subject-forgiveness-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.

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Size

There are 8 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 404,520 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 50,565 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 92. 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, sin, soul, come, may, now, us, rest, one, shall, grace, law, yet, things, way, forgiveness, men, lord, great, sins, man, doth, heart, first, al, must, say, thing, burden, faith, world, many, know, made, wil, good, self, gospel, pardon, nature, make, condition, much, souls, therefore, mercy, love, saith

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest by Jeremiah Burroughes., A practical exposition on the 130th Psalm wherein the nature of the forgiveness of sin is declared, the truth and reality of it asserted, and the case of a soul distressed with the guilt of sin and relieved by a discovery of forgiveness with God is at large discoursed / by John Owen., and Sermons upon Psalm CXXX, ver. 4 but there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayst be feared / by William Bates..

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

jesus christ, holy ghost, let us, must needs, every one, great deal, wil say, eternal life, god will, will give, legal performances, god doth, saith christ, every thing, page chap, take heed, wil give, legal guilt, god requires, legal way, will say, christ doth, english books, early english, one thing, tells us, give rest, heavy laden, soul comes, may come, many times, perform duties, lord jesus, every day, performe duties, made partakers, two things, taken away, may see, must come, take away, books online, law requires, christ cals, make use, nothing else, lord christ, great burden, shal come, al things

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are The freeness of Gods grace in the forgiveness of sins by Jesus Christ, vindicated. Against the doctrine of Mr. Fergusson, in his sermon preached at the morning lecture, the fifth of August 1668. in a letter to a friend. By H. W. a lover of the truth that is according to Godliness. Encouragements to faith Drawn from severall engagements both of Gods Christs heart to receive pardon sinners. By Tho: Goodwin, B.D., and A practical exposition on the 130th Psalm wherein the nature of the forgiveness of sin is declared, the truth and reality of it asserted, and the case of a soul distressed with the guilt of sin and relieved by a discovery of forgiveness with God is at large discoursed / by John Owen..

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, grace, lord, law, christ, son, nature, gospel, father, tcp, spirit, sin, saints, pardon, love, divine, covenant, apostle, world, word, truth, soul, sins, sinner, righteousness, rest, psal, power, obedience, mercy, man, legal, john, jesus, isa, holy, holiness, heart, guilt, government, glory, ghost, forgiveness, faith, doctrine, creatures, corruption, burden, assurance

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 Sermons upon Psalm CXXX, ver. 4 but there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayst be feared / by William Bates. 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:

1. god - A practical exposition on the 130th Psalm wherein the nature of the forgiveness of sin is declared, the truth and reality of it asserted, and the case of a soul distressed with the guilt of sin and relieved by a discovery of forgiveness with God is at large discoursed / by John Owen.
2. christ - Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest by Jeremiah Burroughes.
3. god - The reconcileableness of God''s prescience of the sins of men with the wisdom and sincerity of his counsels, exhortations, and whatsoever other means he uses to prevent them / in a letter to the Honorable Robert Boyle Esq.

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:

1. god, unto, sin - A practical exposition on the 130th Psalm wherein the nature of the forgiveness of sin is declared, the truth and reality of it asserted, and the case of a soul distressed with the guilt of sin and relieved by a discovery of forgiveness with God is at large discoursed / by John Owen.
2. christ, god, come - Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest by Jeremiah Burroughes.
3. god, men, things - The reconcileableness of God''s prescience of the sins of men with the wisdom and sincerity of his counsels, exhortations, and whatsoever other means he uses to prevent them / in a letter to the Honorable Robert Boyle Esq.
4. guilt, sins, legal - A learned and accurate discource concerning the guilt of sin, pardon of that guilt, and prayer for that pardon written many years ago by the Reverend Mr. Thomas Gilbert ; now published from his own manuscript left by him some years before his death with a friend in London.
5. talks, pityeth, bibles - A learned and accurate discource concerning the guilt of sin, pardon of that guilt, and prayer for that pardon written many years ago by the Reverend Mr. Thomas Gilbert ; now published from his own manuscript left by him some years before his death with a friend in London.

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?":

sin, soul, things, rest, way, forgiveness, men, heart, man, sins, thing, world, self, souls, faith, condition, burden, sinners, life, nature, work, nothing, hath, grace, hearts, time, end, peace, duty, mercy, duties, doth, power, death, sense, day, word, glory, matter, thoughts, others, blood, trouble, one, truth, hand, part, words, spirit, people

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, do, come, was, were, had, say, know, made, make, been, give, wil, being, let, hath, take, see, did, comes, go, think, find, said, done, am, doth, according, look, makes, put, rest, consider, given, live, bring, cast, coming, shal, believe, gives, taken, stand, speak, set, receive, brought

Proper Nouns

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

god, christ, thou, law, lord, al, ◊, 〉, 〈, grace, gospel, hath, jesus, gods, father, pardon, covenant, heaven, spirit, love, soul, son, mercy, sin, holy, nature, chap, word, burden, guilt, faith, yea, righteousness, legal, world, rom, assurance, justice, holiness, john, goodness, hast, ye, obedience, man, angels, power, text, rest, tcp

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, you, i, them, him, their, we, our, us, your, my, me, himself, thy, its, themselves, thee, her, she, one, mine, ye, ours, theirs, yours, thou, whereof, wil, wr, whosoever, unconcern''d, rhey, ourselves, o, myself, l

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, own, other, many, good, more, first, much, same, true, poor, saith, gracious, whole, spiritual, little, eternal, able, holy, particular, natural, infinite, full, ready, least, most, legal, general, very, strong, present, new, glorious, former, wicked, greater, doth, outward, like, greatest, free, second, right, due, willing, common, guilty, old, necessary

not, so, now, then, only, more, therefore, up, yet, here, thus, out, never, also, first, as, very, most, ever, indeed, down, that, is, much, again, in, away, forth, before, even, secondly, off, there, hence, all, on, far, well, further, no, unto, certainly, together, rather, otherwise, too, therein, over, sometimes, long

Next steps

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