subject-brownists-freebo

Introduction

This is a Distant Reader "study carrel", a set of structured data intended to help the student, researcher, or scholar use & understand a corpus.

This study carrel was created on 2021-05-24 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.

All study carrels are self-contained -- no Internet connection is necessary to use them. Download this carrel for offline reading. The carrel is made up of many subdirectories and data files. The manifest describes each one in greater detail.

Size

There are 24 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 857,870 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 35,744 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 92. 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:

church, god, christ, may, one, yet, true, will, churches, people, mr, men, also, vnto, vs, first, haue, things, many, now, word, must, lord, man, say, power, though, without, onely, ministers, holy, good, cor, doe, much, shall, vpon, make, worship, every, gods, therefore, england, doth, made, act, like, wee, scriptures, answer

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are A iustification of separation from the Church of England Against Mr Richard Bernard his invective, intituled; The separatists schisme. By Iohn Robinson., Covnterpoyson considerations touching the poynts in difference between the godly ministers and people of the Church of England, and the seduced brethren of the separation : argvments that the best assemblies of the present church of England are true visible churches : that the preachers in the best assemblies of Engl. are true ministers of Christ : Mr. Bernards book intituled The Separatists Schisme : Mr Crashawes questions propounded in his sermon preached at the crosse / examined and answered by Henry Ainsworth., and A dissuasive from the errours of the time wherein the tenets of the principall sects, especially of the Independents, are drawn together in one map, for the most part in the words of their own authours, and their maine principles are examined by the touch-stone of the Holy Scriptures / by Robert Baylie ....

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

true church, visible church, reformed churches, holy ghost, every one, whole church, new testament, lord iesus, true visible, iesus christ, vnto vs, english books, early english, gods word, holy things, books online, gods worship, vnto god, mr bern, true churches, lords supper, much lesse, must needs, holy writt, page images, may see, may bee, gods people, one church, true god, hee saith, every man, creation partnership, text creation, thousand yeares, false church, one man, mr bernard, set downe, every member, holy scriptures, true ministers, church may, christian magistrate, christ iesus, one thing, vide supra, let vs, man may, lords day

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are Covnterpoyson considerations touching the poynts in difference between the godly ministers and people of the Church of England, and the seduced brethren of the separation : argvments that the best assemblies of the present church of England are true visible churches : that the preachers in the best assemblies of Engl. are true ministers of Christ : Mr. Bernards book intituled The Separatists Schisme : Mr Crashawes questions propounded in his sermon preached at the crosse / examined and answered by Henry Ainsworth. A triall of our church-forsakers. Or A meditation tending to still the passions of unquiet Brownists, upon Heb.10.25 Wherein is iustified, against them, that the blessed Church of England 1 Is a true Church. 2 Hath a true ministry. 3 Hath a true worship. By Robert Abbot ..., and A guide unto Sion. Or certaine positions, concerning a true visible church Wherein the nature of a true church is so plainely described, as all men may easily decerne the same from false assemblies. Written by a learned and judicious divine..

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:

church, god, lord, christ, churches, cor, act, tcp, england, christian, elders, ministers, king, gospell, gods, english, bishops, apostles, apostle, prophets, pastors, mat, iesus, brownists, reader, preists, pope, paul, papists, officers, mr., magistrate, law, iewes, haue, government, gospel, esa, dutch, doctrine, writt, word, white, surplices, state, sol, smyth, smith, september, separatists

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 church, and A guide unto Sion. Or certaine positions, concerning a true visible church Wherein the nature of a true church is so plainely described, as all men may easily decerne the same from false assemblies. Written by a learned and judicious divine. 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. church - A iustification of separation from the Church of England Against Mr Richard Bernard his invective, intituled; The separatists schisme. By Iohn Robinson.
2. church - A common apologie of the Church of England against the vniust challenges of the ouer-iust sect, commonly called Brownists. Wherein the grounds and defences, of the separation are largely discussed: occasioned, by a late pamphlet published vnder the name, of an answer to a censorious epistle, which the reader shall finde in the margent. By I.H.
3. hee - Grand plvtoes remonstrance, or, The devill horn-mad at Roundheads and Brownists wherein His hellish Maiestie, by advice of his great counsell, Eacus, Minos & Radamanthus, with his beloved brethren, agdistis, beliall, incubus & succubus : is pleased to declare 1. how far he differs from round-head, rattle-head or prickeare : 2. his copulation with a Holy Sister : 3. his decre affection to Romish Catholikes and hate to Protestants : 4. his oration to the rebells.

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. church, god, christ - A iustification of separation from the Church of England Against Mr Richard Bernard his invective, intituled; The separatists schisme. By Iohn Robinson.
2. church, god, christ - Covnterpoyson considerations touching the poynts in difference between the godly ministers and people of the Church of England, and the seduced brethren of the separation : argvments that the best assemblies of the present church of England are true visible churches : that the preachers in the best assemblies of Engl. are true ministers of Christ : Mr. Bernards book intituled The Separatists Schisme : Mr Crashawes questions propounded in his sermon preached at the crosse / examined and answered by Henry Ainsworth.
3. vs, hee, church - Certaine demandes with their grounds, drawne out of holy writ, and propounded in foro conscientiæ by some religious gentl. vnto the reverend fathers, Richard archbishop of Canterbury, Richard bishop of London, William bishop of Lincolne, Garvase bishop of Worcester, William bishop of Exeter, & Thomas bishop of Peterbourough wherevnto the said gentl. require that it would please their lordships to make a true, plaine, direct, honest and resolute aunswere.
4. 12, 14, 17 - Certayne letters, translated into English, being first written in Latine. Two, by the reverend and learned Mr. Francis Iunius, divinitie reader at Leyden in Holland. The other, by the exiled English Church, abiding for the present at Amsterdam in Holland. Together with the confession of faith prefixed: where vpon the said letters were first written
5. text, brownists, english - A tale in a tub, or, A tub lecture as it was delivered by my-heele Mendsoale and inspired Brownist and a most upright translator : in a meeting house neere Bedlam the one and twentieth of December, last 1641 / vvritten by J. T.

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?":

church, people, men, things, man, word, power, churches, others, place, truth, scriptures, thing, ministers, part, p., faith, worship, way, members, persons, office, time, ▪, hath, book, world, body, officers, matter, words, reason, day, order, prayer, name, cause, none, doctrine, law, separation, scripture, communion, hand, nothing, doth, brethren, reader, self, person

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, were, was, do, had, did, say, being, make, made, let, called, come, see, take, according, set, vnto, been, know, answer, put, haue, bee, given, done, read, speak, hath, give, doe, teach, prove, pray, written, found, hold, having, cast, deny, said, taught, bring, taken, think, worship, am

Proper Nouns

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

church, god, christ, lord, mr, c., ●, hath, cor, england, churches, haue, 〉, act, gods, 〈, wee, ◊, doe, b., pag, yea, mr., christs, lords, mat, apostles, al, tim, ministers, m., holy, bishops, rom, vs, paul, elders, iesus, owne, hee, christians, c, minister, apostle, king, christian, israel, english, master, rome

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, they, their, his, them, he, you, i, we, our, your, him, her, my, us, themselves, himself, me, she, thy, its, theirs, ours, thee, yours, vp, †, vnto, one, mine, yourself, s, ourselves, ‡, ye, vvhat, givē, f, yee, y, gods, ●, wr, whosoever, whereof, wh, oft, o, myself, imself

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?"

other, true, such, many, same, good, first, more, holy, own, great, false, whole, visible, new, much, particular, wicked, former, most, last, christian, old, common, least, like, second, godly, best, private, few, very, present, better, haue, lawfull, ordinary, able, full, greater, contrary, necessary, right, third, doth, little, high, outward, due, free

not, so, then, also, now, onely, yet, thus, more, therefore, here, first, out, as, most, much, well, even, never, †, together, ever, there, very, vs, rather, only, still, in, up, before, away, all, alone, thereof, too, secondly, further, indeed, far, otherwise, down, lastly, forth, at, long, no, that, once, namely

Next steps

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