Selected quad for the lemma: power_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
power_n	church_n	congregation_n	elder_n	2,807	5	10.1144	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43818	An olive branch of peace and accommodation budding in a sermon preached at Basingshaw Church, to the Lord Mayor Alderman Atkin, together with the representative city, Anno Dom. 1645, on a day of humiliation, appointed on purpose to seek the Lord for the repairing of breaches, and the preventing of further differences growing in the city / by Thomas Hill ...	Hill, Thomas, d. 1653.	1648 (1648)	Wing H2025; ESTC R25713	39,441	50

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