Distant Reader - subject-graceTheology-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 33 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 1,692,919 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 51,300 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 95. 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, grace, will, shall, may, man, us, faith, lord, law, one, yet, sin, spirit, men, good, now, covenant, life, love, things, must, heart, first, say, gospel, word, made, also, jesus, come, therefore, doth, great, make, world, holy, much, many, way, though, soul, nature, without, know, power, saith, well, gods

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are 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., 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 ..., and Influences of the life of grace. Or, A practical treatise concerning the way, manner, and means of having and improving of spiritual dispositions, and quickning influences from Christ the resurrection and the life. By Samuel Rutherfurd, Professor of Divinity in the Vniversity of St. Andrews in Scotland..

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

jesus christ, holy ghost, lord jesus, roman non, free grace, every one, let us, god will, new testament, holy spirit, new covenant, eternal life, take heed, shall never, wicked men, christ jesus, new heart, christ died, early english, english books, man may, will make, god doth, shall come, must needs, right hand, new law, will never, good works, saviour jesus, will give, books online, fall away, bring forth, iesus christ, great salvation, every man, old testament, take away, true grace, man christ, saving grace, taken away, free will, visible church, god may, one thing, may come, will say, ye shall

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are Free grace, or, The flowings of Christs blood free to sinners being an experiment of Jesus Christ upon one who hath been in the bondage of a troubled conscience ... / by John Saltmarsh. 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., and Peter his repentance shewing, among other things, these two points for edification I. what weakenes remaines in Gods owne children, especially in times of triall and danger, and to, what little cause they have to trust their hearts, or be confident of themselves, but get to be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. II. what is the power of Gods grace and covenant, for renewing His children by repentance, and so, what encouragement they have to return after every fall, and goe on in their course of watchfulnesse, humiliation, prayer, and magnifying of Jesus Christ / by Dr. Thomas Taylor..

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, grace, gospel, spirit, law, man, gods, church, father, cor, word, tcp, jesus, covenant, son, psal, apostle, world, scripture, saints, religion, doctrine, testament, saviour, rom, new, king, john, holy, ghost, faith, works, truth, soul, sin, paul, joh, gospell, argument, acts, thing, scriptures, satan, roman, power, pet, obedience, nature

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?":

grace, man, faith, men, things, sin, heart, life, way, love, time, knowledge, thing, soul, nature, death, glory, power, influences, hath, word, nothing, sins, truth, world, day, people, others, salvation, spirit, self, part, will, blood, work, doth, reason, end, works, strength, words, light, place, none, p., promise, children, body, hearts, obedience

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, do, were, had, say, made, come, being, make, did, know, see, let, give, said, been, take, hath, given, done, according, believe, called, am, set, fall, put, pray, live, ''s, speak, makes, go, saved, bring, consider, think, beleeve, having, doth, love, taken, comes, stand, concerning, found

Proper Nouns

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

god, christ, 〉, ◊, 〈, lord, law, covenant, thou, grace, spirit, gospel, jesus, hath, faith, c., gods, father, heaven, rom, holy, word, world, son, church, john, cor, man, doe, yea, christs, doctrine, psal, ye, paul, adam, sin, peter, david, salvation, life, saviour, new, wee, love, mat, apostle, ●, hell, joh

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, his, he, they, i, we, them, their, him, our, you, us, my, me, your, thy, himself, themselves, its, thee, her, she, ours, one, ye, mine, theirs, yours, vp, vnto, ourselves, whereof, ''s, u, ay, s, non, gods, ●, wil, vvhat, ts, iu, itself, hee, em, elias, à, yee, yea

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, good, other, great, many, own, more, true, same, first, much, free, new, holy, little, dead, saith, spiritual, strong, whole, able, wicked, second, poor, full, old, last, non, perfect, godly, gracious, least, -, better, right, glorious, natural, best, eternal, high, very, former, roman, doth, wise, weak, sufficient, sure, common, particular

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

Next steps

There is much more to a study carrel than the things outlined above. Use this page's menubar to navigate and explore in more detail. There you will find additional features & functions including: ngrams, parts-of-speech, grammars, named entities, topic modeling, a simple search interface, etc.

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