Early English Printed Sermons


Of perjury a sermon preach'd at the assizes held at Chester, April the 4th, 1682 / by John Allen, M.A. Fellow of Trinity College in Cambridge ...

Allen, John, M.A., Fellow of Trinity College in Cambridge
Publisher: Printed for Benj Tooke and George Atkinson
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1682
Approximate Era: CharlesII
TCP ID: A23640 ESTC ID: R8027 STC ID: A1034
Subject Headings: Perjury; Sermons, English;
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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 2.3% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 1.3% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 95.2% 100.0%
Foreign Percentage of units with foreign text 0.2% -inf%
NonLatinAlphabet Percentage of units with a NonLatinAlphabet placeholder 0.2% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 4.0% -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 0.6% -inf%
foreign_italicized Percentage of units with QP and foreign italicized text 0.2% -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: 0.844
Evenness: 0.98
Part Prominence
Old Testament (AKJV) 12.954
Apocrypha (AKJV) 7.942
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 3.948
Old Testament (Geneva) 2.565
New Testament (Tyndale) 2.478
New Testament (Geneva) 1.442
New Testament (ODRV) 1.362
Diversity: 0.938
Evenness: 0.993
Book Prominence
Leviticus (AKJV) 10.836
Zechariah (Douay-Rheims) 5.417
Joshua (AKJV) 5.413
Numbers (Douay-Rheims) 5.367
2 Peter (ODRV) 5.332
Judges (AKJV) 5.317
Numbers (AKJV) 5.284
Deuteronomy (Geneva) 5.145
James (Geneva) 5.133
Job (Douay-Rheims) 4.979
Ecclesiasticus (AKJV) 4.915
Ecclesiastes (AKJV) 4.807
Ephesians (Geneva) 4.754
Matthew (Tyndale) 4.47
Romans (Geneva) 4.095
Psalms (Geneva) 3.741
Psalms (AKJV) 2.774
Diversity: 0.938
Evenness: 0.993
Chapter Prominence
Leviticus 19 (AKJV) 11.052
Numbers 30 (Douay-Rheims) 5.553
Zechariah 5 (Douay-Rheims) 5.551
Numbers 30 (AKJV) 5.548
Judges 2 (AKJV) 5.547
Psalms 71 (Geneva) 5.543
Ecclesiasticus 7 (AKJV) 5.54
Joshua 24 (AKJV) 5.536
Deuteronomy 17 (Geneva) 5.535
Job 31 (Douay-Rheims) 5.527
Psalms 141 (AKJV) 5.525
Matthew 7 (Tyndale) 5.491
2 Peter 1 (ODRV) 5.481
James 3 (Geneva) 5.474
Romans 3 (Geneva) 5.47
Ecclesiastes 8 (AKJV) 5.465
Ephesians 5 (Geneva) 5.437
Diversity: 0.945
Evenness: 0.994
Verse Prominence
Leviticus 19.12 (AKJV) 9.996
Numbers 30.3 (AKJV) 4.999
Numbers 30.12 (Douay-Rheims) 4.999
Zechariah 5.3 (Douay-Rheims) 4.999
Ecclesiasticus 7.36 (AKJV) 4.997
Zechariah 5.4 (Douay-Rheims) 4.997
Deuteronomy 17.13 (Geneva) 4.997
Joshua 24.31 (AKJV) 4.997
Judges 2.13 (AKJV) 4.997
Job 31.28 (Douay-Rheims) 4.996
Psalms 71.11 (Geneva) 4.996
Matthew 7.20 (Tyndale) 4.995
Ephesians 5.7 (Geneva) 4.994
Job 31.11 (Douay-Rheims) 4.992
Ecclesiastes 8.2 (AKJV) 4.992
Psalms 141.3 (AKJV) 4.99
2 Peter 1.7 (ODRV) 4.987
Romans 3.18 (Geneva) 4.984
James 3.16 (Geneva) 4.972
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: 0.667
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Apocrypha 28.862
Old Testament -14.001
New Testament -14.862
Diversity: 0.909
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Ecclesiasticus 8.891
Leviticus 8.116
Judges 7.993
Numbers 7.662
2 Samuel 7.477
Ecclesiastes 7.134
Exodus 6.976
Deuteronomy 6.96
Hebrews 6.305
Matthew 4.911
Psalms 3.919
Diversity: 0.917
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Ecclesiasticus 7 8.328
Judges 11 8.316
Numbers 30 8.308
Deuteronomy 19 8.297
Psalms 35 8.28
2 Samuel 15 8.228
Leviticus 19 8.22
Deuteronomy 17 8.217
Exodus 20 8.199
Ecclesiastes 8 8.145
Hebrews 6 8.104
Matthew 5 7.777
Diversity: 0.924
Evenness: 0.991
Verse Prominence
Numbers 30.2 13.315
Judges 11.7 6.665
Judges 11.10 6.665
Judges 11.11 6.665
Ecclesiasticus 7.36 6.664
Leviticus 19.12 6.663
Psalms 35.11 6.663
Deuteronomy 17.13 6.663
Exodus 20.7 6.662
Deuteronomy 19.19 6.662
Matthew 5.33 6.66
2 Samuel 15.11 6.654
Hebrews 6.16 6.65
Ecclesiastes 8.2 6.624
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase