Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	grace_n	lord_n	spirit_n	4,882	5	4.6741	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17534	A general discourse against the damnable sect of vsurers grounded vppon the vvorde of God, and confirmed by the auctoritie of doctors both auncient, and newe; necessarie for all tymes, but most profitable for these later daies, in which, charitie being banished, couetousnes hath gotten the vpper hande. VVhereunto is annexed another godlie treatise concernyng the lawfull vse of ritches. Seene and allowed accordyng to her Maiesties iniunctions.; Doctrina de usura. English	Caesar, Philipp, d. 1585.; Hemmingsen, Neils, 1513-1600. Commentaria in omnes epistolas Apostolorum.; Rogers, Thomas, d. 1616.	1578 (1578)	STC 4342; ESTC S107129	86,650	150

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