Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	action_n	conscience_n	good_a	1,039	5	4.0253	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53265	New-England pleaded with, and pressed to consider the things which concern her peace at least in this her day, or, A seasonable and serious word of faithful advice to the churches and people of God, primarily those in the Massachusets Colony, musingly to ponder, and bethink themselves, what is the tendency, and what will cetainly be the sad issue, of sundry unchristian and crooked wayes which too too [sic] many have been turning aside unto, if persisted and gone on in delivered in a sermon preached at Boston in New-England, May 7, 1673, being the day of election there / by Urian Oakes ...	Oakes, Urian, 1631-1681.	1673 (1673)	Wing O21; ESTC W23179	65,078	72

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dialect_n and_o use_n suitable_a affection_n it_o be_v not_o in_o the_o text_n a_o bare_a speculation_n or_o mere_a contemplation_n of_o the_o latter_a end_n of_o their_o way_n that_o be_v intend_v by_o the_o lord_n but_o that_o which_o enwrap_v in_o it_o suitable_a act_n of_o the_o will_n and_o affection_n and_o have_v a_o benign_a or_o beneficial_a influence_n upon_o the_o heart_n or_o will_v and_o affection_n to_o frame_v and_o shape_n and_o mould_n and_o fashion_v they_o according_o and_o in_o this_o case_n the_o end_n be_v miserable_a to_o consider_v it_o be_v to_o be_v suitable_o affect_v with_o it_o so_o as_o to_o mourn_v for_o hate_n and_o loathe_v those_o way_n that_o will_v be_v bitterness_n in_o the_o end_n to_o have_v a_o real_a aversation_n of_o they_o to_o repent_v and_o turn_v from_o they_o to_o relinquish_v and_o abandon_v they_o as_o destructive_a and_o pernicious_a so_o to_o think_v as_o that_o the_o mind_n may_v affect_v the_o heart_n and_o consequent_o both_o mind_n 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