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	scripture_n	true_a	1,770	5	4.4847	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B06097	To all rulers, magistrates, priests, and people, who profess the Scriptures to be their rule throughout the nation of England, but more particularly to the magistrates, priests and people of this county of Sussex, who have had any hand in oppressing and persecuting of them who God hath sent as strangers amongst them ... / From us who are present sufferers under the cruelty of men in the county gaol of Horsham, whose names are Ambrose Rigge Ambrose Galloway ][ Richard VVebb. James Matthew.	Rigge, Ambrose, 1635?-1705.; Galloway, Ambrose.; Webb, Richard, fl. 1663.; Matthew, James.	1663 (1663)	Wing T1330A; ESTC R185092	3,269	1

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