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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
word_n	darkness_n	light_n	shine_v	6,357	5	9.4256	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90291	The stedfastness of promises, and the sinfulness of staggering: opened in a sermon preached at Margarets in Westminster before the Parliament Febr. 28. 1649. Being a day set apart for solemn humiliation throughout the nation. By John Owen minister of the Gospel.	Owen, John, 1616-1683.	1650 (1650)	Wing O808; Thomason E599_9; Thomason E618_7; ESTC R203108	32,151	58

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