Selected quad for the lemma: church_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
church_n	answer_v	prove_v	scripture_n	4,273	5	5.7861	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95937	The vindication of a true Protestant, and faithfull servant to his church, Daniel Whitby, rector of Thoyden-Mount in Essex. From articles exhibited against him in the exchequer-chamber at Westminster, by a few schismaticall, tempestuous, illiterate heedlesse people: together with a sermon preached at Rumford the last visitation in Essex, in defence of the liturgie of the Church of England, which is most objected in these articles.	Whitby, Daniel, b. 1609 or 10.; Whitby, Daniel, b. 1609 or 10. Vindication of the forme of common prayers vsed in the Church of England.	1644 (1644)	Wing V468; Thomason E40_34; ESTC R19242	31,300	47

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