Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	evil_a	good_a	great_a	3,686	5	2.7944	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12099	Five pious and learned discourses 1. A sermon shewing how we ought to behave our selves in Gods house. 2. A sermon preferring holy charity before faith, hope, and knowledge. 3. A treatise shewing that Gods law, now qualified by the Gospel of Christ, is possible, and ought to be fulfilled of us in this life. 4. A treatise of the divine attributes. 5. A treatise shewing the Antichrist not to be yet come. By Robert Shelford of Ringsfield in Suffolk priest.	Shelford, Robert, 1562 or 3-1627.	1635 (1635)	STC 22400; ESTC S117202	172,818	340

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40._o that_o be_v to_o reckon_v with_o they_o they_o must_v be_v throw_v out_o again_o because_o as_o s._n augustine_n say_v expos._n in_o epist._n joh._n tract_n 5._o dilectio_fw-la sola_fw-la discernit_fw-la inter_fw-la filios_fw-la dei_fw-la &_o filios_fw-la diaboli_fw-la signent_fw-la se_fw-la omnes_fw-la signo_fw-la crucis_fw-la christi_fw-la respondeant_fw-la omnes_fw-la amen_o cantent_fw-la omnes_fw-la alleluia_n baptizentur_fw-la omnes_fw-la intrent_fw-la omnes_fw-la ecclesias_fw-la faciant_fw-la parietes_fw-la basilicarum_fw-la non_fw-la discernuntur_fw-la silij_fw-la dei_fw-la à_fw-la filiis_fw-la diaboli_fw-la nisi_fw-la in_o charitate_fw-la only_o charity_n make_v a_o difference_n between_o the_o son_n of_o god_n and_o the_o son_n of_o the_o devil_n let_v all_o sign_n themselves_o with_o the_o sign_n of_o christ_n cross_n let_v all_o answer_n amen_o let_v all_o sing_v alleluia_n let_v all_o be_v baptize_v let_v all_o go_v to_o church_n let_v all_o build_v church_n the_o 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