Selected quad for the lemma: authority_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
authority_n	church_n	power_n	scripture_n	7,777	5	6.2723	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54125	The continued cry of the oppressed for justice being a farther account of the late unjust and cruel proceedings of unreasonable men against the persons and estates of many of the people call'd Quakers, only for their peaceable meetings to worship God : presented to the serious consideration of the King and both Houses of Parliament : with a postscript of the nature, difference and limits of civil and ecclesiastical authority, and the inconsistency of such severities with both, recommended and submitted to the perusal of Cæsar's true friends / by the author of England's present interest, &c.	Penn, William, 1644-1718.	1675 (1675)	Wing P1270; ESTC R18856	19,683	36

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22._o col._n 1._o 118._o 118._o job_n 19_o 14_o 15._o 15._o rome_n 8._o 17._o 17._o heb_n 2._o 11._o 11._o tit._n 2._o 14._o 14._o act_n 20_o 28._o 28._o rev._n 14._o 3._o 3._o 1_o pet._n 2._o 9_o 9_o heb._n 12_o 23._o 23._o col._n 1._o 24._o 24._o rev._n 21._o 9_o 9_o joh._n 18._o 36._o mat._n 22._o 2._o luke_n 13._o 2._o joh._n 18._o 36._o luke_n 17._o 21._o tit._n 2._o 12._o mat._n 26._o 52._o mat._n 27._o 20._o ver._n 27._o etc._n etc._n ver._n 29._o ver_fw-la 48._o luke_n 23._o 34._o mat._n 26._o 53._o mat._n 5._o 44._o 45_o 46_o 47._o luke_n 9_o 53_o 54_o 55_o 56._o luke_n 9_o 49_o 50._o mat._n 13._o 24_o 25_o 26_o 27_o 28_o 29_o 30_o ver._n 36_o 37_o 38_o 39_o joh._n 15._o 12._o phil._n 3._o 15._o