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
A79473	Chillingworthi novissima. Or, The sicknesse, heresy, death and buriall of William Chillingworth. (In his own phrase) Clerk of Oxford, and in the conceit of his fellow souldiers, the Queens arch-engineer, and grand-intelligencer. Set forth in a letter to his eminent and learned friends, a relation of his apprehension at Arundell, a discovery of his errours in a briefe catechism, and a shorr [sic] oration at the buriall of his hereticall book. By Francis Cheynell, late fellow of Merton Colledge. Published by authority.	Cheynell, Francis, 1608-1665.	1644 (1644)	Wing C3810; Thomason E36_7; ESTC R13256	46,148	66

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see_v he_o not_o neither_o know_v he_o p._n 146_o 147._o whether_o this_o be_v not_o as_o true_a of_o some_o popish_a prelate_n in_o england_n as_o of_o the_o bishop_n of_o rome_n let_v the_o learned_a determine_v qu._n what_o if_o a_o church_n maintain_v a_o error_n contrary_a to_o god_n revelation_n know_v by_o that_o church_n to_o be_v a_o divine_a revelation_n ans._n the_o church_n that_o do_v so_o be_v no_o long_o a_o church_n p._n 137._o qu._n do_v not_o master_n chillingworth_n sometime_o contradict_v himself_o and_o call_v the_o roman_a church_n the_o catholic_a church_n answ._n he_o seem_v to_o do_v so_o p._n 132._o his_o word_n be_v these_o we_o believe_v the_o catholic_a church_n can_v perish_v yet_o that_o she_o may_v and_o do_v err_v in_o point_n not_o fundamental_a and_o that_o protestan●_n be_v oblige_v to_o forsake_v these_o error_n of_o her_o church_n as_o they_o do_v though_o not_o the_o church_n for_o the_o error_n for_o that_o they_o do_v not_o but_o continue_v 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