Distant Reader - subject-sacraments-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 12 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 834,998 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 69,583 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 91. 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, may, will, faith, church, one, must, shall, us, yet, man, therefore, men, sacrament, vs, true, without, word, first, holy, much, haue, now, say, mr, many, doth, body, come, make, also, things, baptism, take, life, made, good, sacraments, lord, right, profession, bread, thing, great, see, let, people, spirit, part

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are The badges of Christianity. Or, A treatise of the sacraments fully declared out of the word of God Wherein the truth it selfe is proued, the doctrine of the reformed churches maintained, and the errors of the churches of Rome are euidently conuinced: by pervsing wherof the discreet reader may easily perceiue, the weak and vnstable grounds of the Roman religion, and the iust causes of our lawfull separation. Diuided into three bookes: 1. Of the sacraments in generall. 2. Of Baptisme. 3. Of the Lords Supper. Hereunto is annexed a corollarie or necessary aduertisement, shewing the intention of this present worke, opening the differences among vs about the question of the supper, discouering the idolatry and diuisions of the popish clergy, ... By William Attersoll, minister of the Word of God., Certain disputations of right to sacraments, and the true nature of visible Christianity defending them against several sorts of opponents, especially against the second assault of that pious, reverend and dear brother Mr. Thomas Blake / by Richard Baxter ..., and A treatise of sacramental convenanting with Christ shewing the ungodly their contempt of Christ, in their contempt of the Sacremental covenant : and calling them (not to a profanation of this holy ordnanice [sic], but) to an understanding, serious, entire dedication of themselves to God in the sacramental covenant, and a believing commemoration of the death of Christ / by M.M..

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

lords supper, saving faith, holy ghost, iesus christ, let vs, jesus christ, vnto vs, new testament, justifying faith, visible church, dogmatical faith, wee must, notoriously ungodly, must needs, every one, true faith, lords table, lord jesus, god will, man may, christ iesus, one another, holy spirit, eternall life, early english, english books, one thing, old testament, let us, every man, outward part, holy sacrament, euery one, faith short, thing signified, christian faith, tells us, books online, lordes supper, give us, right hand, inward part, lord iesus, may bee, may see, wee haue, one body, take away, reformed churches, must take

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are The badges of Christianity. Or, A treatise of the sacraments fully declared out of the word of God Wherein the truth it selfe is proued, the doctrine of the reformed churches maintained, and the errors of the churches of Rome are euidently conuinced: by pervsing wherof the discreet reader may easily perceiue, the weak and vnstable grounds of the Roman religion, and the iust causes of our lawfull separation. Diuided into three bookes: 1. Of the sacraments in generall. 2. Of Baptisme. 3. Of the Lords Supper. Hereunto is annexed a corollarie or necessary aduertisement, shewing the intention of this present worke, opening the differences among vs about the question of the supper, discouering the idolatry and diuisions of the popish clergy, ... By William Attersoll, minister of the Word of God. The lambes spouse or the heauenly bride A theologicall discourse, wherin the contract betwixt Christ and the church; the preparation against the mariage; and the solemnization it selfe, and the exclusion of hypocrites and temporizers, is plainly and profitably, with the partucular vses, set forth. Whereunto is annexed an exact preparatiue to the Lords Supper. By T.D. Minister of the word of God., and An endeavovr of making the principles of Christian religion, namely the Creed, the Ten Commandements, the Lords prayer, and the Sacraments, plaine and easie tending to the more speedy instruction of the meanest capacities, and weakest memories, and for the making triall also of their understandings, who though they have attained some measure of saving knowledge, yet through the weaknesse of their abilities cannot expresse even that which they doe conceive..

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, church, christ, lord, sacrament, law, covenant, supper, scripture, sacraments, holy, wine, saviour, religion, ministers, gospel, gods, father, cor, christian, word, text, testament, tcp, table, spirit, son, saints, people, ordinance, mr., minister, math, masse, iewes, iesus, haue, gospell, ghost, faith, doctrine, disciples, devil, churches, baptisme, baptism, apostle, act, years, worship

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 of sacramental convenanting with Christ shewing the ungodly their contempt of Christ, in their contempt of the Sacremental covenant : and calling them (not to a profanation of this holy ordnanice [sic], but) to an understanding, serious, entire dedication of themselves to God in the sacramental covenant, and a believing commemoration of the death of Christ / by M.M. 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, men, word, body, things, life, thing, people, part, bread, words, time, sacraments, sin, way, reason, blood, world, grace, church, death, self, truth, others, name, hath, heart, children, scripture, nothing, sacrament, none, power, profession, p., doth, nature, sins, baptisme, water, place, persons, duty, end, day, selves, sense, flesh, hands

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, were, do, had, being, say, come, make, did, take, made, let, see, know, baptized, been, said, called, think, believe, give, hath, put, according, done, saving, prove, am, haue, receive, taken, set, given, bee, speak, bring, find, hold, doth, consider, baptize, read, appointed, go, call, concerning

Proper Nouns

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

god, christ, 〉, ◊, 〈, church, thou, mr., lord, sacrament, hath, c., baptism, cor, holy, covenant, pag, lords, wee, haue, spirit, gods, supper, faith, de, profession, iesus, ye, est, blake, minister, father, act, gospel, christians, apostle, law, ●, lib, yea, apostles, rom, iohn, chap, christs, ghost, doe, christian, jesus, al

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, you, our, their, him, your, us, my, me, thy, himself, themselves, thee, its, her, theirs, ours, one, she, vp, yours, mine, ye, ourselves, vnto, l, u, s, non, ''em, yee, vs, thou, o, myself, f, ●, vvhat, p, g, em, y, there, tēdeth

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, same, many, own, great, more, good, first, much, holy, new, common, necessary, outward, present, whole, visible, least, particular, last, right, like, little, second, proper, very, most, greater, certain, former, false, wicked, better, old, full, willing, sufficient, able, saith, ordinary, haue, dead, sure, third, short, christian, inward, few

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

Next steps

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