Selected quad for the lemma: knowledge_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
knowledge_n	law_n	sin_n	sinner_n	2,820	5	9.3094	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44688	The Redeemer's tears wept over lost souls a treatise on Luke XIX, 41, 42 : with an appendix wherein somewhat is occasionally discoursed concerning the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost, and how God is said to will the salvation of them that perish / by J.H.	Howe, John, 1630-1705.	1684 (1684)	Wing H3037; ESTC R27434	75,821	201

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