Selected quad for the lemma: church_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
church_n	age_n	bishop_n	rome_n	3,666	5	6.4603	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40487	The friendly conference: or, An hue and cry after the Popes Holiness Discovering the corrupt doctrines of the church, and abominable practises of the court and clergy of Rome, to raise themselves to their present pomp and grandeur. With the several prodigious births of the whore of Babilon: and how she has prefer'd all her children. In a familiar dialogue between Theophilius a Protestant, and Juliano lately turn'd Papist.		1673 (1673)	Wing F2217; ESTC R215515	4,709	10

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