Distant Reader - subject-covenantTheology-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 19 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 1,134,406 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 63,022 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 94. 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, covenant, christ, law, faith, will, shall, us, gods, new, man, lord, may, one, grace, people, yet, made, seed, sin, also, therefore, first, now, heart, promise, life, works, rom, must, things, abraham, death, church, good, without, spirit, men, way, heb, doth, true, israel, viz, old, though, many, nature, world, love

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are Mysterium & medulla Bibliorum the mysterie and marrow of the Bible, viz. God's covenant with man in the first Adam before the fall, and in the last Adam, Iesvs Christ, after the fall, from the beginning to the end of the world : unfolded & illustrated in positive aphorisms & their explanation ... / by Francis Roberts., Vindiciæ foederis, or, A treatise of the covenant of God enterd with man-kinde in the several kindes and degrees of it, in which the agreement and respective differences of the covenant of works and the covenant of grace, of the old and new covenant are discust ... / [by] Thomas Blake ... ; whereunto is annexed a sermon preached at his funeral by Mr. Anthony Burgesse, and a funeral oration made at his death by Mr. Samuel Shaw., and The covenant of life opened, or, A treatise of the covenant of grace containing something of the nature of the covenant of works, the soveraignty of God, the extent of the death of Christ ... the covenant of grace ... of surety or redemption between the by Samuel Rutherford ....

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

new covenant, jesus christ, iesus christ, new testament, gods covenant, old testament, old covenant, moral law, holy ghost, mount sinai, must needs, god will, every one, gods people, betwixt god, good works, roman non, let us, everlasting covenant, eternal life, lord god, will make, god made, first covenant, will give, new heart, visible church, christs death, towards god, right hand, true faith, every man, set forth, morall law, one another, free grace, ye shall, first adam, christ jesus, perfect obedience, lords supper, lord jesus, gods part, abrahams seed, serpents head, meer grace, god promised, take away, book iii, god doth

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are A sermon preach''d upon breach of covenant by that reverend and worthy servant of Jesus Christ, Mr. John Guthrie ... 1663. Vindiciæ foederis, or, A treatise of the covenant of God enterd with man-kinde in the several kindes and degrees of it, in which the agreement and respective differences of the covenant of works and the covenant of grace, of the old and new covenant are discust ... / [by] Thomas Blake ... ; whereunto is annexed a sermon preached at his funeral by Mr. Anthony Burgesse, and a funeral oration made at his death by Mr. Samuel Shaw., and A modest vindication of the doctrine of conditions in the Covenant of Grace, and the defenders thereof, from the aspersions of arminianism & popery, which Mr. W. E. cast on them. By the late faithful and godly minister Mr. John Graile, minister of the gospel at Tidworth in the county of Wilts. Published with a preface concerning the nature of the Covenant of Grace, wherein is a discovery of the judgment of Dr. Twisse in the point of justification, clearing him from antinomianism therein. By Constant Jessop, minister of the Gospel at Wimborn minister in the county of Dorset. Whereunto is added, a sermon, preached at the funeral of the said Mr. John Grail. By Humphrey Chambers, D.D. and pastor of the church at Pewsie..

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, covenant, law, christ, grace, gospel, new, testament, spirit, rom, father, works, son, scripture, faith, church, apostle, text, saviour, man, word, roman, psal, old, moses, kingdome, justification, gospell, gal, cor, acts, world, salvation, promise, people, obedience, oath, nature, mat, king, jews, jewes, gods, gentiles, elect, condition, churches, christians, chap

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 land of promise and the covenant thereof explained by certaine questions and propositions propounded to those that teach a deliverance of the Iewes out of all countries to the land of Canaan : and from their long continued blindnesse to the faith of Christ : and a glorious estate in the land for a thousand years : and also to those that teach a personall comming of Christ and a resurrection of the just to live and raigne with Christ a thousand yeares before the resurrection of the uniust and end of the world : of which there bee severall sorts, who are commonlyl called millinaries : by which doctrine of each of these the true intent of sundry places of Scripture of great importance to the church and people of Godm [sic] is uch [sic] obscured which being rightly understood and taught acording to their true and playne meaning would be greatly to the edification and comfort of Gods chosen, especially now in these last dayes wherein the accomplishment of all things which God hath spoken, draweth so nigh. 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, p., faith, people, heart, things, sin, life, way, seed, men, works, death, grace, covenant, world, viz, end, sins, time, children, ▪, word, part, hath, glory, thing, nature, obedience, love, words, righteousness, promises, blood, promise, self, day, doth, gods, law, salvation, condition, scripture, power, place, nothing, work, name, flesh, sense

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, were, had, made, being, do, did, said, make, come, say, called, promised, been, according, see, given, know, give, take, hath, let, believe, having, put, done, justified, taken, set, keep, required, ''s, saved, am, brought, bring, doth, makes, written, receive, revealed, live, think, gave, walk, blessed

Proper Nouns

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

god, covenant, christ, 〉, ◊, 〈, law, lord, c., new, gods, faith, abraham, rom, israel, hath, church, spirit, gospel, gen., cor, christs, grace, thou, testament, heb, jesus, adam, moses, promise, david, heaven, old, psal, father, iesus, holy, seed, ●, mat, q, yea, sinai, y, son, ye, eph, u, gal, paul

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?"

his, it, he, they, them, their, i, him, we, our, us, you, my, himself, me, your, thy, themselves, its, her, thee, she, ours, theirs, ye, mine, u, s, itself, one, yours, f, o, y, l, ourselves, p, whereof, k, g, ''s, non, herself, whosoever, gods, eva, z, thou, e, yee

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, true, own, many, good, same, great, first, more, whole, new, perfect, much, holy, former, free, old, dead, last, full, spiritual, second, saith, eternal, better, non, necessary, very, visible, righteous, right, excellent, everlasting, able, only, particular, least, -, proper, little, present, sure, peculiar, clear, common, greater, outward, most, high

not, so, then, also, therefore, now, more, only, thus, here, as, up, most, yet, well, even, ever, out, never, first, very, hence, away, thereof, is, onely, that, forth, much, all, there, still, especially, indeed, again, together, in, fully, far, down, off, therein, partly, sometimes, before, no, rather, alone, already, at

Next steps

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