Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon preached at the funeral of the honourable Christopher Sherard, Esq., eldest son to the right honourable Bennet Lord Sherard, February the 28th, 1681 by T.L. ...

Laxton, Thomas
Publisher: Printed by S Roycroft for Robert Clavell
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1682
Approximate Era: CharlesII
TCP ID: A49830 ESTC ID: R34511 STC ID: L744
Subject Headings: Funeral sermons; Sermons, English -- 17th century; Sherard, Christopher, d. 1681;
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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 8.6% 2.7%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 4.8% 2.7%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 79.8% 97.3%
NonLatinAlphabet Percentage of units with a NonLatinAlphabet placeholder 0.8% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 16.7% 2.7%
sim_score Average cosine similarity score of top Bible verse predictions per unit 0.8% 1.0%
cross_score Average cross encoder score of top Bible verse predictions per unit 0.7% 1.0%
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) 3.2% 2.7%



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: 0.893
Evenness: 0.987
Part Prominence
New Testament (AKJV) 5.754
Apocrypha (Douay-Rheims) 5.687
New Testament (Vulgate) 4.282
Old Testament (ODRV) 2.722
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 0.539
Old Testament (Geneva) -0.844
New Testament (Tyndale) -0.931
New Testament (Geneva) -1.967
New Testament (ODRV) -2.047
Old Testament (AKJV) -2.955
Diversity: 0.982
Evenness: 0.991
Book Prominence
Acts (ODRV) 3.857
2 Samuel (Geneva) 2.805
1 Thessalonians (AKJV) 2.58
1 Peter (Geneva) 2.448
Isaiah (AKJV) 1.748
1 Thessalonians (Vulgate) 1.488
Judith (Douay-Rheims) 1.46
Colossians (Vulgate) 1.439
Daniel (ODRV) 1.38
1 Kings (Geneva) 1.309
2 Timothy (Tyndale) 1.304
1 Samuel (Geneva) 1.272
1 Thessalonians (Tyndale) 1.269
2 Timothy (ODRV) 1.254
1 Kings (AKJV) 1.234
1 Timothy (Tyndale) 1.227
1 Thessalonians (Geneva) 1.199
2 Kings (Douay-Rheims) 1.197
2 Timothy (Geneva) 1.173
2 Samuel (AKJV) 1.138
Revelation (Tyndale) 1.136
1 Samuel (AKJV) 1.096
1 Peter (ODRV) 1.081
1 John (Tyndale) 1.067
Galatians (Geneva) 1.032
1 Peter (Tyndale) 1.026
Revelation (Geneva) 1.003
2 Timothy (AKJV) 0.983
Acts (Tyndale) 0.981
Genesis (ODRV) 0.969
Job (Douay-Rheims) 0.938
Galatians (ODRV) 0.93
Genesis (Geneva) 0.904
Ephesians (ODRV) 0.864
Galatians (AKJV) 0.843
Ecclesiasticus (Douay-Rheims) 0.837
Job (Geneva) 0.816
Hebrews (Geneva) 0.773
2 Corinthians (Geneva) 0.767
2 Corinthians (ODRV) 0.76
Philippians (AKJV) 0.753
Acts (AKJV) 0.681
1 Corinthians (Tyndale) 0.643
2 Corinthians (AKJV) 0.62
Luke (Geneva) 0.616
Isaiah (Geneva) 0.609
Proverbs (Geneva) 0.585
Romans (Tyndale) 0.528
Job (AKJV) 0.521
Hebrews (AKJV) 0.488
John (ODRV) 0.46
John (AKJV) 0.331
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 0.325
Psalms (ODRV) 0.305
1 Corinthians (Geneva) 0.244
Proverbs (AKJV) 0.112
1 Corinthians (AKJV) -0.053
Psalms (Geneva) -0.3
Romans (AKJV) -0.327
Psalms (AKJV) -1.266
Diversity: 0.986
Evenness: 0.992
Chapter Prominence
Acts 24 (ODRV) 3.467
2 Samuel 12 (Geneva) 2.311
Job 7 (AKJV) 2.281
1 Thessalonians 4 (AKJV) 2.224
1 Peter 1 (Geneva) 2.217
Isaiah 57 (AKJV) 2.18
Judith 16 (Douay-Rheims) 1.16
Genesis 23 (Geneva) 1.156
Acts 21 (Tyndale) 1.156
1 Samuel 3 (Geneva) 1.156
Daniel 12 (ODRV) 1.155
1 Kings 2 (Geneva) 1.154
Ecclesiasticus 40 (Douay-Rheims) 1.153
1 Thessalonians 4 (Vulgate) 1.153
Job 19 (Douay-Rheims) 1.151
2 Kings 12 (Douay-Rheims) 1.15
Luke 8 (Geneva) 1.147
1 Kings 2 (AKJV) 1.146
Psalms 4 (ODRV) 1.146
2 Samuel 12 (AKJV) 1.146
Job 33 (Geneva) 1.139
1 Samuel 3 (AKJV) 1.138
Psalms 36 (ODRV) 1.137
Colossians 1 (Vulgate) 1.136
Proverbs 12 (Geneva) 1.133
Job 34 (Geneva) 1.133
Isaiah 26 (Geneva) 1.131
2 Timothy 4 (Tyndale) 1.131
Job 14 (Geneva) 1.13
Proverbs 14 (Geneva) 1.125
Hebrews 4 (Geneva) 1.121
1 Timothy 1 (Tyndale) 1.118
Psalms 97 (AKJV) 1.117
1 Peter 4 (Tyndale) 1.115
Psalms 16 (AKJV) 1.115
Proverbs 30 (AKJV) 1.114
Romans 1 (Tyndale) 1.111
2 Timothy 2 (ODRV) 1.111
1 Thessalonians 4 (Tyndale) 1.111
Psalms 39 (AKJV) 1.11
Job 21 (Geneva) 1.109
Revelation 20 (Geneva) 1.109
Psalms 116 (AKJV) 1.106
Psalms 16 (Geneva) 1.105
Genesis 3 (ODRV) 1.103
Revelation 14 (Tyndale) 1.101
1 Thessalonians 5 (Tyndale) 1.098
Luke 16 (Geneva) 1.095
Hebrews 4 (AKJV) 1.094
John 11 (ODRV) 1.088
Job 14 (AKJV) 1.088
John 7 (AKJV) 1.085
Job 5 (AKJV) 1.084
Acts 24 (AKJV) 1.08
Psalms 37 (Geneva) 1.079
Ephesians 2 (ODRV) 1.078
1 Thessalonians 4 (Geneva) 1.077
1 Corinthians 9 (AKJV) 1.075
1 Peter 1 (ODRV) 1.075
1 Corinthians 11 (Tyndale) 1.072
Psalms 116 (Geneva) 1.071
2 Timothy 4 (Geneva) 1.069
1 John 3 (Tyndale) 1.065
Hebrews 9 (AKJV) 1.064
2 Corinthians 4 (Geneva) 1.064
Galatians 5 (ODRV) 1.055
Galatians 5 (Geneva) 1.035
2 Timothy 2 (AKJV) 1.023
2 Corinthians 4 (AKJV) 1.022
Proverbs 14 (AKJV) 1.014
Philippians 3 (AKJV) 1.012
Galatians 5 (AKJV) 0.995
1 Thessalonians 5 (AKJV) 0.995
Hebrews 11 (AKJV) 0.99
2 Corinthians 5 (ODRV) 0.963
Philippians 2 (AKJV) 0.943
1 Corinthians 15 (Geneva) 0.901
1 Corinthians 15 (ODRV) 0.846
Romans 8 (AKJV) 0.831
Diversity: 0.986
Evenness: 0.992
Verse Prominence
Acts 24.15 (ODRV) 3.44
Job 7.2 (AKJV) 2.297
2 Samuel 12.23 (Geneva) 2.296
1 Thessalonians 4.13 (AKJV) 2.288
Isaiah 57.2 (AKJV) 2.271
1 Peter 1.4 (Geneva) 2.258
Judith 16.29 (Douay-Rheims) 1.149
Proverbs 12.25 (Geneva) 1.149
Ecclesiasticus 40.1 (Douay-Rheims) 1.149
1 Kings 2.10 (Geneva) 1.148
1 Kings 2.10 (AKJV) 1.148
Luke 8.52 (Geneva) 1.148
Genesis 23.2 (Geneva) 1.148
Acts 21.14 (Tyndale) 1.148
Colossians 1.5 (Vulgate) 1.148
Psalms 16.9 (Geneva) 1.148
1 Peter 1.3 (ODRV) 1.148
John 11.43 (ODRV) 1.147
2 Kings 12.23 (Douay-Rheims) 1.147
1 Samuel 3.18 (Geneva) 1.147
2 Samuel 12.23 (AKJV) 1.147
Daniel 12.2 (ODRV) 1.147
Psalms 36.6 (ODRV) 1.147
Revelation 20.13 (Geneva) 1.146
Proverbs 30.8 (AKJV) 1.146
2 Timothy 2.3 (ODRV) 1.146
1 Corinthians 9.10 (AKJV) 1.146
Job 14.14 (Geneva) 1.146
2 Timothy 2.20 (AKJV) 1.146
Psalms 4.9 (ODRV) 1.145
1 Corinthians 15.29 (ODRV) 1.145
Job 34.15 (Geneva) 1.145
Job 19.25 (Douay-Rheims) 1.145
Psalms 37.6 (Geneva) 1.145
John 7.6 (AKJV) 1.144
Psalms 16.9 (AKJV) 1.144
1 Thessalonians 5.6 (Tyndale) 1.143
Job 21.26 (Geneva) 1.143
1 Thessalonians 4.13 (Vulgate) 1.143
Hebrews 11.35 (AKJV) 1.143
Psalms 39.9 (AKJV) 1.142
1 Corinthians 11.30 (Tyndale) 1.142
Isaiah 26.19 (Geneva) 1.142
Psalms 116.7 (Geneva) 1.142
1 Peter 4.19 (Tyndale) 1.141
Psalms 116.7 (AKJV) 1.141
2 Timothy 4.7 (Tyndale) 1.141
1 Thessalonians 4.18 (AKJV) 1.141
Job 33.22 (Geneva) 1.14
1 Samuel 3.18 (AKJV) 1.139
1 Thessalonians 5.6 (AKJV) 1.139
1 John 3.3 (Tyndale) 1.139
Job 5.7 (AKJV) 1.138
2 Timothy 4.6 (Geneva) 1.138
Hebrews 4.9 (Geneva) 1.137
Hebrews 4.9 (AKJV) 1.137
Proverbs 14.32 (Geneva) 1.137
Luke 16.22 (Geneva) 1.134
Ephesians 2.12 (ODRV) 1.134
Proverbs 14.32 (AKJV) 1.134
Romans 1.17 (Tyndale) 1.133
Psalms 97.11 (AKJV) 1.132
Romans 8.25 (AKJV) 1.132
1 Thessalonians 4.13 (Geneva) 1.131
1 Thessalonians 4.17 (Tyndale) 1.131
Genesis 3.19 (ODRV) 1.129
Philippians 3.21 (AKJV) 1.126
1 Corinthians 15.19 (Geneva) 1.126
1 Timothy 1.17 (Tyndale) 1.124
Job 14.14 (AKJV) 1.12
Galatians 5.17 (ODRV) 1.119
Galatians 5.17 (AKJV) 1.113
2 Corinthians 4.17 (Geneva) 1.113
Galatians 5.17 (Geneva) 1.112
2 Corinthians 4.17 (AKJV) 1.106
Hebrews 9.27 (AKJV) 1.104
Revelation 14.13 (Tyndale) 1.104
Philippians 2.12 (AKJV) 1.103
Acts 24.16 (AKJV) 1.092
2 Corinthians 5.1 (ODRV) 1.088
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: 0.95
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
1 Thessalonians 3.922
2 Kings 3.682
Daniel 3.665
Colossians 3.615
1 John 3.566
2 Timothy 3.557
Ezekiel 3.396
2 Samuel 3.386
1 Samuel 3.217
Revelation 2.874
Deuteronomy 2.869
Ephesians 2.838
Jeremiah 2.758
Job 2.757
Hebrews 2.214
Proverbs 1.952
Acts 1.797
Isaiah 1.618
Romans 1.045
Psalms -0.172
Diversity: 0.971
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Deuteronomy 14 2.917
Ezekiel 24 2.91
2 Kings 20 2.904
Psalms 97 2.895
Deuteronomy 12 2.892
Proverbs 12 2.887
Isaiah 64 2.884
Revelation 5 2.878
1 Thessalonians 1 2.878
Acts 21 2.877
Job 7 2.873
1 Samuel 25 2.853
2 Samuel 12 2.83
Daniel 12 2.828
Psalms 116 2.826
Acts 24 2.821
Proverbs 30 2.804
Isaiah 26 2.796
Jeremiah 5 2.787
Proverbs 14 2.779
Job 1 2.773
Acts 7 2.766
Revelation 14 2.749
1 Thessalonians 5 2.738
2 Timothy 4 2.734
Isaiah 57 2.732
1 Thessalonians 4 2.727
Colossians 1 2.715
Hebrews 6 2.712
2 Timothy 2 2.703
Ephesians 5 2.637
1 John 3 2.615
Romans 1 2.499
Hebrews 11 2.495
Diversity: 0.969
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Isaiah 64.2 3.123
Deuteronomy 12.2 3.123
Proverbs 30.7 3.123
Job 7.2 3.123
Acts 21.14 3.122
Proverbs 12.25 3.122
Deuteronomy 14.1 3.122
Hebrews 11.39 3.119
1 Thessalonians 5.6 3.119
Revelation 5.12 3.118
2 Kings 20.1 3.118
Colossians 1.5 3.118
Hebrews 6.11 3.118
2 Samuel 12.23 3.117
Acts 24.15 3.117
Psalms 116.7 3.116
2 Timothy 2.20 3.116
Isaiah 26.19 3.114
Psalms 97.11 3.112
2 Timothy 4.6 3.111
Jeremiah 5.3 3.11
Ephesians 5.14 3.107
1 Thessalonians 1.3 3.106
Proverbs 14.32 3.106
Daniel 12.2 3.105
Acts 7.59 3.104
Isaiah 57.2 3.102
1 John 3.3 3.094
1 Thessalonians 4.13 3.093
Job 1.21 3.092
1 John 3.2 3.053
Revelation 14.13 3.016
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase