Selected quad for the lemma: church_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
church_n	article_n	catholic_a	creed_n	4,227	5	10.2976	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A72940	A declaration of the recantation of Iohn Nichols (for the space almost of two yeeres the Popes scholer in the English Seminarie or Colledge at Rome) which desireth to be reconciled and receiued as a member into the true Church of Christ in England.	Nicholls, John, 1555-1584?	1581 (1581)	STC 18533; STC 18533.5; ESTC S113205	57,669	199

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be_v it_o express_v in_o holy_a scripture_n that_o we_o be_v condemn_v