Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	father_n	john_n	son_n	4,500	5	5.8945	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43825	Truth and love happily married in the saints, and in the churches of Christ the contract drawn in one of the spittle sermons, preached April 3, 1648 / by Thomas Hill ...	Hill, Thomas, d. 1653.	1648 (1648)	Wing H2032; ESTC R25713	34,858	45

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