Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	heart_n	holy_a	lord_n	3,976	5	3.5961	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37213	A brief manifestation, or, The state and case of the Quakers presented to all people, but especially to merchants, owners (and masters) of ships, and mariners : also to all planters or occupiers of lands in the English and forreign plantations : shewing the (causless) cause of their present and cruel sufferings ... hereby warning them all not to joyn hands against the innocent nor willingly suffer their ships ... to transport (nor to buy) any of them for slaves ... / written on behalf of the suffering people of God (called Quakers), ... the first day of the eighth month, 1664 [by] T.D.	T. D. (Thomas Davenport)	1664 (1664)	Wing D372; ESTC R28586	6,720	10

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