Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon preached at the general meeting of Gloucestershire-men, for the most part inhabitants of the City of London in the Church of St. Mary le-Bow, December the 9th, 1684 / by Edward Fowler.

Fowler, Edward, 1632-1714
Publisher: Printed by T B for Brabazon Aylmer
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1685
Approximate Era: JamesII
TCP ID: A40091 ESTC ID: R10668 STC ID: F1718
Subject Headings: Bible. -- N.T. -- Peter, 1st, II, 17; 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 7.3% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 4.2% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 72.7% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 25.9% -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) 9.1% -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: 0.86
Evenness: 0.974
Part Prominence
New Testament (Geneva) 8.942
New Testament (ODRV) 8.862
Apocrypha (AKJV) 5.442
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 1.448
Old Testament (Geneva) 0.065
New Testament (Tyndale) -0.022
Old Testament (AKJV) -2.046
New Testament (AKJV) -2.428
Diversity: 0.972
Evenness: 0.98
Book Prominence
1 Peter (Tyndale) 7.203
James (Geneva) 3.424
1 Peter (Geneva) 3.264
1 John (AKJV) 3.247
John (ODRV) 2.791
Matthew (ODRV) 2.433
Malachi (Geneva) 1.845
Malachi (AKJV) 1.76
James (Tyndale) 1.685
2 Timothy (ODRV) 1.662
2 Timothy (Geneva) 1.581
2 Peter (Geneva) 1.528
Colossians (ODRV) 1.509
Philippians (Geneva) 1.505
1 Peter (ODRV) 1.489
1 John (Tyndale) 1.474
Titus (AKJV) 1.469
James (ODRV) 1.464
1 John (Geneva) 1.462
1 John (ODRV) 1.457
2 Timothy (AKJV) 1.391
Exodus (AKJV) 1.34
Ecclesiasticus (AKJV) 1.283
James (AKJV) 1.277
Acts (ODRV) 1.235
Job (Geneva) 1.224
1 Peter (AKJV) 1.136
Proverbs (Douay-Rheims) 1.115
Acts (AKJV) 1.089
Psalms (AKJV) 1.065
John (Geneva) 1.053
John (Tyndale) 1.046
2 Corinthians (AKJV) 1.028
Romans (Tyndale) 0.936
Luke (ODRV) 0.931
John (AKJV) 0.739
Romans (ODRV) 0.673
Isaiah (AKJV) 0.64
Proverbs (AKJV) 0.52
Romans (Geneva) 0.463
Matthew (AKJV) 0.409
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 0.355
Romans (AKJV) 0.08
Diversity: 0.979
Evenness: 0.984
Chapter Prominence
1 Peter 2 (Tyndale) 6.089
Psalms 101 (AKJV) 3.085
John 17 (ODRV) 3.066
Matthew 12 (ODRV) 3.048
James 3 (Geneva) 3.044
1 Peter 2 (Geneva) 2.987
1 John 3 (AKJV) 2.955
Ecclesiasticus 20 (AKJV) 1.55
Malachi 2 (Geneva) 1.55
Ecclesiasticus 14 (AKJV) 1.547
Job 1 (Geneva) 1.54
John 13 (Tyndale) 1.539
Malachi 2 (AKJV) 1.538
Proverbs 16 (Douay-Rheims) 1.534
Isaiah 45 (AKJV) 1.533
James 3 (Tyndale) 1.531
Exodus 22 (AKJV) 1.529
Acts 4 (ODRV) 1.525
John 13 (ODRV) 1.521
John 10 (Geneva) 1.514
2 Timothy 2 (ODRV) 1.511
Proverbs 24 (Douay-Rheims) 1.507
Philippians 1 (Geneva) 1.506
John 10 (AKJV) 1.504
Luke 6 (ODRV) 1.502
John 13 (AKJV) 1.502
Proverbs 8 (AKJV) 1.499
1 John 5 (AKJV) 1.499
John 8 (Tyndale) 1.497
2 Timothy 3 (Geneva) 1.494
James 3 (ODRV) 1.493
2 Corinthians 1 (AKJV) 1.485
1 John 4 (Geneva) 1.485
John 8 (AKJV) 1.481
Acts 24 (AKJV) 1.48
Psalms 145 (AKJV) 1.479
1 Corinthians 13 (AKJV) 1.469
2 Peter 3 (Geneva) 1.467
Psalms 103 (AKJV) 1.466
James 3 (AKJV) 1.458
1 John 3 (ODRV) 1.457
1 John 4 (AKJV) 1.45
1 John 3 (Geneva) 1.443
1 Peter 2 (ODRV) 1.441
1 John 4 (Tyndale) 1.427
2 Timothy 2 (AKJV) 1.423
Colossians 3 (ODRV) 1.422
Matthew 10 (AKJV) 1.421
Isaiah 57 (AKJV) 1.417
Titus 2 (AKJV) 1.406
Romans 13 (ODRV) 1.404
1 Peter 2 (AKJV) 1.397
Romans 13 (Tyndale) 1.397
Romans 13 (Geneva) 1.238
Romans 13 (AKJV) 1.201
Diversity: 0.984
Evenness: 0.985
Verse Prominence
1 Peter 2.17 (Tyndale) 4.7
Romans 13.8 (AKJV) 2.376
Psalms 101.6 (AKJV) 2.375
1 Peter 2.17 (AKJV) 2.373
1 John 3.14 (AKJV) 2.371
John 17.21 (ODRV) 2.369
1 Peter 2.17 (Geneva) 2.369
Matthew 12.25 (ODRV) 2.368
James 3.16 (Geneva) 2.352
1 Peter 2.13 (Geneva) 2.345
Romans 13.2 (AKJV) 2.272
John 13.34 (Tyndale) 1.19
Isaiah 45.1 (AKJV) 1.189
Acts 4.19 (ODRV) 1.189
Malachi 2.10 (Geneva) 1.189
James 3.14 (AKJV) 1.189
Ecclesiasticus 14.5 (AKJV) 1.189
Job 1.1 (Geneva) 1.188
Proverbs 16.6 (Douay-Rheims) 1.188
Psalms 101.4 (AKJV) 1.188
Philippians 1.15 (Geneva) 1.187
1 John 3.10 (AKJV) 1.187
Malachi 2.10 (AKJV) 1.187
2 Timothy 3.4 (Geneva) 1.187
2 Peter 3.9 (Geneva) 1.187
1 John 4.16 (Geneva) 1.187
Ecclesiasticus 20.29 (AKJV) 1.186
1 John 3.10 (Geneva) 1.186
1 John 5.1 (AKJV) 1.186
John 8.40 (Tyndale) 1.186
1 John 4.7 (AKJV) 1.186
1 John 4.16 (AKJV) 1.186
James 3.15 (AKJV) 1.185
Luke 6.46 (ODRV) 1.185
Psalms 101.5 (AKJV) 1.185
1 John 4.11 (Geneva) 1.185
Psalms 103.14 (AKJV) 1.185
2 Timothy 2.25 (ODRV) 1.185
Proverbs 8.16 (AKJV) 1.183
John 10.30 (AKJV) 1.183
John 10.30 (Geneva) 1.183
1 John 3.23 (ODRV) 1.183
1 John 4.7 (Tyndale) 1.182
John 13.34 (ODRV) 1.182
1 John 3.14 (Geneva) 1.182
1 John 4.20 (AKJV) 1.179
Colossians 3.14 (ODRV) 1.179
James 3.17 (Tyndale) 1.179
2 Timothy 2.25 (AKJV) 1.179
1 Corinthians 13.2 (AKJV) 1.178
2 Corinthians 1.12 (AKJV) 1.174
1 John 3.15 (ODRV) 1.174
John 8.44 (AKJV) 1.174
Isaiah 57.20 (AKJV) 1.173
Exodus 22.28 (AKJV) 1.172
John 13.35 (AKJV) 1.172
Psalms 145.9 (AKJV) 1.172
Proverbs 24.22 (Douay-Rheims) 1.171
Proverbs 24.21 (Douay-Rheims) 1.169
Romans 13.4 (ODRV) 1.167
Proverbs 8.15 (AKJV) 1.166
1 Peter 2.13 (ODRV) 1.165
James 3.17 (ODRV) 1.165
Matthew 10.28 (AKJV) 1.161
1 Peter 2.13 (AKJV) 1.145
Romans 13.5 (AKJV) 1.144
Romans 13.2 (Geneva) 1.143
1 John 4.11 (Tyndale) 1.14
Acts 24.16 (AKJV) 1.133
Titus 2.12 (AKJV) 1.127
Romans 13.1 (Tyndale) 1.122
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: 0.917
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Malachi 7.537
Hosea 7.136
2 Timothy 6.891
1 Peter 6.302
Exodus 6.218
Proverbs 5.286
Acts 5.13
Luke 5.115
Isaiah 4.952
Romans 4.379
Matthew 4.153
Psalms 3.162
Diversity: 0.933
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Hosea 3 6.641
Malachi 2 6.589
Psalms 101 6.575
Isaiah 45 6.564
Exodus 22 6.557
Luke 6 6.524
Proverbs 24 6.49
Proverbs 3 6.485
Proverbs 8 6.465
Acts 4 6.452
Matthew 12 6.442
Matthew 10 6.371
2 Timothy 3 6.37
1 Peter 2 6.171
Romans 13 5.977
Diversity: 0.938
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Luke 6.46 6.243
Malachi 2.10 6.243
Psalms 101.5 6.242
Hosea 3.5 6.24
Proverbs 3.7 6.24
Isaiah 45.1 6.229
Acts 4.19 6.227
2 Timothy 3.3 6.227
Matthew 10.28 6.219
Matthew 12.25 6.211
1 Peter 2.17 6.199
Exodus 22.28 6.197
Romans 13.5 6.187
Proverbs 8.15 6.153
Proverbs 24.21 6.136
Romans 13.4 6.104
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase