Early English Printed Sermons


Encouragement to charity a sermon preached at the Charter-House Chapel Dec. 12, 1678, at an anniversary meeting in commemoration of the founder / by William Durham.

Durham, William, d. 1686
Publisher: Printed for Matthew Gilliflower
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1679
Approximate Era: CharlesII
TCP ID: A37052 ESTC ID: R3150 STC ID: D2830
Subject Headings: Bible. -- N.T. -- Hebrews XIII, 16; Charity; 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 5.9% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 2.4% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 82.8% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 12.4% -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) 4.1% -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: 0.875
Evenness: 0.96
Part Prominence
New Testament (AKJV) 12.572
Apocrypha (Douay-Rheims) 4.93
Apocrypha (AKJV) 3.776
New Testament (Vulgate) 3.525
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) -0.219
Old Testament (Geneva) -1.601
New Testament (Tyndale) -1.688
New Testament (Geneva) -2.725
New Testament (ODRV) -2.804
Old Testament (AKJV) -3.713
Diversity: 0.962
Evenness: 0.986
Book Prominence
Hebrews (AKJV) 8.063
1 Timothy (Geneva) 5.539
2 Peter (Vulgate) 2.985
2 Esdras (AKJV) 2.766
Deuteronomy (Geneva) 2.62
Ecclesiastes (Douay-Rheims) 2.617
1 John (Tyndale) 2.582
1 Timothy (ODRV) 2.507
Job (Douay-Rheims) 2.453
1 Peter (Geneva) 2.448
Galatians (AKJV) 2.358
Ecclesiasticus (Douay-Rheims) 2.352
1 Timothy (AKJV) 2.323
Hebrews (Geneva) 2.288
Ecclesiastes (AKJV) 2.282
2 Corinthians (Geneva) 2.282
2 Corinthians (ODRV) 2.276
Philippians (AKJV) 2.268
Luke (Tyndale) 2.255
1 Peter (AKJV) 2.243
Luke (ODRV) 2.038
Matthew (Tyndale) 1.945
Matthew (Geneva) 1.869
Romans (ODRV) 1.78
1 Corinthians (Geneva) 1.759
Matthew (ODRV) 1.617
Matthew (AKJV) 1.516
Psalms (Geneva) 1.215
Romans (AKJV) 1.188
Psalms (AKJV) 0.249
Diversity: 0.973
Evenness: 0.99
Chapter Prominence
Hebrews 13 (AKJV) 6.663
1 Timothy 6 (Geneva) 4.461
Job 24 (Douay-Rheims) 2.266
Ecclesiastes 2 (Douay-Rheims) 2.264
Ecclesiasticus 14 (Douay-Rheims) 2.263
Deuteronomy 10 (Geneva) 2.258
Luke 7 (Tyndale) 2.255
Matthew 20 (AKJV) 2.254
2 Peter 1 (Vulgate) 2.253
2 Esdras 8 (AKJV) 2.253
Ecclesiasticus 4 (Douay-Rheims) 2.252
Matthew 20 (ODRV) 2.249
2 Corinthians 8 (ODRV) 2.246
2 Corinthians 9 (Geneva) 2.24
Psalms 41 (AKJV) 2.238
Luke 7 (ODRV) 2.235
Ecclesiastes 2 (AKJV) 2.232
Psalms 104 (Geneva) 2.23
Matthew 11 (ODRV) 2.225
Matthew 26 (ODRV) 2.201
Luke 16 (Tyndale) 2.201
Ecclesiastes 9 (AKJV) 2.196
Romans 12 (ODRV) 2.195
Matthew 25 (Tyndale) 2.191
Psalms 145 (AKJV) 2.189
1 Corinthians 12 (Geneva) 2.184
Ecclesiastes 7 (AKJV) 2.18
1 Timothy 6 (ODRV) 2.178
Matthew 6 (Geneva) 2.174
Matthew 25 (AKJV) 2.173
Hebrews 13 (Geneva) 2.171
Matthew 5 (Tyndale) 2.169
Matthew 25 (Geneva) 2.168
1 Peter 1 (Geneva) 2.164
Matthew 25 (ODRV) 2.161
1 John 4 (Tyndale) 2.137
Galatians 6 (AKJV) 2.131
1 Timothy 6 (AKJV) 2.118
1 Peter 5 (AKJV) 2.111
Philippians 2 (AKJV) 2.053
Romans 8 (AKJV) 1.941
Diversity: 0.976
Evenness: 0.989
Verse Prominence
Hebrews 13.16 (AKJV) 5.762
1 Timothy 6.19 (Geneva) 3.839
Hebrews 13.15 (AKJV) 3.833
Matthew 25.34 (Geneva) 3.833
Job 24.9 (Douay-Rheims) 1.923
Ecclesiasticus 14.4 (Douay-Rheims) 1.922
Hebrews 13.10 (Geneva) 1.922
Luke 7.19 (Tyndale) 1.922
Luke 7.22 (ODRV) 1.922
Ecclesiastes 2.18 (AKJV) 1.922
Ecclesiastes 2.19 (Douay-Rheims) 1.922
Ecclesiastes 9.13 (AKJV) 1.922
Matthew 26.9 (ODRV) 1.922
Psalms 104.28 (Geneva) 1.922
Ecclesiasticus 4.1 (Douay-Rheims) 1.922
Matthew 20.28 (ODRV) 1.921
Romans 12.20 (ODRV) 1.921
1 Timothy 6.7 (AKJV) 1.921
Deuteronomy 10.19 (Geneva) 1.921
Matthew 20.28 (AKJV) 1.92
2 Esdras 8.33 (AKJV) 1.92
2 Corinthians 9.11 (Geneva) 1.92
Matthew 6.20 (Geneva) 1.919
Matthew 25.34 (AKJV) 1.919
2 Corinthians 8.14 (ODRV) 1.918
Matthew 25.36 (Geneva) 1.918
Matthew 11.5 (ODRV) 1.918
1 Corinthians 12.25 (Geneva) 1.916
Matthew 25.21 (ODRV) 1.916
1 Timothy 6.17 (Geneva) 1.914
Matthew 25.40 (Tyndale) 1.913
Philippians 2.7 (AKJV) 1.912
Matthew 25.36 (AKJV) 1.911
1 Peter 5.5 (AKJV) 1.911
Luke 16.9 (Tyndale) 1.91
Psalms 41.3 (AKJV) 1.909
1 Timothy 6.17 (ODRV) 1.908
2 Peter 1.7 (Vulgate) 1.908
Ecclesiastes 7.1 (AKJV) 1.908
Hebrews 13.16 (Geneva) 1.907
Romans 8.17 (AKJV) 1.905
Psalms 145.9 (AKJV) 1.904
Matthew 5.44 (Tyndale) 1.897
1 Timothy 6.19 (AKJV) 1.891
1 Peter 1.4 (Geneva) 1.882
1 John 4.11 (Tyndale) 1.873
Galatians 6.10 (AKJV) 1.869
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: 0.833
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Leviticus 15.692
1 Timothy 14.829
1 Peter 14.635
Hebrews 13.881
Luke 13.449
Matthew 12.487
Diversity: 0.857
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Leviticus 19 14.172
Matthew 20 14.154
1 Peter 5 14.092
1 Timothy 6 14.027
Luke 16 13.968
Hebrews 13 13.925
Luke 12 13.914
Diversity: 0.889
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Luke 12.24 11.106
Leviticus 19.34 11.106
Matthew 20.28 11.097
1 Timothy 6.19 11.086
1 Timothy 6.18 11.083
Luke 16.9 11.081
1 Peter 5.5 11.08
Hebrews 13.16 11.075
1 Timothy 6.17 11.071
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase