Selected quad for the lemma: life_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
life_n	believe_v	eternal_a	see_v	6,178	5	3.7252	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77397	Anabaptism, the true fountaine of Independency, Brownisme, [double brace] Antinomy, Familisme, and the most of the other errours, which for the time doe trouble the Church of England, unsealed. Also the questions of pædobaptisme and dipping handled from Scripture. In a second part of the Disswasive from the errors of the time. / By Robert Baillie minister at Glasgow.	Baillie, Robert, 1599-1662.; Baillie, Robert, 1599-1662. Dissuasive from the errours of the time.	1647 (1647)	Wing B452A; Thomason E369_9; ESTC R38567	187,930	235

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c_z bullinger_n lib._n 1._o p._n 11._o in_o their_o separate_a congregation_n they_o do_v cry_v mighty_o against_o pride_n against_o gluttony_n and_o drunkenness_n blasphemy_n and_o other_o crime_n they_o lead_v a_o life_n in_o appearance_n spiritual_a they_o sigh_v oft_o and_o do_v not_o laugh_v in_o reproof_n they_o be_v vehement_a they_o speak_v excellent_o by_o this_o mean_n they_o purchase_v admiration_n and_o authority_n to_o themselves_o among_o simple_a and_o pious_a people_n who_o do_v speak_v thus_o let_v other_o man_n say_v of_o the_o anabaptist_n what_o they_o please_v i_o do_v see_v nothing_o in_o they_o but_o gravity_n i_o do_v hear_v nothing_o but_o that_o we_o shall_v not_o swear_v nor_o do_v wrong_a to_o any_o but_o live_v pious_o and_o sober_o so_o i_o see_v no_o evil_a in_o they_o ibid._n p._n 52._o the_o most_o part_n of_o the_o anabaptist_n and_o at_o the_o beginning_n these_o of_o munster_n themselves_o be_v lowly_a and_o humble_a far_o from_o all_o greatness_n and_o splendour_n for_o they_o do_v inveigh_v