Selected quad for the lemma: doctrine_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
doctrine_n	church_n	err_v	fundamental_a	2,118	5	11.1011	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30189	An answer to two treatises of Mr. Iohn Can, the leader of the English Brownists in Amsterdam the former called, A necessitie of separation from the Church of England, proved by the Nonconformists principles : the other, A stay against straying : wherein in opposition to M. Iohn Robinson, he undertakes to prove the unlawfulnesse of hearing the ministers of the Church of England ... / by the late learned, laborious and faithfull servant of Jesus Christ, John Ball.	Ball, John, 1585-1640.; Ashe, Simeon, d. 1662.	1642 (1642)	Wing B558; ESTC R3127	281,779	264

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cant._n ser_n 76._o parum_fw-la est_fw-la nostris_fw-la vigilibus_fw-la quod_fw-la non_fw-la servant_n nisi_fw-la &_o perdant_fw-la gildas_n see_v vsser_fw-fr de_fw-fr primord_v eccles_n br●●_n h●oper_n on_o the_o 8_o command_n pag._n 74_o 79._o whitaker_n de_fw-fr pont_n rom._n presat_fw-la ad_fw-la audito_fw-la res_fw-la in_o sch_fw-mi smatis_fw-la remedium_fw-la hoc_fw-la primo_fw-la inven●um_fw-la est_fw-la quod_fw-la ipso_fw-la morbo_fw-la magis_fw-la pericudesum_fw-la fuisse_fw-la molti_fw-la virt_n sancti_fw-la &_o prudentes_fw-la judicarunt_fw-la quod_fw-la quamquam_fw-la non_fw-la statim_fw-la apparuit_fw-la tamen_fw-la miserable_fw-la experientia_fw-la demceps_fw-la demonstravit_fw-la tum_o enim_fw-la ambitio_fw-la irepsit_fw-la in_o ecclesiam_fw-la &_o episcopi_fw-la caeperunt_fw-la non_fw-la minus_fw-la de_fw-fr dignitate_fw-la suarum_fw-la sedium_fw-la quam_fw-la de_fw-la christi_fw-la grege_fw-la cogitare_fw-la etc._n etc._n gregor_n nazianz._n orat_fw-la 2._o pag_n 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