Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	faith_n	life_n	live_v	1,904	5	6.1425	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B09542	The believers happy change by dying as it was recommended in a sermon preached, on the occasion of the death of Capt. Thomas Daniel Esq. who was interred the day before, November 17th. 1683 / by the reverend Mr. Joshua Moodey, late pastor of the Church of Christ at Portsmouth in New-England, now gone to rest.	Moodey, Joshua, 1633?-1697.	1697 (1697)	Wing M2521; ESTC W38384	17,311	36

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