Distant Reader - subject-presbyterianChurch-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 19 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 997,755 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 52,513 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 88. 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:

christ, god, will, one, shall, us, church, may, yet, men, lord, now, spirit, man, things, first, world, must, many, love, say, saints, great, much, make, sin, way, without, death, time, word, soul, though, made, power, good, see, churches, life, faith, every, like, heaven, come, day, true, let, glory, therefore, grace

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are The fountain of life opened, or, A display of Christ in his essential and mediatorial glory wherein the impetration of our redemption by Jesus Christ is orderly unfolded as it was begun, carryed on, and finished by his covenant-transaction, mysterious incarnation, solemn call and dedication ... / by John Flavell ..., Ohel or Beth-shemesh A tabernacle for the sun, or, Irenicum evangelicum : an idea of church-discipline in the theorick and practick parts, which come forth first into the world as bridegroom and bride ... by whom you will have the totum essentiale of a true Gospel-church state according to Christs rules and order left us when he ascended ... : published for the benefit of all gathered churches, more especially in England, Ireland and Scotland / by John Rogers ..., and Planelogia, a succinct and seasonable discourse of the occasions, causes, nature, rise, growth, and remedies of mental errors written some months since, and now made publick, both for the healing and prevention of the sins and calamities which have broken in this way upon the churches of Christ, to the great scandal of religion, hardening of the wicked, and obstruction of Reformation : whereunto are subjoined by way of appendix : I. Vindiciarum vindex, being a succinct, but full answer to Mr. Philip Cary''s weak and impertinent exceptions to my Vindiciæ legis & fæderis, II. a synopsis of ancient and modern Antinomian errors, with scriptural arguments and reasons against them, III. a sermon composed for the preventing and healing of rents and divisions in the churches of Christ / by John Flavell ... ; with an epistle by several divines, relating to Dr. Crisp''s works..

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

jesus christ, let us, one another, every one, lord jesus, holy ghost, god will, iesus christ, right hand, tells us, english books, early english, must needs, holy spirit, shall see, christ jesus, will never, will make, books online, one body, new testament, every day, new covenant, true church, latter dayes, every man, take heed, shall never, humane nature, eternal life, lord will, every member, page images, creation partnership, text creation, will give, shall come, bring forth, ye shall, make us, may say, shall find, ever since, may see, primitive times, ere long, fully perswaded, two things, betwixt god, will appear

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are The fountain of life opened, or, A display of Christ in his essential and mediatorial glory wherein the impetration of our redemption by Jesus Christ is orderly unfolded as it was begun, carryed on, and finished by his covenant-transaction, mysterious incarnation, solemn call and dedication ... / by John Flavell ... The smoke in the temple wherein is a designe for peace and reconciliation of believers of the several opinions of these times about ordinances, to a forbearance of each other in love, and meeknesse, and humility : with the opening of each opinion, and upon what Scriptures each is grounded ... : with one argument for liberty of conscience from the national covenant ... : with a full answer to Master Ley ... against my late New-Quere ... / by John Saltmarsh., and A true representation of Presbyterian government wherein a short and clear account is given of the principles of them that owne it, the common objections against it answered, and some other things opened that concern it in the present circumstances / by a friend to that interest..

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, spirit, lord, god, tcp, world, christ, law, gospel, soul, saints, men, man, love, government, doctrine, covenant, apostle, truth, son, scripture, saviour, people, ministers, matth, life, grace, glory, father, faith, divine, cor, body, word, sun, sins, scriptures, rom, psal, power, new, mind, light, kirk, king, joh, isa, heaven, heart, head

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 true representation of Presbyterian government wherein a short and clear account is given of the principles of them that owne it, the common objections against it answered, and some other things opened that concern it in the present circumstances / by a friend to that interest. 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?":

p., things, men, man, way, time, death, saints, day, sin, others, people, c., power, l., world, heart, glory, body, love, soul, work, thing, life, self, t, light, faith, word, truth, end, nature, nothing, blood, reason, hath, part, order, none, place, state, sins, grace, words, scripture, hearts, souls, hand, churches, church

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, was, have, were, had, do, did, say, make, made, see, come, being, let, said, been, give, know, called, take, set, according, ''s, done, put, given, am, hath, makes, live, came, found, go, consider, think, taken, having, find, bring, keep, look, receive, lay, left, fall, speak, laid, heard

Proper Nouns

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

god, christ, 〉, ◊, 〈, church, lord, c., spirit, heaven, father, hath, covenant, thou, christs, law, gospel, world, cor, jesus, churches, ●, ye, men, son, word, l., mr., faith, rom, grace, man, holy, yea, i., life, divine, soul, love, e., psal, head, sim, joh, matth, christians, gods, new, saviour, christian

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, i, their, them, you, him, we, our, us, my, your, me, himself, its, thy, her, themselves, thee, she, ours, ye, mine, one, yours, theirs, yee, ''em, us''d, ourselves, nay, hers, elias, ''s, whosoever, whereof, wh, wa, u, ts, tollit, s, re, prov''d, l, inspir''d, hic, evangelicvm

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, many, other, own, great, more, true, good, same, first, much, full, last, whole, holy, spiritual, little, very, new, glorious, best, present, most, necessary, natural, poor, excellent, saith, divine, least, outward, sweet, false, able, pure, perfect, dead, eternal, free, like, better, common, visible, second, proper, greater, former, precious, particular, high

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

Next steps

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