Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon preacht in Bridgewater, the next day after the election of burgesses, February 27, 1680/1 by William Allen, B.D., and Vicar of Bridgewater, Somerset.

Allen, William, fl. 1681-1697
Publisher: Printed for G S
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1681
Approximate Era: CharlesII
TCP ID: A23679 ESTC ID: R9086 STC ID: A1079
Subject Headings: Bible. -- O.T. -- Proverbs XXI, 15;
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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 7.6% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 3.8% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 82.9% 100.0%
NonLatinAlphabet Percentage of units with a NonLatinAlphabet placeholder 0.5% -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 0.7% -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) 2.4% -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: 0.875
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Apocrypha (Douay-Rheims) 9.097
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
Old Testament (AKJV) 0.454
New Testament (AKJV) 0.072
Diversity: 0.949
Evenness: 0.965
Book Prominence
Proverbs (Douay-Rheims) 14.817
2 Peter (ODRV) 2.902
1 Kings (Douay-Rheims) 2.849
Revelation (Tyndale) 2.746
1 Samuel (AKJV) 2.706
1 Peter (Tyndale) 2.636
1 Timothy (ODRV) 2.601
Ephesians (ODRV) 2.473
Galatians (AKJV) 2.453
Ecclesiasticus (Douay-Rheims) 2.447
1 Timothy (AKJV) 2.417
Ephesians (Geneva) 2.323
Acts (AKJV) 2.291
Isaiah (Douay-Rheims) 2.249
Isaiah (Geneva) 2.219
Proverbs (Geneva) 2.194
Job (AKJV) 2.131
Hebrews (AKJV) 2.097
Matthew (Geneva) 1.963
Luke (AKJV) 1.927
Isaiah (AKJV) 1.842
Proverbs (AKJV) 1.722
Matthew (ODRV) 1.712
Romans (Geneva) 1.665
Matthew (AKJV) 1.61
Psalms (Geneva) 1.31
Romans (AKJV) 1.282
Psalms (AKJV) 0.344
Diversity: 0.961
Evenness: 0.972
Chapter Prominence
Proverbs 21 (Douay-Rheims) 12.782
Psalms 65 (Geneva) 2.556
Revelation 19 (Tyndale) 2.552
Isaiah 33 (Douay-Rheims) 2.552
1 Kings 15 (Douay-Rheims) 2.551
Ecclesiasticus 39 (Douay-Rheims) 2.551
Isaiah 3 (Geneva) 2.546
Acts 23 (AKJV) 2.541
Job 12 (AKJV) 2.54
Proverbs 4 (Geneva) 2.537
Psalms 149 (AKJV) 2.535
Proverbs 11 (Geneva) 2.528
Matthew 19 (Geneva) 2.527
Isaiah 3 (AKJV) 2.525
Psalms 127 (AKJV) 2.521
1 Samuel 12 (AKJV) 2.519
Matthew 19 (ODRV) 2.518
Matthew 19 (AKJV) 2.51
Luke 19 (AKJV) 2.505
Romans 11 (Geneva) 2.501
Proverbs 21 (AKJV) 2.5
Galatians 4 (AKJV) 2.491
2 Peter 1 (ODRV) 2.489
Ephesians 6 (Geneva) 2.481
Acts 24 (AKJV) 2.481
Ephesians 2 (ODRV) 2.48
Psalms 145 (AKJV) 2.48
Proverbs 11 (AKJV) 2.478
1 Timothy 1 (AKJV) 2.475
1 Timothy 6 (ODRV) 2.47
Psalms 144 (AKJV) 2.437
Romans 3 (AKJV) 2.435
1 Peter 2 (Tyndale) 2.403
Ephesians 4 (ODRV) 2.399
Hebrews 10 (AKJV) 2.387
Diversity: 0.961
Evenness: 0.972
Verse Prominence
Proverbs 21.15 (Douay-Rheims) 12.815
Proverbs 11.11 (Geneva) 2.563
Ecclesiasticus 39.27 (Douay-Rheims) 2.563
1 Kings 15.14 (Douay-Rheims) 2.562
Acts 23.1 (AKJV) 2.562
Matthew 19.8 (ODRV) 2.561
Isaiah 3.10 (Geneva) 2.561
Isaiah 33.14 (Douay-Rheims) 2.561
Psalms 65.7 (Geneva) 2.56
Job 12.22 (AKJV) 2.56
Matthew 19.8 (AKJV) 2.56
Matthew 19.8 (Geneva) 2.56
Isaiah 3.4 (AKJV) 2.559
Revelation 19.16 (Tyndale) 2.559
Ephesians 2.7 (ODRV) 2.559
1 Samuel 12.3 (AKJV) 2.559
Proverbs 11.10 (AKJV) 2.558
Proverbs 4.18 (Geneva) 2.558
1 Timothy 6.3 (ODRV) 2.557
2 Peter 1.19 (ODRV) 2.555
1 Timothy 1.9 (AKJV) 2.555
Ephesians 6.2 (Geneva) 2.554
Luke 19.46 (AKJV) 2.553
Romans 3.27 (AKJV) 2.552
Ephesians 4.14 (ODRV) 2.551
Romans 11.33 (Geneva) 2.55
Psalms 149.8 (AKJV) 2.548
Psalms 145.17 (AKJV) 2.546
Galatians 4.18 (AKJV) 2.546
Hebrews 10.23 (AKJV) 2.543
Proverbs 21.1 (AKJV) 2.542
1 Peter 2.14 (Tyndale) 2.536
Psalms 127.1 (AKJV) 2.534
Psalms 144.15 (AKJV) 2.51
Acts 24.16 (AKJV) 2.507
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: 0.909
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
1 Samuel 7.308
Galatians 7.272
1 Timothy 7.253
Revelation 6.965
Deuteronomy 6.96
Job 6.848
2 Corinthians 6.789
Proverbs 6.043
Isaiah 5.709
Romans 5.136
Psalms 3.919
Diversity: 0.933
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Isaiah 48 6.621
Psalms 127 6.618
Job 31 6.576
Deuteronomy 33 6.572
1 Samuel 12 6.555
Isaiah 3 6.53
Proverbs 21 6.527
Proverbs 14 6.504
2 Corinthians 1 6.494
Galatians 4 6.465
Romans 11 6.461
Revelation 3 6.451
1 Timothy 1 6.436
Isaiah 1 6.351
Romans 2 6.333
Diversity: 0.941
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Job 31.21 5.88
Proverbs 21.15 5.878
Isaiah 48.18 5.874
Isaiah 3.4 5.873
1 Timothy 1.10 5.872
Romans 2.1 5.87
Revelation 3.16 5.869
Isaiah 1.19 5.866
1 Timothy 1.9 5.864
Proverbs 21.1 5.863
Psalms 127.1 5.863
Galatians 4.18 5.863
Deuteronomy 33.5 5.86
1 Samuel 12.3 5.854
Romans 11.33 5.848
Proverbs 14.34 5.846
2 Corinthians 1.12 5.842
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase