Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	bishop_n	council_n	pope_n	3,722	5	6.8195	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61095	Tithes too hot to be touched certain treatises, wherein is shewen that tithes are due, by the law of nature, scripture, nations, therefore neither Jewish, Popish, or inconvenient / written by Sr. Henry Spelman ... ; with an alphabeticall table.	Spelman, Henry, Sir, 1564?-1641.; Stephens, Jeremiah, 1591-1665.	1640 (1640)	Wing S4931; ESTC R19648	146,054	238

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otherwise_o will_v not_o sp._n 48_o etc._n etc._n their_o peregrination_n sp._n 53_o 54_o approprietary_n can_v by_o right_o grant_v their_o estate_n to_o other_o sp._n 160_o appropriation_n against_o the_o word_n of_o god_n b._n 3_o their_o original_n sp._n 151_o etc._n etc._n what_o difference_n between_o appropriation_n and_o impropriation_n sp._n 152._o whether_o tithe_n and_o appropriation_n belong_v to_o monastery_n or_o not_o sp._n 163._o in_o what_o sort_n they_o be_v grant_v to_o the_o king_n sp._n 164._o and_o to_o what_o end_n sp._n 165._o he_o ought_v not_o to_o have_v take_v they_o sp._n 167_o the_o statute_n that_o transfer_v they_o seem_v to_o have_v be_v pass_v in_o haste_n sp._n 170_o ep._n 2_o etc._n etc._n how_o bishop_n come_v to_o pass_v the_o bill_n for_o they_o sp._n 156._o ep._n 2._o none_o proper_o capable_a of_o they_o but_o spiritual_a man_n sp._n 159._o the_o king_n may_v better_o hold_v they_o then_o any_o of_o his_o lay-subiect_n sp._n 154_o 155._o 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