Selected quad for the lemma: nature_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
nature_n	body_n	reason_n	soul_n	7,118	5	5.2629	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51700	The atheist silenced, or, The existence of a deity and his creation and government of the world demonstrated from reason, and the light of nature only, in a plain and mathematical method by axioms and theorems : with an appendix touching the most proper method of preaching the Gospel among the heathens / by J.M. ...	J. M.	1672 (1672)	Wing M33; ESTC R16187	19,711	131

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