Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	good_a	lord_n	people_n	4,014	5	4.8063	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91309	Truth triumphing over falshood, antiquity over novelty. Or, The first part of a just and seasonable vindication of the undoubted ecclesiasticall iurisdiction, right, legislative, coercive power of Christian emperors, kings, magistrates, parliaments, in all matters of religion, church-government, discipline, ceremonies, manners: summoning of, presiding, moderating in councells, synods; and ratifying their canons, determinations, decrees: as likewise of lay-mens right both to sit and vote in councells; ... In refutation of Mr. Iohn Goodwins Innocencies Triumph: my deare brother Burtons Vindication of churches, commonly called Independent: and of all anti-monarchicall, anti-Parliamentall, anti-synodicall, and anarchicall paradoxes of papists, prelates, Anabaptists, Arminians, Socinians, Brownists, or Independents: whose old and new objections to the contrary, are here fully answered. / By William Prynne, of Lincolnes Inne, Esquire.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1645 (1645)	Wing P4115; Thomason E259_1; ESTC R212479	202,789	171

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21._o eccles_n hist_o l._n 8._o c._n 14._o col_fw-fr 377._o a._n see_v rabanus_n maurus_n de_fw-fr vniverso_fw-la l._n 5._o c._n 7._o 7._o hist_o l_o 1._o c._n 16._o l._n 3._o c._n 7._o l._n 4._o c_o 6._o 6._o eccles_n hist_o l._n 10._o c._n 5._o 5._o in_o epitaphio_fw-la paulae_fw-la paulae_fw-la euseb_n hist_o l._n 10._o c._n 15._o socrates_n scholast_n eccles_n hist_o l._n 1_o c._n 28._o 33._o eusebius_n de_fw-fr vita_fw-la constantini_n l._n 4._o c._n 41_o 42_o 43._o 43._o hist_o l._n 5._o c._n 7._o 7._o hist_o l._n 7._o c._n 7._o 7._o hist_o l._n 12_o c._n 10._o sarius_fw-la tom._n 1._o p._n 482_o 482_o eccles_n hist_o l_o 1._o c._n 3._o 3._o council_n tom._n 1._o p._n 607._o tom._n 2._o p._n 31._o 75._o 79._o 88_o 96._o &_o tom._n 1._o p._n 600._o niceph._n eccl._n hiss_v l._n 14_o c._n 34._o 34._o leo_n epist_n 9_o ad_fw-la theodosium_n theodosium_n epist_n 14._o see_v epist_n 13._o 44._o 50._o 58._o almost_o to_o the_o same_o purpose_n purpose_n epist_n 23._o 23._o epist_n 1._o ad_fw-la innocentium_n innocentium_n l._n 4._o c._n 22._o l._n 6._o c._n 7._o socrates_n scholast_n l._n 2._o c._n 7._o theodoret_n l._n 2._o c._n 1●_n 1●_n surius_n council_n tom._n 2._o p._n 11._o 25._o 31._o 152_o 103._o 106._o 120._o 106._o 106._o ibid._n p._n 8_o 9_o 10._o 10._o surius_n ibid._n p._n 10._o 11._o 11._o eccles_n hist_o l._n 17._o c._n 27._o 27._o council_n tom._n 2._o p_o 494_o 495_o 496._o 496._o surius_n tom._n 2._o p._n 498_o 499._o 500_o 501_o 502_o 502_o apud_fw-la surium_n council_n tom._n 2._o p._n 900_o 901_o 902._o 902._o surius_n council_n tom._n 3._o p._n 8._o 8._o surius_n ibidem_fw-la p._n 531._o 539._o 539._o theodoret._n hist_o l._n 4._o c._n 4._o 7_o 8_o 9_o socrates_n hist_o l._n 2._o c._n 37._o nicephorus_n hist_o l._n 9_o c._n 33._o surius_n tom._n 1._o p_o 432._o 432._o de_fw-fr synodis_fw-la arin●●a_fw-la &_o seleuc._n seleuc._n theodoret._n hist_o l._n 4._o c._n 7._o 8._o 9_o 9_o eccles_n hist_o l._n 11._o c._n 30._o 30._o su●ius_fw-la tom._n 1_o p._n 472._o 474._o 474._o spelman_n council_n p._n 39_o 39_o surius_n tom._n 2._o p._n 372._o 372._o surius_n council_n tom._n 1._o p._n 711._o 711._o surius_n tom._n 2._o p._n 633._o 633._o surius_n tom._n 2._o p._n 633._o 633._o surius_n ibid._n p._n 642._o 642._o surius_n ibid._n p._n 650._o 654._o 654._o surius_n ibid._n p._n 668._o 668._o surius_n tom._n 2._o p._n 678._o 681._o 682._o 682._o surius_n ibid._n p._n 727._o 738._o 738._o surius_n ibid._n p._n 7._o 39_o 741._o 741._o surius_n ibid._n p._n 746._o 749._o 749._o surius_n ibid._n p._n 759._o 759._o surius_n ibid._n p._n 854._o 867._o 870._o 870._o surius_n ibid._n p._n 875._o 875._o surius_n ibid._n p._n 880._o 880._o surius_n tom._n 3._o p._n 1_o 2_o 8_o 9_o 9_o surius_n tom._n 3._o p._n 39_o 39_o surius_n ibid._n p._n 40._o 4._o 4._o surius_n ibid._n p._n 293._o 318._o 359._o 361._o 409._o 421._o carolus_n molineus_n comment_fw-fr ad_fw-la edictum_fw-la hen._n 2._o contra_fw-la paruas_fw-la datas_fw-la &_o abusus_fw-la curiae_fw-la romanae_fw-la p._n 15._o matth._n west_n an._n 826._o vspergensis_n p_o 180._o 180._o surius_n tom._n 3._o p._n 237._o 257._o 271._o 274._o 278._o 286._o 291._o math._n westm_n flores_n hist_o an._n 813._o 813._o surius_n tom._n 3._o p._n 431._o 431._o surius_n ibid._n 454._o 468_o 469._o 469._o surius_n ibid._n p._n 475._o 475._o surius_n ibid._n p._n 481._o 481._o surius_n ibid._n p._n 544._o 544._o surius_n ibid._n 546_o 547_o 555_o 555_o surius_n tom._n 4._o p._n 366._o 366._o surius_n tom._n 4._o p._n 797_o 798._o 798._o matth._n westm_n flo._n hist_o an._n 595._o 595._o apud_fw-la bochellum_fw-mi dec●●●a_fw-la eccles_n g●ll._n l_o 5._o tit._n 20._o c._n 34._o p._n 905._o 905._o apologia_fw-la 2._o adversus_fw-la ruffinum_fw-la ruffinum_fw-la epist_n l._n 4._o epist_n 34._o 34._o distinct_a 37._o 37._o ibidem_fw-la and_o the_o canonist_n gloss_n on_o that_o distinction_n summa_fw-la angelica_n tit._n concilium_fw-la concilium_fw-la harding_n 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