Early English Printed Sermons


The meteors A sermon preached at a visitation. By Michael VVigmore, Rector of Thorseway in Lincolneshire, and sometimes Fellow of Oriel Colledge in Oxford:

Wigmore, Michael, 1588 or 9-1664?
Publisher: Printed by Thomas Harper for Nathaniel Butter and are to be sold at his shop at the Pyde Bull neere S Austins Gate
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1633
Approximate Era: CharlesI
TCP ID: A15330 ESTC ID: S119961 STC ID: 25617
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 26.6% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 15.3% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 68.5% 100.0%
Foreign Percentage of units with foreign text 2.2% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 27.9% -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 0.7% -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) 6.8% -inf%
foreign_cited Percentage of units with QP, foreign text, and an adjacent citation 2.2% -inf%
foreign_cited_exact Percentage of units with QP, foreign text, and an adjacent matching citation 1.8% -inf%
foreign_italicized Percentage of units with QP and foreign italicized text 2.2% -inf%
foreign_italicized_cited Percentage of units with QP, italicized foreign text, and an adjacent citation 2.2% -inf%
foreign_italicized_cited_exact Percentage of units with QP, italicized foreign text, and an adjacent matching citation 1.8% -inf%
foreign_latin Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP and foreign text 0.9% -inf%
foreign_latin_cited Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP, foreign text, and an adjacent citation 0.9% -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 0.9% -inf%
foreign_latin_italicized_cited Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP, an adjacent citation, and italicized foreign text 0.9% -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: 0.893
Evenness: 0.987
Part Prominence
Old Testament (Vulgate) 7.408
New Testament (Geneva) 7.123
Apocrypha (Douay-Rheims) 5.687
Old Testament (ODRV) 2.722
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 0.539
Old Testament (Geneva) -0.844
New Testament (Tyndale) -0.931
New Testament (ODRV) -2.047
Old Testament (AKJV) -2.955
New Testament (AKJV) -3.337
Diversity: 0.98
Evenness: 0.995
Book Prominence
Revelation (AKJV) 3.102
John (Geneva) 2.766
Matthew (ODRV) 2.223
Ecclesiastes (Vulgate) 1.797
2 Maccabees (Douay-Rheims) 1.77
Joel (Geneva) 1.741
Canticles (Douay-Rheims) 1.697
Zechariah (Geneva) 1.691
2 Kings (AKJV) 1.586
James (Tyndale) 1.58
2 Peter (Tyndale) 1.56
Lamentations (AKJV) 1.499
Exodus (ODRV) 1.485
2 Timothy (Geneva) 1.476
2 Samuel (AKJV) 1.441
Philippians (Tyndale) 1.407
1 Samuel (AKJV) 1.399
Exodus (Geneva) 1.378
1 John (ODRV) 1.352
Galatians (Geneva) 1.335
Revelation (ODRV) 1.265
Exodus (AKJV) 1.235
Galatians (ODRV) 1.233
1 John (AKJV) 1.219
Genesis (Geneva) 1.207
Ephesians (ODRV) 1.167
Galatians (AKJV) 1.146
Acts (ODRV) 1.13
Ecclesiastes (AKJV) 1.07
Philippians (ODRV) 1.069
Philippians (AKJV) 1.056
Ephesians (Geneva) 1.016
Proverbs (Douay-Rheims) 1.01
John (Tyndale) 0.941
2 Corinthians (AKJV) 0.923
Isaiah (Geneva) 0.912
Ephesians (AKJV) 0.867
Luke (ODRV) 0.826
Job (AKJV) 0.825
John (ODRV) 0.763
Matthew (Tyndale) 0.733
Matthew (Geneva) 0.656
John (AKJV) 0.634
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 0.628
Luke (AKJV) 0.62
Psalms (ODRV) 0.608
1 Corinthians (Geneva) 0.547
Isaiah (AKJV) 0.536
Matthew (AKJV) 0.304
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 0.25
Psalms (Geneva) 0.003
Psalms (AKJV) -0.963
Diversity: 0.984
Evenness: 0.993
Chapter Prominence
John 8 (ODRV) 3.963
Revelation 2 (AKJV) 2.662
John 1 (Geneva) 2.616
Matthew 5 (ODRV) 2.486
2 Maccabees 15 (Douay-Rheims) 1.351
Ecclesiastes 11 (Vulgate) 1.351
2 Maccabees 2 (Douay-Rheims) 1.349
Matthew 17 (Tyndale) 1.345
2 Kings 7 (AKJV) 1.345
Zechariah 11 (Geneva) 1.344
Canticles 4 (Douay-Rheims) 1.343
Matthew 1 (Tyndale) 1.341
Exodus 15 (ODRV) 1.336
Genesis 17 (Geneva) 1.334
Proverbs 30 (Douay-Rheims) 1.332
Isaiah 30 (Geneva) 1.329
Revelation 1 (ODRV) 1.328
2 Samuel 23 (AKJV) 1.326
Job 19 (AKJV) 1.326
Joel 2 (Geneva) 1.326
1 John 1 (ODRV) 1.324
Isaiah 9 (Geneva) 1.323
Psalms 19 (Geneva) 1.322
1 Samuel 4 (AKJV) 1.322
Exodus 15 (Geneva) 1.321
Isaiah 9 (AKJV) 1.32
Acts 9 (ODRV) 1.318
Revelation 2 (ODRV) 1.318
James 1 (Tyndale) 1.316
Genesis 1 (Geneva) 1.315
Exodus 32 (AKJV) 1.315
Luke 2 (ODRV) 1.31
Psalms 139 (Geneva) 1.306
Ecclesiastes 11 (AKJV) 1.305
Matthew 6 (Tyndale) 1.303
Isaiah 30 (AKJV) 1.302
Psalms 77 (ODRV) 1.3
1 John 1 (AKJV) 1.296
2 Peter 1 (Tyndale) 1.294
2 Corinthians 3 (AKJV) 1.293
John 12 (ODRV) 1.293
2 Samuel 1 (AKJV) 1.292
2 Timothy 2 (Geneva) 1.283
John 14 (ODRV) 1.281
John 12 (AKJV) 1.279
1 Corinthians 3 (Geneva) 1.278
Matthew 15 (AKJV) 1.273
John 8 (AKJV) 1.27
Psalms 104 (AKJV) 1.266
John 1 (AKJV) 1.25
Matthew 25 (Geneva) 1.247
Galatians 5 (ODRV) 1.243
Luke 2 (AKJV) 1.242
John 1 (Tyndale) 1.241
Lamentations 3 (AKJV) 1.238
1 Corinthians 6 (AKJV) 1.236
Psalms 78 (AKJV) 1.234
Philippians 3 (Tyndale) 1.23
Ephesians 2 (Geneva) 1.228
Galatians 5 (Geneva) 1.223
1 Corinthians 10 (ODRV) 1.211
Galatians 6 (AKJV) 1.21
Psalms 118 (AKJV) 1.208
Ephesians 4 (ODRV) 1.186
Galatians 5 (AKJV) 1.184
Philippians 2 (ODRV) 1.135
Philippians 2 (AKJV) 1.131
Ephesians 4 (Geneva) 1.093
Ephesians 4 (AKJV) 0.999
Diversity: 0.986
Evenness: 0.993
Verse Prominence
John 8.12 (ODRV) 3.695
Matthew 5.15 (ODRV) 2.468
Revelation 2.28 (AKJV) 2.467
John 1.9 (Geneva) 2.45
2 Maccabees 15.39 (Douay-Rheims) 1.234
Canticles 4.13 (Douay-Rheims) 1.234
2 Maccabees 2.33 (Douay-Rheims) 1.234
John 1.8 (AKJV) 1.234
Matthew 17.2 (Tyndale) 1.234
Joel 2.6 (Geneva) 1.234
Ecclesiastes 11.7 (Vulgate) 1.234
Exodus 15.27 (ODRV) 1.234
Exodus 32.22 (AKJV) 1.234
Zechariah 11.8 (Geneva) 1.234
Isaiah 30.27 (AKJV) 1.234
John 12.46 (ODRV) 1.233
Joel 2.10 (Geneva) 1.233
Acts 9.3 (ODRV) 1.233
Psalms 78.3 (AKJV) 1.233
Genesis 1.13 (Geneva) 1.233
2 Kings 7.9 (AKJV) 1.233
Revelation 2.28 (ODRV) 1.233
Isaiah 9.2 (AKJV) 1.232
1 John 1.2 (ODRV) 1.232
Philippians 3.16 (Tyndale) 1.232
Isaiah 9.6 (AKJV) 1.231
Proverbs 30.12 (Douay-Rheims) 1.231
Genesis 17.18 (Geneva) 1.231
Isaiah 30.10 (Geneva) 1.231
Matthew 6.23 (Tyndale) 1.23
Matthew 1.23 (Tyndale) 1.23
Psalms 77.14 (ODRV) 1.23
2 Corinthians 3.14 (AKJV) 1.23
Genesis 1.5 (Geneva) 1.23
1 Corinthians 3.9 (Geneva) 1.23
1 Corinthians 10.33 (ODRV) 1.229
John 12.36 (AKJV) 1.229
Luke 2.11 (AKJV) 1.229
Ephesians 4.12 (ODRV) 1.229
Revelation 1.20 (ODRV) 1.229
Psalms 19.5 (Geneva) 1.228
James 1.17 (Tyndale) 1.228
John 1.8 (Tyndale) 1.228
Psalms 104.4 (AKJV) 1.228
Exodus 15.4 (Geneva) 1.228
Isaiah 9.16 (Geneva) 1.228
Job 19.25 (AKJV) 1.227
John 1.5 (Geneva) 1.227
John 14.27 (ODRV) 1.227
Matthew 25.41 (Geneva) 1.227
1 John 1.5 (AKJV) 1.225
Ecclesiastes 11.7 (AKJV) 1.225
Psalms 139.12 (Geneva) 1.225
1 Corinthians 6.16 (AKJV) 1.225
Lamentations 3.41 (AKJV) 1.225
2 Timothy 2.7 (Geneva) 1.224
Ephesians 2.4 (Geneva) 1.224
John 8.56 (AKJV) 1.223
Luke 2.14 (ODRV) 1.223
2 Samuel 23.4 (AKJV) 1.222
Philippians 2.15 (ODRV) 1.222
1 Samuel 4.22 (AKJV) 1.22
Ephesians 4.3 (ODRV) 1.218
Galatians 6.1 (AKJV) 1.217
2 Peter 1.21 (Tyndale) 1.216
Philippians 2.21 (ODRV) 1.216
Psalms 118.22 (AKJV) 1.215
Matthew 15.14 (AKJV) 1.214
Ephesians 4.11 (AKJV) 1.207
2 Samuel 1.20 (AKJV) 1.207
Galatians 5.17 (ODRV) 1.204
Philippians 2.8 (AKJV) 1.199
Galatians 5.17 (AKJV) 1.198
Galatians 5.17 (Geneva) 1.197
Ephesians 4.3 (Geneva) 1.122
Ephesians 4.3 (AKJV) 1.122
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: 0.625
Evenness: 0.946
Part Prominence
Apocrypha 20.529
New Testament 1.805
Old Testament -22.334
Diversity: 0.975
Evenness: 0.995
Book Prominence
Baruch 2.294
Joel 1.969
Jonah 1.927
1 Chronicles 1.717
Amos 1.648
Micah 1.542
John 1.445
Zechariah 1.406
Leviticus 1.351
Judges 1.228
2 Peter 1.041
Mark 1.02
Daniel 0.99
Numbers 0.897
1 John 0.891
2 Timothy 0.883
James 0.818
Ezekiel 0.722
2 Samuel 0.712
Philippians 0.578
1 Samuel 0.543
Galatians 0.507
1 Timothy 0.488
Matthew 0.471
Ecclesiastes 0.369
1 Peter 0.294
Exodus 0.21
Revelation 0.199
Deuteronomy 0.195
Ephesians 0.163
Jeremiah 0.084
Job 0.083
2 Corinthians 0.023
Genesis -0.299
Hebrews -0.46
Proverbs -0.722
Acts -0.878
Luke -0.892
1 Corinthians -0.965
Romans -1.629
Psalms -2.846
Diversity: 0.989
Evenness: 0.998
Chapter Prominence
John 8 1.823
Matthew 5 1.484
Baruch 1 1.014
Leviticus 22 1.014
Numbers 33 1.012
1 Chronicles 11 1.011
Exodus 31 1.003
Ezekiel 4 1.0
Joel 1 0.992
Ezekiel 8 0.992
Micah 5 0.99
Job 36 0.99
Numbers 24 0.988
Genesis 30 0.986
Ezekiel 13 0.985
Zechariah 11 0.982
Psalms 141 0.979
Genesis 13 0.972
Jonah 4 0.971
Deuteronomy 21 0.969
Amos 8 0.967
Psalms 35 0.967
1 Samuel 4 0.957
Job 19 0.954
Exodus 19 0.952
Mark 8 0.95
2 Samuel 2 0.949
Acts 6 0.94
2 Samuel 1 0.932
Psalms 104 0.929
Matthew 2 0.928
Genesis 17 0.923
Joel 2 0.916
Acts 19 0.906
Jeremiah 23 0.905
Deuteronomy 17 0.904
1 John 1 0.898
John 9 0.896
Matthew 17 0.894
Psalms 39 0.894
Hebrews 7 0.891
1 Samuel 15 0.887
Psalms 139 0.886
Daniel 4 0.885
Ecclesiastes 11 0.883
Proverbs 30 0.883
Exodus 32 0.877
Revelation 22 0.876
Matthew 9 0.875
2 Corinthians 3 0.874
Psalms 19 0.871
Revelation 1 0.868
Judges 5 0.868
Psalms 18 0.864
Matthew 4 0.861
Genesis 1 0.857
John 12 0.855
2 Timothy 1 0.851
Matthew 3 0.846
1 Samuel 2 0.846
Acts 9 0.844
1 Corinthians 4 0.843
Matthew 21 0.834
John 10 0.829
Galatians 4 0.819
2 Timothy 4 0.813
Luke 2 0.807
Luke 10 0.802
John 15 0.799
Revelation 2 0.796
Luke 1 0.796
Matthew 12 0.796
Philippians 4 0.791
1 Corinthians 13 0.789
2 Timothy 2 0.782
Psalms 50 0.771
1 Timothy 2 0.767
1 Timothy 6 0.762
1 Corinthians 3 0.761
Matthew 13 0.757
Genesis 3 0.753
2 Peter 1 0.747
John 14 0.742
James 1 0.742
Matthew 11 0.74
Galatians 5 0.735
Hebrews 10 0.727
John 1 0.724
Galatians 6 0.7
Philippians 2 0.692
Matthew 25 0.65
Luke 12 0.648
Philippians 3 0.648
Romans 1 0.578
Ephesians 4 0.556
1 Peter 2 0.525
Diversity: 0.991
Evenness: 0.999
Verse Prominence
John 8.12 1.644
Matthew 5.14 1.632
Psalms 18.9 0.826
Job 36.32 0.826
Joel 1.10 0.826
Joel 2.6 0.826
Numbers 33.9 0.826
1 Samuel 15.31 0.826
Genesis 30.32 0.826
Leviticus 22.22 0.826
Ezekiel 8.16 0.826
Jeremiah 23.31 0.826
Matthew 11.13 0.825
John 12.46 0.825
Psalms 104.2 0.825
Exodus 32.22 0.825
1 Samuel 15.35 0.825
Deuteronomy 21.12 0.825
Psalms 35.25 0.825
Revelation 2.28 0.824
Zechariah 11.8 0.824
Ezekiel 4.1 0.824
2 Corinthians 3.15 0.824
Hebrews 7.12 0.824
Acts 9.8 0.824
John 12.36 0.824
John 8.11 0.824
Exodus 19.18 0.824
Genesis 17.18 0.824
Exodus 31.2 0.824
Revelation 1.9 0.823
Mark 8.24 0.823
Galatians 4.17 0.823
Jonah 4.1 0.823
2 Timothy 4.14 0.823
Ezekiel 13.10 0.823
Ezekiel 13.19 0.823
2 Samuel 2.9 0.823
2 Corinthians 3.14 0.822
John 1.19 0.822
Matthew 2.9 0.822
Luke 10.1 0.822
1 Timothy 2.7 0.822
1 Samuel 15.30 0.822
Baruch 1.11 0.822
Daniel 4.33 0.822
Psalms 39.3 0.822
Deuteronomy 17.13 0.822
1 Samuel 2.36 0.822
Ezekiel 13.18 0.822
2 Timothy 2.7 0.822
Luke 1.78 0.821
Hebrews 10.10 0.821
Psalms 139.12 0.821
Acts 6.6 0.821
Ecclesiastes 11.7 0.82
Matthew 4.2 0.82
Psalms 50.17 0.82
Psalms 19.5 0.819
1 John 1.5 0.819
Matthew 9.36 0.819
Judges 5.15 0.819
2 Samuel 1.20 0.819
Acts 19.24 0.819
Proverbs 30.12 0.819
1 Corinthians 13.13 0.818
Luke 10.30 0.818
1 John 1.1 0.818
Matthew 21.42 0.818
Philippians 4.3 0.818
Revelation 22.16 0.817
Luke 2.11 0.817
Revelation 1.20 0.817
John 9.5 0.816
Psalms 104.4 0.816
John 8.56 0.815
Jeremiah 23.24 0.815
Amos 8.9 0.815
1 Timothy 6.16 0.815
1 Samuel 4.21 0.815
Numbers 24.17 0.814
Matthew 9.12 0.814
Matthew 12.20 0.814
2 Peter 1.21 0.813
Hebrews 10.1 0.813
Matthew 17.2 0.813
1 Peter 2.25 0.813
John 10.11 0.812
1 Corinthians 3.9 0.812
Psalms 141.5 0.811
John 1.5 0.81
John 15.1 0.81
Matthew 5.13 0.81
Job 19.25 0.807
2 Timothy 1.6 0.807
Genesis 13.8 0.807
Luke 12.42 0.806
John 1.9 0.804
Matthew 3.17 0.804
Philippians 2.15 0.801
John 14.27 0.801
Galatians 5.17 0.801
Philippians 3.13 0.801
1 Corinthians 4.1 0.799
Luke 2.14 0.799
Galatians 4.4 0.795
2 Corinthians 3.18 0.794
Ephesians 4.12 0.793
John 14.6 0.791
Philippians 3.16 0.79
1 Peter 2.9 0.789
Galatians 6.1 0.786
Ephesians 4.3 0.784
Matthew 25.41 0.78
1 Corinthians 13.12 0.777
Genesis 3.15 0.777
Ephesians 4.11 0.776
James 1.17 0.774
Romans 1.20 0.76
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase