Selected quad for the lemma: earth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
earth_n	apostle_n	heaven_n	speak_v	3,187	5	4.6801	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39308	A seasonable disswasive from persecution humbly and modestly, yet with Christian freedom and plainness of speech, offered to the consideration of all concern'd therein, on behalf generally of all that suffer for conscience sake, particularly of the people called Quakers / by Thomas Ellwood.	Ellwood, Thomas, 1639-1713.	1683 (1683)	Wing E626; ESTC R24955	8,778	14

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