Distant Reader - author-burroughsJeremiah-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 26 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 2,534,812 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 97,492 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 99. 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, shall, christ, may, now, men, come, sin, yet, things, one, great, us, man, lord, gods, way, heart, much, world, must, good, people, thing, say, though, many, hearts, time, word, see, make, therefore, soul, know, let, doth, first, take, saith, spirit, work, oh, another, mercy, never, glory, grace, love

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are An exposition of the prophesie of Hosea begun in divers lectures vpon the first three chapters, at Michaels Cornhill, London / by Jer. Burroughes., An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eleventh, twelfth, & thirteenth chapters of the prophesy of Hosea being first delivered in several lectures at Michaels Cornhil, London / by Jeremiah Burroughs ; being the seventh book published by Thomas Goodwin ... [et al.], and Moses his choice with his eye fixed upon Heaven, discovering the happy condition of a self-denying heart, delivered in a treatise upon Hebrews II, 25, 26 / by Jeremiah Burroughs..

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

jesus christ, god will, let us, take heed, great deal, gods people, gods name, wicked men, holy ghost, god doth, will say, must needs, many times, great things, saith god, gracious heart, shall come, god may, every one, make use, shall find, worship god, will make, take away, one another, holy duties, god shall, sanctifie gods, gods worship, may see, may come, taken away, gods mercy, shall see, one thing, will give, will come, god gives, many men, yet god, text saith, though god, godly man, every thing, eternal life, may say, will never, mens hearts, every man, good things

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are Foure speeches delivered in Guild-Hall on Friday the sixth of October, 1643. At a common-hall, vpon occasion of desiring the assistance of our brethren of Scotland in this warre. / Viz. the [brace] 1. by Mr. Solicitor. 2. by Mr. Edmund Calamy. 3. by Mr. Jeremiah Burroughes. 4. by Mr. Obadiah Sedgewick. Published according to order. Gospel-worship: or, The right manner of sanctifying the name of God in generall. And particularly in these 3. great ordinances, [brace] viz. [brace] 1. Hearing the Word. 2. Receiving the Lords Supper 3. Prayer. By Jeremiah Burroughes, the Gospel-preacher to two of the greatest congregations in England, viz. Stepney and Criple-gate, London., and The eighth book of Mr Jeremiah Burroughs. Being a treatise of the evil of evils, or the exceeding sinfulness of sin. Wherein is shewed, 1 There is more evil in the least sin, than there is in the greatest affliction. 2 Sin is most opposite to God. 3 Sin is most opposite to mans good. 4 Sin is opposite to all good in general. 5 Sin is the poyson, or evil of all other evils. 6 Sin hath a kind of infiniteness in it. 7 Sin makes a man conformable to the Devil. All these several heads are branched out into very many particulars. / Published by Thomas Goodwyn, William Bridge, Sydrach Sympson, William Adderly, [double brace] William Greenhil, Philip Nye, John Yates..

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, scripture, christ, saints, church, spirit, gospel, gods, law, king, father, word, ghost, covenant, soul, son, religion, man, chap, world, psal, kingdom, grace, city, apostle, worship, thing, tcp, land, kingdome, christian, text, sin, prophet, people, ordinances, moses, ministers, israel, isa, heart, faith, egypt, earth, creature, children, brethren, state, sacrament

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 Two treatises of Mr. Jeremiah Burroughs. The first of earthly-mindedness, wherein is shewed, 1. What earthly-mindedness is. ... 6. Directions how to get our hearts free from earthly-mindedness. The second treatise. Of conversing in heaven, and walking with God. Wherein is shewed, 1. How the Saints have their conversation in heaven. ... 9. Rules for our walking with God. The fourth volumn [sic] published by Thomas Goodwyn. William Greenhil. Sydrach Simpson. Philip Nye. William Bridge. John Yates. William Adderley. 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, things, sin, man, way, heart, people, world, thing, hearts, time, soul, hath, glory, others, mercy, day, work, word, power, spirit, grace, saints, nothing, times, life, name, place, condition, peace, love, faith, doth, self, selves, sins, scripture, evil, spirits, gods, good, strength, truth, affliction, reason, thoughts, children, use, end, conscience

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, have, are, was, do, were, come, had, say, make, see, know, let, ''s, take, did, been, hath, think, made, comes, go, give, put, said, done, set, look, find, am, being, bring, live, makes, get, taken, came, hear, cast, keep, speak, according, given, doth, wil, called, suffer, consider, stand

Proper Nouns

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

god, christ, thou, lord, gods, hath, 〉, 〈, ◊, heaven, gospel, church, word, jesus, law, yea, spirit, obs, king, israel, father, al, hast, covenant, wee, kingdom, holy, doe, david, chap, son, text, grace, christian, moses, c., mans, angels, christians, ye, ghost, devil, faith, soul, egypt, hee, art, world, earth, psal

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, they, you, he, his, i, them, their, we, him, your, our, us, my, thy, me, thee, themselves, himself, her, she, its, one, theirs, mine, yours, ours, ye, ''s, thou, yee, wil, ourselves, vvhat, l, ib, whosoever, hers, s, non, nay, hee, ●, yourselves, ts, rhey, o, myself, itself, hel

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?"

great, such, many, good, other, much, more, own, little, true, saith, wicked, glorious, first, holy, same, poor, godly, very, full, able, gracious, outward, high, infinite, greater, greatest, spiritual, willing, better, eternal, mighty, doth, strong, second, sweet, right, excellent, least, ready, hard, evil, last, most, enough, new, former, particular, low, like

not, so, then, now, up, therefore, more, here, thus, yet, out, never, very, as, there, ever, much, first, only, in, most, away, indeed, off, even, certainly, again, together, down, rather, before, that, is, forth, secondly, further, well, on, too, onely, all, surely, thirdly, still, far, whatsoever, hence, long, especially, perhaps

Next steps

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