Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon preached before the honourable House of Commons, at St. Margaret's Westminster, January 30th,1698/9 by Ofspring Blackall ...

Blackall, Offspring, 1654-1716
Publisher: Printed by J Leake for Walter Kettilby
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1699
Approximate Era: WilliamAndMary
TCP ID: A28278 ESTC ID: R13120 STC ID: B3053
Subject Headings: Sermons -- England -- 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 8.1% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 5.5% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 85.0% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 11.8% -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) 6.9% -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: 0.791
Evenness: 0.89
Part Prominence
New Testament (AKJV) 20.906
New Testament (ODRV) 8.862
Old Testament (AKJV) 7.954
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) -1.885
Old Testament (Geneva) -3.268
New Testament (Tyndale) -3.355
New Testament (Geneva) -4.392
Diversity: 0.946
Evenness: 0.952
Book Prominence
John (AKJV) 12.705
Job (AKJV) 7.34
John (ODRV) 7.278
Romans (Geneva) 4.095
4 Kings (Douay-Rheims) 2.562
Ecclesiastes (Douay-Rheims) 2.364
James (Geneva) 2.356
Acts (Tyndale) 2.244
1 Peter (Geneva) 2.196
James (AKJV) 2.132
Ephesians (ODRV) 2.126
Galatians (AKJV) 2.106
Acts (ODRV) 2.09
Job (Geneva) 2.078
Hebrews (Geneva) 2.036
Ecclesiastes (AKJV) 2.029
Luke (Tyndale) 2.002
John (Geneva) 1.908
2 Corinthians (AKJV) 1.883
Hebrews (AKJV) 1.75
Matthew (Geneva) 1.616
Romans (ODRV) 1.527
Matthew (ODRV) 1.364
Matthew (AKJV) 1.263
Psalms (Geneva) 0.963
Romans (AKJV) 0.935
Psalms (AKJV) -0.004
Diversity: 0.961
Evenness: 0.963
Chapter Prominence
John 9 (AKJV) 11.046
John 9 (ODRV) 6.625
Job 1 (AKJV) 6.62
Romans 3 (Geneva) 4.359
Acts 28 (Tyndale) 2.216
Acts 28 (ODRV) 2.215
4 Kings 22 (Douay-Rheims) 2.213
Job 2 (AKJV) 2.205
Job 3 (Geneva) 2.202
Hebrews 5 (AKJV) 2.186
Psalms 85 (Geneva) 2.186
Job 3 (AKJV) 2.185
Psalms 85 (AKJV) 2.185
Ecclesiastes 5 (AKJV) 2.183
John 9 (Geneva) 2.18
Luke 6 (Tyndale) 2.174
Ecclesiastes 7 (Douay-Rheims) 2.17
Matthew 23 (Geneva) 2.148
James 1 (Geneva) 2.147
Ecclesiastes 9 (AKJV) 2.145
Ephesians 2 (ODRV) 2.138
Ecclesiastes 7 (AKJV) 2.13
Psalms 103 (AKJV) 2.126
Romans 11 (AKJV) 2.112
Hebrews 12 (Geneva) 2.112
Romans 3 (ODRV) 2.098
Psalms 119 (Geneva) 2.096
Hebrews 12 (AKJV) 2.093
1 Peter 2 (Geneva) 2.084
2 Corinthians 4 (AKJV) 2.082
James 1 (AKJV) 2.077
Galatians 5 (AKJV) 2.054
Romans 2 (AKJV) 2.052
Matthew 5 (AKJV) 2.041
Matthew 5 (ODRV) 2.006
Psalms 119 (AKJV) 2.002
Diversity: 0.968
Evenness: 0.968
Verse Prominence
John 9.3 (AKJV) 9.255
John 9.2 (ODRV) 5.55
Job 1.8 (AKJV) 5.55
John 9.3 (ODRV) 3.702
Romans 3.8 (Geneva) 3.7
Romans 3.8 (ODRV) 3.691
John 9.20 (Geneva) 1.852
Luke 6.22 (Tyndale) 1.852
Psalms 119.125 (AKJV) 1.851
John 9.20 (ODRV) 1.851
John 9.1 (ODRV) 1.851
Ecclesiastes 5.15 (AKJV) 1.851
1 Peter 2.21 (Geneva) 1.851
Matthew 23.30 (Geneva) 1.851
John 9.1 (AKJV) 1.85
Romans 2.2 (AKJV) 1.85
Acts 28.3 (Tyndale) 1.85
Job 2.3 (AKJV) 1.85
Job 3.22 (AKJV) 1.85
Acts 28.4 (ODRV) 1.849
Job 3.20 (Geneva) 1.849
Psalms 85.5 (AKJV) 1.849
Psalms 85.5 (Geneva) 1.849
4 Kings 22.2 (Douay-Rheims) 1.848
Hebrews 5.8 (AKJV) 1.848
James 1.4 (Geneva) 1.847
James 1.2 (AKJV) 1.847
Galatians 5.19 (AKJV) 1.847
Matthew 5.10 (AKJV) 1.846
Romans 3.10 (ODRV) 1.845
Hebrews 12.10 (Geneva) 1.845
Ephesians 2.20 (ODRV) 1.844
Psalms 119.71 (Geneva) 1.843
James 1.3 (AKJV) 1.842
Psalms 103.13 (AKJV) 1.842
Ecclesiastes 7.20 (AKJV) 1.84
Matthew 5.12 (AKJV) 1.838
Ecclesiastes 9.2 (AKJV) 1.837
Ecclesiastes 7.2 (Douay-Rheims) 1.835
Hebrews 12.11 (AKJV) 1.833
Romans 11.33 (AKJV) 1.815
2 Corinthians 4.17 (AKJV) 1.809
Matthew 5.3 (ODRV) 1.798
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: 0.5
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Old Testament 2.666
New Testament 1.805
Diversity: 0.929
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
2 Kings 5.825
James 5.635
Ezekiel 5.539
Ecclesiastes 5.186
1 Peter 5.112
Exodus 5.028
Job 4.9
2 Corinthians 4.841
Hebrews 4.357
Acts 3.939
John 3.937
Romans 3.188
Matthew 2.963
Psalms 1.971
Diversity: 0.962
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
2 Kings 22 3.801
Job 4 3.793
Ezekiel 9 3.791
2 Kings 23 3.782
Acts 28 3.778
Psalms 36 3.764
Exodus 34 3.764
Job 2 3.759
Ecclesiastes 3 3.756
Job 3 3.741
Job 5 3.729
John 9 3.722
Hebrews 5 3.713
Ecclesiastes 9 3.68
Job 1 3.678
Hebrews 2 3.66
Romans 11 3.641
2 Corinthians 4 3.617
Ecclesiastes 7 3.607
Romans 3 3.604
James 1 3.567
Acts 2 3.544
Psalms 119 3.45
Hebrews 12 3.443
1 Peter 2 3.351
Matthew 5 3.29
Diversity: 0.979
Evenness: 0.994
Verse Prominence
Job 2.6 5.552
Job 4.11 1.851
Job 4.6 1.851
Job 3.22 1.85
Ecclesiastes 3.14 1.85
Job 4.8 1.85
Acts 2.28 1.85
Job 1.17 1.849
Job 1.18 1.849
Job 2.7 1.849
Job 4.7 1.849
Job 3.21 1.848
Job 4.3 1.848
James 1.3 1.848
John 9.3 1.846
Ezekiel 9.5 1.846
Job 1.3 1.846
Job 1.19 1.846
Job 1.16 1.846
Hebrews 5.8 1.845
Ezekiel 9.6 1.845
2 Kings 22.2 1.845
Job 3.20 1.844
Job 2.3 1.844
James 1.4 1.844
Ecclesiastes 7.20 1.843
Acts 28.4 1.842
Job 3.2 1.842
Job 1.1 1.84
Psalms 36.6 1.84
Job 1.8 1.839
Acts 2.23 1.839
Psalms 119.71 1.838
Ecclesiastes 9.1 1.837
Ecclesiastes 9.2 1.837
James 1.2 1.837
Acts 2.4 1.835
Hebrews 12.11 1.834
Matthew 5.12 1.833
1 Peter 2.21 1.833
2 Kings 23.25 1.833
Hebrews 2.10 1.83
Matthew 5.11 1.83
Exodus 34.7 1.83
Ezekiel 9.4 1.829
Ecclesiastes 7.1 1.825
Matthew 5.10 1.823
Job 1.21 1.819
Romans 11.33 1.818
Hebrews 12.10 1.815
2 Corinthians 4.17 1.795
Romans 3.8 1.793
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase