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	people_n	word_n	1,384	5	3.8548	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86579	Sinne's discovery and revenge. As it was delivered in a sermom [sic] to the Right Honorable House of Peers in the Abbey Church at Westminster, on Wednsday [sic], December 30. 1646. Being the day of the monethly publick fast. / By Thomas Horton B. D. Reader of Divinity in Gresham Colledge, and Pastor of Colechurch in London. Published by the order of the said House.	Horton, Thomas, d. 1673.	1646 (1646)	Wing H2882; Thomason E369_4; ESTC R17539	41,013	45

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