Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon preach'd before the Right Honourable the lord mayor and court of aldermen at the Guild-hall chapel, Nov. 21, 1686 by Charles Hickman.

Hickman, Charles, 1648-1713
Publisher: Printed by M Flesher for Charles Brome
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1687
Approximate Era: JamesII
TCP ID: A43699 ESTC ID: R27428 STC ID: H1897
Subject Headings: Bible. -- O.T. -- Proverbs XXX, 8-9; 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 0.7% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 82.7% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 11.3% -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) 3.6% -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: 0.888
Evenness: 0.964
Part Prominence
Old Testament (ODRV) 16.708
Apocrypha (ODRV) 6.363
Apocrypha (Douay-Rheims) 4.289
Apocrypha (AKJV) 3.134
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) -0.86
Old Testament (Geneva) -2.242
New Testament (Tyndale) -2.329
New Testament (Geneva) -3.366
New Testament (ODRV) -3.446
Old Testament (AKJV) -4.354
New Testament (AKJV) -4.735
Diversity: 0.958
Evenness: 0.972
Book Prominence
Proverbs (AKJV) 9.708
Exodus (ODRV) 8.0
Judith (Douay-Rheims) 2.723
2 Maccabees (AKJV) 2.718
Baruch (ODRV) 2.667
Wisdom (ODRV) 2.598
Philippians (Tyndale) 2.366
Exodus (Geneva) 2.338
Ecclesiastes (Geneva) 2.283
1 Timothy (Geneva) 2.256
Deuteronomy (AKJV) 2.21
Exodus (AKJV) 2.195
Ecclesiasticus (AKJV) 2.137
Ecclesiasticus (Douay-Rheims) 2.1
Job (Geneva) 2.078
1 Timothy (AKJV) 2.07
Philippians (ODRV) 2.028
Philippians (AKJV) 2.016
Proverbs (Douay-Rheims) 1.97
2 Corinthians (AKJV) 1.883
Proverbs (Geneva) 1.847
Romans (Tyndale) 1.791
Job (AKJV) 1.784
Hebrews (AKJV) 1.75
Matthew (Geneva) 1.616
Psalms (ODRV) 1.567
Isaiah (AKJV) 1.495
Matthew (ODRV) 1.364
Matthew (AKJV) 1.263
Psalms (Geneva) 0.963
Psalms (AKJV) -0.004
Diversity: 0.97
Evenness: 0.978
Chapter Prominence
Proverbs 30 (AKJV) 8.115
Exodus 20 (ODRV) 6.079
Ecclesiasticus 11 (Douay-Rheims) 4.068
Proverbs 11 (AKJV) 3.996
Wisdom 14 (ODRV) 2.035
Exodus 5 (Geneva) 2.033
Ecclesiasticus 26 (AKJV) 2.031
Psalms 112 (ODRV) 2.03
Exodus 16 (AKJV) 2.028
Judith 8 (Douay-Rheims) 2.026
2 Maccabees 7 (AKJV) 2.026
Ecclesiasticus 41 (Douay-Rheims) 2.024
Ecclesiastes 5 (Geneva) 2.023
Psalms 48 (ODRV) 2.023
Isaiah 14 (AKJV) 2.023
Job 1 (Geneva) 2.018
Psalms 84 (Geneva) 2.015
Ecclesiasticus 10 (AKJV) 2.014
Proverbs 7 (Geneva) 2.012
Baruch 6 (ODRV) 2.008
Psalms 113 (AKJV) 2.006
Ecclesiastes 1 (Geneva) 1.996
Job 1 (AKJV) 1.995
Job 9 (AKJV) 1.994
Proverbs 14 (Douay-Rheims) 1.993
Psalms 8 (AKJV) 1.988
Psalms 89 (Geneva) 1.988
Isaiah 59 (AKJV) 1.987
Philippians 4 (Tyndale) 1.986
2 Corinthians 6 (AKJV) 1.984
Deuteronomy 32 (AKJV) 1.958
Psalms 89 (AKJV) 1.957
1 Timothy 6 (Geneva) 1.957
Matthew 7 (Geneva) 1.955
Hebrews 9 (AKJV) 1.942
Matthew 6 (ODRV) 1.936
Matthew 7 (AKJV) 1.908
Philippians 3 (ODRV) 1.906
Psalms 106 (AKJV) 1.905
1 Timothy 6 (AKJV) 1.886
Romans 13 (Tyndale) 1.875
Philippians 4 (AKJV) 1.867
Diversity: 0.973
Evenness: 0.976
Verse Prominence
Proverbs 30.9 (AKJV) 7.138
Proverbs 30.8 (AKJV) 5.354
Exodus 20.7 (ODRV) 5.353
Ecclesiasticus 11.14 (Douay-Rheims) 3.569
Proverbs 11.4 (AKJV) 3.562
Job 9.23 (AKJV) 1.785
Proverbs 7.21 (Geneva) 1.785
Job 1.10 (AKJV) 1.785
Ecclesiasticus 41.3 (Douay-Rheims) 1.785
Ecclesiasticus 26.4 (AKJV) 1.785
Exodus 16.2 (AKJV) 1.784
Isaiah 59.12 (AKJV) 1.784
Wisdom 14.14 (ODRV) 1.784
Job 1.10 (Geneva) 1.784
Psalms 112.8 (ODRV) 1.784
Psalms 48.17 (ODRV) 1.784
Isaiah 14.11 (AKJV) 1.784
2 Corinthians 6.4 (AKJV) 1.784
Judith 8.11 (Douay-Rheims) 1.783
Psalms 106.15 (AKJV) 1.783
Matthew 6.25 (ODRV) 1.783
Ecclesiastes 1.18 (Geneva) 1.783
Ecclesiastes 5.18 (Geneva) 1.782
Deuteronomy 32.15 (AKJV) 1.781
Exodus 5.2 (Geneva) 1.781
Proverbs 14.13 (Douay-Rheims) 1.781
Matthew 7.23 (Geneva) 1.781
Baruch 6.11 (ODRV) 1.781
Job 1.9 (AKJV) 1.781
Ecclesiasticus 10.31 (AKJV) 1.78
Ecclesiasticus 41.1 (Douay-Rheims) 1.779
Philippians 4.11 (Tyndale) 1.779
Psalms 113.7 (AKJV) 1.779
Psalms 89.9 (AKJV) 1.778
Psalms 8.4 (AKJV) 1.776
Philippians 4.12 (AKJV) 1.776
2 Maccabees 7.32 (AKJV) 1.775
Psalms 89.9 (Geneva) 1.774
Matthew 6.13 (ODRV) 1.773
Philippians 3.19 (ODRV) 1.773
1 Timothy 6.8 (Geneva) 1.773
1 Timothy 6.8 (AKJV) 1.773
Psalms 84.10 (Geneva) 1.772
Matthew 7.23 (AKJV) 1.771
Romans 13.14 (Tyndale) 1.77
Job 1.21 (AKJV) 1.768
Hebrews 9.27 (AKJV) 1.741
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: 0.0
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Old Testament 52.666
Diversity: 0.0
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Proverbs 96.952
Diversity: 0.5
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Proverbs 9 49.944
Proverbs 8 49.799
Diversity:
Evenness:
Verse Prominence
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase