Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	church_n	doctrine_n	true_a	2,944	5	5.1298	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51157	A letter to a friend giving an account of all the treatises that have been publish'd with relation to the present persecution against the Church of Scotland	Monro, Alexander, d. 1715?; Meldrum, George, 1635?-1709.	1692 (1692)	Wing M2440; ESTC R6566	25,533	32

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