Early English Printed Sermons


St. Pauls exercise, or, A sermon of conscience Describing the nature of it; and declaring the manner and meanes how to obtaine, and retaine, a good conscience. Preached by Iohn Hughes, Doctor in Diuinitie.

Hughes, John, fl. 1622
Publisher: Printed by T homas S nodham for Iohn Budge and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Greene Dragon in Pauls Church yard
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1622
Approximate Era: JamesI
TCP ID: A03796 ESTC ID: S104276 STC ID: 13914
Subject Headings: Conscience;
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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 7.5% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 3.6% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 85.7% 100.0%
Foreign Percentage of units with foreign text 0.6% -inf%
NonLatinAlphabet Percentage of units with a NonLatinAlphabet placeholder 1.3% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 9.4% -inf%
sim_score Average cosine similarity score of top Bible verse predictions per unit 0.7% -inf%
cross_score Average cross encoder score of top Bible verse predictions per unit 0.7% -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) 3.2% -inf%
foreign_cited Percentage of units with QP, foreign text, and an adjacent citation 0.3% -inf%
foreign_italicized Percentage of units with QP and foreign italicized text 0.6% -inf%
foreign_italicized_cited Percentage of units with QP, italicized foreign text, and an adjacent citation 0.3% -inf%
foreign_latin Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP and foreign text 0.3% -inf%
foreign_latin_italicized Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP and italicized foreign text 0.3% -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: 0.86
Evenness: 0.955
Part Prominence
New Testament (AKJV) 14.845
Apocrypha (AKJV) 4.533
New Testament (Vulgate) 4.282
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 0.539
Old Testament (Geneva) -0.844
New Testament (Tyndale) -0.931
New Testament (Geneva) -1.967
New Testament (ODRV) -2.047
Old Testament (AKJV) -2.955
Diversity: 0.965
Evenness: 0.99
Book Prominence
Acts (AKJV) 7.989
Acts (Vulgate) 2.893
Mark (Tyndale) 2.786
Leviticus (Douay-Rheims) 2.726
Jude (AKJV) 2.679
1 Timothy (Tyndale) 2.653
Lamentations (AKJV) 2.622
Colossians (ODRV) 2.527
James (Geneva) 2.519
Titus (AKJV) 2.487
Colossians (AKJV) 2.434
Revelation (Geneva) 2.429
1 Timothy (Geneva) 2.42
1 Timothy (ODRV) 2.417
Acts (Tyndale) 2.407
Acts (Geneva) 2.397
Ecclesiasticus (AKJV) 2.301
Galatians (AKJV) 2.269
1 Timothy (AKJV) 2.234
2 Corinthians (Geneva) 2.193
Luke (Tyndale) 2.166
Proverbs (Douay-Rheims) 2.133
2 Corinthians (AKJV) 2.046
Proverbs (Geneva) 2.011
Ephesians (AKJV) 1.99
John (ODRV) 1.886
Matthew (Geneva) 1.779
John (AKJV) 1.757
Proverbs (AKJV) 1.538
Romans (Geneva) 1.481
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 1.373
Psalms (AKJV) 0.16
Diversity: 0.972
Evenness: 0.992
Chapter Prominence
Acts 24 (AKJV) 7.234
Acts 24 (Vulgate) 2.438
Acts 23 (Vulgate) 2.436
Leviticus 27 (Douay-Rheims) 2.435
Ecclesiasticus 42 (AKJV) 2.434
Proverbs 11 (Douay-Rheims) 2.421
1 Timothy 3 (ODRV) 2.421
Acts 24 (Geneva) 2.42
Mark 9 (Tyndale) 2.418
Ecclesiasticus 5 (AKJV) 2.416
Proverbs 20 (Douay-Rheims) 2.412
Revelation 2 (Geneva) 2.412
Proverbs 7 (Geneva) 2.41
Acts 24 (Tyndale) 2.409
2 Corinthians 7 (Geneva) 2.404
Luke 17 (Tyndale) 2.403
Proverbs 15 (Geneva) 2.398
1 Timothy 1 (Tyndale) 2.394
John 4 (ODRV) 2.392
James 2 (Geneva) 2.384
John 13 (AKJV) 2.379
Romans 7 (Geneva) 2.379
1 Timothy 1 (ODRV) 2.366
2 Corinthians 1 (AKJV) 2.362
1 Timothy 6 (Geneva) 2.355
1 Timothy 3 (AKJV) 2.353
Matthew 7 (Geneva) 2.353
1 Timothy 1 (AKJV) 2.35
1 Timothy 6 (ODRV) 2.345
Proverbs 3 (AKJV) 2.343
1 Corinthians 2 (AKJV) 2.332
Psalms 44 (AKJV) 2.33
Lamentations 3 (AKJV) 2.326
Colossians 3 (AKJV) 2.3
Colossians 3 (ODRV) 2.299
Titus 2 (AKJV) 2.282
Galatians 5 (AKJV) 2.271
Jude 1 (AKJV) 2.257
Ephesians 4 (AKJV) 2.087
Diversity: 0.975
Evenness: 0.993
Verse Prominence
Acts 24.16 (AKJV) 6.464
Acts 24.12 (AKJV) 2.174
Acts 24.12 (Vulgate) 2.174
Acts 24.12 (Tyndale) 2.173
Acts 24.15 (Geneva) 2.173
Leviticus 27.12 (Douay-Rheims) 2.173
Proverbs 7.12 (Geneva) 2.173
Proverbs 11.2 (Douay-Rheims) 2.172
Romans 7.8 (Geneva) 2.172
Acts 23.8 (Vulgate) 2.172
Ecclesiasticus 42.20 (AKJV) 2.172
Matthew 7.12 (Geneva) 2.172
1 Timothy 6.19 (ODRV) 2.172
Acts 24.5 (AKJV) 2.171
James 2.10 (Geneva) 2.171
Colossians 3.23 (AKJV) 2.171
Galatians 5.7 (AKJV) 2.171
Mark 9.46 (Tyndale) 2.169
Proverbs 20.9 (Douay-Rheims) 2.169
Revelation 2.10 (Geneva) 2.169
Lamentations 3.31 (AKJV) 2.168
1 Timothy 1.5 (AKJV) 2.167
Luke 17.13 (Tyndale) 2.166
Ecclesiasticus 5.7 (AKJV) 2.165
1 Timothy 6.17 (Geneva) 2.165
Titus 2.13 (AKJV) 2.165
Mark 9.44 (Tyndale) 2.164
1 Timothy 3.9 (AKJV) 2.164
1 Timothy 3.9 (ODRV) 2.164
Proverbs 3.34 (AKJV) 2.164
1 Timothy 1.5 (ODRV) 2.163
Proverbs 15.15 (Geneva) 2.162
John 13.17 (AKJV) 2.161
2 Corinthians 7.10 (Geneva) 2.161
Jude 1.23 (AKJV) 2.16
John 4.24 (ODRV) 2.16
1 Timothy 1.19 (AKJV) 2.159
2 Corinthians 1.12 (AKJV) 2.158
1 Corinthians 2.11 (AKJV) 2.155
1 Timothy 1.17 (Tyndale) 2.149
Ephesians 4.19 (AKJV) 2.148
Colossians 3.1 (ODRV) 2.134
Psalms 44.21 (AKJV) 2.121
Titus 2.12 (AKJV) 2.11
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: 0.929
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Joshua 6.268
Titus 6.066
Colossians 5.758
2 Timothy 5.7
James 5.635
Galatians 5.324
1 Timothy 5.305
Revelation 5.017
2 Corinthians 4.841
Proverbs 4.095
Acts 3.939
John 3.937
Luke 3.925
Matthew 2.963
Diversity: 0.941
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Joshua 24 5.81
Proverbs 15 5.79
Acts 24 5.762
Proverbs 23 5.749
2 Corinthians 1 5.709
James 2 5.694
Titus 2 5.679
John 13 5.678
John 4 5.676
2 Timothy 4 5.675
Luke 10 5.664
Revelation 2 5.658
1 Timothy 1 5.652
1 Timothy 6 5.623
Galatians 5 5.597
Colossians 3 5.566
Matthew 6 5.555
Diversity: 0.933
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Luke 10.27 6.659
Proverbs 15.15 6.657
Colossians 3.23 6.657
Galatians 5.7 6.655
2 Timothy 4.10 6.651
Proverbs 23.26 6.649
John 4.14 6.649
Matthew 6.2 6.649
Acts 24.16 6.642
James 2.10 6.641
John 13.17 6.64
1 Timothy 1.19 6.631
2 Corinthians 1.12 6.626
Colossians 3.5 6.614
Titus 2.12 6.612
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase