Distant Reader - subject-salvation-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 59 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 2,473,225 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 41,919 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, christ, will, man, may, shall, one, must, faith, us, men, yet, things, first, good, life, lord, therefore, sin, grace, now, gods, spirit, come, great, church, say, saith, many, world, heart, make, made, doth, haue, law, word, much, also, death, time, vs, without, vnto, thing, holy, true, love, doe, sinne

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are A golden chaine: or The description of theologie containing the order of the causes of saluation and damnation, according to Gods word. A view whereof is to be seene in the table annexed. Hereunto is adioyned the order which M. Theodore Beza vsed in comforting afflicted consciences., Gospel remission, or, A treatise shewing that true blessedness consists in pardon of sin wherein is discovered the many Gospel mysteries therein contained, the glorious effects proceeding from it, the great mistakes made about it, the true signs and symptomes of it, the way and means to obtain it / by Jeremiah Burroughs ; being several sermons preached immediately after those of The evil of sin by the same author, and now published by Philip Nye ... [et al.], and The measures of Christian obedience, or, A discourse shewing what obedience is indispensably necessary to a regenerate state, and what defects are consistent with it, for the promotion of piety, and the peace of troubled consciences by John Kettlewell ....

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

holy ghost, jesus christ, great salvation, god will, iesus christ, roman non, vnto vs, early english, english books, man may, must needs, holy spirit, every one, let vs, let us, paul saith, gods word, eternall life, vnto god, christ iesus, books online, god doth, will make, euery man, two things, every man, ye shall, lord jesus, shall come, euery one, right hand, take heed, make us, will never, wee must, page images, last day, true faith, may see, set downe, one another, sauiour christ, god himselfe, creation partnership, text creation, christ jesus, shall never, life euerlasting, one thing, may bee

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are The sacred method of saving humane souls by Jesus Christ by Henry Hallywell ... The Jerusalem-sinner saved, or, Good news for the vilest of men being a help for despairing souls, shewing that Jesus Christ would have mercy in the first place offered to the biggest sinners / by John Bunyan., and The condemned mans reprieve, or Gods love-tokens, flowing in upon the heart of William Blake, a pentient sinner, giving him assurance of the pardon of his sins, and the enjoyment of eternall happinesse, through the merits of Christ his saviour. Recommended by him (being a condemned prisoner for man-slaughter within the statute) unto his sister, and bequeathed unto her as a legacy..

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, christ, lord, tcp, spirit, law, gospel, world, church, saviour, man, faith, christian, word, salvation, father, cor, rom, gods, covenant, scripture, son, psal, life, grace, apostle, soul, religion, divine, thou, saints, thy, roman, revelation, paul, obedience, nature, mat, love, light, joh, iesus, text, prophet, non, matth, jesus, holy, ghost, gal

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 high-vvay to heauen: or, the doctrine of election, effectuall vocation, iustification, santification and eternall life Grounded vpon the holy Scriptures, confirmed by the testimonies of sundry iudicious and great diuines, ancient and moderne. Compiled by Thomas Tuke. 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, men, things, faith, life, sin, heart, time, death, grace, thing, world, way, word, day, sins, nothing, power, salvation, reason, sinne, nature, others, sinnes, love, conscience, part, self, soul, words, hath, truth, doth, place, spirit, people, obedience, hearts, work, mercy, works, name, will, flesh, soule, none, knowledge, cause, hand, end

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, were, do, had, come, say, make, made, did, being, see, know, let, take, said, done, been, according, called, hath, am, set, put, give, think, haue, believe, doe, vnto, has, doth, given, bee, consider, go, taken, saved, live, find, pray, came, bring, concerning, makes, speak, cast

Proper Nouns

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

god, christ, thou, lord, 〉, church, gods, ◊, 〈, hath, spirit, law, c., rom, ye, doe, holy, cor, paul, gospel, wee, father, heaven, ●, haue, christs, jesus, faith, grace, yea, mat, ghost, world, covenant, christian, iesus, owne, salvation, word, mans, psal, act, son, i., adam, saviour, text, tcp, hee, sinne

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, we, them, our, him, their, you, us, my, your, thy, me, thee, her, himself, themselves, its, she, one, ours, ye, mine, vp, theirs, vnto, yours, yee, thou, whereof, ourselves, hers, hee, elias, itself, whosoever, u, thēselues, eva, wil, o, ●, thyself, s, sho, pg, non

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, good, other, many, great, own, true, first, same, more, much, second, whole, saith, holy, last, very, little, wicked, particular, new, necessary, able, dead, least, free, full, most, former, common, perfect, better, righteous, present, false, right, greater, non, sure, third, outward, wise, natural, sufficient, old, doth, best, -, eternal, like

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

Next steps

There is much more to a study carrel than the things outlined above. Use this page's menubar to navigate and explore in more detail. There you will find additional features & functions including: ngrams, parts-of-speech, grammars, named entities, topic modeling, a simple search interface, etc.

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