Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	lord_n	praise_n	sing_v	4,854	5	8.3023	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92853	Haman's vanity, or, A sermon displaying the birthlesse issues of church-destroying adversaries. Preached to the Honourable House of Commons at their late solemne thanksgiving, being on June 15. 1643. By Obadiah Sedgwick, Batchelor in Divinity, and Pastor of Coggeshall in Essex. Published by order of that House.	Sedgwick, Obadiah, 1600?-1658.	1643 (1643)	Wing S2374; Thomason E56_6; ESTC R16869	19,380	39

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