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	lord_n	speak_v	4,579	5	4.5054	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47197	The way cast up, and the stumbling-blocks removed from before the feet of those who are seeking the way to Zion, with their faces thitherward containing an answere to a postcript, printed at the end of Sam Rutherford's letters, third edition, by a nameless author, indeed not without cause, considering the many lyes and falshoods therein, against the people, called Quakers, which are here disproved, and refuted / by George Keith ...	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.; Rutherford, Samuel, 1600?-1661.	1677 (1677)	Wing K233; ESTC R19568	115,272	246

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the_o judgement_n and_o pass_v natural_a understanding_n whence_o we_o feel_v we_o taste_v we_o enjoy_v yea_o his_o voice_n be_v hear_v in_o the_o soul_n which_o we_o sure_o know_v to_o be_v he_o this_o be_v a_o plain_a testimony_n to_o inmedtat_v revelation_n which_o be_v our_o main_a principle_n and_o be_v so_o great_o oppose_v in_o this_o day_n by_o presbyterian_o as_o much_o as_o other_o again_o pag._n 229._o he_o speak_v of_o a_o immediate_a teach_n of_o the_o spirit_n and_o of_o a_o mighty_a power_n of_o god_n that_o can_v witness_v in_o many_o young_a one_o ere_o they_o can_v well_o speak_v or_o exercise_v reason_n the_o power_n of_o religion_n again_o pag._n 120._o speak_v of_o prayer_n he_o say_v it_o may_v seem_v strange_a how_o easy_o we_o can_v step_v out_o from_o the_o world_n and_o the_o noise_n thereof_o in_o before_o the_o lord_n without_o the_o least_o pause_n or_o time_n interveening_a 26._o and_o again_o he_o say_v alas_o it_o be_v sad_a this_o seem_v rather_o a_o 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