Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	judgement_n	lord_n	sin_n	3,017	5	4.8345	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87697	A solemne and seasonable warning to all estates and degrees of persons throughout the land for holding fast the League and Covenant with England, and avoiding every thing that may prove a snare and tentation to the breach thereof: / by the Commissioners of the Generall Assemblie.	Church of Scotland. General Assembly. Commission.; Ker, A.	1646 (1646)	Wing K336; Thomason E419_34; ESTC R15383	4,070	8

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