Early English Printed Sermons


Vindiciæ foederis, or, A treatise of the covenant of God enterd with man-kinde in the several kindes and degrees of it, in which the agreement and respective differences of the covenant of works and the covenant of grace, of the old and new covenant are discust ... / [by] Thomas Blake ... ; whereunto is annexed a sermon preached at his funeral by Mr. Anthony Burgesse, and a funeral oration made at his death by Mr. Samuel Shaw.

Blake, Thomas, 1597?-1657
Burgess, Anthony, d. 1664
Shaw, Samuel, 1635-1696
Publisher: Printed by Abel Roper
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1658
Approximate Era: Interregnum
TCP ID: A28344 ESTC ID: R31595 STC ID: B3150
Subject Headings: Covenant theology; Theology, Doctrinal;
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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 8.6% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 5.4% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 87.6% 100.0%
Foreign Percentage of units with foreign text 0.8% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 9.3% -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) 2.3% -inf%
foreign_cited Percentage of units with QP, foreign text, and an adjacent citation 0.8% -inf%
foreign_italicized Percentage of units with QP and foreign italicized text 0.8% -inf%
foreign_italicized_cited Percentage of units with QP, italicized foreign text, and an adjacent citation 0.8% -inf%
foreign_latin Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP and foreign text 0.4% -inf%
foreign_latin_cited Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP, foreign text, and an adjacent citation 0.4% -inf%
foreign_latin_italicized Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP and italicized foreign text 0.4% -inf%
foreign_latin_italicized_cited Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP, an adjacent citation, and italicized foreign text 0.4% -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: 0.84
Evenness: 0.971
Part Prominence
New Testament (Tyndale) 12.201
New Testament (AKJV) 9.794
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 2.559
Old Testament (Geneva) 1.177
New Testament (Geneva) 0.053
New Testament (ODRV) -0.027
Old Testament (AKJV) -0.935
Diversity: 0.964
Evenness: 0.993
Book Prominence
1 Corinthians (Tyndale) 5.579
Hebrews (AKJV) 5.424
2 Kings (Geneva) 3.058
Leviticus (Douay-Rheims) 3.011
2 Timothy (ODRV) 2.965
1 Thessalonians (ODRV) 2.933
2 Timothy (Geneva) 2.884
1 Peter (ODRV) 2.792
1 Thessalonians (AKJV) 2.776
Ephesians (Tyndale) 2.742
2 Timothy (AKJV) 2.694
Acts (Tyndale) 2.692
1 Peter (Geneva) 2.644
Galatians (AKJV) 2.554
Acts (ODRV) 2.538
1 Timothy (AKJV) 2.518
2 Corinthians (Geneva) 2.477
Philippians (ODRV) 2.476
2 Corinthians (ODRV) 2.471
John (Geneva) 2.356
2 Corinthians (AKJV) 2.331
Proverbs (Geneva) 2.295
John (ODRV) 2.17
Matthew (Tyndale) 2.14
John (AKJV) 2.042
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 2.036
Isaiah (AKJV) 1.943
Proverbs (AKJV) 1.823
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 1.658
Diversity: 0.967
Evenness: 0.994
Chapter Prominence
1 Corinthians 4 (Tyndale) 5.847
Hebrews 13 (AKJV) 5.727
Leviticus 2 (Douay-Rheims) 2.939
2 Kings 2 (Geneva) 2.934
Isaiah 50 (AKJV) 2.921
2 Timothy 1 (ODRV) 2.915
Acts 20 (Tyndale) 2.913
Proverbs 29 (Geneva) 2.907
1 Thessalonians 2 (AKJV) 2.906
John 17 (Geneva) 2.906
Acts 20 (ODRV) 2.904
2 Corinthians 12 (Geneva) 2.902
Ephesians 6 (Tyndale) 2.901
Matthew 13 (Tyndale) 2.895
1 Corinthians 13 (ODRV) 2.891
Galatians 1 (AKJV) 2.885
Proverbs 29 (AKJV) 2.875
2 Corinthians 6 (ODRV) 2.872
John 17 (AKJV) 2.871
John 11 (ODRV) 2.866
1 Timothy 4 (AKJV) 2.862
1 Peter 5 (Geneva) 2.861
2 Timothy 4 (Geneva) 2.847
John 6 (AKJV) 2.835
1 Thessalonians 5 (ODRV) 2.827
1 Peter 2 (ODRV) 2.82
1 Corinthians 3 (AKJV) 2.809
2 Timothy 2 (AKJV) 2.801
Isaiah 57 (AKJV) 2.795
2 Corinthians 5 (AKJV) 2.782
1 Thessalonians 5 (AKJV) 2.773
Philippians 2 (ODRV) 2.725
Diversity: 0.969
Evenness: 0.994
Verse Prominence
1 Corinthians 4.4 (Tyndale) 5.551
Hebrews 13.17 (AKJV) 5.535
Philippians 2.24 (ODRV) 2.777
Acts 20.29 (Tyndale) 2.777
Acts 20.37 (ODRV) 2.776
1 Thessalonians 2.10 (AKJV) 2.776
Leviticus 2.13 (Douay-Rheims) 2.776
Ephesians 6.7 (Tyndale) 2.776
1 Peter 2.25 (ODRV) 2.776
2 Kings 2.12 (Geneva) 2.776
2 Corinthians 12.7 (Geneva) 2.775
2 Timothy 1.7 (ODRV) 2.774
Proverbs 29.25 (Geneva) 2.774
Galatians 1.6 (AKJV) 2.774
Matthew 13.52 (Tyndale) 2.774
Isaiah 50.4 (AKJV) 2.773
Proverbs 29.25 (AKJV) 2.772
1 Timothy 4.15 (AKJV) 2.771
1 Timothy 4.13 (AKJV) 2.771
1 Corinthians 13.9 (ODRV) 2.771
2 Corinthians 6.3 (ODRV) 2.771
John 17.4 (Geneva) 2.77
John 17.4 (AKJV) 2.77
1 Thessalonians 5.21 (ODRV) 2.769
1 Corinthians 3.12 (AKJV) 2.769
John 6.50 (AKJV) 2.769
John 11.36 (ODRV) 2.769
2 Timothy 2.3 (AKJV) 2.767
2 Timothy 4.6 (Geneva) 2.766
2 Corinthians 5.11 (AKJV) 2.765
1 Thessalonians 5.21 (AKJV) 2.762
1 Peter 5.4 (Geneva) 2.76
2 Timothy 4.7 (Geneva) 2.754
Isaiah 57.1 (AKJV) 2.723
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: 0.911
Evenness: 0.989
Book Prominence
Galatians 13.566
1 Thessalonians 6.615
2 Kings 6.374
2 Timothy 6.25
1 Timothy 5.855
2 Corinthians 5.39
Hebrews 4.907
Proverbs 4.645
Acts 4.489
John 4.486
1 Corinthians 4.402
Isaiah 4.311
Diversity: 0.945
Evenness: 0.994
Chapter Prominence
Galatians 1 9.831
2 Kings 13 4.969
Isaiah 50 4.946
Proverbs 29 4.893
1 Timothy 3 4.842
2 Corinthians 12 4.837
1 Corinthians 9 4.836
2 Corinthians 1 4.827
1 Corinthians 4 4.823
John 11 4.811
1 Thessalonians 5 4.797
2 Timothy 4 4.793
1 Timothy 4 4.768
John 17 4.764
1 Timothy 2 4.747
Acts 20 4.746
Hebrews 10 4.707
Hebrews 13 4.639
2 Corinthians 5 4.626
Diversity: 0.957
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
1 Timothy 4.7 4.343
1 Timothy 2.3 4.34
John 11.36 4.34
1 Timothy 4.15 4.338
2 Kings 13.14 4.336
Isaiah 50.4 4.335
Acts 20.29 4.335
John 11.35 4.334
2 Timothy 4.6 4.333
2 Corinthians 5.11 4.333
1 Corinthians 4.4 4.332
Hebrews 10.24 4.33
1 Timothy 3.2 4.327
1 Thessalonians 5.21 4.326
1 Corinthians 9.27 4.325
2 Corinthians 12.7 4.323
Proverbs 29.25 4.322
2 Timothy 4.2 4.31
2 Corinthians 1.12 4.307
John 17.3 4.303
2 Timothy 4.7 4.302
2 Timothy 4.8 4.293
Hebrews 13.17 4.292
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase