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	just_a	law_n	2,761	5	4.7834	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92869	Zions deliverance and her friends duty: or The grounds of expecting, and meanes of procuring Jerusalems restauration. In a sermon preached at a publicke fast, before the Honourable House of Commons. By William Sedgvvicke, minister of Farnham in Essex.	Sedgwick, William, 1609 or 10-1669?	1642 (1642)	Wing S2392; Thomason E107_2; ESTC R18932	30,447	59

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