Selected quad for the lemma: christian_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
christian_n	body_n	church_n	mystical_a	1,148	5	10.4023	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35416	An elegant and learned discourse of the light of nature, with several other treatises Nathanael Culverwel ...	Culverwel, Nathanael, d. 1651?; Dillingham, William, 1617?-1689.	1652 (1652)	Wing C7569; ESTC R13398	340,382	446

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