Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	aaron_n	child_n	person_n	14	3	5.0624	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66525	Infant=baptism asserted & vindicated by Scripture and antiquity in answer to a treatise of baptism lately published by Mr. Henry Danvers : together with a full detection of his misrepresentations of divers councils and authors both ancient and modern : with a just censur of his essay to palliate the horrid actings of the anabaptists in Germany : as also a perswasive to unity among all Christians, though of different judgments about baptism / by Obed Wills ...	Wills, Obed.	1674 (1674)	Wing W2867; ESTC R31819	255,968	543

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bishop_n and_o so_o they_o do_v fox_n act_v monum_fw-la 1._o part_n p._n 84._o we_o have_v it_o also_o for_o the_o most_o part_n in_o the_o magdeb._n cent._n 3._o cap._n 7._o p._n 186._o sub_fw-la decio_n schisma_fw-la novati_fw-la he_o for_o his_o wicked_a opinion_n be_v condemn_v in_o a_o synod_n at_o rome_n magd._n cent._n 3._o cap._n 9_o p._n 293._o donatus_n in_o the_o year_n of_o our_o lord_n 331_o or_o a_o little_a more_o early_a there_o spring_v up_o in_o africa_n the_o donatist_n take_v their_o name_n from_o donatus_n this_o man_n martyrology_n initium_fw-la ejus_fw-la haereseos_fw-la hieronimi_fw-la chronicom_fw-la in_o annum_fw-la christi_fw-la 331._o &_o paulo_n antiquiorem_fw-la donatum_fw-la facit_fw-la magd._n cent._n 4._o c._n 5._o p._n 375._o donatus_n cumsua_fw-la parte_fw-la schisma_fw-la illud_fw-la in_o haeresim_fw-la convertit_fw-la magdeb._n ibid._n they_o speak_v of_o their_o cruelty_n cent_z 4._o cap._n 5._o p._n 379._o clark_n of_o the_o persecution_n of_o the_o donatist_n p._n 89_o 90._o in_o his_o martyrology_n as_o the_o magdeburgenses_n inform_v we_o cent._n 4._o c._n