Selected quad for the lemma: church_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
church_n	apostle_n	believe_v	holy_a	5,671	5	4.8590	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18389	The harvest is at hand, vvherin the tares shall be bound, and cast into the fyre and brent. [...]	Champneys, John, fl. 1548.	1548 (1548)	STC 4956; ESTC S109141	25,651	110

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