Selected quad for the lemma: church_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
church_n	confess_v	peter_n	rock_n	5,738	5	9.7695	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57154	Self-deniall opened and applyed in a sermon before the Reverend Assembly of Divines on a day of their private humiliation / by Edward Reynolds ...	Reynolds, Edward, 1599-1676.	1652 (1652)	Wing R1279; ESTC R11641	27,551	52

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