Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	act_n	effect_n	produce_v	2,028	5	8.3546	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74656	Expository notes, with practical observations; towards the opening of the five first chapters of the first book of Moses called Genesis. Delivered by way of exposition in several lords-dayes exercises. By Benjamin Needler, minister of the gospel at Margaret Moses Friday-Street, London.	Needler, Benjamin, 1620-1682.	1654 (1654)	Wing N412; Thomason E1443_2; ESTC R209640	117,247	301

son_n in_o his_o own_o likeness_n viz_o a_o sinful_a man_n like_o himself_o homo_fw-la mortalis_fw-la genuit_fw-la mortalem_fw-la corruptus_fw-la corruptum_fw-la a_o mortal_a man_n beget_v a_o mortal_a son_n a_o corrupt_a man_n beget_v a_o corrupt_a son_n god_n at_o first_o create_v man_n in_o his_o likeness_n but_o afterward_o man_n fall_v beget_v a_o son_n in_o his_o own_o likeness_n a_o sinful_a creature_n like_o himself_o but_o this_o may_v be_v say_v of_o cain_n and_o abel_n as_o well_o as_o seth_n object_n it_o be_v not_o say_v of_o abel_n because_o he_o have_v no_o offspring_n and_o corruption_n be_v to_o run_v in_o resp_n a_o blood_n we_o be_v all_o by_o nature_n the_o child_n of_o wrath_n nor_o of_o cain_n that_o it_o may_v appear_v that_o the_o righteous_a seed_n be_v subject_a to_o original_a depravation_n and_o defilement_n as_o well_o as_o other_o holy_a person_n do_v not_o beget_v child_n as_o saint_n and_o therefore_o their_o saintship_n be_v not_o derive_v to_o their_o 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