Early English Printed Sermons


The vanity of this mortal life, or, Of man, considered only in his present mortal state by J. Howe ...

Howe, John, 1630-1705
Publisher: Printed by A Maxwell for Sa Gellibrand
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1672
Approximate Era: CharlesII
TCP ID: A44699 ESTC ID: R9662 STC ID: H3045
Subject Headings: Immortality; Man (Christian theology);
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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 2.3% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 1.7% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 93.7% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 3.7% -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) 2.6% -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: 0.9
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Old Testament (Vulgate) 8.317
New Testament (Vulgate) 5.191
Old Testament (ODRV) 3.631
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 1.448
Old Testament (Geneva) 0.065
New Testament (Tyndale) -0.022
New Testament (Geneva) -1.058
New Testament (ODRV) -1.138
Old Testament (AKJV) -2.046
New Testament (AKJV) -2.428
Diversity: 0.972
Evenness: 0.997
Book Prominence
Acts (ODRV) 4.717
Isaiah (Vulgate) 2.651
1 John (Vulgate) 2.557
2 Peter (Geneva) 2.308
Ecclesiastes (Douay-Rheims) 2.289
Colossians (ODRV) 2.289
Ecclesiastes (Geneva) 2.208
Colossians (AKJV) 2.196
Job (Douay-Rheims) 2.126
1 Peter (Geneva) 2.12
Galatians (ODRV) 2.118
Job (Geneva) 2.003
Hebrews (ODRV) 1.991
Hebrews (Geneva) 1.96
Ecclesiastes (AKJV) 1.954
Philippians (ODRV) 1.953
2 Corinthians (ODRV) 1.948
Philippians (AKJV) 1.941
Acts (AKJV) 1.869
1 Corinthians (Tyndale) 1.83
Isaiah (Douay-Rheims) 1.827
John (Tyndale) 1.825
2 Corinthians (AKJV) 1.808
Job (AKJV) 1.709
Hebrews (AKJV) 1.675
John (ODRV) 1.647
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 1.513
Psalms (ODRV) 1.492
Romans (ODRV) 1.452
1 Corinthians (Geneva) 1.431
Isaiah (AKJV) 1.42
Matthew (ODRV) 1.289
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 1.135
Psalms (Geneva) 0.888
Romans (AKJV) 0.86
Psalms (AKJV) -0.079
Diversity: 0.982
Evenness: 0.998
Chapter Prominence
Acts 2 (ODRV) 3.463
Isaiah 55 (Vulgate) 1.752
Isaiah 32 (Douay-Rheims) 1.749
Psalms 110 (Geneva) 1.748
Psalms 53 (Geneva) 1.747
Psalms 43 (ODRV) 1.744
Isaiah 34 (AKJV) 1.741
Job 12 (Geneva) 1.74
Psalms 145 (ODRV) 1.735
Job 20 (Douay-Rheims) 1.734
Job 7 (Geneva) 1.733
Psalms 88 (ODRV) 1.727
Hebrews 5 (Geneva) 1.723
1 John 2 (Vulgate) 1.722
Ecclesiastes 1 (Douay-Rheims) 1.716
John 4 (Tyndale) 1.715
Isaiah 55 (AKJV) 1.713
Isaiah 55 (Douay-Rheims) 1.711
1 Corinthians 14 (ODRV) 1.711
Psalms 16 (AKJV) 1.707
Psalms 62 (AKJV) 1.706
Acts 13 (AKJV) 1.705
Hebrews 10 (ODRV) 1.705
Psalms 89 (Geneva) 1.702
Ecclesiastes 12 (Douay-Rheims) 1.699
Psalms 2 (ODRV) 1.699
Matthew 24 (ODRV) 1.697
John 18 (ODRV) 1.697
Psalms 16 (Geneva) 1.696
Acts 2 (AKJV) 1.692
Ecclesiastes 3 (Geneva) 1.692
Psalms 33 (AKJV) 1.687
Psalms 89 (AKJV) 1.671
Hebrews 11 (ODRV) 1.67
Job 21 (AKJV) 1.669
1 Corinthians 7 (Geneva) 1.668
Ecclesiastes 3 (AKJV) 1.66
Romans 2 (ODRV) 1.647
1 Peter 1 (Geneva) 1.646
Galatians 5 (ODRV) 1.646
1 Corinthians 7 (AKJV) 1.644
Psalms 144 (AKJV) 1.627
1 Corinthians 15 (Tyndale) 1.622
Philippians 3 (ODRV) 1.62
2 Peter 1 (Geneva) 1.618
Colossians 3 (AKJV) 1.616
2 Corinthians 4 (AKJV) 1.614
Colossians 3 (ODRV) 1.614
Philippians 3 (AKJV) 1.603
Romans 2 (AKJV) 1.584
Hebrews 11 (AKJV) 1.581
Hebrews 10 (AKJV) 1.577
2 Corinthians 5 (ODRV) 1.555
1 Corinthians 15 (Geneva) 1.493
1 Corinthians 15 (ODRV) 1.438
Romans 8 (AKJV) 1.423
Diversity: 0.984
Evenness: 0.99
Verse Prominence
Psalms 89.47 (AKJV) 5.191
Acts 2.31 (ODRV) 2.595
Psalms 89.48 (AKJV) 2.585
Psalms 89.30 (Geneva) 1.298
Psalms 89.30 (AKJV) 1.298
Isaiah 55.3 (Vulgate) 1.298
Psalms 110.1 (Geneva) 1.298
Acts 2.30 (AKJV) 1.298
Acts 13.33 (AKJV) 1.298
Hebrews 10.27 (ODRV) 1.298
Job 12.6 (Geneva) 1.298
Hebrews 11.14 (ODRV) 1.298
Galatians 5.26 (ODRV) 1.298
Isaiah 32.17 (Douay-Rheims) 1.298
Isaiah 55.3 (Douay-Rheims) 1.297
Psalms 89.27 (Geneva) 1.297
Psalms 88.30 (ODRV) 1.297
Psalms 89.37 (AKJV) 1.297
Psalms 89.32 (AKJV) 1.297
Psalms 89.35 (AKJV) 1.297
Isaiah 55.4 (AKJV) 1.297
Psalms 16.8 (Geneva) 1.297
Acts 13.34 (AKJV) 1.297
Psalms 89.52 (AKJV) 1.297
Psalms 33.5 (AKJV) 1.297
Job 20.8 (Douay-Rheims) 1.296
Psalms 53.4 (Geneva) 1.296
1 Peter 1.13 (Geneva) 1.296
Hebrews 10.23 (ODRV) 1.296
Hebrews 11.14 (AKJV) 1.296
Psalms 43.25 (ODRV) 1.296
John 4.14 (Tyndale) 1.296
Psalms 89.34 (AKJV) 1.295
Matthew 24.31 (ODRV) 1.295
Ecclesiastes 12.8 (Douay-Rheims) 1.294
Ecclesiastes 1.14 (Douay-Rheims) 1.294
Psalms 16.8 (AKJV) 1.294
Psalms 145.4 (ODRV) 1.294
2 Peter 1.11 (Geneva) 1.294
2 Corinthians 5.4 (ODRV) 1.293
Psalms 2.7 (ODRV) 1.293
1 Corinthians 14.38 (ODRV) 1.293
Isaiah 34.4 (AKJV) 1.293
2 Corinthians 4.16 (AKJV) 1.293
Job 21.26 (AKJV) 1.292
1 Corinthians 7.30 (Geneva) 1.292
Hebrews 10.34 (AKJV) 1.292
1 Corinthians 15.20 (Tyndale) 1.292
Psalms 16.10 (Geneva) 1.291
Psalms 89.33 (AKJV) 1.29
Ecclesiastes 3.20 (Geneva) 1.29
Isaiah 55.1 (Douay-Rheims) 1.289
Hebrews 5.9 (Geneva) 1.289
Philippians 3.20 (AKJV) 1.289
1 Corinthians 15.25 (Geneva) 1.288
1 John 2.16 (Vulgate) 1.288
Ecclesiastes 3.20 (AKJV) 1.288
Psalms 16.11 (AKJV) 1.286
Philippians 3.19 (ODRV) 1.286
Job 7.1 (Geneva) 1.284
Psalms 62.9 (AKJV) 1.282
Romans 8.25 (AKJV) 1.282
1 Corinthians 15.26 (ODRV) 1.28
Psalms 144.4 (AKJV) 1.279
Romans 2.7 (AKJV) 1.278
Colossians 3.4 (ODRV) 1.278
1 Corinthians 15.19 (Geneva) 1.276
Psalms 16.11 (Geneva) 1.272
Romans 2.6 (ODRV) 1.27
1 Corinthians 7.31 (AKJV) 1.269
John 18.36 (ODRV) 1.266
Colossians 3.2 (AKJV) 1.24
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: 0.924
Evenness: 0.991
Book Prominence
2 Samuel 11.719
Colossians 5.281
1 John 5.232
Philippians 4.919
Jeremiah 4.425
Job 4.424
2 Corinthians 4.364
Hebrews 3.881
Acts 3.463
1 Corinthians 3.376
Isaiah 3.285
Romans 2.712
Matthew 2.487
Psalms 1.495
Diversity: 0.959
Evenness: 0.992
Chapter Prominence
2 Samuel 23 7.077
Romans 2 6.809
Job 27 3.534
Job 20 3.52
Psalms 110 3.504
Psalms 33 3.462
1 Corinthians 8 3.461
Psalms 89 3.454
Psalms 39 3.445
Isaiah 40 3.441
Isaiah 55 3.44
Jeremiah 9 3.428
Psalms 73 3.39
Psalms 16 3.385
1 Corinthians 7 3.375
Romans 11 3.366
1 John 2 3.361
Acts 13 3.345
Matthew 22 3.311
Acts 2 3.27
Colossians 3 3.255
Philippians 3 3.199
2 Corinthians 5 3.197
Psalms 119 3.176
1 Corinthians 15 3.137
Hebrews 11 3.125
Diversity: 0.967
Evenness: 0.994
Verse Prominence
2 Samuel 23.5 5.868
Romans 2.7 5.858
Acts 13.32 2.94
Job 27.19 2.94
Job 20.9 2.94
Job 20.7 2.939
Acts 2.25 2.938
Job 20.8 2.938
Psalms 119.68 2.938
Psalms 89.47 2.937
Acts 13.34 2.936
Psalms 73.20 2.936
Psalms 33.5 2.936
Acts 13.33 2.935
Acts 2.30 2.934
Psalms 16.9 2.931
Psalms 16.8 2.93
Psalms 39.6 2.928
Psalms 16.10 2.927
Romans 11.36 2.925
1 John 2.16 2.922
1 Corinthians 15.19 2.921
2 Corinthians 5.4 2.918
Psalms 89.48 2.917
Romans 2.6 2.915
Colossians 3.2 2.914
Colossians 3.3 2.914
Psalms 39.5 2.911
Psalms 16.11 2.905
Philippians 3.20 2.9
Jeremiah 9.24 2.892
Philippians 3.21 2.892
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase