Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	book_n	church_n	time_n	2,893	5	3.6141	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43627	The lay-clergy, or, The lay-elder in a short essay in answer to this query : whether it be lawful for persons in holy orders to exercise temporal offices, honours, jurisdictions and authorities : with arguments and objections on both sides, poyz'd and indifferently weigh'd / by Edm. Hickeringil ...	Hickeringill, Edmund, 1631-1708.	1695 (1695)	Wing H1818; ESTC R10850	22,034	36

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read_v judge_n or_o determine_v this_o question_n self-interest_n sometime_o do_v as_o it_o always_o shall_v give_v place_n to_o right_o reason_v and_o truth_n but_o usual_o the_o bowl_n follow_v the_o bias_n right_a or_o wrong_n so_o do_v our_o judgement_n will_n and_o affection_n common_o lean_a to_o the_o swell'd-side_n bias_v with_o profit_n and_o honor._n thus_o avarice_n and_o ambition_n in_o clergyman_n be_v apt_a to_o tempt_v they_o to_o worldly_a undertake_n temporal_a affair_n and_o employment_n unsuitable_a to_o their_o coat_n and_o unbecoming_a their_o holy_a profession_n all_o which_o be_v restrain_v and_o prohibit_v in_o several_a particular_a case_n by_o the_o canon-law_n and_o statute-law_n especial_o by_o that_o statute_n make_v for_o that_o purpose_n 21._o hen._n 8.13_o yet_o neither_o that_o statute_n nor_o any_o other_o law_n now_o in_o force_n reach_v at_o any_o prohibition_n of_o temporal_a jurisdiction_n and_o authority_n to_o be_v exercise_v by_o spiritual_a 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