Early English Printed Sermons


The old apostolical way of preaching, or, Peters last legacy to all his true successors in the ministry and faith of the Gospel being an awakening word from a dying-preacher to his dying-hearers in a sermon preached on the death of Mr. Edward West, late minister of the gospel in London / by Thomas Cole ...

Cole, Thomas, 1627?-1697
Publisher: Printed for Thomas Cockeril
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1676
Approximate Era: CharlesII
TCP ID: A33725 ESTC ID: R43106 STC ID: C5032
Subject Headings: Bible. -- N.T. -- Peter, 2nd, I, 12-15; Dissenters, Religious -- England; 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 8.8% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 7.9% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 84.6% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 8.8% -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) 7.5% -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: 0.857
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 5.734
Old Testament (Geneva) 4.351
New Testament (Tyndale) 4.264
New Testament (Geneva) 3.227
New Testament (ODRV) 3.148
Old Testament (AKJV) 2.24
New Testament (AKJV) 1.858
Diversity: 0.959
Evenness: 0.996
Book Prominence
1 John (AKJV) 7.093
Zechariah (AKJV) 3.649
2 Peter (ODRV) 3.623
2 Peter (Tyndale) 3.588
1 Thessalonians (Geneva) 3.53
2 Timothy (Geneva) 3.504
2 Peter (AKJV) 3.427
Jeremiah (Douay-Rheims) 3.353
1 Timothy (Geneva) 3.325
2 Timothy (AKJV) 3.314
Acts (Geneva) 3.302
1 Timothy (AKJV) 3.139
Ecclesiastes (AKJV) 3.098
Philippians (AKJV) 3.084
Acts (AKJV) 3.012
Isaiah (Douay-Rheims) 2.97
John (Tyndale) 2.969
2 Corinthians (AKJV) 2.951
Isaiah (Geneva) 2.94
Matthew (Tyndale) 2.761
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 2.656
Romans (ODRV) 2.596
Isaiah (AKJV) 2.564
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 2.278
Romans (AKJV) 2.004
Diversity: 0.964
Evenness: 0.996
Chapter Prominence
1 John 2 (AKJV) 6.555
Jeremiah 7 (Douay-Rheims) 3.315
Zechariah 1 (AKJV) 3.314
Matthew 28 (Tyndale) 3.311
Acts 13 (Geneva) 3.305
2 Timothy 1 (AKJV) 3.288
Acts 13 (AKJV) 3.284
Isaiah 40 (Geneva) 3.283
2 Corinthians 10 (AKJV) 3.281
John 14 (Tyndale) 3.276
2 Peter 1 (Tyndale) 3.276
2 Timothy 2 (Geneva) 3.265
Isaiah 40 (AKJV) 3.264
1 Timothy 4 (Geneva) 3.262
1 Corinthians 3 (ODRV) 3.26
2 Peter 1 (ODRV) 3.259
Ecclesiastes 9 (AKJV) 3.256
1 Timothy 4 (AKJV) 3.254
Romans 15 (ODRV) 3.251
1 Thessalonians 4 (Geneva) 3.247
2 Peter 3 (AKJV) 3.246
Isaiah 5 (Douay-Rheims) 3.241
1 Corinthians 2 (AKJV) 3.227
2 Peter 1 (AKJV) 3.196
2 Timothy 2 (AKJV) 3.193
1 Corinthians 1 (AKJV) 3.187
Romans 5 (AKJV) 3.187
Philippians 3 (AKJV) 3.182
1 Corinthians 15 (ODRV) 3.017
Diversity: 0.972
Evenness: 0.995
Verse Prominence
1 John 2.21 (AKJV) 5.127
2 Peter 1.15 (AKJV) 5.112
2 Peter 3.2 (AKJV) 2.563
2 Peter 1.13 (AKJV) 2.563
1 Thessalonians 4.2 (Geneva) 2.563
1 Timothy 4.6 (Geneva) 2.563
2 Timothy 2.14 (AKJV) 2.563
Acts 13.42 (Geneva) 2.563
2 Peter 1.16 (ODRV) 2.563
Jeremiah 7.25 (Douay-Rheims) 2.563
Philippians 3.1 (AKJV) 2.562
1 Timothy 4.7 (AKJV) 2.562
2 Timothy 2.16 (AKJV) 2.562
Isaiah 40.8 (AKJV) 2.562
Isaiah 40.8 (Geneva) 2.562
Ecclesiastes 9.5 (AKJV) 2.561
2 Peter 3.1 (AKJV) 2.561
Acts 13.48 (AKJV) 2.561
1 Corinthians 3.22 (ODRV) 2.561
John 14.26 (Tyndale) 2.56
2 Peter 1.12 (AKJV) 2.56
2 Peter 1.14 (AKJV) 2.56
2 Peter 1.18 (Tyndale) 2.56
Romans 15.2 (ODRV) 2.56
2 Peter 1.12 (ODRV) 2.559
1 Corinthians 15.10 (ODRV) 2.559
Isaiah 5.4 (Douay-Rheims) 2.559
Matthew 28.20 (Tyndale) 2.558
1 Corinthians 1.7 (AKJV) 2.558
1 Corinthians 2.5 (AKJV) 2.558
Romans 5.10 (AKJV) 2.556
2 Timothy 1.12 (AKJV) 2.556
2 Timothy 2.15 (Geneva) 2.555
2 Corinthians 10.4 (AKJV) 2.555
Zechariah 1.5 (AKJV) 2.551
1 Corinthians 1.27 (AKJV) 2.551
2 Corinthians 10.5 (AKJV) 2.549
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: 0.941
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Zechariah 4.962
2 Peter 4.598
1 John 4.448
2 Timothy 4.44
Philippians 4.135
1 Timothy 4.045
Ecclesiastes 3.926
Jeremiah 3.641
2 Corinthians 3.58
Proverbs 2.835
Acts 2.679
John 2.676
Luke 2.664
Isaiah 2.501
Romans 1.928
Matthew 1.702
Psalms 0.711
Diversity: 0.95
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Zechariah 1 4.96
Jeremiah 7 4.899
2 Corinthians 10 4.887
Isaiah 40 4.87
Luke 24 4.855
Ecclesiastes 9 4.834
Proverbs 1 4.818
2 Peter 3 4.806
1 John 2 4.79
Acts 13 4.774
Romans 10 4.773
1 Timothy 4 4.768
2 Timothy 2 4.762
Matthew 28 4.76
2 Peter 1 4.726
John 14 4.722
Acts 2 4.698
Acts 17 4.678
Philippians 3 4.627
Psalms 119 4.604
Diversity: 0.971
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Jeremiah 7.27 2.857
1 John 2.21 2.856
Jeremiah 7.26 2.856
Luke 24.44 2.855
Acts 13.42 2.855
Jeremiah 7.25 2.855
Jeremiah 7.28 2.855
2 Peter 3.2 2.854
Romans 10.21 2.854
Isaiah 40.8 2.854
Ecclesiastes 9.5 2.854
1 Timothy 4.6 2.852
1 Timothy 4.7 2.852
2 Peter 1.15 2.851
Luke 24.27 2.851
Luke 24.45 2.851
2 Timothy 2.14 2.851
2 Peter 3.1 2.851
2 Timothy 2.16 2.85
2 Peter 1.16 2.85
2 Peter 1.13 2.849
Philippians 3.1 2.848
Romans 10.18 2.848
Psalms 119.11 2.848
2 Peter 1.14 2.845
2 Peter 1.12 2.843
Zechariah 1.5 2.843
John 14.26 2.84
Acts 13.48 2.84
2 Timothy 2.15 2.839
Proverbs 1.24 2.835
Acts 17.11 2.83
2 Corinthians 10.4 2.826
Matthew 28.20 2.805
Matthew 28.19 2.792
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase