Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	believe_v	faith_n	lord_n	1,391	5	3.9699	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88255	A third address directed to his Excellency the Lord Generall Cromwell, and the Right Honourable the Councell of State sitting at White-Hall Being the humble petition of Lieutenant-Colonell John Lilburne prisoner in Newgate.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.	1653 (1653)	Wing L2183; Thomason 669.f.17[22]; ESTC R211547	1,600	1

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