Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon preached at Westminster-Abby by Thomas Aston, M.A.

Aston, Thomas, b. 1649 or 50
Publisher: s n
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1691
Approximate Era: WilliamAndMary
TCP ID: A26108 ESTC ID: R29126 STC ID: A4082
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 11.6% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 6.6% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 75.7% 100.0%
Foreign Percentage of units with foreign text 0.6% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 23.2% -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) 11.0% -inf%
foreign_cited Percentage of units with QP, foreign text, and an adjacent citation 0.6% -inf%
foreign_cited_exact Percentage of units with QP, foreign text, and an adjacent matching citation 0.6% -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 0.6% -inf%
foreign_italicized_cited_exact Percentage of units with QP, italicized foreign text, and an adjacent matching citation 0.6% -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: 0.889
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
New Testament (Vulgate) 6.303
Old Testament (ODRV) 4.742
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 2.559
Old Testament (Geneva) 1.177
New Testament (Tyndale) 1.09
New Testament (Geneva) 0.053
New Testament (ODRV) -0.027
Old Testament (AKJV) -0.935
New Testament (AKJV) -1.317
Diversity: 0.967
Evenness: 0.997
Book Prominence
Proverbs (AKJV) 4.847
2 Timothy (Tyndale) 2.913
4 Kings (Douay-Rheims) 2.91
1 Corinthians (Vulgate) 2.879
Deuteronomy (Geneva) 2.715
2 Peter (AKJV) 2.706
James (Geneva) 2.703
1 John (Tyndale) 2.676
Jeremiah (Geneva) 2.676
1 Thessalonians (AKJV) 2.675
James (ODRV) 2.666
Ephesians (ODRV) 2.473
Jeremiah (AKJV) 2.472
2 Corinthians (Geneva) 2.377
Ecclesiastes (AKJV) 2.376
Philippians (AKJV) 2.363
1 Peter (AKJV) 2.338
Ephesians (Geneva) 2.323
Isaiah (Douay-Rheims) 2.249
John (Tyndale) 2.248
Proverbs (Geneva) 2.194
Luke (ODRV) 2.133
Matthew (Tyndale) 2.039
John (AKJV) 1.941
Luke (AKJV) 1.927
Psalms (ODRV) 1.915
Romans (ODRV) 1.875
Matthew (AKJV) 1.61
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 1.557
Psalms (Geneva) 1.31
Psalms (AKJV) 0.344
Diversity: 0.976
Evenness: 0.996
Chapter Prominence
Psalms 32 (AKJV) 4.402
Proverbs 4 (AKJV) 4.36
Psalms 61 (ODRV) 2.216
4 Kings 10 (Douay-Rheims) 2.215
Jeremiah 10 (Geneva) 2.215
Deuteronomy 30 (Geneva) 2.214
Jeremiah 12 (AKJV) 2.21
1 Corinthians 1 (Vulgate) 2.21
4 Kings 20 (Douay-Rheims) 2.21
Psalms 62 (Geneva) 2.205
Psalms 125 (AKJV) 2.204
Psalms 15 (Geneva) 2.203
Psalms 84 (Geneva) 2.196
Proverbs 4 (Geneva) 2.195
Psalms 120 (AKJV) 2.191
1 Corinthians 5 (AKJV) 2.188
Psalms 45 (AKJV) 2.187
2 Corinthians 8 (Geneva) 2.185
Psalms 26 (AKJV) 2.183
Matthew 12 (Tyndale) 2.182
2 Timothy 3 (Tyndale) 2.178
Isaiah 1 (Douay-Rheims) 2.178
John 14 (Tyndale) 2.165
Romans 9 (ODRV) 2.163
1 John 2 (Tyndale) 2.163
Luke 20 (ODRV) 2.16
John 8 (Tyndale) 2.157
James 3 (ODRV) 2.152
James 1 (Geneva) 2.147
Proverbs 23 (AKJV) 2.145
John 16 (AKJV) 2.14
Proverbs 11 (AKJV) 2.136
Luke 6 (AKJV) 2.133
Ecclesiastes 7 (AKJV) 2.13
Psalms 51 (AKJV) 2.124
Matthew 7 (AKJV) 2.089
2 Peter 1 (AKJV) 2.085
Philippians 3 (AKJV) 2.071
Ephesians 4 (ODRV) 2.057
1 Peter 2 (AKJV) 2.057
1 Thessalonians 5 (AKJV) 2.054
Matthew 6 (AKJV) 2.051
Ephesians 4 (Geneva) 1.964
Diversity: 0.977
Evenness: 0.996
Verse Prominence
Psalms 32.2 (AKJV) 4.249
Proverbs 4.23 (AKJV) 4.233
Psalms 61.10 (ODRV) 2.127
Jeremiah 10.10 (Geneva) 2.127
Psalms 26.1 (AKJV) 2.127
Psalms 125.4 (AKJV) 2.126
Isaiah 1.13 (Douay-Rheims) 2.126
Jeremiah 12.2 (AKJV) 2.126
2 Corinthians 8.21 (Geneva) 2.126
Ephesians 4.25 (Geneva) 2.125
Proverbs 11.20 (AKJV) 2.125
4 Kings 10.19 (Douay-Rheims) 2.125
Deuteronomy 30.14 (Geneva) 2.125
James 1.18 (Geneva) 2.125
1 Corinthians 1.12 (Vulgate) 2.125
Psalms 120.2 (AKJV) 2.125
Psalms 84.11 (Geneva) 2.124
2 Peter 1.12 (AKJV) 2.124
1 Corinthians 5.8 (AKJV) 2.124
Romans 9.1 (ODRV) 2.124
Proverbs 4.23 (Geneva) 2.124
John 8.31 (Tyndale) 2.124
2 Timothy 3.16 (Tyndale) 2.123
Psalms 62.9 (Geneva) 2.123
Matthew 7.17 (AKJV) 2.123
Psalms 51.6 (AKJV) 2.122
Matthew 7.12 (AKJV) 2.122
Matthew 12.35 (Tyndale) 2.122
Psalms 45.1 (AKJV) 2.121
Ecclesiastes 7.29 (AKJV) 2.121
Luke 20.47 (ODRV) 2.121
1 John 2.19 (Tyndale) 2.121
Luke 6.45 (AKJV) 2.119
4 Kings 20.3 (Douay-Rheims) 2.119
Psalms 15.2 (Geneva) 2.117
Proverbs 23.23 (AKJV) 2.116
Matthew 6.10 (AKJV) 2.116
Ephesians 4.14 (ODRV) 2.114
John 16.13 (AKJV) 2.113
1 Thessalonians 5.21 (AKJV) 2.112
1 Peter 2.2 (AKJV) 2.111
Philippians 3.8 (AKJV) 2.11
John 14.6 (Tyndale) 2.11
Psalms 51.17 (AKJV) 2.105
James 3.17 (ODRV) 2.102
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
Micah 8.307
James 7.583
Ezekiel 7.487
1 Peter 7.06
Ephesians 6.929
Jeremiah 6.849
Proverbs 6.043
Acts 5.888
Luke 5.873
1 Corinthians 5.801
Psalms 3.919
Diversity: 0.929
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Psalms 26 7.094
Jeremiah 12 7.086
Proverbs 4 7.051
Ezekiel 33 7.03
Acts 19 7.028
Micah 6 7.017
1 Corinthians 5 7.016
Proverbs 23 7.01
Proverbs 11 7.006
Luke 6 7.001
James 3 6.988
Psalms 51 6.938
Ephesians 4 6.678
1 Peter 2 6.647
Diversity: 0.929
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Jeremiah 12.3 7.139
Luke 6.45 7.139
Psalms 26.1 7.139
Proverbs 11.2 7.139
Jeremiah 12.2 7.136
Ephesians 4.25 7.135
Acts 19.24 7.135
Psalms 51.6 7.134
1 Corinthians 5.8 7.132
Proverbs 23.23 7.132
Proverbs 4.23 7.118
Ezekiel 33.31 7.115
1 Peter 2.2 7.111
James 3.17 7.096
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase