Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	church_n	doctrine_n	infallible_a	1,772	5	9.3929	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58926	A seasonable discourse shewing the necessity of union amongst Protestants, in opposition to popery, as the only means (under God) to preserve the reformed religion also, the charge of persecution, lately maintained against the established religion, by W.P., H.C. and other insignificant scriblers, detected : proving it to be the ministers of state, and not the church, that prosecuted the penal laws on Protestant dissenters.		1688 (1688)	Wing S2228; ESTC R14748	13,863	17

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