Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	great_a	lord_n	see_v	9,072	5	3.5745	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14556	The voyce of the Lord in the temple· Or, a most strange and wonderfull relation of Gods great power, providence, and mercy, in sending very strange sounds, fires, and a fiery ball into the church of Anthony in Cornwall neere Plimmouth, on Whitsunday last, 1640. To the scorching and astonishing of 14. severall persons who were smitten. And likewise to the great terrour of all the other people then present, being about 200. persons. The truth whereof will be maintained by the oathes of the same persons; having been examined by Richard Carew of Anthony, Esquire; and Arthur Bache, vicar of Anthony.	Carew, Richard, Sir, d. 1643?; Bache, Arthur, b. 1599 or 1600.	1640 (1640)	STC 24870; ESTC S114886	9,604	23

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