Distant Reader - subject-faith-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 58 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 2,992,145 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 51,588 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:

god, faith, will, christ, may, us, man, shall, one, things, yet, must, men, law, life, say, good, now, therefore, righteousness, first, lord, much, thing, world, great, love, true, made, make, grace, doth, without, reason, though, nature, justification, many, spirit, know, way, also, see, truth, word, self, come, works, church, sin

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are The life of justification opened, or, A treatise grounded upon Gal. 2, II wherein the orthodox doctrine of justification by faith, & imputation of Christ''s righteousness is clearly expounded, solidly confirmed, & learnedly vindicated from the various objections of its adversaries, whereunto are subjoined some arguments against universal redemption / by that faithful and learned servant of Jesus Christ Mr. John Broun ..., The life of faith in three parts, the first is a sermon on Heb. 11, 1, formerly preached before His Majesty, and published by his command, with another added for the fuller application : the second is instructions for confirming believers in the Christian faith : the third is directions how to live by faith, or how to exercise it upon all occasions / by Richard Baxter., and The breast-plate of faith and love. A treatise, wherein the ground and exercise of faith and love, as they are set upon Christ their object, and as they are expressed in good workes, is explained. / Delivered in 18 sermons upon three severall texts, by the late faithfull and worthy minister of Iesus Christ, Iohn Preston, Dr. in Divinity, chaplaine in ordinary to his Maiesty, Master of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher of Lincolnes Inne..

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

jesus christ, holy ghost, let us, every one, god will, must needs, great salvation, english books, early english, every man, christian faith, man may, justifying faith, true faith, oral tradition, iesus christ, holy spirit, christian religion, books online, good works, new covenant, eternal life, lord jesus, one thing, will make, tells us, one another, nothing else, will say, many things, faith without, may see, will never, two things, make us, perfect obedience, good workes, page images, ye shall, creation partnership, text creation, new testament, christ jesus, take away, much less, saving faith, god doth, free grace, give us, tels us

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are The fifth book of the authour, in three parts the first, Of the becoming man or incarnation of Jesus Christ, the Sonne of God, that is, concerning the Virgin Mary ... and how the Eternal word is become man : the second part is of Christ''s suffering, dying, death, and resurrection ... : the third part is of The tree of Christian faith ... / written through the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, by Jacob Behme, the Teutonick philosopher ... The life of justification opened, or, A treatise grounded upon Gal. 2, II wherein the orthodox doctrine of justification by faith, & imputation of Christ''s righteousness is clearly expounded, solidly confirmed, & learnedly vindicated from the various objections of its adversaries, whereunto are subjoined some arguments against universal redemption / by that faithful and learned servant of Jesus Christ Mr. John Broun ..., and A Most excellent and profitable dialogue, of the powerfull iustifying faith shewing what it is to beleeue in God, and what wonders are wrought by the power of beliefe, be it worldly or diuine, and what things do hinder beliefe : also how a man may hate himselfe, and by faith forsake himselfe, and kill the deeds of the flesh : the effect of the talke is this, that he which beleeueth in God, and in his son Iesus Christ, is able by the power of that beliefe, to mortifie his flesh, with the lusts thereof, through the Holy Ghost, and to serue God in spirit and truth / translated out of Latine by Arthur Golding..

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, faith, lord, christ, church, tcp, spirit, scripture, world, christian, religion, man, life, law, nature, gospel, grace, father, doctrine, truth, reason, gods, word, soul, holy, divine, love, justification, covenant, cor, apostle, son, thing, scriptures, saviour, rule, rom, repentance, promise, haue, authority, act, tradition, soule, sense, salvation, saints, righteousness, psal, power

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 A discourse concerning the nature and grounds of the certainty of faith in answer to J.S., his Catholick letters / by Edw. Stillingfleet ... 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?":

faith, man, things, men, thing, life, way, reason, world, self, nothing, works, sin, grace, time, truth, heart, nature, part, death, hath, scripture, love, sense, others, word, end, doth, words, day, work, power, soul, justification, obedience, t, people, place, selves, condition, cause, glory, act, matter, p., one, knowledge, body, sins, hearts

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, say, made, make, being, know, did, see, come, said, been, take, believe, think, let, hath, give, done, according, called, put, am, justified, given, live, set, speak, doth, go, taken, consider, love, understand, find, haue, deny, bring, found, concerning, having, look, prove, imputed

Proper Nouns

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

god, christ, faith, lord, 〉, law, ◊, 〈, righteousness, hath, thou, church, spirit, gods, c., justification, gospel, heaven, covenant, world, christian, man, nature, ●, rom, holy, grace, word, ye, jesus, wee, mr., doctrine, father, paul, doe, life, divine, love, christs, christians, haue, cor, men, adam, salvation, act, reason, truth, abraham

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

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?"

such, other, good, true, great, same, own, many, more, first, much, necessary, whole, little, new, particular, perfect, able, present, least, better, full, greater, false, second, eternal, certain, saith, free, last, most, holy, common, right, former, best, dead, divine, sure, sufficient, proper, very, clear, several, greatest, willing, general, impossible, contrary, natural

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

Next steps

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