Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	body_n	lord_n	soul_n	15,609	5	5.1843	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79175	A messe of pottage, very well seasoned and crumbd. With bread of life, and easie to be digested. Against the contumelious slanderers of the divine service, terming it porrage. Set forth by Gyles Calfine.	Calfine, Giles.	1642 (1642)	Wing C295; Thomason E140_21; ESTC R15924	4,515	8

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