Selected quad for the lemma: ground_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
ground_n	believe_v	church_n	faith_n	6,736	5	6.2916	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37935	The doxology approven, or, The singing glory to the Father, Son and Holy Ghost in the worship of God its lawfulness and expediency proven from the Holy Scriptures, councils and Fathers, and the scruples of the weak thereanent cleared / by Mr. Robert Edward ...	Edward, Robert, ca. 1616-1696.	1683 (1683)	Wing E187; ESTC R31408	120,446	132

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〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d socinus_n anno_fw-la dom_n 1604._o scribit_fw-la epistolam_fw-la smaltio_n itidem_fw-la sociniano_n de_fw-la baptismo_fw-la ut_fw-la non_fw-la necessario_fw-la remittendo_fw-la atque_fw-la ad_fw-la synaxin_fw-la excipiendis_fw-la hominibus_fw-la aquavitae_fw-la honestae_fw-la ac_fw-la probatae_fw-la religionem_fw-la christianam_fw-la professis_fw-la quamvis_fw-la nunquam_fw-la baptizatis_fw-la adeo_fw-la abhorrent_n acfloccipendunt_fw-la baptismum_fw-la satan_n ut_fw-la fidem_fw-la nostram_fw-la ab_fw-la ipsis_fw-la radicibus_fw-la convelleret_fw-la partim_fw-la de_fw-la divina_fw-la silij_fw-la &_o spiritus_fw-la sancti_fw-la essentia_fw-la partim_fw-la de_fw-la personali_fw-la distinctione_n ingentes_fw-la pugnas_fw-la semper_fw-la movebat_fw-la calvin_n institut_fw-la lib._n 1._o cap._n 13._o §._o 21._o servabat_fw-la tamen_fw-la dominus_fw-la in_o papatu_fw-la renascituri_fw-la svo_fw-la tempore_fw-la populi_fw-la seman_n manebat_fw-la salvus_fw-la baptismus_fw-la in_o 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