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	lord_n	5,077	5	3.6205	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41981	Unto all that wait in Sion, for the consolation of Christ Jesus, is the word of peace and comfort declared and sent in this trying day that all may be comforted, and in God may rejoyce and be glad, who lives for ever and ever : containing three letters, written at three sundry times unto the gathered of God, into the covenant of endless life &c. / by William Green.	Green, William, 17th Cent.	1665 (1665)	Wing G1814A; ESTC R24971	5,408	10

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