Distant Reader - author-goodwinJohn-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 2021-05-23 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.

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Size

There are 34 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 1,084,450 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 31,895 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 90. 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, men, man, yet, may, shall, one, non, christ, doth, faith, us, good, much, way, now, like, doe, sinne, things, power, grace, gods, say, make, world, many, either, truth, first, roman, therefore, without, made, though, well, also, cause, thing, saith, reason, whether, every, great, himselfe, according, decree, word, answer

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are The riches of Gods love unto the vessells of mercy, consistent with his absolute hatred or reprobation of the vessells of wrath, or, An answer unto a book entituled, Gods love unto mankind ... in two bookes, the first being a refutation of the said booke, as it was presented in manuscript by Mr Hord unto Sir Nath. Rich., the second being an examination of certain passages inserted into M. Hords discourse (formerly answered) by an author that conceales his name, but was supposed to be Mr Mason ... / by ... William Twisse ... ; whereunto are annexed two tractates of the same author in answer unto D.H. ... ; together with a vindication of D. Twisse from the exceptions of Mr John Goodwin in his Redemption redeemed, by Henry Jeanes ..., The Christians engagement for the Gospell opened in foure sermons on part of the third verse of the Epistle of Jude : also, Christ''s approbation of Maries choyce, or, A sermon preached at the funerall of Mris Abbott in Saint Stephens Colman-street, London / by Iohn Goodwin ..., and Innocency and truth triumphing together; or, The latter part of an answer to the back-part of a discourse, lately published by William Prynne Esquire, called, A full reply, &c. Beginning at the foot of p. 17. of the said discourse, with this title or superscription, Certain brief animadversions on Mr. John Goodwins Theomachia. Wherein the argumentative part of the said animadversions is examined; together with some few animadversions upon some former passages in the said reply. Licensed and printed according to order..

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

roman non, jesus christ, god doth, every one, must needs, holy ghost, like manner, let us, gods will, god will, every man, early english, english books, books online, gods decree, much lesse, originall sinne, john goodwin, absolute reprobation, like sort, amongst us, shall come, gods word, free will, civil magistrate, good pleasure, lord christ, page images, greatest part, meer pleasure, man may, many things, take away, god himselfe, many others, one thing, non est, good workes, finall perseverance, gods decrees, good works, textual changes, eternall death, defects per, right hand, early works, neither doth, man will, god may, apostle paul

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are Sion-Colledg visited. Or, Some briefe animadversions upon a pamphlet lately published, under the title of, A testimonie to the truth of Jesus Christ, and to our Solemne League and Covenant, &c. Subscribed (as is pretended) by the ministers of Christ within the province of London. Calculated more especially for the vindication of certaine passages cited out of the writings of J.G. in the said pamphlet, with the black brand of infamous and pernicious errors, and which the said ministers pretend (amongst other errors so called) more particularly to abhominate. Wherein the indirect and most un-Christian dealings of the said ministers, in charging & calling manifest and cleere truths, yea such as are consonant to their own principles, by the name of infamous and pernicious errours, are detected and laid open to the kingdome, and the whole world. / By the said John Goodwin, a servant of God and men, in the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Three hymnes, or certain excellent new Psalmes, composed by those three reverend, and learned divines. Mr. John Goodwin, Mr. Dasoser [sic] Powel, and Mr. Appletree. Sung in their respective congregations, at Stephens Coleman-streete, London, and at Mary Abchurch, on Thursday the 8. of October, 1650. being a day set a part for the total routing of the Scots army in Musleborough-field, by his Excellency the L. Gen. Cromwel. Licensed according to order, and published for the general use and benefit of all the saints of Jesus Christ, in England, Scotland, and Ireland., and VVater-dipping no firm footing for Church-communion: or Considerations proving it not simply lawful, but necessary also (in point of duty) for persons baptized after the new mode of dipping, to continue communion with those churches, or imbodied societies of saints, of which they were members before the said dipping; and that to betray their trust or faith given unto Jesus Christ to serve him in the relation and capacity, whether of officers, or other members, in these churches (respectively) by deserting these churches, is a sin highly provoking in the sight of God. Together with a post-script touching the pretended Answer to the Forty queries about Church-communion, infant and after baptism. By John Goodwin, a servant of God in the Gospel of his dear Son..

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, roman, christ, church, gospel, lord, law, apostle, saints, christian, scriptures, mr., faith, doctrine, parliament, nation, man, john, churches, book, truth, spirit, rom, prophet, presbyterian, paul, non, ministers, magistrate, king, grace, government, covenant, world, way, state, scripture, saviour, salvation, repentance, reformation, reader, prynne, power, ministry, letter, independents, holy, gospell, goodwin

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 riches of Gods love unto the vessells of mercy, consistent with his absolute hatred or reprobation of the vessells of wrath, or, An answer unto a book entituled, Gods love unto mankind ... in two bookes, the first being a refutation of the said booke, as it was presented in manuscript by Mr Hord unto Sir Nath. Rich., the second being an examination of certain passages inserted into M. Hords discourse (formerly answered) by an author that conceales his name, but was supposed to be Mr Mason ... / by ... William Twisse ... ; whereunto are annexed two tractates of the same author in answer unto D.H. ... ; together with a vindication of D. Twisse from the exceptions of Mr John Goodwin in his Redemption redeemed, by Henry Jeanes ... 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, way, things, power, faith, grace, truth, will, thing, world, sinne, reason, cause, others, time, part, decree, case, words, word, nothing, hand, manner, hath, nature, doth, place, salvation, end, repentance, author, opinion, act, people, mercy, sin, death, persons, life, scripture, p., doctrine, condition, heart, damnation, spirit, one, himselfe, reprobation

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, had, being, say, make, did, made, said, been, according, come, do, believe, know, give, hath, take, let, doth, given, concerning, doe, found, called, done, see, touching, am, passe, deny, put, answer, set, taken, prove, makes, find, speak, saved, think, consider, conceive, saith, stand, bring

Proper Nouns

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

god, christ, hath, gods, c., 〉, ◊, 〈, doe, lord, church, yea, mr., law, gospel, est, authour, thou, austin, de, doctrine, heaven, apostle, faith, jesus, l., john, paul, sinne, world, mans, spirit, christian, rom, goodwin, parliament, adam, holy, baptism, i., dei, king, pag, himselfe, christians, esse, ye, saviour, christs, sect

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, i, they, them, their, him, you, we, our, my, us, your, me, themselves, himself, her, thy, its, thee, she, theirs, mine, ours, yours, one, ye, whereof, hers, nay, tollit, s, ps, ia, hee, ●, ô, yourselves, yea, whosoever, wh, trye, togeither, tingle, thieir, stād, se, rotae, 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?"

such, other, good, non, -, many, same, roman, more, great, own, much, true, first, least, like, saith, absolute, free, little, former, able, better, whole, present, particular, second, very, high, greater, best, last, doth, greatest, holy, necessary, full, himselfe, common, most, willing, few, wicked, sufficient, christian, proper, false, contrary, certain, latter

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

Next steps

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