Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	grace_n	life_n	soul_n	9,111	5	5.0304	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59608	The voice of one crying in a wilderness, or, The business of a Christian, both antecedaneous to, concomitant of, and consequent upon, a sore and heavy visitation represented in several sermons / first preacht to his own family, lying under such visitation, and now made publike as a thank-offering to the Lord his healer by S.S. ...	Shaw, Samuel, 1635-1696.	1666 (1666)	Wing S3046; ESTC R33876	103,770	256

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