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	true_a	word_n	10,315	5	4.6760	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56221	Twelve considerable serious questions touching chvrch government sadly propounded (out of a reall desire of vnitie and tranquillity in church and state) to all sober-minded Christians, cordially affecting a speedy setled reformation, and brotherly Christian vnion in all our churches and denominations, now miserably wasted with civill unnatuall warres, and deplorably lacerated with ecclesiasticall dissentions / by William Prynne ...	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1644 (1644)	Wing P4117; ESTC R32182	10,363	9

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chron._n 31.1.10_o 9_o c_o 28.1_o 2._o c._n 29.1_o etc._n etc._n ●_z chron._n 5._o ●_z c._n 6_o 3.12_o 13._o c._n 7_o 8_o 9_o c._n 20_o 4_o 5.14_o c._n 23.2.3_o c._n 30.1_o to_o 27._o c_o 31.1_o ezra_n 31._o c_o 10_o 1_o etc._o etc._o neh._n 8.1.10.18_o luk._n 1.41_o (l)_o act_n 15.22_o to_o 32._o c._n 16_o 14._o c._n 21.25_o (m)_o ●_z cor._n 7.17_o c._n 11.6_o c._n 4._o ●3_n c._n 16.1.2_o gal._n 1.1_o see_v rev._n 1.11.20_o c._n 2.7_o c._n 22_o 1●_z n_o act_n 9.31_o c._n 15_o 4●_z c._n 16_o 5_o rom._n 16_o 4●_z 16._o ●_z cor_n 7.17_o c._n 11_o 16●_z c_n 1●_z 33_o 34._o c._n 16.19_o 2_o cor._n 8.1_o 18.19.23_o 24._o c._n 11.13_o 2_o thes●●_z ●_z rev._n 1.11.20_o c._n 2.7.11.13.19_o c._n 3_o 6.13.22_o c._n 22.16_o o_o isay_n 2_o 2_o 3._o mic_n 4.1_o to_o 5._o ps._n 72.17_o ps_n 82.8_o psal._n 86.9_o ier._n 16.19_o mal._n 1_o 1●_z isa._n 11.9_o to_o 16_o c._n 9.12.23_o c._n 54.1.2_o 3._o c._n 60.3_o to_o 22._o zach._n 8.22_o (p)_o lu._n 2.32_o mar._n 13.10_o act._n 1●_z 46.47.48_o run_v 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