Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	good_a	great_a	law_n	2,790	5	4.4124	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66865	To the King and both houses of Parliament sitting at Westminster, and to every particular member thereof this is a timely warning that they do not make laws against the righteous and innocent people of the Lord called Quakers, as the unrighteous rulers whom God overthrew before them, did / by Humphrey Wolrich.	Wollrich, Humphry, 1633?-1707.	1661 (1661)	Wing W3302; ESTC R15082	13,107	16

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