Selected quad for the lemma: order_n

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order_n	church_n	see_v	time_n	2,962	5	3.5365	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07200	Christian humiliation, or, A treatise of fasting declaring the nature, kindes, ends, vses, and properties of a religious fast: together with a briefe discourse concerning the fast of Lent. By Henry Mason, pastor of Saint Andrews-Vndershaft London.	Mason, Henry, 1573?-1647.	1625 (1625)	STC 17602; ESTC S120999	101,549	174

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therefore_o it_o be_v enjoin_v in_o this_o fast_a but_o be_v not_o so_o in_o all_o fast_n he_o speak_v more_o reasonable_o as_o i_o take_v it_o that_o say_v 842._o say_v verum_fw-la &_o bonum_fw-la ielunium_fw-la est_fw-la abstinentia_fw-la spontane●_n sive_fw-la prandij_fw-la usque_fw-la ad_fw-la vesperam_fw-la sine_fw-la coenae_fw-la usque_fw-la ad_fw-la sequentis_fw-la diei_fw-la prandium_fw-la sive_fw-la utriusque_fw-la simul_fw-la prandij_fw-la et_fw-la coenae_fw-la etc._n etc._n springl_n de_fw-fr hodier_n haereticis_fw-la part_n 1._o l._n 3._o cap._n 2._o pag._n 842._o a_o true_a fast_o be_v a_o abstinence_n or_o forbear_v either_o of_o dinner_n until_o evening_n or_o of_o supper_n until_o dinner_n time_n the_o next_o day_n or_o else_o of_o both_o of_o they_o together_o but_o yet_o for_o more_o distinct_a conceive_v of_o the_o point_n i_o