Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	believe_v	know_v	way_n	2,597	5	4.7191	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34136	Common-prayer-book devotions, episcopal delusions, or, The Second death of the service-book wherein the unlawfulness (with advantage) of the imposition of liturgies ... is clearly and plainly demonstrated from the Scriptures ...	C. W.	1666 (1666)	Wing C5572; ESTC R35602	67,445	80

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sit_fw-la charitas_fw-la &_o concordia_n propter_fw-la quam_fw-la conseruandam_fw-la periclitari_fw-la necesse_fw-la sit_fw-la verbum_fw-la dei_fw-la luther_n in_o gal._n 5._o pios_fw-la hoc_fw-la nomen_fw-la &_o titulum_fw-la in_o mundo_fw-la oportet_fw-la gerere_fw-la quod_fw-la seditiosi_fw-la ac_fw-la schismatici_fw-la ac_fw-la infinitorum_fw-la malorum_fw-la authores_fw-la sunt_fw-la idem_fw-la ibidem_fw-la heu_fw-la heu_fw-la domine_fw-la ipsi_fw-la sunt_fw-la in_o persecutione_n tua_fw-la primi_fw-la qui_fw-la in_o ecclesia_fw-la tua_fw-la videntur_fw-la principatum_fw-la diligere_fw-la &_o gerere_fw-la principatum_fw-la bern._n de_fw-fr conver._n s._n pauli_n serm._n 1_o ignosci_fw-la potuit_fw-la simpliciter_fw-la errantibus_fw-la post_fw-la inspirationem_fw-la vero_fw-la &_o revelationem_fw-la factam_fw-la sine_fw-la ignorantiae_fw-la venia_fw-la peccatur_fw-la cypr._n ep._n 63._o qui_fw-la vero_fw-la i_o errare_fw-la existimant_fw-la etiam_fw-la atque_fw-la etiam_fw-la 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