Selected quad for the lemma: authority_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
authority_n	act_n	king_n	zion_n	14	3	9.0865	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43681	The spirit of popery speaking out of the mouths of phanatical-Protestants, or, The last speeches of Mr. John Kid and Mr. John King, two Presbyterian ministers, who were executed for high-treason and rebellion at Edinburgh, August the 14th, 1679 with animadversions, and the history of the Archbishop of St. Andrews his murder, extracted out of the registers of the Privy-Council, &c. / by an orthodox Protestant.	Hickes, George, 1642-1715.; Kid, John, d. 1679.; King, John, d. 1679.	1680 (1680)	Wing H1874; ESTC R6348	165,592	93

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salmasius_n who_o probable_o have_v write_v their_o book_n against_o episcopacy_n before_o they_o have_v see_v these_o latter_a copy_n nor_o our_o own_o 108._o own_o see_v their_o two_o answer_n at_o the_o isle_n of_o wight_n and_o the_o appendix_n to_o the_o jus_fw-la divinum_fw-la minist_n anglican_n prop._n 3._o pag._n 108._o man_n who_o still_o cry_v down_o these_o epistle_n without_o mention_v these_o latter_a copy_n or_o distinguish_v between_o they_o and_o the_o former_a this_o father_n who_o be_v bishop_n of_o antioch_n anno_fw-la dom._n 69._o and_o contemporary_a with_o st._n john_n in_o his_o epist._n ad_fw-la magnes_fw-la say_v thus_o vos_fw-fr decet_fw-la non_fw-la concuti_fw-la aetate_fw-la episcopi_fw-la sed_fw-la secundum_fw-la virtutem_fw-la dei_fw-la patris_fw-la omnem_fw-la reverentiam_fw-la ei_fw-la tribuere_fw-la ad_fw-la smyrnens_fw-la omnes_fw-la episcopum_fw-la sequimi●i_fw-la ut_fw-la jesus_n christus_fw-la patrem_fw-la &_o presbyterium_fw-la ut_fw-la 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occultum_fw-la ab_fw-la episcopo_fw-la aliquid_fw-la operatur_fw-la diabolo_fw-la praestat_fw-la obsequium_fw-la ad_fw-la ephes._n concurrite_fw-la sententia_fw-la dei_fw-la etenim_fw-la jesus_n christus_fw-la incomparibile_fw-la nostrum_fw-la vivere_fw-la patris_fw-la sententia_fw-la ut_fw-la &_o ipsi_fw-la