Selected quad for the lemma: nature_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
nature_n	child_n	sin_n	wrath_n	7,094	5	8.2833	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94303	Moderation iustified, and the Lords being at hand emproved, in a sermon at VVestminster before the Honorable House of Commons assembled in Parliament: preached at the late solemne fast, December 25. 1644. By Thomas Thorowgood B. of D. Rector of Grimston in the county of Norfolke: one of the Assembly of Divines. Published by order from that House.	Thorowgood, Thomas, d. ca. 1669.	1644 (1644)	Wing T1069; Thomason E23_6	31,603	39

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