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	magistrate_n	power_n	1,945	5	5.6082	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70865	Faces about, or, A recrimination charged upon Mr. John Goodvvin in the point of fighting against God, and opposing the way of Christ and a justification of the Presbyterian way in the particulars by him unjustly charged upon it : vvith other short animadversions upon his late book called [Theomachia] or, The grand imprudence of men running the hazard of fighting against God, &c.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1644 (1644)	Wing P3952; ESTC R7643	5,615	12

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