Selected quad for the lemma: ground_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
ground_n	authority_n	faith_n	word_n	1,792	5	4.8868	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17445	Puritanisme the mother, sinne the daughter. Or a treatise, wherein is demonstrated from twenty seuerall doctrines, and positions of Puritanisme; that the fayth and religion of the Puritans, doth forcibly induce its professours to the perpetrating of sinne, and doth warrant the committing of the same. Written by a Catholic priest, vpon occasion of certaine late most execrable actions of some Puritans, expressed in the page following. Heerunto is added (as an appendix) a funerall discourse touching the late different deathes of two most eminent Protestant deuines; to wit Doctour Price Deane of Hereford, and Doctour Butts Vice-Chancellour of Cambridge. By the same authour	B. C. (Catholic priest)	1633 (1633)	STC 4264; ESTC S107396	79,660	208

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of_o the_o church_n &_o that_o the_o preach_n of_o the_o word_n do_v constitute_v a_o church_n as_o contra_fw-la duraeum_n l._n 3._o pag._n 249._o d._n whitaker_n word_n be_v the_o want_n of_o it_o do_v subvert_v it_o but_o how_o can_v either_o the_o word_n be_v preach_v or_o the_o sacrament_n minister_v but_o to_o such_o man_n as_o be_v visible_a according_a to_o the_o former_a judgement_n of_o d._n humphrey_n and_o thus_o far_o in_o proof_n of_o my_o first_o ground_n or_o position_n to_o wit_n that_o the_o true_a church_n of_o christ_n must_v ever_o be_v visible_a now_o i_o come_v to_o the_o second_o proposition_n or_o ground_n which_o be_v that_o the_o protestant_a church_n even_o by_o the_o doctrine_n &_o acknowledgement_n of_o the_o most_o remarkable_a protestant_n have_v be_v whole_o latent_fw-la and_o invisible_a for_o more_o than_o a_o thousand_o year_n together_o to_o prove_v this_o first_o i_o produce_v m._n perkins_n his_o word_n be_v these_o in_o his_o exposition_n of_o the_o creed_n pa._n 400._o we_o say_v that_o before_o the_o day_n of_o luther_n for_o the_o space_n of_o many_o hundred_o year_n a_o universal_a apostasy_n overspr_v the_o whole_a face_n of_o the_o earth_n and_o that_o our_o church_n be_v not_o then_o visible_a to_o the_o world_n caelius_n secundus_fw-la curio_n a_o protestant_n of_o extraordinary_a note_n acknowledge_v no_o less_o thus_o write_v de_fw-fr amplitud_n regnî_fw-la dei_fw-la pag._n 12._o factum_fw-la est_fw-la ut_fw-la per_fw-la multos_fw-la iam_fw-la annos_fw-la ecclesia_fw-la latuerit_fw-la etc._n etc._n it_o be_v fall_v out_o that_o the_o church_n for_o many_o year_n have_v be_v latent_fw-la and_o that_o the_o citizen_n of_o this_o kingdom_n can_v scarce_o ac_fw-la ne_fw-la vix_fw-la quidem_fw-la and_o indeed_o not_o at_o all_o be_v know_v of_o other_o d._n fulke_o set_v down_o in_o his_o judgement_n the_o time_n of_o the_o inuisibility_n of_o the_o protestant_a church_n he_o thus_o say_v in_o his_o answer_n to_o a_o 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