Selected quad for the lemma: life_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
life_n	baptism_n	new_a	zion_n	21	3	9.4537	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28521	The epistles of Jacob Behmen, aliter, Teutonicus philosophus very usefull and necessary for those that read his vvritings, and are very full of excellent and plaine instructions how to attaine to the life of Christ / translated out of the German language.; Correspondence. English. Selections	Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.; Ellistone, John, d. 1652.	1649 (1649)	Wing B3404; ESTC R2334	183,592	232

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