Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon preached before the King at Whitehall, on Christmas-Day, 1696 by the Right Reverend Father in God, Gilbert Lord Bishop of Sarum.

Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715
Publisher: Printed for Ri Chiswell
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1697
Approximate Era: WilliamAndMary
TCP ID: A30449 ESTC ID: R21549 STC ID: B5905
Subject Headings: Christmas sermons; 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 4.4% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 0.7% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 86.4% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 11.6% -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) 5.5% -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: 0.844
Evenness: 0.98
Part Prominence
New Testament (AKJV) 12.572
New Testament (Vulgate) 7.691
Old Testament (Geneva) 2.565
New Testament (Tyndale) 2.478
New Testament (Geneva) 1.442
New Testament (ODRV) 1.362
Old Testament (AKJV) 0.454
Diversity: 0.962
Evenness: 0.996
Book Prominence
Hebrews (AKJV) 6.115
Galatians (Vulgate) 3.476
Daniel (AKJV) 3.328
Numbers (AKJV) 3.3
Colossians (Geneva) 3.194
Hebrews (Tyndale) 3.121
Colossians (AKJV) 3.064
Acts (Geneva) 3.027
Revelation (ODRV) 3.018
1 John (AKJV) 2.972
Ephesians (ODRV) 2.92
Galatians (AKJV) 2.9
Acts (ODRV) 2.883
Hebrews (ODRV) 2.86
Hebrews (Geneva) 2.829
Philippians (ODRV) 2.822
Ephesians (Geneva) 2.769
Acts (AKJV) 2.737
Genesis (AKJV) 2.673
Luke (Geneva) 2.672
Ephesians (AKJV) 2.62
John (ODRV) 2.516
John (AKJV) 2.387
Matthew (ODRV) 2.158
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 2.004
Psalms (Geneva) 1.757
Psalms (AKJV) 0.79
Diversity: 0.969
Evenness: 0.994
Chapter Prominence
Hebrews 3 (AKJV) 5.508
Hebrews 2 (AKJV) 5.502
Galatians 1 (Vulgate) 2.769
Numbers 12 (AKJV) 2.766
Hebrews 1 (Tyndale) 2.762
Daniel 9 (AKJV) 2.759
Psalms 102 (Geneva) 2.757
Hebrews 3 (Geneva) 2.756
Hebrews 3 (ODRV) 2.754
Hebrews 1 (ODRV) 2.75
Revelation 12 (ODRV) 2.748
Hebrews 1 (AKJV) 2.746
Acts 7 (Geneva) 2.74
Luke 2 (Geneva) 2.737
John 19 (ODRV) 2.73
Acts 7 (ODRV) 2.725
Psalms 8 (AKJV) 2.725
Matthew 24 (ODRV) 2.72
Ephesians 6 (ODRV) 2.719
Acts 2 (AKJV) 2.716
Genesis 1 (AKJV) 2.714
Galatians 4 (AKJV) 2.705
Philippians 4 (ODRV) 2.703
Colossians 2 (Geneva) 2.694
Psalms 104 (AKJV) 2.692
Ephesians 6 (AKJV) 2.688
Colossians 2 (AKJV) 2.684
John 3 (AKJV) 2.679
John 3 (ODRV) 2.678
1 Corinthians 2 (AKJV) 2.671
1 John 4 (AKJV) 2.665
1 Corinthians 15 (AKJV) 2.575
Ephesians 4 (Geneva) 2.519
Ephesians 4 (AKJV) 2.425
Diversity: 0.975
Evenness: 0.995
Verse Prominence
Hebrews 3.2 (AKJV) 4.642
Hebrews 2.16 (AKJV) 4.639
Revelation 12.12 (ODRV) 2.325
Acts 2.35 (AKJV) 2.325
Hebrews 1.6 (ODRV) 2.325
Hebrews 2.5 (AKJV) 2.325
Hebrews 3.3 (Geneva) 2.325
Hebrews 1.4 (AKJV) 2.324
Psalms 102.27 (Geneva) 2.324
Daniel 9.25 (AKJV) 2.324
Hebrews 1.5 (AKJV) 2.324
Hebrews 1.8 (AKJV) 2.324
Hebrews 3.1 (Geneva) 2.324
Hebrews 3.4 (ODRV) 2.324
Numbers 12.6 (AKJV) 2.324
Luke 2.1 (Geneva) 2.323
Acts 7.59 (Geneva) 2.323
Hebrews 1.10 (AKJV) 2.323
Numbers 12.8 (AKJV) 2.323
John 3.9 (ODRV) 2.322
Hebrews 1.6 (Tyndale) 2.322
Matthew 24.31 (ODRV) 2.322
1 John 4.14 (AKJV) 2.322
Genesis 1.1 (AKJV) 2.32
Galatians 1.8 (Vulgate) 2.32
1 Corinthians 15.12 (AKJV) 2.32
Galatians 4.4 (AKJV) 2.319
Psalms 104.4 (AKJV) 2.319
John 19.30 (ODRV) 2.318
Ephesians 6.16 (AKJV) 2.318
Ephesians 6.16 (ODRV) 2.318
Psalms 8.5 (AKJV) 2.316
Acts 7.59 (ODRV) 2.312
Hebrews 1.14 (AKJV) 2.312
1 Corinthians 2.7 (AKJV) 2.312
John 3.17 (AKJV) 2.311
Ephesians 4.7 (Geneva) 2.308
Ephesians 4.7 (AKJV) 2.308
Colossians 2.9 (Geneva) 2.304
Colossians 2.9 (AKJV) 2.304
Philippians 4.20 (ODRV) 2.281
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: 0.875
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Ezra 12.086
Nehemiah 11.955
Daniel 11.165
Numbers 11.071
Deuteronomy 10.369
Genesis 9.875
Hebrews 9.714
Psalms 7.328
Diversity: 0.909
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Ezra 6 9.069
Ezra 1 9.067
Nehemiah 2 9.066
Numbers 13 9.063
Psalms 97 9.045
Daniel 9 8.994
Hebrews 3 8.967
Genesis 49 8.935
Hebrews 1 8.929
Hebrews 2 8.905
Deuteronomy 32 8.868
Diversity: 0.947
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Nehemiah 2.6 5.262
Ezra 6.8 5.262
Numbers 13.6 5.262
Nehemiah 2.5 5.261
Psalms 97.7 5.261
Deuteronomy 32.43 5.261
Hebrews 1.12 5.26
Hebrews 1.11 5.259
Hebrews 1.8 5.258
Hebrews 1.10 5.258
Daniel 9.25 5.257
Hebrews 2.2 5.257
Hebrews 1.9 5.255
Hebrews 3.7 5.255
Ezra 1.2 5.253
Hebrews 2.4 5.249
Genesis 49.10 5.242
Hebrews 2.3 5.238
Hebrews 1.3 5.228
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase