Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	according_a	jesus_n	lord_n	1,817	5	3.2256	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84399	Sixteene questions of seriovs and necessary consequence, propounded unto Mr. John Cotton of Boston in New=England, together with his answers to each question. Printed according to order.	Cotton, John, 1584-1652.	1644 (1644)	Wing E6458; Thomason E8_33; ESTC R17699	8,425	16

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