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	discipline_n	doctrine_n	2,848	5	5.6969	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94492	To the Honorable the Knights, citizens and burgesses in Parliament assembled. The humble petition of the gentry, clergie, and others [sic] inhabitants, subscribed of the counties of Flint, Denbigh, Montgomery, Carnarvan, Anglesey, Merioneth, being the sixe shires of Northwales. As it was presented this present March the 5th. 1641. Accompanied with thirty thousand hands.		1642 (1642)	Wing T1461; Thomason 669.f.4[72]; ESTC R210297	1,463	1

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