Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	heart_n	lord_n	sin_n	2,722	5	4.5112	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95349	The balme of Gilead, for the wounds of England: applyed in a sermon preached at Westminster, before the Honourable House of Commmons, at the late solemne fast, August 30. 1643. / By Anthony Tuckney, B.D. sometimes Fellow of Eman. Colledge in Cambridge, and now pastor at Boston in the county of Lincoln. Published by order of that House.	Tuckney, Anthony, 1599-1670.; England and Wales. Parliament. aut	1643 (1643)	Wing T3210; Thomason E69_4; ESTC R886	39,718	52

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