Early English Printed Sermons


The best bargaine A sermon preached to the Court at Theobalds. on Sunday, Sept. 21. 1623. By Ios. Hall D.D.

Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656
Publisher: Printed by I Haviland for Nath Butter
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1623
Approximate Era: JamesI
TCP ID: A02517 ESTC ID: S118996 STC ID: 12646
Subject Headings: Sermons, English -- 17th century;
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Textual Features and Statistics

Nota Bene: QP stands for "quotation/paraphrase." A "unit" stands for a segment produced by EEPS' segmentation unit or an individual marginal note. Adjacent references are those that are located in the same or adjacent segment or note. Chapter-level citations are relevant if the chapter matches that of the query. For book-level queries, all references to the same Bible book are relevant. A "Latin Bible QP" is a quotation or paraphrase of any verse from a Bible that follows the Latin Vulgate tradition: the Vulgate, Douay-Rheims Version, the ODRV, and Wycliffe's version.
Feature Description In-Text Marginal
cited Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent citation 4.6% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 3.8% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 86.2% 100.0%
Foreign Percentage of units with foreign text 2.9% -inf%
NonLatinAlphabet Percentage of units with a NonLatinAlphabet placeholder 0.4% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 9.6% -inf%
sim_score Average cosine similarity score of top Bible verse predictions per unit 0.8% -inf%
cross_score Average cross encoder score of top Bible verse predictions per unit 0.8% -inf%
near_quotations Percentage of units that have high lexical similarity with their Bible verse predictions (any type of score greater than the mean + standard deviation of that score type) 2.9% -inf%
foreign_cited Percentage of units with QP, foreign text, and an adjacent citation 2.1% -inf%
foreign_cited_exact Percentage of units with QP, foreign text, and an adjacent matching citation 1.7% -inf%
foreign_italicized Percentage of units with QP and foreign italicized text 2.9% -inf%
foreign_italicized_cited Percentage of units with QP, italicized foreign text, and an adjacent citation 2.1% -inf%
foreign_italicized_cited_exact Percentage of units with QP, italicized foreign text, and an adjacent matching citation 1.7% -inf%
foreign_latin Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP and foreign text 1.7% -inf%
foreign_latin_cited Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP, foreign text, and an adjacent citation 1.3% -inf%
foreign_latin_cited_exact Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP, foreign text, and an adjacent matching citation 0.8% -inf%
foreign_latin_italicized Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP and italicized foreign text 1.7% -inf%
foreign_latin_italicized_cited Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP, an adjacent citation, and italicized foreign text 1.3% -inf%
foreign_latin_italicized_cited_exact Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP, an adjacent matching citation, and italicized foreign text 0.8% -inf%



Quotations and Paraphrases

Rather than examine the frequency or proportion of references, it is far more useful to determine which references are most prominent for a citing entity. The visualizations below show the most prominent scriptural references within all publications per year. Prominence, displayed as the value below each label, is measured using the metric of Outgoing Relative Citational Prominence (ORCP) proposed by Wahle et al. (2023). In this case, a positive prominence value for a reference R in a given year means that R constitutes a greater percentage of all the references cited by publications in that year than the average citation percentage of R per year. A negative value indicates that a given reference constitutes a proportion lesser than average. A value of negative infinity means that the query reference does not occur in the citation or QP of a citing entity. A value of "%" (without any numeral value) means that there are no citations or QP corresponding to the query reference.

For quotational prominence, only the predictions with the highest cosine similarity scores for each subsegmented or whole unit of a segment or note are included for consideration. The average quotational prominence for a citing entity is the mean of the prominence percentage points for all references R_ALL that are relevant to the query reference such that each reference R in R_ALL has the highest cosine similarity score with a part or the whole of its covering body segment or marginal note. The percentages of top predictions from each Bible version are displayed in a table below.

For citational prominence, only pluasible scriptural citations and ones where the original phrase does not begin with a lowercase word are included for consideration. A scriptural citation is plausible if its numbering exists in any of the Bibles considered by this project. There are over 76 thousand such excluded candidates out of 1.2 million parsed citational units in total. Each of the four side-by-side tables below also have associated diversity and evenness scores; Simpson's Diversity Index ranges from 0 to 1 such that a higher score indicates a greater species diversity. Likewise, the Shannon Index indicates more evenness in the distribution of individuals in a group when its value approaches 1.


Diversity: 0.833
Evenness: 0.921
Part Prominence
Old Testament (AKJV) 21.287
New Testament (Vulgate) 3.525
Old Testament (ODRV) 1.964
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) -0.219
Old Testament (Geneva) -1.601
New Testament (Tyndale) -1.688
New Testament (Geneva) -2.725
New Testament (ODRV) -2.804
New Testament (AKJV) -4.094
Diversity: 0.951
Evenness: 0.975
Book Prominence
Proverbs (AKJV) 12.39
2 Thessalonians (ODRV) 3.375
Joel (Geneva) 3.371
Amos (AKJV) 3.25
Matthew (Vulgate) 3.175
Galatians (Tyndale) 3.033
Galatians (Geneva) 2.965
Acts (Tyndale) 2.915
Acts (Geneva) 2.904
Revelation (ODRV) 2.895
Job (Douay-Rheims) 2.871
Galatians (AKJV) 2.776
Acts (ODRV) 2.76
Ecclesiastes (AKJV) 2.7
2 Corinthians (ODRV) 2.694
1 Peter (AKJV) 2.661
Proverbs (Geneva) 2.518
John (ODRV) 2.393
Matthew (Tyndale) 2.363
Matthew (Geneva) 2.287
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 2.259
Psalms (ODRV) 2.238
Romans (ODRV) 2.198
Isaiah (AKJV) 2.166
Matthew (AKJV) 1.934
Psalms (Geneva) 1.633
Diversity: 0.963
Evenness: 0.981
Chapter Prominence
Proverbs 23 (AKJV) 11.034
Psalms 11 (ODRV) 2.776
Matthew 20 (Vulgate) 2.775
Amos 2 (AKJV) 2.772
Acts 21 (Tyndale) 2.771
Joel 3 (Geneva) 2.767
2 Thessalonians 3 (ODRV) 2.763
Psalms 4 (ODRV) 2.761
Psalms 111 (Geneva) 2.76
Acts 20 (Geneva) 2.754
Proverbs 23 (Geneva) 2.753
Job 2 (Douay-Rheims) 2.752
Proverbs 2 (AKJV) 2.747
Psalms 50 (ODRV) 2.747
Acts 8 (ODRV) 2.743
Psalms 85 (Geneva) 2.742
Revelation 18 (ODRV) 2.737
Isaiah 55 (AKJV) 2.736
Matthew 18 (Geneva) 2.731
Galatians 4 (Geneva) 2.726
Isaiah 59 (AKJV) 2.724
Galatians 3 (Tyndale) 2.714
Matthew 16 (Tyndale) 2.71
John 14 (ODRV) 2.707
Galatians 4 (AKJV) 2.705
2 Corinthians 4 (ODRV) 2.701
Matthew 18 (AKJV) 2.701
Romans 1 (ODRV) 2.686
Ecclesiastes 3 (AKJV) 2.684
John 6 (ODRV) 2.634
1 Peter 5 (AKJV) 2.616
Matthew 6 (AKJV) 2.607
1 Corinthians 15 (ODRV) 2.461
Diversity: 0.963
Evenness: 0.981
Verse Prominence
Proverbs 23.23 (AKJV) 11.1
Psalms 50.8 (ODRV) 2.777
Matthew 20.27 (Vulgate) 2.777
Revelation 18.23 (ODRV) 2.777
Amos 2.6 (AKJV) 2.777
Joel 3.3 (Geneva) 2.777
Psalms 11.2 (ODRV) 2.777
Acts 21.13 (Tyndale) 2.776
Acts 20.24 (Geneva) 2.776
Proverbs 23.23 (Geneva) 2.776
Psalms 111.7 (Geneva) 2.775
Acts 8.20 (ODRV) 2.775
2 Thessalonians 3.10 (ODRV) 2.774
Psalms 4.3 (ODRV) 2.774
Matthew 6.28 (AKJV) 2.773
John 14.6 (ODRV) 2.771
Romans 1.25 (ODRV) 2.771
Galatians 3.1 (Tyndale) 2.771
Matthew 18.7 (Geneva) 2.771
Proverbs 2.4 (AKJV) 2.77
Isaiah 59.14 (AKJV) 2.77
Galatians 4.16 (Geneva) 2.769
Galatians 4.16 (AKJV) 2.769
Matthew 16.26 (Tyndale) 2.769
Isaiah 55.1 (AKJV) 2.768
John 6.68 (ODRV) 2.766
Matthew 18.7 (AKJV) 2.764
2 Corinthians 4.5 (ODRV) 2.763
Ecclesiastes 3.1 (AKJV) 2.762
Job 2.4 (Douay-Rheims) 2.762
Psalms 85.10 (Geneva) 2.752
1 Corinthians 15.41 (ODRV) 2.749
1 Peter 5.11 (AKJV) 2.694
Segment No., Location Verse & Version Verse Text Text Is a Partial Textual Segment/Note Adjacent References Cosine Similarity Score Cross Encoder Score Okapi BM25 Score



Citations
i
The index of citation indicates its position within the text of the segment or a particular note of the segment. For example, if 'Note 0' (i.e., the first note) of this segment has three citations, the citation with index 0 is its first citation, inclusive of all its parsed components.

Diversity: 0.5
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Old Testament 2.666
New Testament 1.805
Diversity: 0.929
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Joel 6.786
Amos 6.465
Leviticus 6.168
Daniel 5.807
James 5.635
Revelation 5.017
Ephesians 4.981
2 Corinthians 4.841
Proverbs 4.095
Acts 3.939
John 3.937
Isaiah 3.761
Romans 3.188
Psalms 1.971
Diversity: 0.958
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Psalms 117 4.16
Joel 3 4.146
Daniel 10 4.141
Leviticus 25 4.141
Amos 2 4.14
Psalms 111 4.116
Proverbs 12 4.112
Proverbs 2 4.103
Acts 21 4.103
Psalms 31 4.082
Revelation 18 4.082
Psalms 91 4.078
Isaiah 59 4.077
Psalms 12 4.056
Psalms 89 4.049
Isaiah 55 4.036
Proverbs 23 4.034
Ephesians 3 4.007
Isaiah 5 3.966
John 8 3.949
2 Corinthians 6 3.944
John 17 3.93
James 1 3.888
Romans 1 3.725
Diversity: 0.929
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Psalms 89.2 7.141
Proverbs 12.19 7.141
Joel 3.3 7.141
Amos 2.6 7.137
Isaiah 59.14 7.137
Psalms 91.4 7.136
John 8.32 7.135
Isaiah 5.23 7.133
Proverbs 23.23 7.132
John 17.17 7.131
Romans 1.25 7.13
Proverbs 2.4 7.129
James 1.18 7.129
Ephesians 3.10 7.12
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase