Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	add_v	holy_a	scripture_n	1,651	5	5.5616	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26586	Medulla Bibliorum, The marrow of the Bible, or, A logico-theological analysis of every several book of the Holy Scripture together with so many English poems ... : whereunto is added a chronological (marginal) annotation of the times and seasons, wherein divers acts and occurrences in the Holy Scripture hapned: partly translated out of an anonymous Latine authour, and partly amplified and enlarged ... / by William Ainsworth ...	Ainsworth, William, d. 1671.	1652 (1652)	Wing A818; ESTC R22312	82,051	222

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