Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon preached at Paules Crosse the 9. of Februarie being the first Sunday in the Parleament, Anno. 1588. by Richard Bancroft D. of Divinitie, and chaplaine to the right honorable Sir Christopher Hatson Knight L. chancelor of England. Wherein some things are now added, which then were omitted, either through want of time, or default in memorie.

Bancroft, Richard, 1544-1610
Publisher: By E B ollifant for Gregorie Seton and are to be sold at his shop under Aldersgate
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1588
Approximate Era: Elizabeth
TCP ID: A03349 ESTC ID: S108234 STC ID: 1347
Subject Headings: Sermons, English -- 16th 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 2.4% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 1.6% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 93.4% 100.0%
Foreign Percentage of units with foreign text 0.8% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 2.3% -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) 1.7% -inf%
foreign_cited Percentage of units with QP, foreign text, and an adjacent citation 0.7% -inf%
foreign_cited_exact Percentage of units with QP, foreign text, and an adjacent matching citation 0.4% -inf%
foreign_italicized Percentage of units with QP and foreign italicized text 0.8% -inf%
foreign_italicized_cited Percentage of units with QP, italicized foreign text, and an adjacent citation 0.7% -inf%
foreign_italicized_cited_exact Percentage of units with QP, italicized foreign text, and an adjacent matching citation 0.4% -inf%
foreign_latin Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP and foreign text 0.4% -inf%
foreign_latin_cited Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP, foreign text, and an adjacent citation 0.3% -inf%
foreign_latin_cited_exact Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP, foreign text, and an adjacent matching citation 0.1% -inf%
foreign_latin_italicized Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP and italicized foreign text 0.4% -inf%
foreign_latin_italicized_cited Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP, an adjacent citation, and italicized foreign text 0.3% -inf%
foreign_latin_italicized_cited_exact Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP, an adjacent matching citation, and italicized foreign text 0.1% -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: 0.879
Evenness: 0.931
Part Prominence
New Testament (Geneva) 12.471
New Testament (Tyndale) 7.626
Apocrypha (Vulgate) 5.525
Old Testament (Vulgate) 4.2
Apocrypha (AKJV) 1.325
New Testament (Vulgate) 1.074
Old Testament (ODRV) -0.487
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) -2.669
Old Testament (Geneva) -4.052
New Testament (ODRV) -5.255
Old Testament (AKJV) -6.164
New Testament (AKJV) -6.545
Diversity: 0.969
Evenness: 0.961
Book Prominence
1 John (AKJV) 9.078
1 John (Geneva) 5.991
1 John (Tyndale) 4.39
1 John (ODRV) 2.759
Philippians (AKJV) 2.464
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 2.036
1 Corinthians (Geneva) 1.954
Ecclesiasticus (Vulgate) 1.561
Proverbs (Vulgate) 1.559
2 Maccabees (AKJV) 1.553
Jude (Tyndale) 1.549
Galatians (Vulgate) 1.518
Titus (ODRV) 1.391
Judges (AKJV) 1.375
2 Thessalonians (AKJV) 1.361
2 Peter (Tyndale) 1.355
2 Timothy (ODRV) 1.352
Jude (AKJV) 1.351
1 Timothy (Tyndale) 1.325
2 Timothy (Geneva) 1.271
Colossians (Geneva) 1.235
2 Peter (Geneva) 1.218
Galatians (Tyndale) 1.198
1 Peter (ODRV) 1.179
Galatians (Geneva) 1.129
1 Timothy (ODRV) 1.089
Acts (Tyndale) 1.079
Acts (Geneva) 1.069
Genesis (ODRV) 1.066
Galatians (AKJV) 0.941
2 Corinthians (Geneva) 0.865
Philippians (ODRV) 0.863
Luke (Tyndale) 0.837
1 Peter (AKJV) 0.825
Ephesians (Geneva) 0.811
Proverbs (Douay-Rheims) 0.805
Acts (AKJV) 0.779
John (Tyndale) 0.736
Ephesians (AKJV) 0.662
Luke (ODRV) 0.621
Job (AKJV) 0.619
Hebrews (AKJV) 0.585
Matthew (Tyndale) 0.527
John (AKJV) 0.429
Psalms (ODRV) 0.403
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 0.045
Psalms (Geneva) -0.202
Psalms (AKJV) -1.168
Diversity: 0.975
Evenness: 0.967
Chapter Prominence
1 John 4 (AKJV) 8.221
1 John 4 (Geneva) 5.478
1 John 4 (Tyndale) 4.031
1 John 4 (ODRV) 2.707
1 Corinthians 3 (Geneva) 2.704
1 Corinthians 11 (ODRV) 2.649
Philippians 4 (AKJV) 2.604
2 Maccabees 4 (AKJV) 1.388
Ecclesiasticus 27 (Vulgate) 1.387
Proverbs 17 (Vulgate) 1.386
Judges 18 (AKJV) 1.383
Genesis 37 (ODRV) 1.38
Psalms 54 (ODRV) 1.379
Psalms 140 (AKJV) 1.377
Acts 26 (Geneva) 1.375
Galatians 5 (Vulgate) 1.371
Titus 1 (ODRV) 1.369
Proverbs 17 (Douay-Rheims) 1.364
2 Corinthians 13 (Geneva) 1.36
Acts 4 (Tyndale) 1.359
Psalms 17 (AKJV) 1.358
1 Timothy 6 (Tyndale) 1.357
Jude 1 (Tyndale) 1.352
Psalms 104 (Geneva) 1.346
Luke 19 (Tyndale) 1.343
Titus 3 (ODRV) 1.341
2 Thessalonians 3 (AKJV) 1.341
Psalms 1 (AKJV) 1.339
2 Peter 2 (Geneva) 1.338
Galatians 4 (Geneva) 1.337
2 Peter 2 (Tyndale) 1.335
Matthew 24 (Tyndale) 1.334
1 Timothy 4 (ODRV) 1.333
Galatians 1 (AKJV) 1.333
1 John 2 (Tyndale) 1.329
Acts 2 (AKJV) 1.327
Galatians 3 (Tyndale) 1.325
Luke 19 (ODRV) 1.322
1 John 2 (Geneva) 1.316
2 Timothy 3 (ODRV) 1.312
Colossians 2 (Geneva) 1.305
2 Thessalonians 2 (AKJV) 1.303
Job 21 (AKJV) 1.303
1 Peter 1 (ODRV) 1.301
2 Timothy 4 (Geneva) 1.295
John 6 (AKJV) 1.283
John 6 (Tyndale) 1.277
1 Peter 4 (AKJV) 1.264
Galatians 5 (Geneva) 1.261
1 Corinthians 3 (AKJV) 1.257
1 Corinthians 10 (ODRV) 1.249
Philippians 3 (AKJV) 1.238
Hebrews 13 (AKJV) 1.233
Jude 1 (AKJV) 1.207
Philippians 2 (ODRV) 1.172
Ephesians 4 (Geneva) 1.13
1 Corinthians 10 (AKJV) 1.087
Ephesians 4 (AKJV) 1.036
Diversity: 0.977
Evenness: 0.969
Verse Prominence
1 John 4.1 (AKJV) 7.764
1 John 4.1 (Geneva) 5.182
1 John 4.1 (Tyndale) 3.887
1 Corinthians 3.4 (Geneva) 2.596
1 John 4.1 (ODRV) 2.593
1 Corinthians 11.19 (ODRV) 2.581
1 Corinthians 11.20 (ODRV) 2.576
Philippians 4.8 (AKJV) 2.56
Galatians 4.17 (Geneva) 1.298
Matthew 24.11 (Tyndale) 1.298
1 Timothy 6.4 (Tyndale) 1.298
Psalms 17.10 (AKJV) 1.298
2 Peter 2.11 (Geneva) 1.298
Psalms 140.3 (AKJV) 1.298
Genesis 37.1 (ODRV) 1.298
Psalms 104.21 (Geneva) 1.298
Proverbs 17.3 (Vulgate) 1.298
Psalms 54.8 (ODRV) 1.298
Galatians 5.12 (Vulgate) 1.298
Galatians 4.20 (Geneva) 1.298
Ecclesiasticus 27.12 (Vulgate) 1.298
2 Maccabees 4.46 (AKJV) 1.298
Acts 2.44 (AKJV) 1.297
Acts 26.28 (Geneva) 1.297
Titus 1.11 (ODRV) 1.297
1 Peter 1.25 (ODRV) 1.297
Judges 18.1 (AKJV) 1.297
2 Thessalonians 2.1 (AKJV) 1.296
2 Peter 2.10 (Tyndale) 1.296
Jude 1.9 (Tyndale) 1.296
2 Timothy 3.7 (ODRV) 1.296
1 Timothy 4.1 (ODRV) 1.296
Hebrews 13.9 (AKJV) 1.296
1 John 2.19 (Geneva) 1.295
Acts 4.35 (Tyndale) 1.295
Galatians 5.12 (Geneva) 1.295
Titus 3.10 (ODRV) 1.295
Philippians 3.2 (AKJV) 1.295
Ephesians 4.14 (Geneva) 1.295
Jude 1.10 (AKJV) 1.294
Psalms 1.4 (AKJV) 1.294
1 Corinthians 10.33 (ODRV) 1.293
Proverbs 17.3 (Douay-Rheims) 1.293
1 Corinthians 10.19 (AKJV) 1.293
Colossians 2.6 (Geneva) 1.293
Luke 19.27 (ODRV) 1.292
1 John 2.19 (Tyndale) 1.292
Galatians 3.1 (Tyndale) 1.292
1 Corinthians 10.26 (AKJV) 1.291
Galatians 1.9 (AKJV) 1.291
Ephesians 4.15 (AKJV) 1.291
Luke 19.14 (Tyndale) 1.29
John 6.31 (Tyndale) 1.29
1 Corinthians 3.11 (AKJV) 1.289
2 Corinthians 13.11 (Geneva) 1.289
Job 21.18 (AKJV) 1.287
1 Peter 4.17 (AKJV) 1.287
2 Thessalonians 3.16 (AKJV) 1.287
2 Timothy 4.3 (Geneva) 1.286
Philippians 2.21 (ODRV) 1.28
Galatians 1.8 (AKJV) 1.28
John 6.55 (AKJV) 1.277
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
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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: 0.948
Evenness: 0.984
Book Prominence
Colossians 11.115
Ezra 3.753
Canticles 3.47
2 Thessalonians 3.374
Joshua 3.291
Titus 3.09
Judges 3.069
2 Chronicles 2.931
2 Peter 2.882
1 John 2.732
2 Timothy 2.724
Philippians 2.419
1 Samuel 2.384
Galatians 2.348
1 Timothy 2.329
Ephesians 2.004
Hebrews 1.381
Luke 0.949
1 Corinthians 0.876
Romans 0.212
Matthew -0.013
Psalms -1.005
Diversity: 0.967
Evenness: 0.988
Chapter Prominence
Colossians 2 7.88
2 Timothy 2 5.167
Ezra 3 2.689
Joshua 15 2.681
Psalms 67 2.68
2 Chronicles 26 2.673
Psalms 13 2.668
Judges 8 2.663
1 Samuel 13 2.642
Canticles 2 2.614
Luke 11 2.543
Matthew 4 2.543
Galatians 1 2.534
1 John 4 2.532
Matthew 3 2.528
2 Thessalonians 2 2.528
Titus 1 2.515
2 Peter 3 2.509
Galatians 3 2.505
Galatians 4 2.501
2 Timothy 4 2.495
Luke 19 2.492
Matthew 18 2.481
1 Timothy 4 2.47
Romans 3 2.461
1 Timothy 6 2.444
1 Corinthians 3 2.443
Matthew 23 2.423
Galatians 5 2.418
2 Timothy 3 2.406
1 John 3 2.377
Hebrews 13 2.342
Philippians 3 2.33
Ephesians 4 2.238
Diversity: 0.5
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
1 Timothy 4.1 49.965
1 John 4.1 49.954
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase