Selected quad for the lemma: master_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
master_n	abraham_n	servant_n	use_v	252	4	5.2462	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96434	The saints dangers, deliverances, and duties personall, and nationall practically improved in severall sermons on Psalm 94. ver. 17. useful, and seasonable for these times of triall / by Nathanael Whiting ...	Whiting, Nathaneel, 1617?-1682.	1659 (1659)	Wing W2021A; ESTC R43820	234,856	337

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