Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	faith_n	heart_n	love_n	8,204	5	5.2375	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B03910	Prince Johan, Christian duke of Lignitz and Breig in Silesia, had a discourse unto the ministers of the gospel of that principality, in a publick assembly, in the year 1627. Wherein he shewed them, that the Lord had, by several national-plagues, manifested his wrath against them ...	Silesia-Brieg, John Christian, Duke of, 1602-1639.	1680 (1680)	Wing J760A; ESTC R179099	1,318	1

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