Distant Reader - subject-providenceAndGovernmentOfGod-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 31 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 2,231,465 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 71,982 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, will, one, may, men, us, man, yet, shall, things, world, great, good, made, first, now, much, christ, many, lord, time, must, law, therefore, make, without, gods, providence, nature, doth, hee, life, also, every, power, though, reason, thing, like, well, nothing, say, earth, might, two, day, way, see, people, come

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are A discourse concerning the divine providence by William Sherlock ..., The divine will considered in its eternal decrees, and holy execution of them. By Edward Polhill of Burwash in Sussex Esquire, and The history of the creation as it is written by Moses in the first and second chapters of Genesis : plainly opened and expounded in severall sermons preached in London : whereunto is added a short treatise of Gods actuall Providence in ruling, ordering, and governing the world and all things therein / by G.W..

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

let us, every one, must needs, good men, every man, every thing, holy ghost, god will, divine providence, jesus christ, one another, haue beene, tells us, many times, god doth, early english, english books, bad men, take away, wee may, god made, many things, make us, books online, nothing else, one day, will make, whole world, morall law, lords day, god may, take notice, give us, bring forth, may bee, man may, former ages, shall come, divine nature, set forth, good things, much less, eternal life, shall bee, wicked men, two things, iesus christ, one thing, visible world, page images

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are Gods unchangeableness: or Gods continued providence, in preserving, governing, ordering and disposing of all creatures, men, actions, counsels and things, as at the beginning of the world, so to the end of the world, for ever, according to the counsel of his own will. From whence is gatherd six necessary inferences very applicable to the changes, alterations and vicissitude of these our present times. Wherein is clearly demonstrated and proved, that Oliver Cromwell is by the providence of God, Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland, &c. to whom the people owe obedience, as to him whom God hath set over them. Unto which is added, the causes of discontent, repining and murmurings of men: also, some serious advertisements, and seasonable admonitions to the discontented, and reprehensions to all impetuous, arrogant murmurers. Together with answers to some cheif objections made against the Lord Protector and his present government, endeavouring (if possible) satisfaction to all men. / Therefore written and published for publicke good, by George Smith, Gent. The glasse of Gods providence towards his faithfvll ones held forth in a sermon preached to the two Houses of Parliament at Margarets Westminster, Aug. 13, 1644, being an extraordinary day of humiliation : wherein is discovered the great failings that the best are liable unto, upon which God is provoked sometimes to take vengeance : the whole is applyed specially to a more carefull observation of our late covenant, and particularly against the ungodly toleration pleaded for under pretence of liberty of conscience / by Herbert Palmer ..., and Two choice and useful treatises the one, Lux orientalis, or, An enquiry into the opinion of the Eastern sages concerning the praeexistence of souls, being a key to unlock the grand mysteries of providence in relation to mans sin and misery : the other, A discourse of truth / by the late Reverend Dr. Rust ... ; with annotations on them both..

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, church, world, tcp, gods, providence, law, earth, christ, spirit, scripture, king, father, nature, man, gospel, reason, divine, thing, soul, saviour, religion, psal, power, life, great, english, christian, apostle, text, saints, prophet, master, laws, land, kingdome, hee, grace, good, faith, empire, emperour, city, body, word, wisdom, understanding, truth, time

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 dolefull euen-song, or A true, particular and impartiall narration of that fearefull and sudden calamity, which befell the preacher Mr. Drury a Iesuite, and the greater part of his auditory, by the downefall of the floore at an assembly in the Black-Friers on Sunday the 26. of Octob. last, in the after noone Together with the rehearsall of Master Drurie his text, and the diuision thereof, as also an exact catalogue of the names of such as perished by this lamentable accident: and a briefe application thereupon. 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?":

men, man, things, time, world, thing, nothing, life, reason, way, day, power, nature, people, others, place, death, part, end, t, body, heart, sin, doth, earth, hee, truth, hand, word, times, words, hath, self, matter, light, p., grace, cause, manner, state, will, glory, faith, creatures, one, none, works, himselfe, name, knowledge

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, was, are, have, were, had, being, made, do, did, make, been, say, said, see, come, take, let, done, know, give, set, according, put, called, hath, came, having, bee, found, taken, given, has, think, brought, created, does, makes, consider, find, doth, am, gave, thought, fall, ''s, bring, concerning, cast

Proper Nouns

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

god, 〉, ◊, 〈, christ, lord, law, providence, gods, hath, world, heaven, thou, king, c., spirit, divine, hee, wee, church, doe, nature, gospel, man, grace, lib, will, earth, father, owne, ●, est, moses, haue, bee, de, holy, faith, israel, power, justice, men, angels, l., adam, wisdom, text, goodness, beene, master

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, their, them, we, him, i, our, us, you, her, my, your, me, themselves, its, himself, she, thy, thee, ours, one, theirs, mine, vp, ye, yours, itself, ''s, vnto, ourselves, hee, shou''d, whereof, herself, l, yee, myself, gods, non, hers, †, worke, whosoever, unself, thou, s, quo

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, such, great, good, many, same, more, first, own, true, much, whole, former, little, second, last, most, wicked, greater, saith, least, better, common, present, able, necessary, new, very, old, infinite, wise, free, particular, greatest, full, divine, holy, perfect, best, like, proper, natural, possible, strange, certain, next, dead, sufficient, visible, high

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

Next steps

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