Early English Printed Sermons


A good man making a good end the life and death of the Reverend Mr. John Baily, comprised and expressed in a sermon on the day of his funeral, Thursday, 16. d. 10. m. 1697 / by Cotton Mather.

Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728
Publisher: Printed by B Green and J Allen for Michael Perry
Place of Publication: Boston
Publication Year: 1698
Approximate Era: WilliamAndMary
TCP ID: A50132 ESTC ID: R31237 STC ID: M1111
Subject Headings: Bailey, John, 1644-1697; 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 3.6% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 2.9% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 89.7% 100.0%
Foreign Percentage of units with foreign text 0.2% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 9.4% -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) 2.1% -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: 0.893
Evenness: 0.987
Part Prominence
New Testament (Tyndale) 8.16
Apocrypha (AKJV) 4.533
New Testament (Vulgate) 4.282
Old Testament (ODRV) 2.722
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 0.539
Old Testament (Geneva) -0.844
New Testament (Geneva) -1.967
New Testament (ODRV) -2.047
Old Testament (AKJV) -2.955
New Testament (AKJV) -3.337
Diversity: 0.976
Evenness: 0.996
Book Prominence
1 Peter (Tyndale) 3.859
Luke (AKJV) 3.15
Tobit (AKJV) 2.107
2 Thessalonians (ODRV) 2.101
Hebrews (Vulgate) 2.094
Canticles (Douay-Rheims) 2.053
Ezra (AKJV) 2.042
Judges (Geneva) 2.022
Mark (ODRV) 1.986
1 Thessalonians (Tyndale) 1.928
1 Kings (AKJV) 1.893
2 Kings (Douay-Rheims) 1.856
2 Timothy (Geneva) 1.832
2 Samuel (AKJV) 1.797
Philippians (Geneva) 1.756
Hebrews (Tyndale) 1.723
Ephesians (Tyndale) 1.69
2 Timothy (AKJV) 1.642
Acts (Geneva) 1.63
Genesis (ODRV) 1.627
Revelation (ODRV) 1.621
Hebrews (ODRV) 1.462
Hebrews (Geneva) 1.432
2 Corinthians (Geneva) 1.426
Philippians (ODRV) 1.424
Philippians (AKJV) 1.412
Isaiah (Douay-Rheims) 1.298
2 Corinthians (AKJV) 1.279
Genesis (AKJV) 1.275
Isaiah (Geneva) 1.268
Ephesians (AKJV) 1.223
Luke (ODRV) 1.182
Job (AKJV) 1.18
Hebrews (AKJV) 1.146
John (ODRV) 1.119
Matthew (Geneva) 1.012
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 0.984
Psalms (ODRV) 0.964
Isaiah (AKJV) 0.891
Proverbs (AKJV) 0.771
Romans (Geneva) 0.714
Matthew (AKJV) 0.659
Psalms (Geneva) 0.359
Psalms (AKJV) -0.607
Diversity: 0.982
Evenness: 0.994
Chapter Prominence
Isaiah 55 (Geneva) 3.195
Psalms 31 (AKJV) 3.19
1 Peter 4 (Tyndale) 3.178
Luke 23 (AKJV) 3.177
Mark 8 (ODRV) 1.609
Hebrews 12 (Vulgate) 1.608
2 Thessalonians 1 (ODRV) 1.608
Judges 9 (Geneva) 1.607
Canticles 8 (Douay-Rheims) 1.607
Tobit 10 (AKJV) 1.605
2 Kings 14 (Douay-Rheims) 1.603
Genesis 17 (ODRV) 1.603
Mark 10 (ODRV) 1.602
Isaiah 38 (Geneva) 1.602
Genesis 24 (AKJV) 1.602
Genesis 17 (AKJV) 1.596
Psalms 31 (Geneva) 1.595
1 Kings 21 (AKJV) 1.591
Psalms 106 (ODRV) 1.59
1 Thessalonians 1 (Tyndale) 1.589
2 Samuel 23 (AKJV) 1.588
2 Timothy 1 (Geneva) 1.586
Isaiah 38 (AKJV) 1.584
Psalms 141 (AKJV) 1.583
Job 33 (AKJV) 1.582
Psalms 17 (ODRV) 1.58
Acts 7 (Geneva) 1.575
Ezra 9 (AKJV) 1.572
Revelation 21 (ODRV) 1.571
Psalms 102 (AKJV) 1.57
Hebrews 12 (Tyndale) 1.569
Isaiah 55 (Douay-Rheims) 1.569
Philippians 1 (Geneva) 1.557
Ephesians 2 (Tyndale) 1.556
Psalms 115 (Geneva) 1.555
Romans 5 (Geneva) 1.553
Ephesians 3 (AKJV) 1.552
Genesis 49 (AKJV) 1.549
Proverbs 27 (AKJV) 1.548
Hebrews 13 (ODRV) 1.547
Luke 23 (ODRV) 1.545
1 Corinthians 1 (ODRV) 1.544
2 Corinthians 6 (Geneva) 1.536
Matthew 16 (AKJV) 1.533
John 8 (ODRV) 1.522
Psalms 51 (AKJV) 1.515
Hebrews 10 (Geneva) 1.508
Luke 12 (AKJV) 1.507
Hebrews 12 (ODRV) 1.502
Philippians 3 (ODRV) 1.478
Matthew 5 (Geneva) 1.468
Philippians 3 (AKJV) 1.462
2 Corinthians 5 (AKJV) 1.453
2 Timothy 3 (AKJV) 1.452
Hebrews 10 (AKJV) 1.436
Matthew 5 (AKJV) 1.432
Psalms 119 (AKJV) 1.393
Philippians 2 (AKJV) 1.393
Diversity: 0.983
Evenness: 0.995
Verse Prominence
Psalms 31.5 (AKJV) 3.028
Luke 23.46 (AKJV) 3.028
1 Peter 4.19 (Tyndale) 3.022
Isaiah 55.6 (Geneva) 3.016
Mark 10.51 (ODRV) 1.515
Mark 8.37 (ODRV) 1.515
Judges 9.7 (Geneva) 1.515
Genesis 24.31 (AKJV) 1.515
2 Kings 14.24 (Douay-Rheims) 1.514
2 Samuel 23.1 (AKJV) 1.514
Hebrews 12.29 (Vulgate) 1.514
Isaiah 38.2 (AKJV) 1.514
Psalms 17.6 (ODRV) 1.514
Genesis 49.18 (AKJV) 1.514
2 Thessalonians 1.11 (ODRV) 1.514
Philippians 1.23 (Geneva) 1.514
Genesis 17.3 (ODRV) 1.514
Isaiah 38.2 (Geneva) 1.513
Acts 7.59 (Geneva) 1.513
Hebrews 12.9 (ODRV) 1.513
Psalms 106.22 (ODRV) 1.513
Hebrews 12.29 (Tyndale) 1.512
Psalms 102.27 (AKJV) 1.512
Genesis 17.7 (AKJV) 1.512
Canticles 8.5 (Douay-Rheims) 1.512
1 Corinthians 1.29 (ODRV) 1.512
Ezra 9.6 (AKJV) 1.511
John 8.34 (ODRV) 1.511
Luke 23.46 (ODRV) 1.511
Tobit 10.9 (AKJV) 1.511
Romans 5.2 (Geneva) 1.511
Psalms 31.5 (Geneva) 1.51
Job 33.22 (AKJV) 1.51
Psalms 119.96 (AKJV) 1.509
2 Timothy 1.12 (Geneva) 1.509
1 Kings 21.25 (AKJV) 1.509
Ephesians 3.19 (AKJV) 1.509
Job 33.24 (AKJV) 1.508
Psalms 119.18 (AKJV) 1.508
Proverbs 27.1 (AKJV) 1.507
Psalms 51.10 (AKJV) 1.506
2 Corinthians 5.1 (AKJV) 1.505
Psalms 141.3 (AKJV) 1.505
Matthew 5.8 (Geneva) 1.504
Matthew 5.8 (AKJV) 1.504
1 Corinthians 1.24 (ODRV) 1.504
1 Thessalonians 1.10 (Tyndale) 1.504
Isaiah 55.6 (Douay-Rheims) 1.504
Psalms 115.3 (Geneva) 1.503
Ephesians 2.8 (Tyndale) 1.501
Luke 12.20 (AKJV) 1.501
Hebrews 13.7 (ODRV) 1.501
Revelation 21.4 (ODRV) 1.499
Philippians 3.8 (AKJV) 1.498
Philippians 2.13 (AKJV) 1.494
2 Timothy 3.15 (AKJV) 1.494
2 Corinthians 6.2 (Geneva) 1.493
Matthew 16.26 (AKJV) 1.489
Hebrews 10.31 (AKJV) 1.481
Hebrews 10.31 (Geneva) 1.481
Philippians 2.12 (AKJV) 1.469
Philippians 3.20 (ODRV) 1.454
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: 0.5
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Old Testament 2.666
New Testament 1.805
Diversity: 0.95
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Ezra 4.586
2 Thessalonians 4.208
Judges 3.902
Mark 3.694
2 Timothy 3.557
1 Kings 3.523
Philippians 3.252
1 Samuel 3.217
1 Peter 2.969
Revelation 2.874
Ephesians 2.838
Job 2.757
2 Corinthians 2.698
Genesis 2.375
Hebrews 2.214
Acts 1.797
John 1.794
Luke 1.782
Matthew 0.82
Psalms -0.172
Diversity: 0.96
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Job 33 3.947
Ezra 9 3.946
Judges 9 3.94
Mark 10 3.918
1 Kings 21 3.918
Psalms 31 3.915
1 Samuel 25 3.912
Revelation 6 3.9
2 Thessalonians 1 3.895
Psalms 49 3.89
Psalms 116 3.885
Psalms 22 3.865
Genesis 49 3.844
Luke 23 3.842
2 Timothy 1 3.831
Acts 7 3.825
1 Peter 4 3.807
John 8 3.782
Philippians 1 3.752
Hebrews 10 3.707
Matthew 10 3.705
Ephesians 5 3.696
Matthew 16 3.692
Philippians 2 3.672
2 Corinthians 5 3.626
Diversity: 0.963
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Psalms 22.20 3.702
Psalms 116.4 3.702
Mark 10.51 3.702
Judges 9.7 3.702
Job 33.22 3.7
Psalms 49.15 3.7
Psalms 116.3 3.699
Genesis 49.18 3.699
2 Thessalonians 1.11 3.699
1 Kings 21.25 3.698
John 8.34 3.698
1 Samuel 25.29 3.697
Psalms 31.5 3.695
1 Peter 4.19 3.694
Ezra 9.6 3.694
Ephesians 5.30 3.694
Luke 23.46 3.692
2 Corinthians 5.5 3.69
Hebrews 10.31 3.687
Revelation 6.8 3.686
Acts 7.59 3.683
2 Timothy 1.12 3.677
Philippians 2.12 3.674
Matthew 10.28 3.673
Philippians 2.13 3.671
Philippians 1.21 3.669
Matthew 16.26 3.662
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase