Distant Reader - subject-christianLife-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 332 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 17,170,837 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 51,719 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, will, may, us, shall, christ, man, good, one, must, things, yet, men, lord, life, world, much, therefore, now, great, many, first, love, make, heart, spirit, gods, let, grace, time, faith, see, doth, come, hee, without, though, like, sin, say, thing, holy, word, way, made, know, day, wee, also, every

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are A learned commentary or exposition: upon the first chapter of the second Epistle of S. Paul to the Corinthians Being the substance of many sermons formerly preached at Grayes-Inne, London, by that reverend and judicious divine, Richard Sibbs, D.D. Sometimes Master of Catherine-Hall in Cambridge, and preacher to that honourable society. Published for the publick good and benefit of the Church of Christ. By Tho. Manton, B.D. and preacher of the Gospel at Stoake-Newington, near London., The pattern of catechistical doctrine at large, or, A learned and pious exposition of the Ten Commandments with an introduction, containing the use and benefit of catechizing, the generall grounds of religion, and the truth of Christian religion in particular, proved against atheists, pagans, Jews, and Turks / by the Right Reverend Father in God Lancelot Andrews ... ; perfected according to the authors own copy and thereby purged from many thousands of errours, defects, and corruptions, which were in a rude imperfect draught formerly published, as appears in the preface to the reader., and Seuen treatises containing such direction as is gathered out of the Holie Scriptures, leading and guiding to true happines, both in this life, and in the life to come: and may be called the practise of Christianitie. Profitable for all such as heartily desire the same: in the which, more particularly true Christians may learne how to leade a godly and comfortable life euery day. Penned by Richard Rogers, preacher of the word of God at Wethersfield in Essex..

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

let us, jesus christ, holy ghost, god will, roman non, every one, iesus christ, one another, must needs, take heed, english books, early english, will make, man may, every man, wee must, let vs, holy spirit, make us, books online, good things, may see, god doth, lord jesus, wee may, may bee, every thing, many times, gods people, will never, vnto vs, wicked men, every day, shall see, one thing, take away, right hand, tells us, gods word, page images, shall come, good conscience, may say, will give, good works, gods children, text creation, creation partnership, wise man, many things

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are The everlasting joys of heaven: or, The blessed life of a Christian, in grace here; and in glory here-after. Set forth for the comfort and encouragement of all those that desire to fear the Lord; / by John Hart, a servant of Jesus Christ. Recommended to the reader, by Obadiah Sedgewick, and Iohn Downam, ministers of the Gospel. A glimpse of divine light, breaking through a cloud of errours. Being an explanation of certain passages exhibited by anonymus, to the commissioners of White-Hall, appointed for approbation of publick preachers, against Joseph Harrison Gospel-preacher at Lund-Chappel in Lancashire, for the supposed delivering of which, he was denied approbation. / Published by the said Joseph Harrison, and proposed to the consideration of all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity., and A key to open heaven-gate. Or, a ready path to lead to heaven Written and printed for the benefit of all true Christians, to read hear and make good use of, before it be too late. And therefore I advise every man, and every woman to observe and give good heed to what is spoken in this little book, and they shall be sure to finde sweetnesse, and happinesse in this world, and eternall joys in the world to come, through the might, merits, and mercies of Jesus Christ; who saith, Aske and you shall have, seeke, and yee shall finde, knock and it shall be opened unto you. Written by Laurence Price..

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, tcp, spirit, church, man, father, christian, gods, law, psal, cor, world, life, religion, apostle, gospel, soul, word, saints, king, good, saviour, faith, scripture, holy, grace, ghost, son, chap, thy, thing, iesus, thou, angels, love, mat, children, earth, devil, rom, paul, nature, heaven, heart, haue, gospell, conscience, men

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 The plaine mans path-way to heauen Wherein euery man may cleerely see, whether he shall be saued or damned. Set forth dialogue-wise, for the better vnderstanding of the simple: By Arthur Dent, preacher of the vvord of God at South-Shoobery in Essex. Corrected and amended: vvith a table of all the principall matters; and three prayers necessarie to be vsed in priuate families thereunto added. 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:

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:

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, things, men, life, heart, world, time, thing, way, day, sin, grace, faith, others, death, nothing, love, self, glory, hath, soul, reason, selves, people, nature, word, body, hearts, end, power, part, hee, truth, doth, place, words, sins, spirit, work, mercy, name, children, peace, thy, hand, light, t, flesh, religion, soule

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, make, let, being, come, see, say, made, know, did, take, been, give, hath, said, set, done, think, am, put, according, go, live, called, bee, makes, consider, love, given, bring, pray, find, haue, taken, doth, keep, suffer, having, cast, doe, look, ''s, believe

Proper Nouns

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

god, christ, 〉, ◊, 〈, thou, lord, hath, gods, spirit, heaven, wee, c., church, doe, father, cor, christian, world, holy, yea, ●, law, hee, word, christians, rom, haue, psal, jesus, paul, gospel, ye, bee, hast, mat, owne, chap, christs, grace, king, faith, saviour, man, son, david, angels, mans, hell, thee

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, his, he, they, our, we, i, them, their, him, you, us, my, your, thy, me, thee, himself, her, themselves, its, she, one, ours, mine, theirs, vp, ye, yours, vnto, ''s, ''em, ourselves, itself, thou, yee, whereof, vvhat, gods, l, hee, em, s, ay, elias, herself, non, †, us''d, hers

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?"

good, such, other, great, many, own, more, true, much, same, first, holy, little, better, whole, best, wicked, able, saith, full, greater, most, last, least, present, wise, new, second, greatest, common, godly, poor, old, necessary, very, spiritual, sure, dead, right, outward, particular, christian, glorious, former, free, non, rich, like, high, strong

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

Next steps

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