Selected quad for the lemma: authority_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
authority_n	apostle_n	bishop_n	church_n	8,364	5	4.6820	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09827	Fyve homiles of late, made by a ryght good and vertuous clerke, called master Leonarde Pollarde, prebendary of the Cathedrall Churche of Woster, directed and dedicated to the ryght reuerende Father in God Rychard by the permissyon of God bysshoppe of Woster his specyall good Lorde. Vewed, examined, and alowed by the right reuerende Father in God Edmonde byshop of London, within whose diocese they are imprinted. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum	Pollard, Leonard, d. 1556.	1556 (1556)	STC 20091; ESTC S105125	57,542	98

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who_o mischevous_a thought_n and_o imagination_n be_v not_o unknowen_a neither_o to_o the_o bless_a apostle_n nor_o yet_o to_o the_o corinthian_n and_o chryst_n our_o savyour_fw-mi in_o sundry_a place_n byd_v we_o to_o beware_v of_o he_o and_o of_o his_o malycyous_a messenger_n and_o faint_a peter_n tell_v we_o before_o that_o as_o there_o be_v false_a prophet_n in_o the_o time_n of_o the_o law_n 2._o 2._o pe._n 2._o that_o so_o there_o shall_v be_v teacher_n of_o false_a and_o damnable_a sect_n in_o the_o time_n of_o the_o gospel_n and_o we_o know_v by_o experience_n that_o there_o have_v be_v thousand_o sense_n he_o give_v we_o warning_a to_o take_v heed_n of_o they_o and_o to_o eschew_v they_o the_o which_o wholesome_a monition_fw-la give_v unto_o we_o by_o our_o savyour_fw-mi and_o by_o his_o bless_a apostle_n and_o we_o seinge_v that_o such_o as_o do_v not_o regard_v their_o monition_n have_v most_o damnable_o fall_v into_o heresy_n and_o blasphemous_a vanity_n o_o how_o ear_n 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