Selected quad for the lemma: authority_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
authority_n	father_n	scripture_n	tradition_n	2,047	5	9.1715	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17442	Adelphomachia, or, The warrs of Protestancy being a treatise, wherein are layd open the wonderfull, and almost incredible dissentions of the Protestants among themselues, in most (if not all) articles of Protesta[n]cy, and this proued from their owne wordes & writinges / vvritten by a Cath. priest ; whereunto is adioyned a briefe appendix, in which is proued, first, that the ancient fathers, by the acknowledgments of the learned Protestants, taught our Cath. and Roman fayth, secondly, that the said fathers haue diuers aduantages about the Protestant writers, for finding out the true sense of the Scripture.	B. C.	1637 (1637)	STC 4263.7; ESTC S1838	109,763	196

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minister_n 3._o who_o be_v the_o person_n that_o constitute_v the_o protestant_a church_n 4._o whether_o papist_n die_a papist_n and_o member_n of_o the_o present_a roman_a church_n can_v be_v save_v §_o 10._o disagreement_n whether_o the_o ancient_a father_n of_o the_o primative_a church_n be_v to_o be_v admit_v or_o reject_v §_o 11._o whether_o the_o authority_n of_o general_n counsel_n be_v to_o be_v admit_v or_o reject_v §_o 12._o whether_o there_o be_v any_o apostolical_a tradition_n or_o not_o §_o 13._o disagreement_n touch_v the_o sacrament_n first_o of_o the_o number_n of_o the_o sacrament_n 2._o whether_o the_o know_a intention_n of_o the_o church_n be_v necessary_a to_o the_o administration_n of_o the_o sacrament_n 3._o whether_o any_o of_o the_o sacrament_n do_v imprint_v any_o indelible_a character_n in_o the_o receiver_n of_o they_o 4._o whether_o the_o sacrament_n do_v only_o signify_v or_o withal_o confer_v grace_n §_o 14._o baptism_n in_o particular_a first_o whether_o 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