Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon preached before the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and citizens of London, at Bow-church on the 30th, of January, 1681/2 by George Hickes.

Hickes, George, 1642-1715
Publisher: Printed for Walter Kettilby
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1682
Approximate Era: CharlesII
TCP ID: A43670 ESTC ID: R12553 STC ID: H1864
Subject Headings: Bible. -- N.T. -- Acts XVII, 7; Church and state -- England; Dissenters, Religious -- England -- Controversial literature; 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 4.9% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 2.8% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 80.9% 99.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 10.8% 1.0%
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) 5.6% -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: 0.893
Evenness: 0.987
Part Prominence
New Testament (Geneva) 7.123
Apocrypha (AKJV) 4.533
New Testament (Vulgate) 4.282
Old Testament (ODRV) 2.722
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 0.539
Old Testament (Geneva) -0.844
New Testament (Tyndale) -0.931
New Testament (ODRV) -2.047
Old Testament (AKJV) -2.955
New Testament (AKJV) -3.337
Diversity: 0.978
Evenness: 0.998
Book Prominence
Hebrews (Geneva) 3.513
Zephaniah (Geneva) 2.06
1 Esdras (AKJV) 2.049
Joel (AKJV) 2.029
2 Corinthians (Vulgate) 2.025
Luke (Vulgate) 1.998
1 John (Vulgate) 1.982
2 Peter (ODRV) 1.904
Judges (AKJV) 1.889
Matthew (Vulgate) 1.855
1 Thessalonians (Geneva) 1.812
2 Timothy (Geneva) 1.785
Colossians (Geneva) 1.75
Titus (AKJV) 1.674
1 Peter (Tyndale) 1.639
Revelation (Geneva) 1.615
2 Timothy (AKJV) 1.596
Acts (Tyndale) 1.594
Revelation (AKJV) 1.593
Acts (Geneva) 1.584
Revelation (ODRV) 1.575
Job (Douay-Rheims) 1.551
1 Peter (Geneva) 1.545
Ephesians (ODRV) 1.476
Galatians (AKJV) 1.456
Acts (ODRV) 1.44
Luke (Tyndale) 1.352
1 Peter (AKJV) 1.34
Acts (AKJV) 1.294
John (Geneva) 1.258
John (Tyndale) 1.25
2 Corinthians (AKJV) 1.233
Romans (Tyndale) 1.14
Luke (ODRV) 1.136
Hebrews (AKJV) 1.1
John (ODRV) 1.072
John (AKJV) 0.944
Psalms (ODRV) 0.917
Romans (ODRV) 0.877
Isaiah (AKJV) 0.845
Matthew (ODRV) 0.714
Romans (Geneva) 0.668
Matthew (AKJV) 0.613
Psalms (Geneva) 0.313
Romans (AKJV) 0.285
Psalms (AKJV) -0.654
Diversity: 0.984
Evenness: 0.999
Chapter Prominence
Hebrews 12 (Geneva) 2.967
Judges 19 (AKJV) 1.535
Psalms 80 (ODRV) 1.533
Acts 21 (ODRV) 1.531
1 Esdras 8 (AKJV) 1.529
Revelation 13 (Geneva) 1.527
Revelation 13 (AKJV) 1.526
Job 8 (Douay-Rheims) 1.525
Luke 20 (Vulgate) 1.525
John 18 (Geneva) 1.522
Acts 24 (Geneva) 1.52
2 Corinthians 11 (Vulgate) 1.52
Acts 15 (Geneva) 1.519
Revelation 13 (ODRV) 1.519
Acts 24 (ODRV) 1.517
Joel 3 (AKJV) 1.515
Acts 5 (ODRV) 1.512
Zephaniah 1 (Geneva) 1.512
Acts 24 (Tyndale) 1.509
Revelation 12 (ODRV) 1.508
1 John 2 (Vulgate) 1.506
John 19 (Tyndale) 1.503
Acts 17 (ODRV) 1.503
Matthew 22 (Vulgate) 1.502
Luke 23 (Tyndale) 1.5
John 19 (AKJV) 1.492
1 Peter 4 (Tyndale) 1.49
Psalms 34 (Geneva) 1.488
2 Corinthians 11 (AKJV) 1.487
Isaiah 53 (AKJV) 1.485
John 18 (ODRV) 1.481
Luke 20 (ODRV) 1.476
Luke 23 (ODRV) 1.471
Acts 17 (AKJV) 1.47
2 Timothy 2 (Geneva) 1.47
2 Timothy 3 (Geneva) 1.47
Matthew 26 (ODRV) 1.467
Colossians 3 (Geneva) 1.465
2 Peter 1 (ODRV) 1.464
Matthew 11 (AKJV) 1.463
1 Peter 4 (Geneva) 1.463
Acts 24 (AKJV) 1.455
Romans 3 (Geneva) 1.453
1 Thessalonians 4 (Geneva) 1.452
Romans 1 (Geneva) 1.436
Psalms 44 (AKJV) 1.429
Titus 3 (AKJV) 1.428
Matthew 7 (ODRV) 1.418
1 Peter 4 (AKJV) 1.414
Romans 3 (ODRV) 1.414
Hebrews 12 (AKJV) 1.41
1 Peter 2 (Geneva) 1.4
2 Timothy 3 (AKJV) 1.378
1 Peter 2 (Tyndale) 1.377
Ephesians 4 (ODRV) 1.374
Romans 13 (Tyndale) 1.373
1 Peter 2 (AKJV) 1.373
Galatians 5 (AKJV) 1.371
Hebrews 11 (AKJV) 1.365
Romans 8 (Geneva) 1.351
Romans 6 (Geneva) 1.351
Romans 12 (AKJV) 1.338
Romans 13 (Geneva) 1.214
Romans 13 (AKJV) 1.177
Diversity: 0.987
Evenness: 0.994
Verse Prominence
Acts 17.6 (AKJV) 2.297
Matthew 26.52 (ODRV) 2.292
Hebrews 12.4 (Geneva) 2.29
1 Peter 2.13 (AKJV) 2.253
Romans 13.1 (Tyndale) 2.23
Romans 13.5 (Geneva) 2.214
Romans 13.1 (AKJV) 2.183
Psalms 80.10 (ODRV) 1.149
John 19.12 (Tyndale) 1.149
Acts 21.30 (ODRV) 1.149
Acts 17.7 (ODRV) 1.149
2 Timothy 2.10 (Geneva) 1.149
2 Corinthians 11.30 (AKJV) 1.149
Acts 24.12 (Tyndale) 1.149
Acts 24.13 (Geneva) 1.149
Revelation 12.11 (ODRV) 1.149
Romans 1.30 (Geneva) 1.149
1 Esdras 8.77 (AKJV) 1.149
Matthew 26.53 (ODRV) 1.148
Acts 17.7 (AKJV) 1.148
Luke 23.2 (ODRV) 1.148
Acts 24.5 (Geneva) 1.148
Acts 24.5 (ODRV) 1.148
1 Peter 2.20 (Geneva) 1.148
Acts 24.13 (AKJV) 1.148
Revelation 13.10 (AKJV) 1.148
Judges 19.30 (AKJV) 1.148
Matthew 7.20 (ODRV) 1.148
Luke 20.22 (Vulgate) 1.148
John 19.12 (AKJV) 1.147
1 Peter 4.14 (Geneva) 1.147
John 18.36 (Geneva) 1.147
Hebrews 12.3 (AKJV) 1.146
2 Timothy 2.3 (Geneva) 1.146
Acts 5.41 (ODRV) 1.146
Zephaniah 1.6 (Geneva) 1.146
Ephesians 4.20 (ODRV) 1.146
Revelation 13.9 (ODRV) 1.145
Revelation 13.9 (Geneva) 1.145
Romans 3.14 (Geneva) 1.145
1 Peter 2.19 (Tyndale) 1.144
Acts 15.26 (Geneva) 1.144
Job 8.9 (Douay-Rheims) 1.144
Isaiah 53.7 (AKJV) 1.143
1 John 2.2 (Vulgate) 1.143
Luke 23.21 (Tyndale) 1.142
Psalms 34.14 (Geneva) 1.142
Joel 3.10 (AKJV) 1.142
1 Peter 4.19 (Tyndale) 1.141
Romans 3.13 (Geneva) 1.141
Colossians 3.12 (Geneva) 1.14
1 Peter 2.20 (AKJV) 1.14
Luke 20.22 (ODRV) 1.139
2 Peter 1.6 (ODRV) 1.139
Psalms 44.22 (AKJV) 1.139
2 Timothy 3.1 (AKJV) 1.139
2 Corinthians 11.14 (Vulgate) 1.139
Romans 3.17 (ODRV) 1.139
Matthew 11.29 (AKJV) 1.138
Romans 8.17 (Geneva) 1.138
1 Peter 2.21 (AKJV) 1.137
1 Peter 2.23 (Tyndale) 1.137
2 Timothy 3.1 (Geneva) 1.137
Hebrews 11.37 (AKJV) 1.137
1 Peter 4.13 (AKJV) 1.136
Romans 6.3 (Geneva) 1.135
Romans 13.6 (Tyndale) 1.132
1 Peter 2.14 (AKJV) 1.128
1 Thessalonians 4.11 (Geneva) 1.128
Romans 13.7 (Tyndale) 1.126
Matthew 22.21 (Vulgate) 1.123
Galatians 5.22 (AKJV) 1.119
Romans 13.7 (AKJV) 1.118
John 18.36 (ODRV) 1.116
Romans 12.18 (AKJV) 1.116
Titus 3.1 (AKJV) 1.107
Romans 13.5 (AKJV) 1.103
2 Timothy 3.5 (AKJV) 1.102
Romans 13.2 (AKJV) 1.04
Romans 13.1 (Geneva) 0.998
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: 0.917
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Daniel 6.998
2 Timothy 6.891
Ezekiel 6.729
2 Samuel 6.719
Exodus 6.218
Ephesians 6.171
Acts 5.13
John 5.127
Luke 5.115
Romans 4.379
Matthew 4.153
Psalms 3.162
Diversity: 0.938
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Ezekiel 43 6.235
2 Samuel 22 6.215
Psalms 124 6.206
Daniel 5 6.163
John 18 6.144
Exodus 22 6.14
Acts 24 6.129
John 19 6.107
Luke 23 6.092
Psalms 82 6.078
Acts 5 6.062
2 Timothy 2 6.012
Ephesians 6 6.006
Matthew 10 5.955
Acts 17 5.928
Romans 13 5.561
Diversity: 0.952
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
2 Samuel 22.16 4.761
2 Samuel 22.17 4.76
Ezekiel 43.11 4.757
Acts 17.7 4.755
Luke 23.2 4.755
Matthew 10.23 4.753
2 Timothy 2.4 4.751
Acts 24.5 4.75
John 19.12 4.749
2 Timothy 2.3 4.747
Ephesians 6.13 4.746
Acts 5.41 4.743
Ephesians 6.11 4.74
Ephesians 6.10 4.739
Ephesians 6.12 4.734
John 18.36 4.717
Romans 13.3 4.709
Exodus 22.28 4.709
Psalms 82.6 4.652
Romans 13.2 4.643
Romans 13.1 4.53
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase