Selected quad for the lemma: fire_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
fire_n	aaron_n	altar_n	witness_n	19	3	7.8086	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57597	Shlohavot, or, The burning of London in the year 1666 commemorated and improved in a CX discourses, meditations, and contemplations, divided into four parts treating of I. The sins, or spiritual causes procuring that judgment, II. The natural causes of fire, morally applied, III. The most remarkable passages and circumstances of that dreadful fire, IV. Councels and comfort unto such as are sufferers by the said judgment / by Samuel Rolle ...	Rolle, Samuel, fl. 1657-1678.; Rolle, Samuel, fl. 1657-1678. Preliminary discourses.; Rolle, Samuel, fl. 1657-1678. Physical contemplations.; Rolle, Samuel, fl. 1657-1678. Sixty one meditations.; Rolle, Samuel, fl. 1657-1678. Twenty seven meditations.	1667 (1667)	Wing R1877; Wing R1882_PARTIAL; Wing R1884_PARTIAL; ESTC R21820	301,379	534

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12._o of_o the_o burn_a of_o public_a school_n meditation_n 13._o upon_o the_o burn_a of_o tomb_n and_o grave_n and_o dead_a body_n that_o be_v bury_v therein_o meditation_n 14._o upon_o the_o burn_a of_o write_n as_o bill_n bond_n etc._n etc._n meditation_n 15._o on_o the_o burn_a of_o st._n paul_n church_n and_o the_o unconsume_v body_n of_o bishop_n brabrooke_n meditation_n 16._o upon_o the_o visibleness_n of_o god_n hand_n in_o the_o destruction_n of_o london_n meditation_n 17._o upon_o burn_v of_o the_o sessions-house_n in_o the_o old-bailey_n meditation_n 18._o on_o the_o gate_n and_o prison_n of_o london_n that_o be_v burn_v meditation_n 19_o upon_o the_o conflagration_n of_o the_o universe_n meditation_n 20._o upon_o the_o fire_n of_o hell_n meditation_n 21._o upon_o the_o come_n of_o that_o most_o dreadful_a fire_n in_o so_o idolise_v a_o year_n as_o 1666._o meditation_n 22._o upon_o the_o fire_n its_o beginning_n on_o the_o lord_n day_n meditation_n 23._o upon_o the_o place_n 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