Early English Printed Sermons


The qualifications requisite, towards the receiving a divine revelation a sermon preach'd in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, January the 2d, 1698/9, being the first, for this year, of the lectures founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq. / by Samuel Bradford ...

Bradford, Samuel, 1652-1731
Publisher: Printed for Tho Parkhurst
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1699
Approximate Era: WilliamAndMary
TCP ID: A29105 ESTC ID: R19718 STC ID: B4118
Subject Headings: Bible. -- N.T. -- John VI, 45; Jesus Christ -- Messiahship; 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 6.5% -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 85.3% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 12.3% -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) 4.8% -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: 0.746
Evenness: 0.836
Part Prominence
New Testament (Geneva) 35.095
New Testament (Vulgate) 2.884
Old Testament (ODRV) 1.323
Old Testament (Geneva) -2.242
New Testament (Tyndale) -2.329
New Testament (ODRV) -3.446
Old Testament (AKJV) -4.354
New Testament (AKJV) -4.735
Diversity: 0.909
Evenness: 0.928
Book Prominence
John (Geneva) 23.13
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 6.432
James (Vulgate) 3.948
Mark (ODRV) 3.812
Ephesians (Geneva) 3.198
1 Corinthians (Tyndale) 3.127
John (Tyndale) 3.123
Isaiah (Geneva) 3.094
Proverbs (Geneva) 3.069
Romans (Tyndale) 3.013
Job (AKJV) 3.006
John (ODRV) 2.945
John (AKJV) 2.816
Psalms (ODRV) 2.79
Romans (ODRV) 2.75
Romans (Geneva) 2.54
Psalms (Geneva) 2.185
Romans (AKJV) 2.157
Psalms (AKJV) 1.219
Diversity: 0.929
Evenness: 0.932
Chapter Prominence
John 6 (Geneva) 18.08
John 6 (AKJV) 12.015
1 Corinthians 2 (AKJV) 5.954
James 4 (Vulgate) 3.026
Mark 12 (ODRV) 3.025
Isaiah 54 (Geneva) 3.02
Job 32 (AKJV) 3.016
Psalms 18 (ODRV) 3.002
Psalms 19 (Geneva) 3.001
1 Corinthians 8 (Tyndale) 2.999
John 7 (Tyndale) 2.987
Romans 1 (Tyndale) 2.979
John 8 (Geneva) 2.978
John 7 (ODRV) 2.973
Proverbs 3 (Geneva) 2.97
John 18 (AKJV) 2.968
Psalms 19 (AKJV) 2.955
Romans 2 (Tyndale) 2.951
Romans 1 (ODRV) 2.938
Romans 1 (Geneva) 2.927
John 6 (Tyndale) 2.919
John 6 (ODRV) 2.887
Romans 2 (AKJV) 2.86
Ephesians 4 (Geneva) 2.772
Diversity: 0.951
Evenness: 0.938
Verse Prominence
John 6.45 (Geneva) 12.495
John 6.45 (Tyndale) 10.408
John 6.45 (AKJV) 8.329
1 Corinthians 2.16 (AKJV) 4.161
Psalms 19.1 (AKJV) 4.138
John 6.42 (AKJV) 2.083
John 6.42 (Geneva) 2.083
Isaiah 54.13 (Geneva) 2.083
Psalms 19.4 (AKJV) 2.082
John 8.47 (Geneva) 2.082
Mark 12.34 (ODRV) 2.082
John 7.17 (ODRV) 2.082
James 4.6 (Vulgate) 2.082
John 18.37 (AKJV) 2.081
John 6.46 (AKJV) 2.081
Job 32.8 (AKJV) 2.08
John 6.45 (ODRV) 2.08
Psalms 18.3 (ODRV) 2.08
Romans 1.19 (Tyndale) 2.08
John 6.37 (Geneva) 2.079
Psalms 19.3 (Geneva) 2.079
Psalms 19.3 (AKJV) 2.079
John 6.46 (Geneva) 2.078
Romans 1.19 (Geneva) 2.076
Ephesians 4.18 (Geneva) 2.076
John 7.17 (Tyndale) 2.075
Romans 1.20 (Tyndale) 2.073
1 Corinthians 8.6 (Tyndale) 2.073
John 6.44 (Tyndale) 2.072
Proverbs 3.6 (Geneva) 2.072
Romans 1.20 (ODRV) 2.071
John 6.69 (ODRV) 2.07
Romans 2.14 (AKJV) 2.065
Romans 2.15 (Tyndale) 2.065
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: 0.9
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Mark 8.694
Ezekiel 8.396
Job 7.757
Acts 6.797
John 6.794
Luke 6.782
Isaiah 6.618
Romans 6.045
Matthew 5.82
Psalms 4.828
Diversity: 0.929
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Job 32 7.12
Ezekiel 24 7.112
Mark 12 7.09
Isaiah 54 7.08
John 18 7.037
Luke 7 7.02
Psalms 10 6.994
John 7 6.964
John 8 6.925
Matthew 18 6.921
Acts 13 6.917
John 6 6.895
Romans 2 6.809
Romans 1 6.701
Diversity: 0.941
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Mark 12.32 5.881
Job 32.8 5.879
Mark 12.34 5.879
Luke 7.29 5.879
Mark 12.33 5.878
Psalms 10.1 5.877
Ezekiel 24.13 5.876
Isaiah 54.13 5.876
John 18.37 5.876
Matthew 18.4 5.876
John 6.45 5.875
John 8.47 5.875
Romans 1.19 5.872
Matthew 18.3 5.871
Acts 13.48 5.865
John 7.17 5.849
Romans 2.14 5.842
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase