Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	blood_n	flesh_n	life_n	8,602	5	5.1948	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91481	David restored. Or An antidote against the prosperity of the vvicked and the afflictions of the iust, shewing the different ends of both. In a most seasonable discourse upon the seventy third Psalme, / by the right Reverend father in God Edward Parry late L. Bishop of Killaloe. Opus posthumum.	Parry, Edward, d. 1650.	1660 (1660)	Wing P556; Thomason E1812_1; Thomason E1812_2; ESTC R209776	187,261	357

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