Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	life_n	live_v	love_v	12,614	5	6.7212	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57377	Clavis Bibliorum The key of the Bible, unlocking the richest treasury of the Holy Scriptures : whereby the 1 order, 2 names, 3 times, 4 penmen, 5 occasion, 6 scope, and 7 principall parts, containing the subject-matter of every book of Old and New Testament, are familiarly and briefly opened : for the help of the weakest capacity in the understanding of the whole Bible / by Francis Roberts ...	Roberts, Francis, 1609-1675.; Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.	1648 (1648)	Wing R1583; ESTC R20707	139,238	403

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13.23_o &_o 19.26_o and_o 20.2_o and_o 21.7_o 20._o he_o be_v a_o mere_a compound_n of_o sweet_a love_n in_o all_o his_o write_n breathe_v nothing_o in_o a_o manner_n but_o love_n hence_o excellent_o calvin_n haec_fw-la epistola_fw-la prorsus_fw-la digna_fw-la est_fw-la ejus_fw-la discipuli_fw-la spiritu_fw-la qui_fw-la prae_fw-la aliis_fw-la ideò_fw-la a_o christo_fw-la dilectus_fw-la fuit_fw-la ut_fw-la ipsum_fw-la nobis_fw-la familiarem_fw-la redderet_fw-la i_o e._n this_o epistle_n be_v altogether_o worth_a the_o spirit_n of_o that_o disciple_n which_o be_v therefore_o belove_v of_o christ_n above_o the_o rest_n that_o he_o may_v render_v he_o familiar_a unto_o we_o calv._n argum._n in_o 1._o joan._n of_o john_n see_v more_o in_o annot_n on_o gosp._n of_o john_n john_n therefore_o be_v the_o undoubted_a penman_n of_o this_o epistle_n it_o be_v of_o unquestionable_a authority_n eusebius_n and_o hieronymus_n testify_v that_o there_o never_o be_v doubt_n in_o the_o church_n about_o 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