Early English Printed Sermons


The shepheard, or A sermon, preached at a synode in Durisme Minster, vpon Tuesday, being the fifth of April. 1608. By Thomas Oxley, Master of Artes, and preacher of Gods word

Oxley, Thomas
Publisher: Printed by W Jaggard for Eleazer Edgar and are to bee sold at his shop in Pauls church yard at the signe of the VVind mill
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1609
Approximate Era: JamesI
TCP ID: A08769 ESTC ID: S105795 STC ID: 19053
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 10.3% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 7.4% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 82.2% 100.0%
Foreign Percentage of units with foreign text 2.9% -inf%
NonLatinAlphabet Percentage of units with a NonLatinAlphabet placeholder 0.6% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 10.0% -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) 6.6% -inf%
foreign_cited Percentage of units with QP, foreign text, and an adjacent citation 1.7% -inf%
foreign_cited_exact Percentage of units with QP, foreign text, and an adjacent matching citation 1.2% -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 1.7% -inf%
foreign_italicized_cited_exact Percentage of units with QP, italicized foreign text, and an adjacent matching citation 1.2% -inf%
foreign_latin Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP and foreign text 2.3% -inf%
foreign_latin_cited Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP, foreign text, and an adjacent citation 1.4% -inf%
foreign_latin_cited_exact Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP, foreign text, and an adjacent matching citation 0.9% -inf%
foreign_latin_italicized Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP and italicized foreign text 2.3% -inf%
foreign_latin_italicized_cited Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP, an adjacent citation, and italicized foreign text 1.4% -inf%
foreign_latin_italicized_cited_exact Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP, an adjacent matching citation, and italicized foreign text 0.9% -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: 0.847
Evenness: 0.931
Part Prominence
Old Testament (AKJV) 16.525
Apocrypha (Vulgate) 6.785
Old Testament (Geneva) 4.351
New Testament (Tyndale) 4.264
New Testament (Vulgate) 2.334
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) -1.409
New Testament (Geneva) -3.916
New Testament (ODRV) -3.995
New Testament (AKJV) -5.285
Diversity: 0.975
Evenness: 0.984
Book Prominence
Ezekiel (AKJV) 7.177
1 Thessalonians (Tyndale) 3.528
Ezekiel (Geneva) 3.495
1 Peter (Geneva) 3.191
Tobit (Vulgate) 1.884
Acts (Vulgate) 1.839
Luke (Vulgate) 1.758
Judges (Douay-Rheims) 1.758
Amos (Geneva) 1.721
Numbers (Douay-Rheims) 1.698
John (Vulgate) 1.668
2 Timothy (ODRV) 1.626
1 Timothy (Tyndale) 1.599
1 Thessalonians (ODRV) 1.594
1 Thessalonians (Geneva) 1.571
2 Timothy (Geneva) 1.545
Jeremiah (Geneva) 1.438
1 Thessalonians (AKJV) 1.437
Titus (AKJV) 1.433
1 Peter (Tyndale) 1.398
1 Timothy (Geneva) 1.365
2 Timothy (AKJV) 1.355
Acts (Geneva) 1.343
Job (Douay-Rheims) 1.31
James (AKJV) 1.241
Ephesians (ODRV) 1.235
Galatians (AKJV) 1.215
Philippians (ODRV) 1.137
1 Peter (AKJV) 1.099
Ephesians (Geneva) 1.085
Acts (AKJV) 1.053
John (Geneva) 1.017
2 Corinthians (AKJV) 0.992
Genesis (AKJV) 0.988
Isaiah (Geneva) 0.981
Proverbs (Geneva) 0.956
Romans (Tyndale) 0.9
Job (AKJV) 0.893
John (ODRV) 0.831
John (AKJV) 0.703
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 0.697
1 Corinthians (Geneva) 0.615
Matthew (ODRV) 0.473
Matthew (AKJV) 0.372
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 0.319
Psalms (Geneva) 0.072
Romans (AKJV) 0.044
Diversity: 0.98
Evenness: 0.986
Chapter Prominence
Ezekiel 34 (AKJV) 6.045
Ezekiel 34 (Geneva) 3.017
1 Thessalonians 2 (Tyndale) 3.004
1 Peter 5 (Geneva) 2.95
1 Corinthians 10 (ODRV) 2.89
Tobit 4 (Vulgate) 1.515
John 21 (Vulgate) 1.514
Judges 7 (Douay-Rheims) 1.514
Acts 20 (Vulgate) 1.514
Luke 19 (Vulgate) 1.513
Numbers 11 (Douay-Rheims) 1.51
Isaiah 56 (Geneva) 1.505
Job 32 (AKJV) 1.501
Amos 6 (Geneva) 1.499
Isaiah 3 (Geneva) 1.497
Job 7 (Douay-Rheims) 1.495
Jeremiah 23 (Geneva) 1.495
John 21 (ODRV) 1.493
Acts 20 (Geneva) 1.491
Proverbs 27 (Geneva) 1.487
Job 6 (AKJV) 1.486
1 Timothy 5 (Tyndale) 1.486
Psalms 9 (Geneva) 1.482
2 Timothy 4 (ODRV) 1.482
Ephesians 3 (ODRV) 1.482
1 Thessalonians 2 (AKJV) 1.48
2 Corinthians 13 (AKJV) 1.474
John 9 (Geneva) 1.473
John 9 (ODRV) 1.473
Acts 20 (AKJV) 1.472
2 Timothy 1 (AKJV) 1.47
1 Timothy 5 (Geneva) 1.468
2 Corinthians 8 (AKJV) 1.466
1 Peter 5 (Tyndale) 1.457
1 Corinthians 9 (Geneva) 1.456
Genesis 1 (AKJV) 1.451
John 9 (AKJV) 1.45
Ephesians 3 (Geneva) 1.448
1 Corinthians 3 (ODRV) 1.442
1 Corinthians 13 (Geneva) 1.44
Romans 12 (Tyndale) 1.437
1 Corinthians 9 (AKJV) 1.427
2 Timothy 4 (Geneva) 1.421
1 Thessalonians 5 (Geneva) 1.413
James 3 (AKJV) 1.411
Matthew 25 (ODRV) 1.403
Romans 1 (AKJV) 1.403
1 Thessalonians 5 (ODRV) 1.401
Matthew 7 (ODRV) 1.395
1 Corinthians 3 (AKJV) 1.383
Galatians 6 (AKJV) 1.374
John 6 (ODRV) 1.372
Titus 2 (AKJV) 1.358
1 Peter 5 (AKJV) 1.353
Ephesians 4 (ODRV) 1.35
Matthew 5 (AKJV) 1.334
Philippians 2 (ODRV) 1.299
Matthew 5 (ODRV) 1.298
1 Corinthians 10 (AKJV) 1.213
Diversity: 0.982
Evenness: 0.987
Verse Prominence
Ezekiel 34.3 (AKJV) 5.55
Ezekiel 34.2 (AKJV) 2.777
Ezekiel 34.2 (Geneva) 2.776
1 Thessalonians 2.8 (Tyndale) 2.774
1 Corinthians 10.33 (ODRV) 2.772
1 Peter 5.4 (Geneva) 2.76
Tobit 4.9 (Vulgate) 1.389
John 21.15 (Vulgate) 1.389
Numbers 11.12 (Douay-Rheims) 1.389
Luke 19.13 (Vulgate) 1.389
John 9.15 (Geneva) 1.389
Acts 20.31 (AKJV) 1.388
Romans 1.9 (AKJV) 1.388
2 Timothy 1.3 (AKJV) 1.388
Judges 7.17 (Douay-Rheims) 1.388
Jeremiah 23.1 (Geneva) 1.388
1 Corinthians 9.11 (Geneva) 1.388
Acts 20.28 (Vulgate) 1.388
Genesis 1.17 (AKJV) 1.387
Isaiah 3.2 (Geneva) 1.387
1 Corinthians 13.1 (Geneva) 1.387
Ephesians 3.16 (ODRV) 1.387
John 9.5 (Geneva) 1.387
John 9.5 (ODRV) 1.387
John 9.5 (AKJV) 1.387
1 Corinthians 3.8 (ODRV) 1.387
Ezekiel 34.3 (Geneva) 1.387
1 Thessalonians 5.23 (Geneva) 1.386
Proverbs 27.23 (Geneva) 1.386
Isaiah 56.10 (Geneva) 1.386
Romans 12.7 (Tyndale) 1.386
1 Thessalonians 5.23 (ODRV) 1.386
Psalms 9.8 (Geneva) 1.385
1 Thessalonians 2.7 (AKJV) 1.385
Ephesians 3.14 (Geneva) 1.385
Job 6.6 (AKJV) 1.385
1 Corinthians 9.7 (AKJV) 1.385
Job 32.9 (AKJV) 1.385
Acts 20.28 (Geneva) 1.384
Amos 6.4 (Geneva) 1.384
Matthew 5.14 (AKJV) 1.384
Matthew 25.40 (ODRV) 1.384
John 6.54 (ODRV) 1.383
James 3.13 (AKJV) 1.383
1 Corinthians 3.7 (AKJV) 1.383
Ephesians 4.2 (ODRV) 1.383
1 Peter 5.2 (AKJV) 1.383
1 Peter 5.2 (Geneva) 1.383
1 Timothy 5.17 (Geneva) 1.383
John 21.16 (ODRV) 1.382
1 Timothy 5.17 (Tyndale) 1.382
2 Corinthians 13.11 (AKJV) 1.381
Job 7.1 (Douay-Rheims) 1.38
2 Timothy 4.2 (ODRV) 1.38
Matthew 7.6 (ODRV) 1.38
Galatians 6.7 (AKJV) 1.378
Titus 2.7 (AKJV) 1.375
1 Corinthians 10.24 (AKJV) 1.375
1 Peter 5.2 (Tyndale) 1.372
2 Corinthians 8.12 (AKJV) 1.371
Matthew 5.13 (ODRV) 1.371
2 Timothy 4.2 (Geneva) 1.369
1 Peter 5.11 (AKJV) 1.305
Philippians 2.8 (ODRV) 1.279
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: 0.95
Evenness: 0.995
Book Prominence
1 Peter 7.06
Titus 3.469
1 Thessalonians 3.468
Judges 3.448
Numbers 3.117
2 Timothy 3.103
Ezekiel 2.942
Philippians 2.798
Galatians 2.727
1 Timothy 2.708
Ephesians 2.383
Jeremiah 2.304
Proverbs 1.498
Acts 1.342
John 1.34
Luke 1.327
1 Corinthians 1.255
Isaiah 1.164
Romans 0.591
Matthew 0.366
Psalms -0.626
Diversity: 0.972
Evenness: 0.997
Chapter Prominence
1 Peter 5 5.212
Numbers 1 2.689
Ezekiel 34 2.667
Judges 9 2.643
Ezekiel 3 2.634
Proverbs 27 2.632
1 Thessalonians 2 2.625
Psalms 23 2.618
Jeremiah 2 2.597
John 21 2.592
1 Corinthians 8 2.592
Jeremiah 23 2.587
Jeremiah 3 2.58
Isaiah 3 2.566
1 Timothy 3 2.545
Ephesians 3 2.543
1 Corinthians 9 2.539
2 Timothy 1 2.533
1 Timothy 5 2.52
Titus 2 2.499
2 Timothy 4 2.495
Luke 19 2.492
1 Corinthians 13 2.472
1 Timothy 4 2.47
John 17 2.467
John 6 2.455
Acts 20 2.448
1 Corinthians 3 2.443
Matthew 10 2.407
Galatians 6 2.383
1 Corinthians 10 2.377
Matthew 6 2.376
Matthew 25 2.333
Philippians 3 2.33
Romans 1 2.261
Matthew 5 2.146
Diversity: 0.977
Evenness: 0.996
Verse Prominence
1 Peter 5.2 4.239
1 Peter 5.4 4.231
Numbers 1.12 2.127
Jeremiah 23.1 2.127
Judges 9.48 2.126
Ezekiel 34.16 2.125
Acts 20.31 2.124
Jeremiah 2.8 2.124
Proverbs 27.23 2.124
Matthew 10.13 2.124
Luke 19.13 2.123
Ezekiel 34.4 2.123
Ezekiel 3.20 2.123
1 Corinthians 3.8 2.123
Ezekiel 34.2 2.122
Psalms 23.2 2.122
Ephesians 3.14 2.122
2 Timothy 1.3 2.121
1 Corinthians 9.11 2.121
1 Corinthians 9.7 2.121
1 Thessalonians 2.8 2.12
Romans 1.9 2.12
Philippians 3.7 2.118
John 17.9 2.117
Isaiah 3.2 2.116
1 Peter 5.1 2.116
Matthew 25.40 2.115
Psalms 23.1 2.114
Jeremiah 3.15 2.113
1 Corinthians 3.6 2.113
Titus 2.7 2.113
Matthew 6.23 2.112
1 Corinthians 13.1 2.112
1 Corinthians 10.33 2.112
1 Corinthians 13.5 2.111
Matthew 5.13 2.111
1 Timothy 3.2 2.107
Matthew 5.14 2.106
John 21.15 2.106
1 Timothy 4.12 2.1
Galatians 6.7 2.098
1 Corinthians 8.1 2.096
2 Timothy 4.2 2.09
1 Timothy 5.17 2.088
John 6.27 2.079
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase