Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	great_a	life_n	open_v	3,184	5	7.3311	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67106	The doctrines of the resurrection and the reward to come, considered as the grand motives to an holy life. Discoursed of, from 1. Cor. XV. 58. / By the late pious and learned John Worthington, D.D..	Worthington, John, 1618-1671.	1690 (1690)	Wing W3621; ESTC R21563	58,484	157

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