Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	apostle_n	bishop_n	church_n	2,501	5	4.6398	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43681	The spirit of popery speaking out of the mouths of phanatical-Protestants, or, The last speeches of Mr. John Kid and Mr. John King, two Presbyterian ministers, who were executed for high-treason and rebellion at Edinburgh, August the 14th, 1679 with animadversions, and the history of the Archbishop of St. Andrews his murder, extracted out of the registers of the Privy-Council, &c. / by an orthodox Protestant.	Hickes, George, 1642-1715.; Kid, John, d. 1679.; King, John, d. 1679.	1680 (1680)	Wing H1874; ESTC R6348	165,592	93

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dare_v coegit_fw-la and_o the_o same_o bishop_n to_o st._n cyprian_n epist._n 46._o tantummodo_fw-la circumductos_fw-la se_fw-la quoque_fw-la commisisse_fw-la schismatica_fw-la ut_fw-la paterentur_fw-la ei_fw-la manus_fw-la qu●si_fw-la in_o episcopum_fw-la imponi_fw-la and_o cyprian_a epist._n 68_o plain_o distinguish_v the_o ordination_n of_o bishop_n priest_n and_o deacon_n each_o from_o other_o nec_fw-la hoc_fw-la in_o episcoporum_fw-la tantum_fw-la &_o sacerdotum_fw-la sed_fw-la in_o diaconorum_fw-la ordinationibus_fw-la obseruâsse_fw-la apostolos_fw-la animadvertimus_fw-la and_o afterward_o ut_fw-la ad_fw-la ordinationes_fw-la ritè_fw-la celebrandas_fw-la ad_fw-la eam_fw-la plebem_fw-la cvi_fw-la praepositus_fw-la ordinatur_fw-la episcopi_fw-la ejusdem_fw-la provinciae_fw-la proximi_fw-la quique_fw-la conveniant_fw-la &_o episcopus_fw-la deligatur_fw-la plebe_fw-la praesente_fw-la quae_fw-la singulorum_fw-la vitam_fw-la plenissimè_fw-la novit_fw-la &_o uniuscujusque_fw-la actum_fw-la de_fw-la ejus_fw-la conversatione_fw-la perspexit_fw-la quod_fw-la &_o apud_fw-la vos_fw-la factum_fw-la videmus_fw-la in_o sabini_n collegae_fw-la nostrae_fw-la ordinatione_fw-la ut_fw-la de_fw-la universae_fw-la fraternitatis_fw-la suffragio_fw-la &_o de_fw-fr episcoporum_fw-la qui_fw-la in_o praesentiâ_fw-la convenerant_fw-la quique_fw-la de_fw-la eo_fw-la ad_fw-la vos_fw-la literas_fw-la f●cerant_fw-la judicio_fw-la episcopatus_fw-la ei_fw-la deferretur_fw-la &_o manus_fw-la ei_fw-la in_o locum_fw-la basilidis_fw-la imponerentur_fw-la see_v also_o cyprian_n epist._n 52._o and_o eusebius_n l._n 5._o c._n 6._o of_o the_o like_a ordination_n and_o can._n 1._o and_o 2_o apost_n episcopi_fw-la à_fw-la duobus_fw-la vel_fw-la tribus_fw-la episcopis_fw-la ordinentur_fw-la presbyter_n ab_fw-la uno_fw-la ordinetur_fw-la &_o diaconus_fw-la &_o reliqui_fw-la clerici_fw-la from_o all_o which_o it_o be_v plain_a that_o bishop_n before_o st._n hierom_n time_n have_v a_o different_a 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templo_fw-la fuerunt_fw-la hoc_fw-la sibi_fw-la episcopi_fw-la presbyteri_fw-la &_o diaconi_fw-la in_o ecclesiâ_fw-la sibi_fw-la vendicent_fw-la epist_n ad_fw-la nepotianum_fw-la esto_fw-la subjectus_fw-la pontifici_fw-la tuo_fw-la &_o quasi_fw-la animae_fw-la parentem_fw-la suscipe_fw-la quod_fw-la aaron_n &_o filios_fw-la ejus_fw-la hoc_fw-la episcopum_fw-la &_o presbyteros_fw-la esse_fw-la noverimus_fw-la and_o epist_n 54._o speak_v of_o the_o bishop_n of_o his_o own_o age_n he_o say_v apud_fw-la nos_fw-la apostolorum_fw-la locum_fw-la tenent_fw-la episcopi_fw-la and_o in_o psalm_n 45._o 16._o nunc_fw-la quia_fw-la apostoli_fw-la à_fw-la mundo_fw-la recesserunt_fw-la habes_fw-la pro_fw-la his_fw-la episcopos_fw-la filios_fw-la sicut_fw-la &_o high_a patres_fw-la tui_fw-la quia_fw-la ab_fw-la ipsis_fw-la regeris_fw-la and_o epist._n 1._o ad_fw-la heliodor_n speak_v of_o the_o modern_a bishop_n he_o say_v stant_fw-la loco_fw-la pauli_n tenent_fw-la locum_fw-la petri_n and_o epist._n 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