Selected quad for the lemma: church_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
church_n	according_a	bishop_n	power_n	2,858	5	4.7198	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B04495	Noah's dove; with a green olive-leaf, or, The national covenant, and solemn league renewed. That it was antecedently a duty, before it was made and sworn, delineated and proved to what; and how far it was obligatory ... to the suffering remnant, of the Protestant Reformed Church in Scotland.		1687 (1687)	Wing N1192A; ESTC R181020	2,474	2

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