Selected quad for the lemma: body_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
body_n	church_n	head_n	part_n	10,210	5	5.3186	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29121	The second Adam being the second part, or branch of the comparison between the first, and the second Adam, in these words, so by the obedience of one, shall many be made righteous. By Thomas Bradley doctor of divinity, chaplaine to His late Majesty King Charles the First, and præbend of York. And there preached at Lent assizes holden there, 1667/8. Oxon. Exon.; Nosce te ipsum. Part 2.	Bradley, Thomas, 1597-1670.	1668 (1668)	Wing B4136A; ESTC R213087	22,288	53

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