Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon preached at the funeral of Mrs. Mary Alston, wife to Joseph Alston Esq; who dyed, Jan. 25. and was interred at Chelsey, Feb. 7. 1670. By Adam Littleton, D.D. Recton of Chelsey.

Littleton, Adam, 1627-1694
Publisher: printed by John Macock
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1671
Approximate Era: CharlesII
TCP ID: A48733 ESTC ID: R221361 STC ID: L2569
Subject Headings: Alston, Mary, d. 1671; Funeral sermons;
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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 2.7% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 1.2% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 74.0% 100.0%
NonLatinAlphabet Percentage of units with a NonLatinAlphabet placeholder 0.4% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 24.4% -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 0.6% -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) 4.6% -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: 0.861
Evenness: 0.973
Part Prominence
New Testament (Vulgate) 11.858
Old Testament (Geneva) 6.732
New Testament (Wycliffe) 6.712
New Testament (Tyndale) 6.645
New Testament (Geneva) 5.608
New Testament (ODRV) -2.804
Old Testament (AKJV) -3.713
New Testament (AKJV) -4.094
Diversity: 0.975
Evenness: 0.99
Book Prominence
Acts (Vulgate) 4.033
Micah (Geneva) 3.969
Acts (Tyndale) 3.548
Acts (Geneva) 3.538
Galatians (ODRV) 3.497
Romans (Geneva) 2.621
James (Vulgate) 1.989
Micah (AKJV) 1.878
John (Wycliffe) 1.865
Mark (ODRV) 1.853
Romans (Vulgate) 1.803
1 Thessalonians (Tyndale) 1.795
Colossians (Geneva) 1.663
Deuteronomy (Geneva) 1.631
2 Corinthians (Tyndale) 1.597
James (ODRV) 1.582
Ephesians (Tyndale) 1.557
Deuteronomy (AKJV) 1.473
1 Peter (Geneva) 1.459
1 John (AKJV) 1.441
James (AKJV) 1.395
Ephesians (ODRV) 1.389
Acts (ODRV) 1.353
Hebrews (ODRV) 1.329
2 Corinthians (Geneva) 1.293
Philippians (ODRV) 1.291
Luke (Tyndale) 1.265
1 Peter (AKJV) 1.253
Ephesians (Geneva) 1.239
Acts (AKJV) 1.207
John (Geneva) 1.171
John (Tyndale) 1.163
2 Corinthians (AKJV) 1.146
Ephesians (AKJV) 1.09
Romans (Tyndale) 1.054
Hebrews (AKJV) 1.013
John (ODRV) 0.985
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 0.851
Romans (ODRV) 0.79
1 Corinthians (Geneva) 0.769
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 0.473
Psalms (Geneva) 0.226
Romans (AKJV) 0.198
Diversity: 0.983
Evenness: 0.993
Chapter Prominence
Acts 13 (Vulgate) 2.855
Acts 13 (Tyndale) 2.836
Acts 13 (Geneva) 2.829
Micah 6 (Geneva) 2.828
Galatians 2 (ODRV) 2.798
Romans 12 (Geneva) 2.742
Deuteronomy 27 (Geneva) 1.424
Deuteronomy 27 (AKJV) 1.418
James 2 (Vulgate) 1.418
Psalms 42 (Geneva) 1.415
Romans 5 (Vulgate) 1.412
John 1 (Wycliffe) 1.408
1 Thessalonians 1 (Tyndale) 1.405
2 Corinthians 3 (Tyndale) 1.405
Mark 16 (ODRV) 1.403
John 16 (Tyndale) 1.386
Micah 6 (AKJV) 1.383
John 11 (Tyndale) 1.381
Acts 13 (AKJV) 1.38
Acts 13 (ODRV) 1.38
Romans 1 (Tyndale) 1.377
Romans 4 (Tyndale) 1.377
Luke 10 (Tyndale) 1.376
1 John 1 (AKJV) 1.373
Ephesians 1 (Tyndale) 1.366
Hebrews 9 (ODRV) 1.366
1 Peter 3 (Geneva) 1.357
Romans 15 (AKJV) 1.357
Romans 4 (Geneva) 1.355
John 11 (ODRV) 1.354
John 10 (ODRV) 1.348
Romans 4 (AKJV) 1.348
Ephesians 6 (Geneva) 1.345
Colossians 2 (Geneva) 1.345
1 Corinthians 6 (Geneva) 1.345
Romans 3 (Geneva) 1.343
Romans 3 (Tyndale) 1.331
2 Corinthians 4 (Geneva) 1.33
Romans 10 (AKJV) 1.329
John 1 (ODRV) 1.328
James 2 (ODRV) 1.325
Romans 7 (AKJV) 1.323
John 3 (Geneva) 1.32
1 Corinthians 12 (ODRV) 1.32
Romans 14 (Geneva) 1.316
1 Corinthians 6 (AKJV) 1.313
James 2 (AKJV) 1.306
Romans 3 (ODRV) 1.304
Philippians 3 (ODRV) 1.294
Romans 8 (Tyndale) 1.294
Romans 5 (AKJV) 1.282
Philippians 1 (ODRV) 1.273
2 Corinthians 5 (AKJV) 1.269
1 Peter 5 (AKJV) 1.267
Ephesians 4 (ODRV) 1.264
Hebrews 10 (AKJV) 1.251
Romans 6 (Geneva) 1.242
Romans 8 (Geneva) 1.241
1 Corinthians 15 (AKJV) 1.226
Romans 6 (AKJV) 1.226
Ephesians 4 (Geneva) 1.17
1 Corinthians 15 (ODRV) 1.112
Romans 8 (AKJV) 1.097
Ephesians 4 (AKJV) 1.076
Diversity: 0.986
Evenness: 0.993
Verse Prominence
Acts 13.39 (Tyndale) 2.379
Acts 13.39 (Vulgate) 2.379
Acts 13.38 (Geneva) 2.378
Acts 13.38 (AKJV) 2.378
Micah 6.7 (Geneva) 2.372
Romans 12.5 (Geneva) 2.368
Galatians 2.16 (ODRV) 2.358
John 1.17 (Wycliffe) 1.19
Romans 5.13 (Vulgate) 1.19
Acts 13.14 (ODRV) 1.19
Acts 13.39 (Geneva) 1.19
Ephesians 1.13 (Tyndale) 1.19
2 Corinthians 3.2 (Tyndale) 1.19
James 2.24 (Vulgate) 1.19
Mark 16.16 (ODRV) 1.189
Hebrews 10.4 (AKJV) 1.189
Romans 8.6 (Tyndale) 1.189
John 11.38 (Tyndale) 1.188
Acts 13.39 (AKJV) 1.188
Acts 13.35 (ODRV) 1.188
Acts 13.36 (AKJV) 1.188
Hebrews 10.1 (AKJV) 1.188
James 2.22 (ODRV) 1.188
1 Corinthians 6.11 (Geneva) 1.188
Romans 3.22 (Geneva) 1.187
Deuteronomy 27.26 (Geneva) 1.187
John 1.5 (ODRV) 1.187
Romans 7.7 (AKJV) 1.187
Ephesians 1.6 (Tyndale) 1.187
John 11.26 (ODRV) 1.186
Deuteronomy 27.26 (AKJV) 1.186
1 Corinthians 6.11 (AKJV) 1.186
Colossians 2.14 (Geneva) 1.186
Romans 3.25 (ODRV) 1.185
Romans 3.27 (Geneva) 1.185
1 Corinthians 15.56 (AKJV) 1.185
Ephesians 4.7 (ODRV) 1.184
Luke 10.42 (Tyndale) 1.184
Psalms 42.2 (Geneva) 1.183
Romans 4.24 (Geneva) 1.183
Micah 6.6 (AKJV) 1.182
Romans 4.4 (Tyndale) 1.182
Romans 3.31 (ODRV) 1.182
Romans 4.15 (Geneva) 1.182
Romans 4.15 (AKJV) 1.182
1 Corinthians 15.57 (ODRV) 1.182
Romans 10.2 (AKJV) 1.182
James 2.18 (ODRV) 1.182
Ephesians 6.16 (Geneva) 1.181
Philippians 3.10 (ODRV) 1.181
Colossians 2.17 (Geneva) 1.18
Romans 5.2 (AKJV) 1.179
1 Thessalonians 1.10 (Tyndale) 1.179
Romans 15.5 (AKJV) 1.179
John 16.2 (Tyndale) 1.178
John 10.30 (ODRV) 1.177
1 John 1.9 (AKJV) 1.177
John 3.15 (Geneva) 1.175
Romans 8.39 (Geneva) 1.175
Romans 1.17 (Tyndale) 1.174
Hebrews 9.28 (ODRV) 1.174
Romans 8.39 (AKJV) 1.174
Romans 3.24 (Tyndale) 1.173
Ephesians 4.7 (Geneva) 1.172
Ephesians 4.7 (AKJV) 1.172
2 Corinthians 5.21 (AKJV) 1.171
1 Corinthians 12.12 (ODRV) 1.171
1 Peter 3.4 (Geneva) 1.171
Romans 14.23 (Geneva) 1.17
Romans 4.22 (Geneva) 1.17
Romans 4.22 (AKJV) 1.17
James 2.17 (AKJV) 1.167
Romans 6.7 (AKJV) 1.156
Romans 6.7 (Geneva) 1.156
2 Corinthians 4.17 (Geneva) 1.154
Philippians 1.21 (ODRV) 1.143
1 Peter 5.11 (AKJV) 1.107
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: 0.0
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
New Testament 51.805
Diversity: 0.667
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Hebrews 30.548
Acts 30.13
1 Corinthians 30.043
Diversity: 0.75
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Acts 13 24.774
1 Corinthians 6 24.714
Hebrews 10 24.707
Acts 2 24.698
Diversity: 0.5
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Hebrews 10.4 49.986
Acts 13.39 49.982
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase