Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	amen_n	jesus_n	lord_n	1,685	5	3.6084	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03335	Mystical babylon, or Papall Rome A treatise vpon those words, Apocal. 18.2. It is fallen, it is fallen Babylon, &c. In which the wicked, and miserable condition of Rome, as shee now is in her present Babylonian estate, and as she shall be in her future ineuitable ruine, is fully discouered: and sundry controuersiall points of religion, betwixt the Protestants, and the Papists, are briefly discussed. By Theophilus Higgons, rector of the parochiall Church of Hunton, neere Maidstone in Kent.	Higgons, Theophilus, 1578?-1659.	1624 (1624)	STC 13455; ESTC S118140	129,351	289

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this_o unlearned_a foolish_a and_o erroneous_a project_n as_o vlphila_n a_o bishop_n of_o the_o goth_n do_v sometime_o ensnare_v the_o credulous_a and_o ignorant_a people_n assure_v they_o that_o the_o difference_n betwixt_o the_o catholic_n and_o the_o arrian_n do_v consist_v rather_o in_o the_o form_n of_o word_n then_o in_o the_o substance_n of_o matter_n as_o theodorit_n do_v report_n lib._n 4._o cap._n 37._o now_o as_o the_o reconciler_n of_o the_o two_o religion_n do_v just_o deserve_v your_o censure_n so_o the_o secret_a babylonian_n that_o hold_v outward_a conformity_n with_o england_n and_o inward_a correspondency_n with_o rome_n be_v to_o be_v lament_v as_o well_o as_o detest_v be_v no_o less_o dangerous_o affect_v in_o the_o state_n of_o their_o own_o soul_n then_o against_o the_o state_n of_o this_o church_n these_o be_v man_n that_o stand_v like_o a_o needle_n in_o a_o dial_n north_n and_o south_n personal_o in_o england_n affectionate_o in_o rome_n heterogeneous_a 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