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Introduction

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This study carrel was created on 2021-05-23 by Eric Morgan <emorgan@nd.edu>. The carrel was created using the Distant Reader zip2carrel process, and the input was a Zip file locally cached with the name input-file.zip. Documents in the Zip file have been saved in a cache, and each of them have been transformed & saved as a set of plain text files. All of the analysis -- "reading" -- has been done against these plain text files. For example, a short narrative report has been created. This Web page is a more verbose version of that report.

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Size

There are 34 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 1,121,579 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 32,987 words long. If you dig deeper, then you might want to save yourself some time by reading a shorter item. On the other hand, if your desire is for more detail, then you might consider reading a longer item. The following charts illustrate the overall size of the carrel.

Readability

On a scale from 0 to 100, where 0 is very difficult and 100 is very easy, the documents have an average readability score of 95. Consequently, if you want to read something more simplistic, then consider a document with a higher score. If you want something more specialized, then consider something with a lower score. The following charts illustrate the overall readability of the carrel.

Word Frequencies

By merely counting & tabulating the frequency of individual words or phrases, you can begin to get an understanding of the carrel's "aboutness". Excluding "stop words", some of the more frequent words include:

god, christ, will, shall, man, us, may, one, great, men, lord, church, must, yet, now, therefore, things, sin, many, doth, good, first, let, people, make, time, love, say, saith, though, world, gods, much, spirit, word, made, heart, come, called, day, never, take, heaven, grace, times, name, soul, life, every, way

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are An Exact collection of farewel sermons preached by the late London-ministers viz. Mr. Calamy, Mr. Watson, Mr. Jacomb, Mr. Case, Mr. Sclater, Mr. Baxter, Mr. Jenkin, Dr. Manton, Mr. Lye, Mr. Collins : to which is added their prayers before and after sermon as also Mr. Calamy''s sermon for which he was imprisoned in Newgate : his sermon at Mr. Ashe''s funeral and Dr. Horton''s and Mr. Nalton''s funeral., A treatise of effectual calling and election In XVI. sermons, on 2 Peter 1.10. Wherein a Christian may discern, whether yet he be effectually called and elected. And what course he ought to take that he may attain the assurance thereof. Preached by that faithfull servant of Christ, Mr. Christopher Love, late minister of Laurence Jury, London., and Evidence for heaven containing infallible signs and reall demonstrations of our union with Christ and assurance of salvation : with an appendix of laying down certain rules to be observed for preserving our assurance once obtained / published by Ed. Calamy ....

The most frequent two-word phrases (bigrams) include:

jesus christ, let us, roman non, god will, take heed, iesus christ, holy ghost, will make, english books, early english, must needs, will never, man may, new testament, universal headship, effectual calling, god doth, one another, books online, every man, great deal, take away, lord jesus, wicked man, serve god, holy spirit, effectually called, every one, new creature, little horn, taken away, must meditate, will give, god may, nothing else, wicked men, divine meditation, shall never, shall come, tells us, right hand, page images, many times, make us, fourth metal, two things, will say, godly man, amongst us, may say

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are The doctrine of the bodies fragility: with a divine project, discovering how to make these vile bodies of ours glorious by getting gracious souls. Represented in a sermon preached at Martins Ludgate at the funerall of that worthy and reverend minister of Jesus Christ, Dr. Samuel Bolton, Master of Christ College in Cambridge, who died the 15 of Octob. 1654. and was buried the 19 day of the same month. / By that painfull and pious minister of Gods Word Mr. Edmund Calamy, B.D. The saints transfiguration, or, The body of vilenesse changed into a body of glory a sermon preached at Martins Ludgate, October 19, 1654, at the funerall of that reverend and faithfull minister of Jesus Christ, Dr. Samuel Bolton, late master of Christs College in Cambridg : with a short account of his death / by Edmund Calamy ... ; to which are annexed verses upon his death, composed by divers of his friends and acquaintance., and Foure speeches delivered in Guild-Hall on Friday the sixth of October, 1643. At a common-hall, vpon occasion of desiring the assistance of our brethren of Scotland in this warre. / Viz. the [brace] 1. by Mr. Solicitor. 2. by Mr. Edmund Calamy. 3. by Mr. Jeremiah Burroughes. 4. by Mr. Obadiah Sedgewick. Published according to order..

While often deemed superficial or sophomoric, rudimentary frequencies and their associated "word clouds" can be quite insightful:

Keywords

Sets of keywords -- statistically significant words -- can be enumerated by comparing the relative frequency of words with the number of times the words appear in an entire corpus. Some of the most statistically significant keywords in the carrel include:

god, lord, christ, roman, gospel, church, saints, spirit, religion, scripture, psal, nation, gods, england, cor, christian, king, word, text, tcp, paul, law, father, city, churches, apostle, soul, sin, kingdom, jesus, government, faith, epistle, devil, covenant, brethren, body, ark, world, titus, timothy, testament, son, sleep, scriptures, prophets, presbyters, ordination, ordinances, non

And now word clouds really begin to shine:

Topic Modeling

Topic modeling is another popular approach to connoting the aboutness of a corpus. If the study carrel could be summed up in a single word, then that word might be god, and Englands looking-glasse presented in a sermon preached before the Honorable House of Commons at their late solemne fast, December 22, 1641 / by Edmund Calamy ... is most about that word.

If the study carrel could be summed up in three words ("topics") then those words and their significantly associated titles include:

1. god - An Exact collection of farewel sermons preached by the late London-ministers viz. Mr. Calamy, Mr. Watson, Mr. Jacomb, Mr. Case, Mr. Sclater, Mr. Baxter, Mr. Jenkin, Dr. Manton, Mr. Lye, Mr. Collins : to which is added their prayers before and after sermon as also Mr. Calamy''s sermon for which he was imprisoned in Newgate : his sermon at Mr. Ashe''s funeral and Dr. Horton''s and Mr. Nalton''s funeral.
2. god - Clavis Bibliorum The key of the Bible, unlocking the richest treasury of the Holy Scriptures : whereby the 1 order, 2 names, 3 times, 4 penmen, 5 occasion, 6 scope, and 7 principall parts, containing the subject-matter of every book of Old and New Testament, are familiarly and briefly opened : for the help of the weakest capacity in the understanding of the whole Bible / by Francis Roberts ...
3. hath - An ansvver to the articles against Master Calamy, Master Martiall, Master Burton, Master Peters, Master Moleigne, Master Case, M. Sedgwicke, M. Evans, &c. and many other painfull divines who were impeached of high treason by His Majesty : first answering particularly the articles themselves, then shewing the mis-information of His Majestie by the bishops, concerning the same : expressing the great care and vigilancy of those theologians which they have and doe daily undertake with great zeale for the rooting out of popery the confounding of Rome and for the erecting the pious truth and sincerity of the holy gospel of Christ.

If the study carrel could be summed up in five topics, and each topic were each denoted with three words, then those topics and their most significantly associated files would be:

1. god, christ, man - An Exact collection of farewel sermons preached by the late London-ministers viz. Mr. Calamy, Mr. Watson, Mr. Jacomb, Mr. Case, Mr. Sclater, Mr. Baxter, Mr. Jenkin, Dr. Manton, Mr. Lye, Mr. Collins : to which is added their prayers before and after sermon as also Mr. Calamy''s sermon for which he was imprisoned in Newgate : his sermon at Mr. Ashe''s funeral and Dr. Horton''s and Mr. Nalton''s funeral.
2. church, god, bishops - Jus divinum ministerii evangelici. Or The divine right of the Gospel-ministry: divided into two parts. The first part containing a justification of the Gospel-ministry in general. The necessity of ordination thereunto by imposition of hands. The unlawfulnesse of private mens assuming to themselves either the office or work of the ministry without a lawfull call and ordination. The second part containing a justification of the present ministers of England, both such as were ordained during the prevalency of episcopacy from the foul aspersion of anti-christianism: and those who have been ordained since its abolition, from the unjust imputation of novelty: proving that a bishop and presbyter are all one in Scripture; and that ordination by presbyters is most agreeable to the Scripture-patern. Together with an appendix, wherein the judgement and practice of antiquity about the whole matter of episcopacy, and especially about the ordination of ministers, is briefly discussed. Published by the Provincial Assembly of London.
3. shall, kingdom, beast - A plain and easie calculation of the name, mark, and number of the name of the beast ... humbly presented to the studious observers of Scripture-prophecies, God''s works, and the times / by Nathaniel Stephens ... ; whereunto is prefixed, a commendatory epistle, written by Mr. Edm. Calamy.
4. christ, covenant, god - Clavis Bibliorum The key of the Bible, unlocking the richest treasury of the Holy Scriptures : whereby the 1 order, 2 names, 3 times, 4 penmen, 5 occasion, 6 scope, and 7 principall parts, containing the subject-matter of every book of Old and New Testament, are familiarly and briefly opened : for the help of the weakest capacity in the understanding of the whole Bible / by Francis Roberts ...
5. non, roman, divisions - An ansvver to the articles against Master Calamy, Master Martiall, Master Burton, Master Peters, Master Moleigne, Master Case, M. Sedgwicke, M. Evans, &c. and many other painfull divines who were impeached of high treason by His Majesty : first answering particularly the articles themselves, then shewing the mis-information of His Majestie by the bishops, concerning the same : expressing the great care and vigilancy of those theologians which they have and doe daily undertake with great zeale for the rooting out of popery the confounding of Rome and for the erecting the pious truth and sincerity of the holy gospel of Christ.

Moreover, the totality of the study carrel's aboutness, can be visualized with the following pie chart:

Noun & Verbs

Through an analysis of your study carrel's parts-of-speech, you are able to answer question beyonds aboutness. For example, a list of the most frequent nouns helps you answer what questions; "What is discussed in this collection?":

man, men, things, sin, time, people, heart, world, day, times, way, death, grace, life, soul, love, body, doth, hath, power, name, word, work, faith, thing, others, words, place, truth, scripture, hearts, nothing, part, glory, sins, end, reason, self, ▪, years, text, saints, selves, sinne, hands, duty, souls, assurance, cause, mercy

An enumeration of the verbs helps you learn what actions take place in a text or what the things in the text do. Very frequently, the most common lemmatized verbs are "be", "have", and "do"; the more interesting verbs usually occur further down the list of frequencies:

is, be, are, have, was, do, were, had, did, let, make, say, made, called, come, said, take, been, give, know, see, hath, being, put, go, done, set, according, am, live, speak, keep, came, consider, think, given, makes, taken, read, brought, bring, doth, love, meditate, written, concerning, look, call, serve, lay

Proper Nouns

An extraction of proper nouns helps you determine the names of people and places in your study carrel.

god, christ, 〉, ◊, 〈, lord, c., church, thou, hath, heaven, gods, spirit, ●, gospel, jesus, kingdom, paul, beast, bishop, ministry, king, england, word, christian, text, holy, mr., apostle, covenant, minister, cor, ministers, christians, david, ark, rome, epistle, iohn, bishops, city, father, law, number, christs, book, israel, act, office, pag

An analysis of personal pronouns enables you to answer at least two questions: 1) "What, if any, is the overall gender of my study carrel?", and 2) "To what degree are the texts in my study carrel self-centered versus inclusive?"

it, he, his, you, they, i, we, them, their, him, our, us, your, my, thy, me, himself, her, themselves, thee, she, its, ye, theirs, ours, mine, yours, one, s, thou, ''s, whosoever, u, ●, whereof, ut, quae, ourselves, non, em, elias, 〈, †, yee, ty, ts, trodden, tollit, severall, room

Below are words cloud of your study carrel's proper & personal pronouns.

Adjectives & Verbs

Learning about a corpus's adjectives and adverbs helps you answer how questions: "How are things described and how are things done?" An analysis of adjectives and adverbs also points to a corpus's overall sentiment. "In general, is my study carrel positive or negative?"

great, many, good, other, such, own, true, more, same, first, much, roman, non, -, whole, little, saith, holy, wicked, last, new, godly, second, poor, particular, old, spiritual, sure, most, glorious, better, able, full, former, common, right, greater, greatest, dead, very, present, doth, best, free, false, few, necessary, outward, divine, high

not, so, then, now, therefore, more, up, here, never, as, only, out, also, yet, thus, first, very, well, much, onely, ever, away, most, down, even, together, secondly, forth, in, there, rather, all, that, again, too, is, long, especially, off, indeed, thirdly, ver, truly, often, far, hence, still, no, on, once

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