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	holy_a	scripture_n	6,679	5	5.5625	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B12232	Meditations of the whole historie of the Passion of Christ. Written by the Reuerend Father, F. Franciscus Costerus, Doctor of Diuinity, of the Society of Iesus. Translated out of Latine into English by R.W. Esquire; De universa historia Dominicae Passionis meditationes quinquaginta. English	Coster, Franciscus, 1532-1619.; Worthington, Lawrence.	1616 (1616)	STC 5827; ESTC S114528	155,460	681

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