Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	civil_a	ecclesiastical_a	king_n	2,836	5	4.0953	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14660	The English pharise, or religious ape Being the weekes worke of a poore vnlearned professor of the gospell of Christ, zealously and truely checking the counterfeit professor, but open persecutor of Christs true doctrine and disicpline. By Iohn Walker, dwelling at Leeds in Yorkshire.	Walker, John, dwelling at Leeds in Yorkshire.	1616 (1616)	STC 24962; ESTC S102097	38,058	238

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both_o decent_a and_o comely_a i_o will_v very_o glad_o know_v thy_o reason_n why_o thou_o shall_v show_v thyself_o thus_o disobedient_a solomon_n say_v a_o divine_a sentence_n shall_v be_v in_o the_o lip_n of_o the_o king_n his_o mouth_n shall_v not_o transgress_v in_o judgement_n prou._n 16._o 10._o brother_n here_o thou_o stand_v in_o thy_o own_o conceit_n and_o think_v that_o no_o king_n in_o the_o world_n be_v so_o wise_a as_o thyself_o ergo_fw-la thou_o will_v refuse_v government_n which_o do_v infer_v that_o thou_o despise_v the_o governor_n will_v thou_o see_v a_o samiliar_a example_n by_o a_o plain_a comparison_n how_o contrary_a thou_o be_v to_o christ_n command_n who_o say_v give_v unto_o caesar_n that_o which_o be_v caesar_n mat._n 22._o 21_o among_o the_o temporal_a law_n of_o this_o land_n it_o be_v command_v that_o the_o poor_a therein_o shall_v be_v k●…pt_v &_o maintain_v within_o their_o several_a parish_n now_o some_o sturdy_a beggar_n there_o be_v which_o will_v 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