Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	abel_n	righteous_a	vanity_n	23	3	10.0286	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93696	Certaine queries propounded to the most serious consideration of those persons novv in povver. Or any others whom they doe, or may concerne. / By John Spittlehouse, (late of the Army) whom the Lord hath stirred up (in the absence of Mr. Feake, Mr. Rogers, &c. now prisoners of the Lord Jesus) to mind our present rulers and Army, of their persecutions and apostacies; and what is likely to follow them for so doing, if they repent not.	Spittlehouse, John.	1654 (1654)	Wing S5005; Thomason E809_14; ESTC R203631	8,522	16

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