Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	constant_a	zeal_n	zealous_a	26	3	8.4711	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77492	An antidote against the poysonous vveeds of heretical blasphemies, which during the deplorable interval of church-government have grown up in the reforming Church of England. As it was lately presented to the Church of God at Great Yarmouth. / By Iohn Brinsley, Minister of the Gospel there. Augus. 10. 1650. Imprimatur, Edm. Calamy.	Brinsley, John, 1600-1665.	1650 (1650)	Wing B4705; Thomason E612_13; ESTC R206488	47,516	58

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annor_fw-la reas._n 3._o reas._n 4._o applic._n use_v 1._o use_v 2._o use_v 3._o ainsworth_n in_o levit_n 24_o 11._o propter_fw-la talia_fw-la delicta_fw-la and_o fame_n and_o terrae_fw-la motus_fw-la and_o pesses_fw-la eveniunt_fw-la vide_fw-la alsted_n theolog._n casaum_n cap._n 15._o cas._n 5._o use_v 4._o quest_n answ_n {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o ab_fw-la a_fw-la intensiva_fw-la and_o {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o sumo_fw-la {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o ab_fw-la {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o and_o {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o appareo_fw-la quod_fw-la quis_fw-la enimere_fw-la se_fw-la et_fw-la caeteris_fw-la mortalibus_fw-la superiorem_fw-la esse_fw-la persuasum_fw-la habeat_fw-la cui_fw-la respondet_fw-la latinis_fw-la superbia_fw-la q._n super_fw-la ire_fw-la leigh_z critic_n sacra_fw-la {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o his_o contemptores_fw-la aliorum_fw-la grotius_n ad_fw-la text._n diodati_n ad_fw-la le_fw-fr vide_fw-la grotium_fw-la ad_fw-la loc._n alsted_n theol-casuum_fw-la cap._n 15._o cas._n 5._o de_fw-la blasphemiâ_fw-la vide_fw-la alsted_n ibid._n jura_fw-la civilia_fw-la praecisione_fw-la linguae_fw-la punierunt_fw-la aliquando_fw-la hoc_fw-la peccatum_fw-la etc._n etc._n alii_fw-la ut_fw-la terribilior_fw-la esset_fw-la p●na_fw-la jusserunt_fw-la per_fw-la occiput_fw-la eximi_fw-la linguam_fw-la aretius_n loc._n com._n 109._o de_fw-la blasphemiâ_fw-la jura_fw-la canonica_n pessimo_fw-la exemplo_fw-la induxerunt_fw-la mitigationem_fw-la paenarum_fw-la etc._n etc._n dedit_fw-la enim_fw-la ista_fw-la tantam_fw-la blasphemiarum_fw-la segetem_fw-la ut_fw-la nihil_fw-la srequentius_fw-la sit_fw-la inter_fw-la christianos_fw-la quam_fw-la impune_fw-la nomen_fw-la domini_fw-la blasphemare_fw-la aretius_n ibid._n vide_fw-la m._n carill_n in_o job_n 2._o 9_o perkins_n in_o galat._n cap_n 3._o v._n 25_o alsted_n ubi_fw-la supra_fw-la ireneus_fw-la lib._n 3._o cap._n 3._o euseb_n lib._n 4._o cap._n 14._o and_o lib._n 7._o cap._n 23_o use_v 5._o vide_fw-la new_a annot._n eng._n in_o 1_o cor._n 5._o 5._o applic._n 2._o vseb_n l._n c._n 14._o

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