Early English Printed Sermons


No reason to desire new revelations a sermon preach'd at the Cathedral-Church of St. Paul, October 7th, 1700, being the seventh for the year 1700, of the lecture founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq. / by Ofspring Blackall ...

Blackall, Offspring, 1654-1716
Publisher: Printed by J Leake for Walter Kettilby
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1700
Approximate Era: WilliamAndMary
TCP ID: A28272 ESTC ID: R18677 STC ID: B3047
Subject Headings: Church of England; God -- Will; Repentance; 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 2.9% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 2.1% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 92.4% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 5.3% -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) 2.0% -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: 0.781
Evenness: 0.885
Part Prominence
New Testament (AKJV) 25.072
New Testament (Tyndale) 8.728
New Testament (Douay-Rheims) 6.05
Apocrypha (AKJV) 1.692
New Testament (Geneva) 1.442
New Testament (ODRV) 1.362
Old Testament (AKJV) -5.796
Diversity: 0.947
Evenness: 0.949
Book Prominence
Luke (AKJV) 14.187
Luke (Tyndale) 6.917
Luke (Geneva) 4.229
Luke (ODRV) 4.136
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 3.56
2 Timothy (Douay-Rheims) 2.546
Titus (Tyndale) 2.431
Mark (Tyndale) 2.409
2 Timothy (Tyndale) 2.353
Wisdom (AKJV) 2.249
2 Corinthians (Tyndale) 2.121
1 John (Geneva) 2.104
1 John (ODRV) 2.098
1 Timothy (Geneva) 2.042
Acts (ODRV) 1.876
Hebrews (ODRV) 1.852
Hebrews (Geneva) 1.822
Acts (AKJV) 1.73
John (Geneva) 1.694
1 Corinthians (Tyndale) 1.691
2 Corinthians (AKJV) 1.669
Ephesians (AKJV) 1.613
Hebrews (AKJV) 1.536
John (ODRV) 1.509
Matthew (Geneva) 1.402
John (AKJV) 1.38
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 1.374
Isaiah (AKJV) 1.282
Psalms (AKJV) -0.217
Diversity: 0.954
Evenness: 0.955
Chapter Prominence
Luke 16 (AKJV) 13.866
Luke 16 (Tyndale) 6.905
1 Corinthians 4 (AKJV) 4.584
Luke 16 (Geneva) 4.583
Luke 16 (ODRV) 4.573
2 Timothy 3 (Douay-Rheims) 2.314
Isaiah 41 (AKJV) 2.31
Mark 16 (Tyndale) 2.294
Wisdom 2 (AKJV) 2.293
Psalms 12 (AKJV) 2.292
1 Corinthians 4 (Tyndale) 2.291
1 Corinthians 4 (ODRV) 2.288
John 12 (Geneva) 2.287
Acts 26 (AKJV) 2.285
Titus 1 (Tyndale) 2.284
John 9 (ODRV) 2.284
2 Timothy 1 (Tyndale) 2.281
Acts 2 (ODRV) 2.28
2 Corinthians 11 (AKJV) 2.274
2 Corinthians 4 (Tyndale) 2.267
Matthew 12 (Geneva) 2.263
1 Timothy 4 (Geneva) 2.254
1 John 2 (Geneva) 2.252
John 15 (AKJV) 2.248
Hebrews 11 (ODRV) 2.241
Hebrews 6 (AKJV) 2.24
Ephesians 6 (AKJV) 2.236
1 John 5 (ODRV) 2.235
Hebrews 9 (AKJV) 2.227
John 3 (AKJV) 2.227
John 3 (ODRV) 2.226
Hebrews 13 (Geneva) 2.223
1 Corinthians 15 (AKJV) 2.123
Diversity: 0.966
Evenness: 0.962
Verse Prominence
Luke 16.30 (AKJV) 10.707
Luke 16.31 (Tyndale) 5.35
Luke 16.29 (Tyndale) 5.35
Luke 16.31 (Geneva) 3.57
1 Corinthians 4.9 (AKJV) 3.568
Luke 16.29 (AKJV) 3.567
Luke 16.31 (ODRV) 3.566
Luke 16.30 (Geneva) 1.785
1 Corinthians 4.10 (Tyndale) 1.785
Matthew 12.39 (Geneva) 1.785
Wisdom 2.11 (AKJV) 1.785
2 Corinthians 11.25 (AKJV) 1.784
1 Corinthians 4.11 (ODRV) 1.784
1 John 5.10 (ODRV) 1.784
Mark 16.20 (Tyndale) 1.784
Acts 2.41 (ODRV) 1.784
Isaiah 41.21 (AKJV) 1.784
2 Corinthians 11.27 (AKJV) 1.783
2 Corinthians 11.24 (AKJV) 1.783
John 9.32 (ODRV) 1.783
2 Corinthians 11.26 (AKJV) 1.782
2 Corinthians 11.28 (AKJV) 1.782
1 Corinthians 4.12 (AKJV) 1.782
Psalms 12.2 (AKJV) 1.782
1 John 2.25 (Geneva) 1.781
Hebrews 6.9 (AKJV) 1.781
1 Corinthians 15.12 (AKJV) 1.78
Titus 1.2 (Tyndale) 1.779
Acts 26.28 (AKJV) 1.779
John 12.37 (Geneva) 1.779
1 Corinthians 4.13 (AKJV) 1.778
Hebrews 13.22 (Geneva) 1.778
John 3.19 (ODRV) 1.776
Hebrews 9.26 (AKJV) 1.776
2 Timothy 3.17 (Douay-Rheims) 1.776
John 15.22 (AKJV) 1.775
Ephesians 6.12 (AKJV) 1.774
Hebrews 11.1 (ODRV) 1.774
2 Corinthians 4.18 (Tyndale) 1.773
John 3.19 (AKJV) 1.773
Psalms 12.1 (AKJV) 1.772
2 Timothy 1.10 (Tyndale) 1.758
1 Timothy 4.8 (Geneva) 1.753
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: 0.667
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Apocrypha 28.862
Old Testament -14.001
New Testament -14.862
Diversity: 0.909
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Wisdom 8.868
Mark 7.785
2 Timothy 7.648
Hebrews 6.305
Acts 5.888
John 5.885
Luke 5.873
1 Corinthians 5.801
Isaiah 5.709
Matthew 4.911
Psalms 3.919
Diversity: 0.947
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Wisdom 2 5.244
Isaiah 41 5.209
Mark 8 5.192
Psalms 12 5.153
John 9 5.139
Acts 26 5.13
1 Corinthians 9 5.099
John 12 5.098
Luke 10 5.044
John 15 5.042
Matthew 12 5.039
Acts 13 5.037
Hebrews 6 5.034
2 Timothy 3 4.966
John 3 4.93
Hebrews 13 4.902
Luke 12 4.891
1 Corinthians 15 4.829
Hebrews 11 4.817
Diversity: 0.952
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
John 12.10 4.761
Wisdom 2.11 4.761
Mark 8.12 4.76
John 9.32 4.759
Isaiah 41.21 4.759
Luke 10.1 4.758
John 9.39 4.758
Hebrews 13.22 4.757
1 Corinthians 15.6 4.755
Matthew 12.39 4.754
Psalms 12.2 4.751
Hebrews 6.9 4.751
Acts 26.28 4.749
John 9.11 4.749
John 15.22 4.749
Acts 13.46 4.747
Psalms 12.1 4.747
Luke 12.47 4.744
John 3.19 4.741
2 Timothy 3.15 4.729
Hebrews 11.1 4.717
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase