Selected quad for the lemma: church_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
church_n	word_n	world_n	yoke_n	37	3	8.5998	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62905	A discourse of Christ's Second Coming and purging of his kingdom in two sermons on Matth. XIII, 41 / by Samuel Tomlyns.	Tomlyns, Samuel, 1632 or 3-1700.	1695 (1695)	Wing T1858; ESTC R25655	49,894	104

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