Selected quad for the lemma: child_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
child_n	abraham_n	believer_n	faith_n	3,244	5	5.9876	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36940	Sips of sweetness, or, Consolation for weake beleevers a treatise discoursing of the sweetnesse of Christs carriage towards all his weake members : particularly to such as are weake either [brace] 1. habitually, or 2. accidentally, by reason of [brace] 1. working, 2. sinning, or 3. suffering : being the summe of certain sermons preached upon Isa. 40, 11 / by John Durant ...	Durant, John, b. 1620.	1649 (1649)	Wing D2678A; ESTC R35030	84,697	224

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