Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon against corrupting the word of God preached at Christ Church in Manchester upon a publick occasion on the 11th day of July, 1696 / by Thomas Gipps.

Gipps, Thomas, d. 1709
Publisher: Printed for Ephraim Johnston
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1697
Approximate Era: WilliamAndMary
TCP ID: A42787 ESTC ID: R26767 STC ID: G781
Subject Headings: Bible -- Versions; Church of 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 7.3% -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 87.2% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 8.3% -inf%
sim_score Average cosine similarity score of top Bible verse predictions per unit 0.7% -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) 2.4% -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: 0.833
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 8.115
New Testament (Tyndale) 6.645
New Testament (Geneva) 5.608
New Testament (ODRV) 5.529
Old Testament (AKJV) 4.621
New Testament (AKJV) 4.239
Diversity: 0.962
Evenness: 0.988
Book Prominence
Revelation (Tyndale) 5.681
Acts (AKJV) 5.227
2 Corinthians (AKJV) 5.166
Proverbs (AKJV) 4.657
2 Peter (ODRV) 2.807
2 Peter (Tyndale) 2.772
1 Thessalonians (ODRV) 2.738
2 Peter (Geneva) 2.636
2 Peter (AKJV) 2.611
2 Corinthians (Tyndale) 2.587
Colossians (AKJV) 2.523
Revelation (AKJV) 2.496
Acts (Geneva) 2.486
Revelation (ODRV) 2.477
1 Peter (Geneva) 2.448
Exodus (AKJV) 2.447
1 Peter (AKJV) 2.243
Proverbs (Douay-Rheims) 2.222
Ephesians (AKJV) 2.079
Romans (Tyndale) 2.043
Matthew (Tyndale) 1.945
Matthew (Geneva) 1.869
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 1.841
Luke (AKJV) 1.832
Romans (Geneva) 1.57
Matthew (AKJV) 1.516
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 1.462
Romans (AKJV) 1.188
Psalms (AKJV) 0.249
Diversity: 0.966
Evenness: 0.99
Chapter Prominence
Acts 6 (AKJV) 5.534
Revelation 22 (Tyndale) 5.531
2 Corinthians 2 (AKJV) 5.52
Proverbs 30 (AKJV) 5.507
Exodus 5 (AKJV) 2.763
Proverbs 30 (Douay-Rheims) 2.759
Psalms 5 (AKJV) 2.757
Revelation 22 (ODRV) 2.754
Psalms 148 (AKJV) 2.754
Luke 9 (AKJV) 2.749
Acts 2 (Geneva) 2.742
Matthew 12 (Tyndale) 2.738
Matthew 27 (Geneva) 2.733
2 Peter 1 (Tyndale) 2.72
2 Corinthians 4 (Tyndale) 2.719
Revelation 22 (AKJV) 2.717
2 Peter 3 (Tyndale) 2.708
2 Peter 1 (ODRV) 2.703
Romans 3 (Geneva) 2.692
2 Peter 3 (AKJV) 2.69
Colossians 2 (AKJV) 2.684
Romans 3 (Tyndale) 2.681
1 Thessalonians 5 (ODRV) 2.664
Romans 3 (AKJV) 2.648
2 Peter 1 (AKJV) 2.641
2 Peter 1 (Geneva) 2.641
1 Peter 2 (Geneva) 2.639
1 Peter 2 (AKJV) 2.612
Matthew 5 (AKJV) 2.597
1 Corinthians 15 (AKJV) 2.575
1 Corinthians 15 (ODRV) 2.461
Ephesians 4 (AKJV) 2.425
Diversity: 0.968
Evenness: 0.989
Verse Prominence
Revelation 22.18 (Tyndale) 5.126
Proverbs 30.6 (AKJV) 5.126
Acts 6.3 (AKJV) 5.126
2 Peter 1.19 (Geneva) 5.123
2 Corinthians 2.17 (AKJV) 5.119
Exodus 5.11 (AKJV) 2.564
Proverbs 30.6 (Douay-Rheims) 2.564
Revelation 22.19 (AKJV) 2.563
Psalms 148.12 (AKJV) 2.563
Luke 9.35 (AKJV) 2.563
Matthew 12.26 (Tyndale) 2.563
Psalms 5.9 (AKJV) 2.562
Acts 2.11 (Geneva) 2.562
Matthew 27.2 (Geneva) 2.562
Revelation 22.19 (ODRV) 2.562
2 Peter 1.18 (Geneva) 2.562
Romans 3.10 (AKJV) 2.561
2 Peter 3.16 (AKJV) 2.561
Colossians 2.22 (AKJV) 2.561
1 Peter 2.1 (Geneva) 2.561
Matthew 5.18 (AKJV) 2.559
Psalms 148.11 (AKJV) 2.559
2 Peter 1.18 (AKJV) 2.559
Ephesians 4.25 (AKJV) 2.559
2 Corinthians 4.2 (Tyndale) 2.559
Romans 3.13 (Tyndale) 2.558
2 Peter 1.20 (Tyndale) 2.558
1 Thessalonians 5.17 (ODRV) 2.557
Romans 3.13 (Geneva) 2.556
2 Peter 1.19 (ODRV) 2.555
2 Peter 3.16 (Tyndale) 2.554
1 Peter 2.2 (AKJV) 2.547
1 Corinthians 15.54 (ODRV) 2.545
1 Corinthians 15.55 (AKJV) 2.545
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: 0.9
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Hosea 8.803
1 Peter 7.969
Revelation 7.874
Deuteronomy 7.869
Ephesians 7.838
Proverbs 6.952
Acts 6.797
1 Corinthians 6.71
Isaiah 6.618
Matthew 5.82
Diversity: 0.923
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Isaiah 25 7.646
Deuteronomy 12 7.643
Hosea 13 7.62
Acts 6 7.612
Deuteronomy 4 7.588
Proverbs 30 7.555
Revelation 22 7.548
Deuteronomy 32 7.469
1 Corinthians 10 7.366
1 Corinthians 15 7.258
Ephesians 4 7.228
1 Peter 2 7.197
Matthew 5 7.136
Diversity: 0.938
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Deuteronomy 32.33 6.246
Revelation 22.19 6.246
Proverbs 30.6 6.245
Deuteronomy 12.32 6.244
Deuteronomy 4.2 6.243
Revelation 22.18 6.243
Acts 6.3 6.242
Ephesians 4.25 6.242
Isaiah 25.8 6.241
1 Peter 2.1 6.24
Matthew 5.18 6.238
Hosea 13.14 6.235
1 Corinthians 15.54 6.232
1 Corinthians 10.11 6.222
1 Corinthians 15.55 6.221
1 Peter 2.2 6.218
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase