Selected quad for the lemma: religion_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	church_n	government_n	kingdom_n	3,695	5	5.8013	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53953	A discourse of the sacrament of the Lords Supper wherein the faith of the Catholick Church concerning that mystery is explained, proved, and vindicated, after an intelligible, catachetical, and easie manner / by Edward Pelling ...	Pelling, Edward, d. 1718.	1685 (1685)	Wing P1079; ESTC R22438	166,306	338

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poor_a creature_n slay_v or_o be_v please_v with_o the_o blood_n of_o calf_n and_o goat_n but_o partly_o that_o he_o 292._o sacrificiorum_fw-la onera_fw-la &_o operationum_fw-la &_o oblationum_fw-la negociosas_fw-la scrupulositates_fw-la nemo_fw-la reprehendat_fw-la quasi_fw-la deus_fw-la talia_fw-la sibi_fw-la propriè_fw-la desideraverit_fw-la sed_fw-la illam_fw-la dei_fw-la industriam_fw-la sentiat_fw-la qua_fw-la populum_fw-la pronum_fw-la in_o idololatriam_fw-la &_o transgressionem_fw-la ejusmodi_fw-la efficiis_fw-la religioni_fw-la suae_fw-la voluit_fw-la astringere_fw-la quibus_fw-la superstitio_fw-la seculi_fw-la agebatur_fw-la ut_fw-la ab_fw-la ea_fw-la avocaret_fw-la illos_fw-la sibi_fw-la jubens_fw-la fieri_fw-la quasi_fw-la desider_v anti_fw-la ne_fw-la simulachris_fw-la faci_fw-la endis_fw-la delinqueret_fw-la tertull._n adv_o marc._n lib._n 2._o vide_fw-la &_o origen_n hom._n in_o numer_n 17._o in_o initio_fw-la justin_n mart._n dial_n cum_fw-la tryph._n p._n 237_o 238_o 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