Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon directing what we are to do, after strict enquiry whether or no we truly love God preached April 29, 1688.

Howe, John, 1630-1705
Publisher: Printed for Tho Parkhurst
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1696
Approximate Era: WilliamAndMary
TCP ID: A44690 ESTC ID: R23981 STC ID: H3038A
Subject Headings: Love -- Religious aspects; 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 4.8% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 3.2% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 84.4% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 8.6% -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) 2.7% -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: 0.971
Part Prominence
New Testament (Vulgate) 13.373
New Testament (Wycliffe) 7.47
New Testament (Geneva) 7.123
New Testament (AKJV) 5.754
Old Testament (Geneva) -0.844
New Testament (Tyndale) -0.931
New Testament (ODRV) -2.047
Old Testament (AKJV) -2.955
Diversity: 0.905
Evenness: 0.929
Book Prominence
John (Tyndale) 22.2
1 John (Vulgate) 7.546
1 John (AKJV) 7.093
John (Geneva) 6.822
John (AKJV) 6.508
John (Wycliffe) 3.671
James (Geneva) 3.424
1 John (Tyndale) 3.398
1 John (ODRV) 3.38
Ecclesiastes (Geneva) 3.351
Job (Geneva) 3.147
2 Corinthians (Geneva) 3.098
2 Corinthians (ODRV) 3.091
Job (AKJV) 2.852
John (ODRV) 2.791
Romans (AKJV) 2.004
Psalms (AKJV) 1.065
Diversity: 0.928
Evenness: 0.941
Chapter Prominence
John 5 (Tyndale) 19.265
1 John 4 (Vulgate) 6.437
John 5 (Geneva) 6.389
John 5 (AKJV) 6.364
1 John 2 (AKJV) 6.34
John 5 (Wycliffe) 3.222
Job 35 (Geneva) 3.219
Job 35 (AKJV) 3.216
Job 40 (AKJV) 3.211
John 21 (ODRV) 3.204
Psalms 26 (AKJV) 3.187
1 John 2 (Tyndale) 3.166
James 4 (Geneva) 3.164
Ecclesiastes 12 (Geneva) 3.161
John 5 (ODRV) 3.159
1 John 4 (ODRV) 3.155
1 John 2 (ODRV) 3.148
John 1 (Tyndale) 3.115
2 Corinthians 5 (Geneva) 3.105
1 John 4 (Tyndale) 3.09
2 Corinthians 5 (ODRV) 3.026
Romans 13 (AKJV) 2.865
Diversity: 0.941
Evenness: 0.949
Verse Prominence
John 5.42 (Tyndale) 16.659
John 5.42 (AKJV) 5.554
John 5.42 (Geneva) 5.554
1 John 4.8 (Vulgate) 5.552
1 John 4.16 (Tyndale) 5.543
1 John 2.15 (AKJV) 5.526
Job 40.8 (AKJV) 2.777
Job 35.7 (Geneva) 2.776
Job 35.7 (AKJV) 2.776
John 5.42 (Wycliffe) 2.776
John 1.14 (Tyndale) 2.775
1 John 4.20 (ODRV) 2.773
1 John 4.20 (Tyndale) 2.773
James 4.12 (Geneva) 2.773
John 5.22 (AKJV) 2.772
1 John 2.15 (ODRV) 2.772
2 Corinthians 5.10 (Geneva) 2.772
John 21.16 (ODRV) 2.771
Psalms 26.2 (AKJV) 2.769
John 5.22 (ODRV) 2.768
2 Corinthians 5.20 (ODRV) 2.768
2 Corinthians 5.21 (ODRV) 2.767
1 John 2.15 (Tyndale) 2.766
1 John 4.8 (Tyndale) 2.764
Ecclesiastes 12.14 (Geneva) 2.762
Romans 13.4 (AKJV) 2.697
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: 0.875
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
1 John 11.066
Ezekiel 10.896
Ecclesiastes 10.544
Job 10.257
2 Corinthians 10.198
John 9.294
1 Corinthians 9.21
Romans 8.545
Diversity: 0.933
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Ezekiel 6 6.653
Job 40 6.648
Ezekiel 36 6.587
2 Corinthians 13 6.565
Ezekiel 33 6.554
1 John 5 6.52
1 John 4 6.496
Ecclesiastes 12 6.465
1 John 2 6.456
John 5 6.406
John 14 6.389
1 John 3 6.341
1 Corinthians 11 6.299
2 Corinthians 5 6.292
Romans 13 5.977
Diversity: 0.938
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Job 40.8 6.249
John 5.42 6.247
Ezekiel 6.9 6.245
Ezekiel 36.31 6.244
1 John 3.17 6.235
1 John 5.3 6.234
1 John 4.16 6.229
1 Corinthians 11.31 6.227
Ecclesiastes 12.14 6.227
1 John 2.15 6.225
2 Corinthians 13.5 6.223
Ezekiel 33.31 6.222
2 Corinthians 5.19 6.22
John 14.15 6.213
2 Corinthians 5.10 6.188
Romans 13.4 6.104
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase