Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	body_n	power_n	soul_n	2,506	5	5.3976	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10181	God, no impostor nor deluder, or, An answer to a popish and Arminian cauill, in the defence of free-will, and vniuersall grace wherein God's tender of grace by the outward ministry of the gospel, to reprobates who neither doe, nor can receiue it, is vindicated from those aspersions of equiuocation, falsitie, and collusion, which some by way of obiection, cast vpon it / by William Prynne ...	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1629 (1629)	STC 20459.3; ESTC S2847	14,173	20

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