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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
end_n	age_n	church_n	time_n	1,798	5	3.8372	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26741	Reason and authority, or, The motives of a late Protestants reconciliation to the Catholic Church together with remarks upon some late discourses against transubstantiation.	Basset, Joshua, 1641?-1720.; Gother, John, d. 1704.	1687 (1687)	Wing B1042; ESTC R14628	75,146	135

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