour of Rome and Antichrist, than all the bookes and pamphlets which were ever published, whether by papall or episcopall prelates, or parisites, since the reformation. With twelve queries, eight whereof visit Mr. Pryn the second time, because they could not be satisfied at the first.	Robinson, Henry, 1605?-1664?	1645 (1645)	Wing R1672; Thomason E273_16; Thomason E282_11; ESTC R200048	28,156	36

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that_o prince_n and_o parliament_n have_v the_o sole_a sovereign_a and_o legislative_a power_n in_o all_o matter_n of_o religion_n both_o for_o discipline_n and_o doctrine_n on_o the_o contrary_a apollonius_n say_v it_o be_v in_o ecclesiastical_a assembly_n and_o synod_n in_o these_o word_n c._n 6._o p._n 107._o competit_fw-la ex_fw-la jure_fw-la dei_fw-la ecclesiis_fw-la in_o classibus_fw-la &_o synodis_fw-la junctis_fw-la potestas_fw-la canon_n legesque_fw-la ecclesiasticas_fw-la ferendi_fw-la quae_fw-la omnes_fw-la ecclesias_fw-la particulares_fw-la unius_fw-la provinciae_fw-la aut_fw-la regni_fw-la constringunt_fw-la ad_fw-la obedientiam_fw-la which_o be_v in_o effect_n that_o ecclesiastical_a assembly_n synod_n have_v by_o divine_a right_o a_o power_n of_o make_v canon_n and_o ecclesiastical_a law_n which_o do_v bind_v unto_o obedience_n all_o the_o particular_a church_n of_o a_o province_n or_o kingdom_n he_o may_v as_o well_o say_v of_o all_o the_o world_n and_o p._n 109._o he_o 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