Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	believe_v	confess_v	faith_n	4,621	5	5.6074	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76157	Confirmation and restauration the necessary means of reformation, and reconciliation; for the healing of the corruptions and divisions of the churches: submissively, but earnestly tendered to the consideration of the soveraigne powers, magistrates, ministers, and people, that they may awake, and be up and doing in the execution of so much, as appeareth to be necessary as they are true to Christ, his Church and Gospel, and to their own and others souls, and to the peace and wellfare of the nations; and as they will answer the neglect to Christ, at their peril. / By Richard Baxter, an unworthy minister of Christ, that longeth to see the healing of the churches.	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1658 (1658)	Wing B1232; Thomason E2111_1; ESTC R209487	172,368	411

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and_o firmilian_a epist_n ibid._n say_v augustine_n de_fw-fr catechizandis_fw-la rudibus_fw-la cap._n 26._o his_o dictis_fw-la interrogandus_fw-la est_fw-la a_fw-fr haec_fw-la credat_fw-la atque_fw-la observare_fw-la desideret_fw-la quod_fw-la cum_fw-la responderit_fw-la solemniter_fw-la utique_fw-la signandus_fw-la est_fw-la &_o ecclesiae_fw-la more_fw-it tractandus_fw-la obedience_n itself_o be_v promise_v and_o a_o consent_n to_o it_o profess_v before_o baptism_n then_o and_o ever_o since_o christian_a baptism_n be_v know_v idem_fw-la epistol_n 119._o ad_fw-la januar._n cap._n 2._o secundum_fw-la hanc_fw-la fidem_fw-la &_o spem_fw-la &_o dilectionem_fw-la quâ_fw-la caepimus_fw-la esse_fw-la sub_fw-la gratia_fw-la jam_fw-la commortui_fw-la sumus_fw-la cum_fw-la christo_fw-la &_o consepulti_fw-la per_fw-la baptismum_fw-la in_o morte_fw-la etc._n etc._n baptism_n then_o suppose_v credible_o faith_n hope_n and_o love_n idem_n epist_n 23._o have_v show_v why_o parent_n faith_n profit_v infant_n and_o yet_o their_o after-sin_n hurt_v they_o not_o sai_z cum_fw-la autem_fw-la homo_fw-la sapere_fw-la caeperit_n non_fw-la illud_fw-la sacramentum_fw-la repetit_fw-la sed_fw-la intelligit_fw-la ejusque_fw-la veritati_fw-la consonâ_fw-la etiam_fw-la voluntate_fw-la coaptabitur_fw-la hoc_fw-la quamdiu_fw-la non_fw-la potest_fw-la n._n b._n valebit_fw-la sacramentum_fw-la ad_fw-la ejus_fw-la tutelam_fw-la adversus_fw-la contrarias_fw-la potestates_fw-la &_o tantum_fw-la valebit_fw-la utsi_fw-la ante_fw-la rationis_fw-la usum_fw-la ex_fw-la hac_fw-la vita_fw-la emigraverit_fw-la per_fw-la ipsum_fw-la sacramentum_fw-la ecclesiae_fw-la charitate_fw-la ab_fw-la illa_fw-la condemnatione_fw-la quae_fw-la per_fw-la unum_fw-la hominem_fw-la intravit_fw-la in_o mundum_fw-la christiano_n adjutorio_fw-la liberetur_fw-la hoc_fw-la qui_fw-la non_fw-la credit_n &_o fieri_fw-la non_fw-la posse_fw-la arbitratur_fw-la profecto_fw-la infidelis_fw-la est_fw-la etsi_fw-la habeat_fw-la fidei_fw-la sacramentum_fw-la longeque_fw-la melior_fw-la est_fw-la ille_fw-la parvulus_fw-la qui_fw-la etiamsi_fw-la fidem_fw-la nondum_fw-la habeat_fw-la in_o cogitation_n non_fw-la ei_fw-la tamen_fw-la obicem_fw-la contrariae_fw-la cogitationis_fw-la opponit_fw-la undè_fw-la sacramentum_fw-la