Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and the Right Worshipful the Aldermen of the city of London, preached on Febr. 29, 1679/80, at Guildhall-Chappel by Adam Littleton ...

Littleton, Adam, 1627-1694
Publisher: Printed by S Roycroft for Rich Marriott and are to be sold by Walter Kettleby
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1680
Approximate Era: CharlesII
TCP ID: A48735 ESTC ID: R21338 STC ID: L2571
Subject Headings: Bible. -- O.T. -- Psalms XXXVII, 5; 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 2.8% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 1.4% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 81.9% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 16.7% -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) 6.9% -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: 0.844
Evenness: 0.98
Part Prominence
Apocrypha (AKJV) 20.442
Old Testament (ODRV) 6.131
Old Testament (Geneva) 2.565
New Testament (Geneva) 1.442
New Testament (ODRV) 1.362
Old Testament (AKJV) 0.454
New Testament (AKJV) 0.072
Diversity: 0.95
Evenness: 0.995
Book Prominence
Wisdom (AKJV) 8.776
Jonah (AKJV) 4.431
Jonah (Geneva) 4.427
Jonah (ODRV) 4.425
1 Chronicles (AKJV) 4.414
2 Peter (ODRV) 4.322
2 Thessalonians (AKJV) 4.293
Ezekiel (AKJV) 4.175
1 Peter (Geneva) 3.963
1 Peter (AKJV) 3.758
Acts (AKJV) 3.711
Genesis (AKJV) 3.647
Proverbs (Geneva) 3.615
Luke (ODRV) 3.553
Matthew (Geneva) 3.384
Psalms (ODRV) 3.335
Proverbs (AKJV) 3.142
Matthew (ODRV) 3.132
Psalms (Geneva) 2.731
Romans (AKJV) 2.703
Psalms (AKJV) 1.764
Diversity: 0.959
Evenness: 0.996
Chapter Prominence
Wisdom 2 (AKJV) 7.66
1 Chronicles 13 (AKJV) 3.842
Ezekiel 1 (AKJV) 3.84
Jonah 2 (AKJV) 3.835
Jonah 2 (Geneva) 3.834
Acts 27 (AKJV) 3.832
Jonah 2 (ODRV) 3.825
Psalms 129 (AKJV) 3.823
Psalms 36 (ODRV) 3.821
Proverbs 20 (Geneva) 3.813
Genesis 27 (AKJV) 3.81
Psalms 91 (AKJV) 3.8
2 Thessalonians 3 (AKJV) 3.798
Psalms 4 (AKJV) 3.798
Luke 9 (ODRV) 3.792
Matthew 10 (Geneva) 3.778
Proverbs 24 (AKJV) 3.774
2 Peter 1 (ODRV) 3.772
1 Peter 5 (Geneva) 3.766
Psalms 37 (Geneva) 3.762
Matthew 16 (ODRV) 3.737
Psalms 37 (AKJV) 3.691
1 Peter 5 (AKJV) 3.684
Romans 12 (AKJV) 3.646
Romans 8 (AKJV) 3.514
Diversity: 0.975
Evenness: 0.985
Verse Prominence
Psalms 37.5 (AKJV) 5.444
Psalms 37.8 (AKJV) 3.634
Wisdom 2.12 (AKJV) 3.634
Psalms 37.3 (AKJV) 3.634
Psalms 37.1 (AKJV) 3.633
Psalms 37.23 (AKJV) 3.632
Psalms 37.4 (AKJV) 3.628
Psalms 37.11 (AKJV) 3.628
Wisdom 2.13 (AKJV) 1.818
1 Chronicles 13.9 (AKJV) 1.818
Psalms 37.31 (AKJV) 1.817
Proverbs 24.8 (AKJV) 1.817
Psalms 37.7 (Geneva) 1.817
Psalms 37.14 (Geneva) 1.817
Psalms 37.27 (AKJV) 1.817
Proverbs 20.24 (Geneva) 1.817
Ezekiel 1.18 (AKJV) 1.817
Acts 27.18 (AKJV) 1.817
Wisdom 2.15 (AKJV) 1.816
Psalms 37.30 (AKJV) 1.816
Psalms 36.37 (ODRV) 1.816
Psalms 37.7 (AKJV) 1.816
Psalms 91.15 (AKJV) 1.816
2 Thessalonians 3.13 (AKJV) 1.816
Psalms 37.40 (Geneva) 1.816
Psalms 37.12 (AKJV) 1.815
Psalms 37.32 (Geneva) 1.815
Psalms 37.32 (AKJV) 1.815
Psalms 37.3 (Geneva) 1.815
Jonah 2.8 (Geneva) 1.815
Psalms 129.2 (AKJV) 1.814
Jonah 2.8 (AKJV) 1.814
Psalms 4.5 (AKJV) 1.814
Psalms 37.39 (AKJV) 1.814
Genesis 27.41 (AKJV) 1.813
Psalms 129.1 (AKJV) 1.813
2 Peter 1.20 (ODRV) 1.813
Matthew 10.37 (Geneva) 1.813
Psalms 37.2 (AKJV) 1.811
Romans 12.21 (AKJV) 1.81
1 Peter 5.7 (AKJV) 1.81
Jonah 2.1 (ODRV) 1.809
Matthew 16.24 (ODRV) 1.808
1 Peter 5.7 (Geneva) 1.805
Luke 9.55 (ODRV) 1.801
Romans 8.31 (AKJV) 1.794
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: 0.75
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Ezekiel 23.396
1 Peter 22.969
Acts 21.797
Psalms 19.828
Diversity: 0.857
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Ezekiel 10 14.277
Psalms 129 14.246
Acts 27 14.216
Psalms 73 14.104
Acts 5 14.098
Psalms 37 14.095
1 Peter 5 14.092
Diversity: 0.833
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Psalms 73.17 16.659
Psalms 129.1 16.658
Psalms 129.2 16.658
Psalms 37.5 16.653
Acts 5.39 16.652
1 Peter 5.7 16.637
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase