Selected quad for the lemma: soul_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	body_n	call_v	spiritual_a	5,565	5	6.7451	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90571	A Petition humbly presented to his Highnesse the Lord Protector, and to the High-Court of Parliament, the supream governors of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with the dominions thereunto belonging. By divers ministers for the establishment of themselves and others their brethren (for their own lives) in the places to which they were admitted to officiate (as ministers of the gospel) without institution or induction from the bishops. With reasons thereto annexed whereof the contents are set down in page next after the petition. And at the end of the book an epistle to the sincere and pious preachers of the word of God written before the beginning of Parliament by Philotheus Philomystes.	Philomystes, Philotheus.	1654 (1654)	Wing P1759; Thomason E820_6; ESTC R207349	27,843	37

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melius_fw-la essc_fw-la quomodocunque_fw-la illic_fw-la deus_fw-la colatur_fw-la quam_fw-la locus_fw-la popinarijs_fw-la dedatur_fw-la bueolz_n ind._n chron._n ad_fw-la an._n 224._o p._n 171._o though_o a_o favourer_n of_o christ_n and_o christian_a profession_n will_v not_o allow_v of_o the_o boxborn_n the_o necesse_fw-la est_fw-la ut_fw-la qui_fw-la emit_fw-la vendat_fw-la ego_fw-la non_fw-la patiar_fw-la mercatores_fw-la potestatum_fw-la quos_fw-la si_fw-la patiar_fw-la soudemuare_fw-la non_fw-la possum_fw-la erubesco_fw-la enim_fw-la punire_fw-la illum_fw-la bominem_fw-la qui_fw-la emit_fw-la &_o vendit_fw-la elias_n lamprid._n de_fw-fr alexandr_n sever._n part_n 3._o hist_o august_n p._n 376._o edit_fw-la boxborn_n sale_n of_o secular_a office_n lest_o they_o who_o buy_v their_o power_n by_o wholesale_n shall_v sell_v their_o conscience_n by_o retail_n in_o the_o exercise_n thereof_o wherein_o the_o injury_n can_v be_v but_o as_o the_o office_n be_v secular_a relate_v only_o to_o 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