Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon preached before His Majesty at Whitehall, March 12, 1664/5 by B. Lord Bishop of Lincoln.

Laney, Benjamin, 1591-1675
Publisher: Printed for Timothy Garthwait
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1665
Approximate Era: CharlesII
TCP ID: A49453 ESTC ID: R17030 STC ID: L347
Subject Headings: Bible. -- N.T. -- Thessalonians, 1st, IV, 2; Quietude; 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 5.7% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 4.3% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 87.4% 100.0%
Foreign Percentage of units with foreign text 0.2% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 10.0% -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) 3.3% -inf%
foreign_italicized Percentage of units with QP and foreign italicized text 0.2% -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: 0.864
Evenness: 0.983
Part Prominence
New Testament (ODRV) 11.084
Apocrypha (Douay-Rheims) 7.708
New Testament (Vulgate) 6.303
Old Testament (Geneva) 1.177
New Testament (Tyndale) 1.09
New Testament (Geneva) 0.053
Old Testament (AKJV) -0.935
New Testament (AKJV) -1.317
Diversity: 0.97
Evenness: 0.997
Book Prominence
1 Thessalonians (ODRV) 5.422
Philemon (Geneva) 2.848
Philemon (Tyndale) 2.831
1 Thessalonians (Vulgate) 2.83
James (Tyndale) 2.619
1 Timothy (Tyndale) 2.569
1 Thessalonians (Geneva) 2.541
Philippians (Geneva) 2.439
James (Geneva) 2.435
Jeremiah (Geneva) 2.408
1 Thessalonians (AKJV) 2.407
James (ODRV) 2.398
Ephesians (Tyndale) 2.373
Colossians (AKJV) 2.35
1 Timothy (ODRV) 2.333
Acts (Tyndale) 2.323
James (AKJV) 2.211
Galatians (AKJV) 2.185
Ecclesiasticus (Douay-Rheims) 2.179
Hebrews (Geneva) 2.115
Philippians (ODRV) 2.107
Philippians (AKJV) 2.095
Acts (AKJV) 2.023
Ephesians (AKJV) 1.906
John (ODRV) 1.802
Matthew (Tyndale) 1.772
Matthew (Geneva) 1.695
Romans (ODRV) 1.607
Isaiah (AKJV) 1.575
Matthew (ODRV) 1.444
Matthew (AKJV) 1.343
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 1.289
Psalms (Geneva) 1.042
Romans (AKJV) 1.015
Diversity: 0.976
Evenness: 0.998
Chapter Prominence
1 Thessalonians 4 (ODRV) 4.509
1 Thessalonians 1 (Vulgate) 2.272
Philemon 1 (Geneva) 2.268
Acts 18 (Tyndale) 2.261
Isaiah 11 (AKJV) 2.251
Philemon 1 (Tyndale) 2.251
1 Timothy 5 (Tyndale) 2.243
James 3 (Tyndale) 2.241
Romans 16 (AKJV) 2.239
Jeremiah 17 (Geneva) 2.237
Ecclesiasticus 25 (Douay-Rheims) 2.23
Philippians 4 (Geneva) 2.229
Ephesians 2 (Tyndale) 2.216
James 4 (Geneva) 2.211
James 4 (ODRV) 2.209
Acts 17 (AKJV) 2.205
1 Corinthians 4 (AKJV) 2.205
John 14 (ODRV) 2.202
Matthew 25 (Tyndale) 2.191
1 Thessalonians 4 (Geneva) 2.187
Matthew 7 (Geneva) 2.187
Matthew 6 (Geneva) 2.174
Matthew 25 (AKJV) 2.173
1 Thessalonians 4 (AKJV) 2.171
Hebrews 13 (Geneva) 2.171
Psalms 122 (Geneva) 2.17
James 3 (AKJV) 2.169
Matthew 25 (Geneva) 2.168
Galatians 3 (AKJV) 2.168
1 Timothy 2 (ODRV) 2.156
1 Corinthians 12 (AKJV) 2.152
Romans 3 (AKJV) 2.143
Colossians 3 (AKJV) 2.134
Matthew 22 (ODRV) 2.133
1 Corinthians 1 (AKJV) 2.127
Romans 13 (ODRV) 2.115
Romans 14 (AKJV) 2.106
Matthew 6 (AKJV) 2.102
Philippians 4 (AKJV) 2.099
Matthew 5 (AKJV) 2.092
Philippians 2 (ODRV) 2.056
Ephesians 4 (AKJV) 1.92
Romans 13 (AKJV) 1.912
Diversity: 0.979
Evenness: 0.991
Verse Prominence
1 Thessalonians 4.11 (AKJV) 5.442
Acts 17.5 (AKJV) 3.635
1 Thessalonians 4.11 (ODRV) 3.631
1 Thessalonians 1.1 (Vulgate) 1.818
Isaiah 11.1 (AKJV) 1.817
Philemon 1.8 (Geneva) 1.817
Philemon 1.9 (Tyndale) 1.817
Acts 17.4 (AKJV) 1.817
Matthew 25.37 (AKJV) 1.817
1 Thessalonians 4.10 (AKJV) 1.816
1 Corinthians 4.4 (AKJV) 1.816
Matthew 25.42 (AKJV) 1.816
Matthew 25.43 (Geneva) 1.816
Matthew 7.14 (Geneva) 1.814
1 Timothy 5.19 (Tyndale) 1.814
Matthew 25.45 (Tyndale) 1.814
Philippians 2.3 (ODRV) 1.813
Matthew 5.9 (AKJV) 1.812
Matthew 25.31 (Tyndale) 1.812
Romans 3.6 (AKJV) 1.812
Matthew 22.3 (ODRV) 1.812
Acts 18.24 (Tyndale) 1.812
James 3.18 (Tyndale) 1.812
James 4.17 (Geneva) 1.811
Matthew 25.31 (Geneva) 1.811
Matthew 25.42 (Tyndale) 1.811
Philippians 4.11 (Geneva) 1.81
John 14.27 (ODRV) 1.81
Hebrews 13.17 (Geneva) 1.809
Colossians 3.14 (AKJV) 1.808
Philippians 4.11 (AKJV) 1.808
Psalms 122.3 (Geneva) 1.806
Ephesians 4.31 (AKJV) 1.806
Ephesians 2.8 (Tyndale) 1.804
Matthew 6.22 (Geneva) 1.803
James 4.1 (ODRV) 1.803
Galatians 3.26 (AKJV) 1.803
Ecclesiasticus 25.16 (Douay-Rheims) 1.802
Romans 16.17 (AKJV) 1.801
Matthew 6.22 (AKJV) 1.8
1 Thessalonians 4.11 (Geneva) 1.797
1 Corinthians 12.25 (AKJV) 1.797
Philippians 4.5 (AKJV) 1.797
Jeremiah 17.9 (Geneva) 1.797
Ephesians 4.32 (AKJV) 1.793
Romans 13.5 (ODRV) 1.792
James 3.16 (AKJV) 1.789
1 Corinthians 1.10 (AKJV) 1.786
Romans 14.19 (AKJV) 1.781
1 Timothy 2.2 (ODRV) 1.772
Romans 13.5 (AKJV) 1.772
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
New Testament 51.805
Diversity: 0.923
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
1 Thessalonians 6.615
Colossians 6.307
James 6.185
Philippians 5.945
1 Timothy 5.855
1 Peter 5.661
Ephesians 5.53
Hebrews 4.907
John 4.486
Luke 4.474
1 Corinthians 4.402
Romans 3.738
Matthew 3.512
Diversity: 0.947
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
1 Corinthians 5 5.137
Luke 14 5.119
James 3 5.108
Romans 16 5.105
1 Timothy 5 5.081
1 Thessalonians 4 5.049
1 Peter 3 5.039
Philippians 4 5.034
Romans 14 5.031
Matthew 24 5.028
1 Timothy 2 5.01
John 14 4.985
Colossians 3 4.947
Philippians 2 4.935
Hebrews 13 4.902
Matthew 25 4.893
Ephesians 4 4.799
Matthew 5 4.707
Romans 13 4.574
Diversity: 0.944
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
James 3.18 5.549
1 Timothy 5.19 5.547
1 Peter 3.11 5.547
Luke 14.23 5.546
1 Corinthians 5.10 5.545
James 3.16 5.543
Matthew 25.31 5.543
Romans 14.10 5.542
Matthew 5.9 5.54
Philippians 4.5 5.538
Philippians 4.11 5.537
Colossians 3.14 5.535
1 Thessalonians 4.11 5.532
John 14.27 5.53
Philippians 2.3 5.524
Hebrews 13.17 5.5
Romans 16.17 5.486
1 Timothy 2.2 5.467
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase