Distant Reader - author-keachBenjamin-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.

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 37 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 2,048,850 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 55,374 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 96. 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, shall, us, may, covenant, lord, one, great, man, also, grace, men, church, day, baptism, yet, spirit, holy, see, made, say, now, things, must, sin, doth, jesus, gospel, word, therefore, faith, law, let, first, good, saith, come, love, children, soul, life, make, like, world, baptized, many, true, way

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are Tropologia, or, A key to open Scripture metaphors the first book containing sacred philology, or the tropes in Scripture, reduc''d under their proper heads, with a brief explication of each / partly translated and partly compil''d from the works of the learned by T.D. The second and third books containing a practical improvement (parallel-wise) of several of the most frequent and useful metaphors, allegories, and express similitudes of the Old and New Testament / by B.K., A golden mine opened, or, The glory of God''s rich grace displayed in the mediator to believers, and his direful wrath against impenitent sinners containing the substance of near forty sermons upon several subjects / by Benjamin Keach., and The display of glorious grace, or, The covenant of peace opened in fourteen sermons lately preached, in which the errors of the present day about reconciliation and justification are detected / by Benjamin Keach..

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

jesus christ, holy spirit, holy ghost, lord jesus, let us, eternal life, new testament, natural seed, god will, god made, every one, first day, christ jesus, spiritual seed, seventh day, take heed, english books, early english, second part, infant baptism, ye shall, shall never, old testament, day sabbath, bring forth, books online, wicked men, true godliness, one day, old covenant, ye saints, new covenant, learned men, great salvation, god doth, last day, free grace, may see, right hand, will give, must needs, will make, covenant made, every man, will never, one thing, shall come, mystery babylon, text creation, creation partnership

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are A summons to the grave, or, The necessity of a timely preparation for death demonstrated in a sermon preached at the funeral of that most eminent and faithful servant of Jesus Christ Mr. John Norcot who departed this life March 24, 1675/6 / by Benjamin Keach. Gold refin''d, or, Baptism in its primitive purity proving baptism in water an holy institution of Jesus Christ ... : wherein it is clearly evinced that baptism ... is immersion, or dipping the whole body, &c : also that believers are only the true subjects (and not infants) of that holy sacrament : likewise Mr. Smythies arguments for infant-baptism in his late book entitled, The non-communicant ... fully answered / by Benj. Keach ..., and A counter-antidote, to purge out the malignant effects of a late counterfeit, prepared by Mr. Gyles Shute ... being an answer to his vindication of his pretended Antidote to prevent the prevalency of Anabaptism, shewing that Mr. Hercules Collins''s reply to the said author remains unanswered : wherein the baptism of believers is evinced to be God''s ordinance, and the baptized congregations proved true churches of Jesus Christ : with a further detection of the error of pedo-baptism : to which is added, An answer to Mr. Shute''s reply to Mr. Collins''s half-sheet / by Benjamin Keach..

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, church, gospel, spirit, grace, law, man, covenant, children, earth, world, soul, saints, faith, people, holy, father, baptism, glory, son, king, infants, tcp, seed, power, love, life, word, scripture, salvation, ordinance, men, hymn, death, day, wrath, whore, water, thou, testament, sins, sin, rome, person, nature, heart, cor, circumcision

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 golden mine opened, or, The glory of God''s rich grace displayed in the mediator to believers, and his direful wrath against impenitent sinners containing the substance of near forty sermons upon several subjects / by Benjamin Keach. 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?":

t, things, day, man, way, sin, time, thing, men, people, hath, doth, none, death, heart, viz, part, others, nothing, glory, children, blood, soul, p., saints, work, word, name, place, life, words, respect, believers, souls, tho, person, faith, self, infants, power, end, love, psal, body, days, grace, sins, works, sinners, scripture

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, do, were, had, made, see, say, did, said, let, being, come, make, baptized, know, called, been, take, believe, give, given, put, sing, done, hath, ''s, has, go, according, am, makes, find, does, think, bring, prove, taken, says, receive, set, speak, doth, hear, came, live, keep

Proper Nouns

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

god, christ, 〉, ◊, 〈, lord, covenant, thou, c., spirit, church, jesus, baptism, grace, gospel, law, holy, man, father, men, world, word, faith, hath, earth, heaven, mr., abraham, life, son, children, soul, righteousness, john, i., love, sin, rom, ye, cor, seed, water, power, doctrine, salvation, joh, jews, sabbath, text, persons

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, they, i, you, them, we, their, him, our, us, my, your, thy, me, her, thee, himself, its, she, themselves, ''s, ye, mine, theirs, one, yours, ours, vvith, ''em, ourselves, l, ay, ts, thou, o, whosoever, whence, vvhat, us''d, s, dy''d, e''re, ●, †, nay, itself, herself, er''e

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, great, other, own, good, many, true, more, same, first, glorious, whole, saith, holy, poor, much, spiritual, little, last, old, new, sweet, full, precious, high, natural, eternal, wicked, dead, sure, doth, able, strong, perfect, right, second, faithful, evident, free, jewish, external, mighty, clear, gracious, very, proper, greater, most, false, better

not, so, also, then, now, therefore, up, only, as, out, more, well, never, ever, forth, here, thus, most, yet, very, that, away, is, down, again, too, first, in, even, hence, all, together, no, thereof, off, much, there, indeed, far, sometimes, before, still, once, else, always, on, thereby, just, moreover, n''t

Next steps

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