Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	church_n	prove_v	true_a	2,559	5	5.3374	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29421	A Brief and true account of the notorious principles and wicked practices of that grand impostor, Lodowick Muggleton who has the impudence to stile himself one of the two last commissionated witnesses and prophets of the Most High God Jesus Christ : collected out of his own writings, and made publick	Muggleton, Lodowick, 1609-1698.	1676 (1676)	Wing B4532A; ESTC R7589	7,724	14

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