Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	king_n	law_n	read_v	3,266	5	6.5822	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85710	A sermon preached in the Citie of London by a lover of truth. Touching the power of a king, and proving out of the word of God, that the authoritie of a king is onely from God and not of man.	Griffith, Matthew, 1599?-1665.	1643 (1643)	Wing G2017; Thomason E104_17; ESTC R22414	21,757	29

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