Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	believe_v	faith_n	know_v	6,721	5	4.2859	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52229	News from the sessions house in the Old-Bayly being a true account of the notorious principles and wicked practices of that Grand Impostor Lodowick Muggleton, who has the impudence to stile himself one of the two last commissioned witnesses and prophets of the Most High God, Jesus Christ : collected out of his own writings, for which damnable heresies being bound over, he made his appearance at the sessions this 14th of Decemb. and gave fresh security in order to his future tryal.		1676 (1676)	Wing N1018; ESTC R31093	3,813	10

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