Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon preached upon April xxiii. MDCLXXX. in the cathedral church of Bristol, before the gentlemen of the artillery-company, newly raised in that city. By Samuel Crossman, B.D.

Crossman, Samuel, 1624?-1684
Publisher: printed for Charles Allen bookseller in Bristol
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1680
Approximate Era: CharlesII
TCP ID: A35183 ESTC ID: R214386 STC ID: C7270A
Subject Headings: Sermons;
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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 5.5% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 3.4% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 91.1% 100.0%
NonLatinAlphabet Percentage of units with a NonLatinAlphabet placeholder 0.3% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 8.2% -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) 2.8% -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: 0.8
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 11.448
Old Testament (Geneva) 10.065
New Testament (Tyndale) 9.978
Old Testament (AKJV) 7.954
New Testament (AKJV) 7.572
Diversity: 0.934
Evenness: 0.992
Book Prominence
2 Kings (AKJV) 11.532
2 Paralipomenon (Douay-Rheims) 5.712
4 Kings (Douay-Rheims) 5.667
Judges (AKJV) 5.644
1 Kings (Douay-Rheims) 5.606
Lamentations (AKJV) 5.564
2 Chronicles (AKJV) 5.532
2 Samuel (AKJV) 5.506
1 Corinthians (Tyndale) 5.01
2 Corinthians (AKJV) 4.987
Genesis (AKJV) 4.984
Isaiah (Geneva) 4.977
Ephesians (AKJV) 4.931
Proverbs (AKJV) 4.479
Psalms (Geneva) 4.067
Psalms (AKJV) 3.101
Diversity: 0.955
Evenness: 0.995
Chapter Prominence
2 Kings 11 (AKJV) 8.326
2 Chronicles 23 (AKJV) 4.164
2 Paralipomenon 23 (Douay-Rheims) 4.164
Judges 18 (AKJV) 4.161
2 Kings 12 (AKJV) 4.16
2 Samuel 21 (AKJV) 4.159
2 Chronicles 24 (AKJV) 4.157
4 Kings 11 (Douay-Rheims) 4.156
1 Kings 17 (Douay-Rheims) 4.151
Isaiah 3 (Geneva) 4.148
Genesis 41 (AKJV) 4.145
Psalms 129 (AKJV) 4.143
Genesis 19 (AKJV) 4.137
Judges 21 (AKJV) 4.125
Lamentations 5 (AKJV) 4.121
Proverbs 17 (AKJV) 4.118
2 Corinthians 11 (AKJV) 4.115
Psalms 16 (Geneva) 4.109
Ephesians 3 (AKJV) 4.106
Psalms 22 (AKJV) 4.1
Psalms 118 (Geneva) 4.094
1 Corinthians 11 (Tyndale) 4.075
Psalms 118 (AKJV) 4.023
Diversity: 0.96
Evenness: 0.996
Verse Prominence
2 Kings 11.8 (AKJV) 7.406
2 Kings 11.2 (AKJV) 3.703
2 Kings 11.12 (AKJV) 3.703
Genesis 41.45 (AKJV) 3.703
2 Chronicles 23.18 (AKJV) 3.703
2 Paralipomenon 23.21 (Douay-Rheims) 3.703
1 Kings 17.32 (Douay-Rheims) 3.703
Isaiah 3.5 (Geneva) 3.702
Judges 18.1 (AKJV) 3.702
2 Kings 11.1 (AKJV) 3.702
2 Chronicles 24.16 (AKJV) 3.702
2 Kings 12.2 (AKJV) 3.702
2 Samuel 21.17 (AKJV) 3.702
Psalms 129.6 (AKJV) 3.702
Genesis 19.7 (AKJV) 3.701
2 Corinthians 11.1 (AKJV) 3.7
4 Kings 11.12 (Douay-Rheims) 3.699
Psalms 22.28 (AKJV) 3.699
Psalms 16.6 (Geneva) 3.698
Psalms 118.22 (Geneva) 3.697
Proverbs 17.14 (AKJV) 3.697
Ephesians 3.21 (AKJV) 3.694
1 Corinthians 11.27 (Tyndale) 3.689
Psalms 118.22 (AKJV) 3.684
Lamentations 5.16 (AKJV) 3.682
Judges 21.25 (AKJV) 3.669
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: 0.0
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Old Testament 52.666
Diversity: 0.857
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Lamentations 13.593
2 Chronicles 13.05
2 Kings 12.968
2 Samuel 12.672
Deuteronomy 12.155
Proverbs 11.238
Psalms 9.114
Diversity: 0.917
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
2 Chronicles 23 8.316
2 Kings 12 8.315
2 Kings 11 8.302
2 Chronicles 24 8.291
Psalms 120 8.289
Deuteronomy 21 8.282
Psalms 75 8.271
2 Samuel 21 8.259
2 Samuel 18 8.24
Proverbs 17 8.24
Lamentations 4 8.233
Psalms 16 8.147
Diversity: 0.933
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
2 Kings 11.8 6.665
2 Kings 11.2 6.665
Deuteronomy 21.5 6.665
2 Chronicles 23.18 6.665
2 Kings 11.10 6.665
2 Chronicles 24.16 6.664
2 Chronicles 23.21 6.664
2 Kings 12.2 6.663
Psalms 120.7 6.661
Proverbs 17.14 6.658
Psalms 75.3 6.657
Psalms 16.6 6.655
2 Samuel 21.17 6.643
2 Samuel 18.3 6.641
Lamentations 4.20 6.624
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase