Distant Reader - subject-postureInWorship-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 15 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 332,970 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 22,198 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 90. 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, name, will, kneeling, worship, gesture, lord, may, iesus, one, therefore, shall, yet, onely, church, haue, table, sacrament, bee, things, holy, word, wee, text, men, time, doe, supper, must, us, doth, hee, now, say, first, though, sitting, christians, bread, man, gods, true, yea, communion, every, without, bowing, make, also

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are Two dialogues, or conferences (about an old question lately renued, and by the schismaticall company, both by printed pamphlets, and otherwise to the disturbance of the Churches quiet, and of peaceable minds, very hotly pursued.) Concerning kneeling in the very act of receiuing the sacramental bread and wine, in the Supper of the Lord The former betweene two ministers of the word, the one refractarie, and depriued; the other not so. The latter betweene an humorous schismatike and a setled professor., The true state of Christianity, truly discribed, and also discovered unto all people what it was in its beginning and purity, and what it now is in its apostacy and degeneration ... / written by ... Edward Burrough., and A treatise against superstitious Jesv-worship wherein the true sense of Phil. 2, 9-10 is opened, and from thence is plainly shewed and by sundry arguments proved, that corporall bowing at the name Jesus, is neither commanded, grounded, or warranted thereupon ... / written especially for the benefit of weake seduced persons that have a zeale towards God, though not according to knowledge by Mascall Giles..

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

name jesus, name iesus, lords supper, roman non, holy ghost, early english, english books, every name, religious use, bodily worship, holy communion, divine service, books online, table gesture, iesus christ, every knee, must bow, publick worship, set downe, every one, page images, let us, worship god, creation partnership, text creation, must needs, may bee, gods word, lord iesus, christ himselfe, whether kneeling, wee haue, paschall supper, gods worship, corporal adoration, new testament, lords table, first institution, proper name, holy sacrament, lords day, bishop andrewes, second commandement, euery one, name christ, reformed churches, publicke worship, loue feasts, white garment, will make

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are Jesu-vvorship confuted, or, Certain arguments against bowing at the name Jesus proving it to be idolatrous and superstitious and so utterly unlawful : with objections to the contrary fully answered / by H.B. A treatise against superstitious Jesv-worship wherein the true sense of Phil. 2, 9-10 is opened, and from thence is plainly shewed and by sundry arguments proved, that corporall bowing at the name Jesus, is neither commanded, grounded, or warranted thereupon ... / written especially for the benefit of weake seduced persons that have a zeale towards God, though not according to knowledge by Mascall Giles., and Ortholatreia: or, A brief discourse concerning bodily worship: proving it to be Gods due; to be given unto him with acceptation on his part, and not to be denyed him without sin, on ours. A thing worthy to be taken into consideration in these dayes, wherein prophaness and irreverence toward the sacred Majesty of God hath so much corrupted our religious assemblies, that men are regardless of their being before God, or of Gods being amongst them in his own house. / By S.G. late preacher of the Word of God in the Cathedrall Church of Peterburgh..

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, christ, church, tcp, supper, sacrament, table, saviour, kneeling, gesture, apostles, worship, text, sitting, roman, lords, kneel, kirk, jesus, iesus, haue, ghost, father, doctor, cor, communion, churches, christians, ceremony, yea, word, widdowes, time, thing, spirit, sermons, scriptures, scripture, sauiour, sacramentall, popish, phil, person, passover, papists, page, nature, names, ministry

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 treatise against superstitious Jesv-worship wherein the true sense of Phil. 2, 9-10 is opened, and from thence is plainly shewed and by sundry arguments proved, that corporall bowing at the name Jesus, is neither commanded, grounded, or warranted thereupon ... / written especially for the benefit of weake seduced persons that have a zeale towards God, though not according to knowledge by Mascall Giles. 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?":

name, gesture, things, table, worship, time, men, word, man, thing, bread, people, words, reason, p., part, place, body, faith, action, world, doth, act, day, others, use, text, hee, manner, life, example, respect, institution, ceremonies, hath, truth, nothing, supper, bowing, spirituall, adoration, kneeling, way, scripture, prayer, nature, power, page, honour, vse

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, were, did, have, do, had, say, being, make, made, kneeling, bow, worship, called, said, bee, see, take, sitting, come, according, been, let, haue, set, given, bowing, done, commanded, hath, vsed, seeing, sit, used, learned, know, taken, use, doe, receiving, follow, receiue, stand, give, put, kneele, concerning

Proper Nouns

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

god, christ, lord, iesus, 〉, ◊, 〈, church, sacrament, christians, wee, c., hath, jesus, doe, kneeling, yea, supper, text, gods, holy, haue, name, lords, bee, communion, cor, ●, christs, father, de, saviour, thou, s., hee, tcp, gesture, phil, papists, kneele, apostles, law, downe, sonne, feast, spirit, mr., heaven, l., idolatry

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, they, our, their, he, we, i, them, you, him, your, us, my, me, thy, her, themselves, himself, its, thee, she, ours, yours, vp, theirs, one, ye, mine, yee, itself, whereof, vvhat, vnto, hee, wil, whosoever, u, suspitiō, quo, o, mee, instructiō, ie, givē, elias, cōmandement, ''s

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, same, such, true, many, great, good, first, holy, religious, more, own, whole, very, common, non, divine, much, -, second, most, roman, necessary, proper, outward, indifferent, particular, new, last, saith, due, haue, least, greater, better, present, old, like, worthy, high, right, best, ancient, false, early, wee, doth, sufficient, humane, wise

not, so, then, therefore, onely, most, now, more, as, also, yet, even, well, very, never, thus, much, here, ever, up, rather, together, first, thereof, out, only, down, in, before, there, away, vs, that, all, whatsoever, is, no, else, too, forth, especially, therein, indeed, pro, once, thereby, schis, otherwise, at, possibly

Next steps

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