Early English Printed Sermons


The necessity of subjection asserted in an assise-sermon preached in the Cathedral Church at Sarum, July 17, 1681 / by John Byrom ...

Byrom, John
Publisher: Printed for Benj Took
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1681
Approximate Era: CharlesII
TCP ID: A30816 ESTC ID: R2657 STC ID: B6408
Subject Headings: Authority; Bible. -- N.T. -- Romans XIII, 1; 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 10.1% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 6.2% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 83.3% 100.0%
NonLatinAlphabet Percentage of units with a NonLatinAlphabet placeholder 0.9% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 14.5% -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) 6.6% -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: 0.889
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Apocrypha (ODRV) 9.781
New Testament (Wycliffe) 9.49
Old Testament (ODRV) 4.742
Old Testament (Geneva) 1.177
New Testament (Tyndale) 1.09
New Testament (Geneva) 0.053
New Testament (ODRV) -0.027
Old Testament (AKJV) -0.935
New Testament (AKJV) -1.317
Diversity: 0.959
Evenness: 0.985
Book Prominence
Romans (Geneva) 8.217
Romans (AKJV) 4.609
Luke (Wycliffe) 3.126
Judges (Geneva) 3.074
Wisdom (ODRV) 3.046
2 Thessalonians (AKJV) 2.974
Philippians (Geneva) 2.808
1 Peter (ODRV) 2.792
Titus (AKJV) 2.772
1 Timothy (ODRV) 2.702
Acts (Tyndale) 2.692
Acts (Geneva) 2.682
1 Peter (Geneva) 2.644
Acts (ODRV) 2.538
Hebrews (Geneva) 2.484
1 Peter (AKJV) 2.438
Acts (AKJV) 2.392
1 Corinthians (Tyndale) 2.353
Genesis (AKJV) 2.327
Romans (Tyndale) 2.239
Luke (ODRV) 2.234
Psalms (ODRV) 2.015
Romans (ODRV) 1.975
Proverbs (AKJV) 1.823
Matthew (AKJV) 1.711
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 1.658
Psalms (Geneva) 1.411
Psalms (AKJV) 0.445
Diversity: 0.967
Evenness: 0.988
Chapter Prominence
Romans 13 (Geneva) 7.783
Romans 13 (AKJV) 5.044
Luke 20 (Wycliffe) 2.699
Acts 25 (ODRV) 2.696
Psalms 149 (ODRV) 2.694
Acts 18 (ODRV) 2.692
Acts 23 (ODRV) 2.691
Wisdom 1 (ODRV) 2.691
Acts 23 (Geneva) 2.688
Genesis 17 (AKJV) 2.686
Acts 23 (AKJV) 2.68
Judges 5 (Geneva) 2.673
Psalms 149 (AKJV) 2.673
Acts 5 (Tyndale) 2.66
2 Thessalonians 3 (AKJV) 2.655
Psalms 106 (Geneva) 2.65
Luke 22 (ODRV) 2.648
Romans 7 (Geneva) 2.643
Proverbs 8 (AKJV) 2.64
Luke 20 (ODRV) 2.64
Matthew 26 (AKJV) 2.633
Matthew 22 (AKJV) 2.613
1 Corinthians 12 (Tyndale) 2.609
Romans 7 (AKJV) 2.597
Titus 3 (AKJV) 2.592
Hebrews 12 (Geneva) 2.592
1 Timothy 2 (ODRV) 2.585
1 Corinthians 12 (AKJV) 2.582
1 Peter 2 (ODRV) 2.581
Philippians 2 (Geneva) 2.581
1 Peter 2 (Geneva) 2.564
Romans 13 (ODRV) 2.545
1 Peter 2 (AKJV) 2.537
Romans 13 (Tyndale) 2.537
Diversity: 0.974
Evenness: 0.989
Verse Prominence
Romans 13.1 (Geneva) 6.37
Romans 13.5 (Geneva) 4.263
Romans 13.2 (AKJV) 4.239
Genesis 17.14 (AKJV) 2.173
Acts 18.12 (ODRV) 2.173
Acts 25.8 (ODRV) 2.173
Hebrews 12.9 (Geneva) 2.173
Matthew 22.16 (AKJV) 2.172
Romans 7.12 (Geneva) 2.172
Luke 20.22 (Wycliffe) 2.172
Luke 20.24 (ODRV) 2.172
Luke 22.50 (ODRV) 2.172
Matthew 26.53 (AKJV) 2.172
Acts 23.2 (AKJV) 2.172
Acts 23.2 (ODRV) 2.172
2 Thessalonians 3.7 (AKJV) 2.171
Romans 7.12 (AKJV) 2.17
Psalms 149.8 (ODRV) 2.169
Acts 23.5 (Geneva) 2.168
Wisdom 1.15 (ODRV) 2.168
Proverbs 8.16 (AKJV) 2.167
1 Corinthians 12.20 (AKJV) 2.167
Judges 5.23 (Geneva) 2.167
Psalms 106.17 (Geneva) 2.165
Philippians 2.8 (Geneva) 2.159
1 Corinthians 12.20 (Tyndale) 2.158
Psalms 149.8 (AKJV) 2.158
Romans 13.2 (ODRV) 2.157
Romans 13.5 (Tyndale) 2.156
1 Peter 2.14 (AKJV) 2.152
Matthew 22.21 (AKJV) 2.151
Romans 13.4 (ODRV) 2.15
Proverbs 8.15 (AKJV) 2.15
1 Peter 2.13 (ODRV) 2.148
Acts 5.29 (Tyndale) 2.145
1 Peter 2.13 (Geneva) 2.138
Titus 3.1 (AKJV) 2.132
1 Peter 2.13 (AKJV) 2.128
1 Timothy 2.2 (ODRV) 2.128
Romans 13.2 (Geneva) 2.127
Romans 13.1 (Tyndale) 2.105
Romans 13.4 (AKJV) 2.093
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
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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: 0.923
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
2 Thessalonians 6.9
Judges 6.595
Numbers 6.264
1 Samuel 5.91
1 Timothy 5.855
Exodus 5.577
Genesis 5.067
Proverbs 4.645
Acts 4.489
Luke 4.474
Romans 3.738
Matthew 3.512
Psalms 2.521
Diversity: 0.95
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Psalms 149 4.966
Luke 5 4.954
Acts 25 4.953
Genesis 17 4.903
2 Thessalonians 3 4.896
Acts 23 4.891
Exodus 22 4.89
1 Samuel 15 4.867
Genesis 2 4.85
Judges 5 4.847
Numbers 16 4.846
Matthew 4 4.84
Acts 9 4.823
Acts 5 4.812
Proverbs 8 4.799
1 Timothy 2 4.747
Matthew 22 4.74
Matthew 11 4.72
Matthew 26 4.669
Romans 13 4.311
Diversity: 0.955
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Luke 5.27 4.544
Acts 25.8 4.544
2 Thessalonians 3.7 4.544
Acts 23.2 4.543
Genesis 17.14 4.542
Numbers 16.11 4.539
Matthew 4.19 4.538
Matthew 26.53 4.537
Matthew 22.16 4.536
Psalms 149.8 4.536
Numbers 16.32 4.533
Acts 5.29 4.53
Proverbs 8.16 4.527
Genesis 2.7 4.52
1 Samuel 15.23 4.509
Matthew 11.29 4.497
Exodus 22.28 4.492
Judges 5.23 4.492
Matthew 22.21 4.458
1 Timothy 2.2 4.457
Proverbs 8.15 4.449
Romans 13.1 4.313
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase