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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
work_n	day_n	rest_n	sabbath_n	16,566	5	10.2403	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08552	The Christian conflict a treatise, shewing the difficulties and duties of this conflict, with the armour, and speciall graces to be exercised by Christian souldiers. Particularly applied to magistrates, ministers, husbands, wives, parents, children, masters, servants. The case of vsury and depopulation, and the errours of antinomists occasionally also discussed. Preached in the lecture of Kettering in the county of Northampton, and with some enlargement published by Ioseph Bentham, rector of the Church of Broughton in the same county.	Bentham, Joseph, 1594?-1671.	1635 (1635)	STC 1887; ESTC S113626	266,437	390

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of_o the_o temple_n to_o resist_v satan_n so_o neither_o in_o all_o circumstance_n mat._n hom._n 48._o in_o mat._n must_v we_o imagine_v in_o our_o fast_v to_o imitate_v our_o saviour_n christ_n thus_o s._n chrysostome_n say_v our_o saviour_n do_v not_o say_v his_o fast_n be_v to_o be_v imitate_v although_o he_o may_v have_v propound_v those_o forty_o day_n but_o learn_v of_o i_o because_o i_o be_o meek_a and_o lowly_a in_o hea●t_n neither_o do_v those_o papist_n who_o press_n so_o much_o their_o ungrounded_a fast_n consist_v in_o a_o abstinence_n from_o certain_a kind_n of_o meat_n prohibit_v by_o the_o roman_a church_n as_o our_o learned_a all_o learned_a pag._n 68_o 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d to_o ●●llict_v the_o soul_n with_o abstinence_n 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d ●●asting_a nothing_o at_o all_o bishop_n white_a although_o they_o glut_v