Early English Printed Sermons


The doctrine of passive obedience asserted in a sermon preach'd on January 30, 1684 / by James Ellesby ...

Ellesby, James, b. 1644 or 5
Publisher: Printed for William Crooke
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1685
Approximate Era: JamesII
TCP ID: A39241 ESTC ID: R11960 STC ID: E537
Subject Headings: Bible. -- O.T. -- Proverbs XXX, 31; Obedience; 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 3.5% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 92.2% 100.0%
Foreign Percentage of units with foreign text 0.2% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 5.8% -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) 3.0% -inf%
foreign_italicized Percentage of units with QP and foreign italicized text 0.2% -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 (ODRV) 13.862
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 3.948
Old Testament (Geneva) 2.565
New Testament (Tyndale) 2.478
New Testament (Geneva) 1.442
Old Testament (AKJV) 0.454
New Testament (AKJV) 0.072
Diversity: 0.959
Evenness: 0.996
Book Prominence
Luke (ODRV) 6.7
Esther (AKJV) 3.751
1 Thessalonians (Tyndale) 3.6
2 Kings (Douay-Rheims) 3.528
1 Samuel (AKJV) 3.427
Titus (AKJV) 3.392
Galatians (Geneva) 3.363
1 Peter (Tyndale) 3.357
Jeremiah (Douay-Rheims) 3.353
Acts (Tyndale) 3.312
Acts (Geneva) 3.302
Acts (ODRV) 3.158
1 Peter (AKJV) 3.059
Proverbs (Douay-Rheims) 3.038
2 Corinthians (AKJV) 2.951
Genesis (AKJV) 2.948
Luke (Geneva) 2.947
Isaiah (Geneva) 2.94
Hebrews (AKJV) 2.819
Matthew (Geneva) 2.684
Luke (AKJV) 2.648
Proverbs (AKJV) 2.443
Matthew (ODRV) 2.433
Romans (Geneva) 2.386
Romans (AKJV) 2.004
Diversity: 0.967
Evenness: 0.992
Chapter Prominence
Proverbs 30 (AKJV) 5.666
Luke 10 (ODRV) 5.654
Romans 13 (Geneva) 5.389
Esther 6 (AKJV) 2.843
Jeremiah 23 (Douay-Rheims) 2.841
Acts 22 (ODRV) 2.841
Proverbs 30 (Douay-Rheims) 2.838
Acts 4 (Tyndale) 2.827
Galatians 1 (Geneva) 2.827
2 Kings 15 (Douay-Rheims) 2.824
Isaiah 53 (Geneva) 2.82
Luke 10 (Geneva) 2.818
1 Samuel 15 (AKJV) 2.816
Matthew 26 (Geneva) 2.814
Acts 4 (Geneva) 2.811
1 Thessalonians 4 (Tyndale) 2.805
Luke 10 (AKJV) 2.794
Genesis 49 (AKJV) 2.793
Proverbs 24 (AKJV) 2.785
Matthew 26 (ODRV) 2.785
Titus 3 (AKJV) 2.747
Romans 12 (Geneva) 2.742
1 Peter 4 (AKJV) 2.732
2 Corinthians 4 (AKJV) 2.716
Matthew 5 (Geneva) 2.712
Hebrews 13 (AKJV) 2.702
1 Peter 2 (Tyndale) 2.696
1 Peter 2 (AKJV) 2.692
Romans 6 (Geneva) 2.67
Romans 6 (AKJV) 2.654
Matthew 5 (ODRV) 2.64
Romans 13 (AKJV) 2.496
Diversity: 0.97
Evenness: 0.986
Verse Prominence
Romans 13.2 (AKJV) 6.868
Proverbs 30.31 (AKJV) 4.649
Luke 10.16 (ODRV) 4.633
Romans 13.2 (Geneva) 4.604
Proverbs 30.30 (Douay-Rheims) 2.325
Jeremiah 23.40 (Douay-Rheims) 2.325
Matthew 26.52 (Geneva) 2.325
Matthew 5.46 (Geneva) 2.325
Acts 22.26 (ODRV) 2.325
Acts 4.19 (Geneva) 2.324
Esther 6.2 (AKJV) 2.324
Acts 4.19 (Tyndale) 2.322
1 Peter 2.18 (AKJV) 2.322
1 Samuel 15.23 (AKJV) 2.321
Romans 12.14 (Geneva) 2.32
Genesis 49.6 (AKJV) 2.32
1 Thessalonians 4.18 (Tyndale) 2.32
Matthew 26.52 (ODRV) 2.319
1 Peter 2.23 (AKJV) 2.318
Isaiah 53.7 (Geneva) 2.318
Luke 10.16 (AKJV) 2.317
Galatians 1.7 (Geneva) 2.317
Proverbs 24.22 (AKJV) 2.315
Matthew 5.21 (ODRV) 2.315
Luke 10.16 (Geneva) 2.314
2 Kings 15.31 (Douay-Rheims) 2.313
1 Peter 4.13 (AKJV) 2.312
Hebrews 13.18 (AKJV) 2.312
Proverbs 24.21 (AKJV) 2.301
Titus 3.1 (AKJV) 2.284
2 Corinthians 4.17 (AKJV) 2.282
Romans 13.5 (AKJV) 2.279
Romans 6.23 (Geneva) 2.278
Romans 6.23 (AKJV) 2.277
1 Peter 2.17 (Tyndale) 2.263
Romans 13.5 (Geneva) 2.241
Romans 13.1 (AKJV) 2.21
Romans 13.1 (Geneva) 2.174
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: 0.9
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
1 Samuel 8.217
1 Peter 7.969
Jeremiah 7.758
Genesis 7.375
Proverbs 6.952
Acts 6.797
Luke 6.782
Isaiah 6.618
Romans 6.045
Matthew 5.82
Diversity: 0.929
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Acts 22 7.071
Jeremiah 23 7.027
1 Samuel 15 7.01
Proverbs 30 7.006
Genesis 49 6.987
Isaiah 53 6.981
Proverbs 24 6.966
Acts 5 6.955
Acts 4 6.928
Luke 10 6.924
Romans 6 6.852
Matthew 26 6.812
1 Peter 2 6.647
Romans 13 6.454
Diversity: 0.938
Evenness: 0.993
Verse Prominence
Romans 13.2 10.992
Jeremiah 23.40 5.554
Acts 4.24 5.552
Acts 22.25 5.552
Acts 4.5 5.547
Acts 5.39 5.541
Isaiah 53.7 5.541
Proverbs 30.31 5.54
1 Peter 2.18 5.54
Genesis 49.6 5.535
Acts 4.19 5.532
Luke 10.16 5.528
1 Samuel 15.23 5.52
Matthew 26.52 5.519
Romans 6.23 5.513
Proverbs 24.21 5.442
Romans 13.1 5.323
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase