Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	assent_n	believe_v	faith_n	3,653	5	5.9311	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17442	Adelphomachia, or, The warrs of Protestancy being a treatise, wherein are layd open the wonderfull, and almost incredible dissentions of the Protestants among themselues, in most (if not all) articles of Protesta[n]cy, and this proued from their owne wordes & writinges / vvritten by a Cath. priest ; whereunto is adioyned a briefe appendix, in which is proued, first, that the ancient fathers, by the acknowledgments of the learned Protestants, taught our Cath. and Roman fayth, secondly, that the said fathers haue diuers aduantages about the Protestant writers, for finding out the true sense of the Scripture.	B. C.	1637 (1637)	STC 4263.7; ESTC S1838	109,763	196

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327._o dissension_n de_fw-fr eccles_n contra_fw-la bellarm._n controver_n 2._o q_o 5._o pag._n 327._o among_o the_o papist_n be_v but_o futiles_fw-la concern_v thing_n of_o small_a importance_n and_o d._n fulke_o agree_v with_o he_o say_v as_o for_o the_o 295._o the_o against_o heskin_n sanders_n etc._n etc._n pag._n 295._o consent_n and_o peace_n of_o the_o popish_a church_n it_o prove_v nothing_o but_o that_o the_o devil_n have_v all_o thing_n at_o his_o will_n and_o therefore_o may_v sleep_v thus_o true_o acknowledge_v unity_n in_o faith_n in_o the_o roman_a church_n but_o most_o malicious_o transfer_v the_o cause_n thereof_o to_o he_o who_o be_v the_o chief_a enemy_n to_o unity_n but_o sir_n edwin_n sands_n a_o most_o remarkable_a protestant_n do_v not_o only_o acknowledge_v all_o war_n of_o dissension_n in_o our_o catholic_a church_n but_o also_o give_v his_o reason_n thereof_o in_o these_o word_n the_o papist_n 8._o papist_n in_o his_o relation_n fol._n 8._o have_v the_o pope_n 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