Distant Reader - subject-justification-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 31 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 2,960,244 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 95,491 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, faith, christ, us, law, righteousness, will, man, justification, may, grace, one, yet, doth, shall, therefore, sin, justified, works, made, say, first, life, also, men, must, saith, things, good, now, without, obedience, though, righteousnesse, hee, true, lord, rom, gods, make, much, bee, sins, wee, many, thing, nature, act, word, covenant

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are A treatise of iustification· By George Dovvname, Doctor of Divinity and Bishop of Dery, The life of justification opened, or, A treatise grounded upon Gal. 2, II wherein the orthodox doctrine of justification by faith, & imputation of Christ''s righteousness is clearly expounded, solidly confirmed, & learnedly vindicated from the various objections of its adversaries, whereunto are subjoined some arguments against universal redemption / by that faithful and learned servant of Jesus Christ Mr. John Broun ..., and The Christians bulvvarke, against Satans battery. Or, The doctrine of iustification so plainely and pithily layd out in the severall maine branches of it as the fruits thereof may be to the faithfull, as so many preservatives against the poysonous heresies and prevailing iniquities of these last times. By H.B. pastor of S. Mathevvs Friday-street..

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

jesus christ, holy ghost, good workes, iesus christ, justifying faith, new covenant, eternall life, good works, god doth, let us, every one, vnto vs, faith alone, perfect obedience, faith doth, christs righteousnesse, inherent righteousnesse, free grace, man may, true faith, eternal life, must needs, lord jesus, faith without, taken away, christs righteousness, one thing, doth justifie, may bee, meritorious cause, humane nature, without works, christ jesus, take away, god will, every man, free gift, without workes, moral law, nothing else, gods grace, apostle saith, saith hee, made righteous, justifie us, christ iesus, lord christ, perfect righteousness, inherent righteousness, christ alone

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are Justification by Christ alone, a fountaine of life and comfort, declaring that the whole worke of mans salvation was accomplished by Jesus Christ upon the crosse, in that he tooke away & healed all his, from all sinnes, and presented them to God holy without fault in his sight. And the objections against this are answered, for the consolation of such as beleive; & that they may not ascribe that which is proper to Christs preistly office, to their beleiving. / By Samuel Richardson. The true light shining in darkness and dispelling the mists of errour arising from the darkness of man''s heart, &c. promoted by the prince of darkness against the truth of God; in the matter of our justification: shewing, that by the deeds of the law, or mans own righteousness, no flesh can or shall be justified in the sight of God. The first part. By Tho. Taylor, the meanest and unworthiest of the servants and ministers of Jesus Christ; and now pastor to a small congregational church in Cambridge., and A Scriptural and rational account of the Christian religion particularly concerning justification only by the propitiation and redemption of the Lord Jesus Christ..

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, law, faith, lord, grace, apostle, spirit, righteousness, gospel, rom, justification, church, scripture, father, doctrine, covenant, act, son, scriptures, man, gods, world, works, salvation, psal, obedience, life, iesus, cor, repentance, paul, gospell, elect, condition, truth, saviour, nature, iustification, holy, ghost, christian, argument, abraham, word, tcp, sonne, promise, mediator, ephes

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 Scripture Gospel defended, and Christ, grace, and free justification vindicated against the libertines ... in two books : the first, a breviate of fifty controversies about justification ... : the second upon the sudden reviving of antinomianism ... and the re-printing of Dr. Crisp''s sermons with additions ... / by Richard Baxter ... 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?":

faith, man, grace, sin, things, works, men, life, justification, thing, sins, doth, way, death, obedience, truth, workes, cause, part, word, hath, nature, words, nothing, righteousnesse, righteousness, place, sense, heart, scripture, person, reason, condition, end, time, sinne, iustification, others, hee, self, glory, respect, act, none, law, matter, sinnes, imputation, ▪, work

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, made, do, say, being, had, justified, said, did, make, called, according, see, know, imputed, come, done, hath, given, take, been, let, bee, doth, give, believe, taken, put, think, saved, concerning, deny, prove, having, am, saith, receive, call, required, beleeve, speak, found, answer, set, iustified

Proper Nouns

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

god, christ, 〉, ◊, 〈, law, righteousness, faith, justification, c., lord, hath, rom, grace, covenant, gods, wee, gospel, thou, spirit, apostle, christs, ●, church, doe, righteousnesse, paul, obedience, father, hee, mr., act, bee, jesus, holy, doctrine, yea, cor, est, adam, chap, de, lib, heaven, l., man, abraham, iesus, life, owne

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, we, they, our, i, him, them, their, us, you, my, himself, me, your, its, themselves, thy, her, thee, ours, she, theirs, ourselves, one, mine, ye, vp, itself, yours, vnto, whereof, non, s, ''s, l, whosoever, u, givē, yee, trye, herself, ●, iu, hee, ay, vvith, vvhat, tollit

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?"

other, such, same, good, true, own, many, first, more, great, perfect, much, whole, righteous, saith, free, new, inherent, second, necessary, holy, former, justified, least, full, dead, doth, proper, particular, false, little, common, last, very, wicked, due, only, able, most, greater, sufficient, godly, old, like, present, non, right, third, guilty, better

not, so, then, therefore, also, only, now, more, as, yet, here, thus, onely, first, most, that, well, is, even, never, up, much, out, away, alone, just, all, very, ever, thereof, indeed, far, before, forth, rather, there, else, thereby, in, together, secondly, again, hence, no, at, vs, properly, once, still, otherwise

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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