Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	find_v	great_a	know_v	2,951	5	3.3432	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42772	An usefull case of conscience discussed and resolved concerning associations and confederacies with idolaters, infidels, hereticks, or any other known enemies of truth and godlinesse. By Master George Gillespie, late minister at Edinburgh. Whereunto is subjoyned a letter, written by him to the commissioners of the Generall Assembly, in the time of his sicknesse: together with his testimony unto this truth, written two dayes before his death.	Gillespie, George, 1613-1648.	1649 (1649)	Wing G762A; ESTC R213029	21,990	42

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lavater_n in_o 2_o paralip_n 25._o and_o in_o ezek._n 16._o 26._o p._n martyr_n loc._n com._n clas._n 4._o cap._n 16._o 〈◊〉_d 23._o and_o comment_n in_o 1_o reg._n 15._o 17._o etc._n etc._n the_o same_o thing_n be_v holdenby_o tst●tus_fw-la in_o 3._o reg._n 15._o quest_n 24._o corn_n a_fw-la lapide_fw-la in_o 3._o reg._n 22._o 3._o socral_a hist_n lib._n 5._o cap._n 10._o sleid._n comment_n lib._n 7_o pag._n 106._o ibid._n lib._n 8._o pag._n 127._o de_fw-la helvetiis_fw-la in_fw-la foedus_fw-la recipiendis_fw-la quod_fw-la civitates_fw-la valde_fw-la cupiebant_fw-la saxo_n per_fw-la legatos_fw-la respondet_fw-la quoniam_fw-la de_fw-la coena_fw-la dom._n diversum_fw-la sequantur_fw-la dogma_fw-la non_fw-la sibi_fw-la licere_fw-la societatem_fw-la cum_fw-la ipsis_fw-la ullam_fw-la coiri_fw-la quante_fw-la sit_fw-la ipsorum_fw-la conjunctio_fw-la propter_fw-la vires_fw-la atque_fw-la potentiam_fw-la non_fw-la se_fw-la quidem_fw-la late_fw-la sed_fw-la ●o_z sibi_fw-la minime_fw-la 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