Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	know_v	spirit_n	worship_v	6,337	5	9.5072	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69095	The third part of the Defence of the Reformed Catholike against Doct. Bishops Second part of the Reformation of a Catholike, as the same was first guilefully published vnder that name, conteining only a large and most malicious preface to the reader, and an answer to M. Perkins his aduertisement to Romane Catholicks, &c. Whereunto is added an aduertisement for the time concerning the said Doct. Bishops reproofe, lately published against a little piece of the answer to his epistle to the King, with an answer to some few exceptions taken against the same, by M. T. Higgons latley become a proselyte of the Church of Rome. By R. Abbot Doctor of Diuinitie.; Defence of the Reformed Catholicke of M. W. Perkins. Part 3	Abbot, Robert, 1560-1618.	1609 (1609)	STC 50.5; ESTC S100538	452,861	494

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c._n 10._o qu●_n s●ribit_fw-la motum_fw-la internum_fw-la non_fw-la esse_fw-la 〈◊〉_d ●●si_fw-la 〈◊〉_d se_fw-la prodat_fw-la that_o the_o inward_a motion_n be_v no_o sin_n unless_o it_o do_v outward_o show_v or_o bewray_v itself_o wherein_o he_o deal_v very_o unhonest_o to_o make_v his_o reader_n believe_v that_o he_o fet_v down_o the_o author_n word_n when_o he_o set_v down_o only_o what_o he_o himself_o listen_v to_o collect_v and_o gather_v of_o they_o the_o word_n of_o josephus_n consider_v the_o occasion_n be_v very_o unfitting_a and_o absurd_a and_o so_o contrary_a to_o common_a sense_n as_o that_o we_o may_v wonder_v they_o shall_v come_v from_o so_o wife_n a_o man_n antiochus_n bring_v his_o army_n against_o the_o city_n of_o elymais_n as_o josephus_n there_o declare_v where_o the_o temple_n of_o diana_n be_v he_o assault_v it_o with_o all_o his_o might_n he_o leave_v nothing_o undo_v that_o he_o can_v do_v for_o the_o achieve_v of_o his_o purpose_n though_o by_o the_o valour_n 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