Selected quad for the lemma: religion_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	king_n	law_n	liberty_n	6,707	5	6.5575	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B05846	A letter from Mr Alexander Sheilds, minister to the regiment whereof the late noble Earl of Angus was colonel, now in Flanders: directed to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, which was to have met at Edinburgh in December 1693.	Shields, Alexander, 1660?-1700.	1694 (1694)	Wing S3432A; ESTC R184106	8,941	11

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