Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	good_a	minister_n	people_n	2,502	5	5.0957	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42062	Teares and bloud, or, A discourse of the persecution of ministers, with motives to martyrdom and cautions about it set forth in two sermons, both lately preached at Saint Mary's in Oxford / by Francis Gregory ...	Gregory, Francis, 1625?-1707.	1660 (1660)	Wing G1905; ESTC R13097	43,961	52

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