Early English Printed Sermons


The present state of New-England considered in a discourse on the necessities and advantages of a public spirit in every man ... : made at the lecture in Boston, 20 d. 1 m. 1690, upon the news of an invasion by bloody Indians and French-men begun upon us / by Cotton Mather.

Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728
Publisher: Printed by Samuel Green
Place of Publication: Boston
Publication Year: 1690
Approximate Era: WilliamAndMary
TCP ID: A50155 ESTC ID: R14946 STC ID: M1143
Subject Headings: United States -- History -- King William's War, 1689-1697;
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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 9.4% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 6.0% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 88.6% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 11.2% -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) 2.9% -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
New Testament (Geneva) 13.942
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 3.948
Old Testament (Geneva) 2.565
New Testament (Tyndale) 2.478
New Testament (ODRV) 1.362
Old Testament (AKJV) 0.454
New Testament (AKJV) 0.072
Diversity: 0.974
Evenness: 0.998
Book Prominence
2 Timothy (Geneva) 4.536
Philemon (Tyndale) 2.413
Esther (Geneva) 2.388
Esther (Douay-Rheims) 2.383
1 Chronicles (Geneva) 2.359
Esther (AKJV) 2.344
1 Paralipomenon (Douay-Rheims) 2.319
Zechariah (Geneva) 2.312
Amos (AKJV) 2.24
Judges (AKJV) 2.201
Canticles (AKJV) 2.198
Numbers (AKJV) 2.167
2 Kings (Douay-Rheims) 2.121
Ezekiel (Douay-Rheims) 2.099
Colossians (Geneva) 2.061
Deuteronomy (Geneva) 2.029
2 Corinthians (Tyndale) 1.996
1 John (Tyndale) 1.99
1 John (Geneva) 1.978
Jeremiah (Douay-Rheims) 1.946
2 Timothy (AKJV) 1.907
Revelation (ODRV) 1.886
Genesis (Geneva) 1.827
Jeremiah (AKJV) 1.786
Job (Geneva) 1.74
Isaiah (Douay-Rheims) 1.563
2 Corinthians (AKJV) 1.544
Luke (Geneva) 1.54
Ephesians (AKJV) 1.488
Job (AKJV) 1.445
Hebrews (AKJV) 1.411
John (ODRV) 1.384
Matthew (Tyndale) 1.353
1 Corinthians (Geneva) 1.167
Isaiah (AKJV) 1.156
Matthew (ODRV) 1.026
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 0.871
Psalms (Geneva) 0.624
Romans (AKJV) 0.596
Psalms (AKJV) -0.342
Diversity: 0.98
Evenness: 0.998
Chapter Prominence
2 Timothy 3 (Geneva) 3.705
Esther 15 (Douay-Rheims) 1.886
Esther 4 (Douay-Rheims) 1.885
Ezekiel 21 (Douay-Rheims) 1.884
2 Kings 11 (Douay-Rheims) 1.884
Deuteronomy 9 (Geneva) 1.883
Jeremiah 25 (AKJV) 1.883
Esther 4 (Geneva) 1.882
1 Chronicles 12 (Geneva) 1.882
Esther 10 (AKJV) 1.881
Numbers 32 (AKJV) 1.88
Jeremiah 18 (Douay-Rheims) 1.878
Isaiah 33 (Douay-Rheims) 1.875
Zechariah 12 (Geneva) 1.875
Genesis 13 (Geneva) 1.873
1 Paralipomenon 19 (Douay-Rheims) 1.872
Isaiah 66 (AKJV) 1.872
Isaiah 60 (Douay-Rheims) 1.871
Isaiah 62 (AKJV) 1.871
2 Corinthians 8 (Tyndale) 1.869
Psalms 102 (Geneva) 1.866
Canticles 6 (AKJV) 1.866
Philemon 1 (Tyndale) 1.865
Amos 6 (AKJV) 1.864
Job 4 (Geneva) 1.863
Job 19 (AKJV) 1.861
Isaiah 45 (AKJV) 1.857
Revelation 18 (ODRV) 1.846
Judges 5 (AKJV) 1.84
2 Corinthians 8 (AKJV) 1.838
Psalms 39 (AKJV) 1.834
Luke 17 (Geneva) 1.832
John 12 (ODRV) 1.828
Ephesians 1 (AKJV) 1.823
Matthew 16 (Tyndale) 1.819
Colossians 3 (Geneva) 1.813
1 Corinthians 6 (Geneva) 1.803
Romans 9 (AKJV) 1.796
1 John 3 (Tyndale) 1.789
Matthew 25 (ODRV) 1.775
1 John 3 (Geneva) 1.767
Psalms 122 (AKJV) 1.749
Romans 5 (AKJV) 1.74
2 Timothy 3 (AKJV) 1.726
Hebrews 11 (AKJV) 1.714
Hebrews 10 (AKJV) 1.71
1 Corinthians 10 (Geneva) 1.704
Ephesians 5 (AKJV) 1.701
1 Corinthians 15 (AKJV) 1.684
Matthew 5 (ODRV) 1.67
Psalms 119 (AKJV) 1.667
1 Corinthians 10 (AKJV) 1.585
Diversity: 0.981
Evenness: 0.998
Verse Prominence
2 Timothy 3.1 (Geneva) 3.691
Jeremiah 18.11 (Douay-Rheims) 1.852
Isaiah 66.6 (AKJV) 1.852
Ezekiel 21.11 (Douay-Rheims) 1.851
Deuteronomy 9.16 (Geneva) 1.851
Esther 4.14 (Douay-Rheims) 1.851
Esther 15.1 (Douay-Rheims) 1.851
2 Kings 11.11 (Douay-Rheims) 1.851
Philemon 1.19 (Tyndale) 1.851
Psalms 102.16 (Geneva) 1.851
1 John 3.14 (Tyndale) 1.851
Jeremiah 25.5 (AKJV) 1.851
Psalms 119.139 (AKJV) 1.851
Job 19.29 (AKJV) 1.851
Isaiah 45.4 (AKJV) 1.85
Esther 4.14 (Geneva) 1.85
Hebrews 11.24 (AKJV) 1.85
Job 4.20 (Geneva) 1.85
Matthew 5.30 (ODRV) 1.85
Colossians 3.6 (Geneva) 1.85
Revelation 18.20 (ODRV) 1.85
Canticles 6.9 (AKJV) 1.85
Isaiah 33.22 (Douay-Rheims) 1.849
Matthew 16.25 (Tyndale) 1.849
2 Corinthians 8.9 (Tyndale) 1.849
Zechariah 12.2 (Geneva) 1.849
1 Chronicles 12.32 (Geneva) 1.849
Numbers 32.23 (AKJV) 1.847
2 Corinthians 8.2 (AKJV) 1.847
Matthew 25.40 (ODRV) 1.847
Amos 6.6 (AKJV) 1.847
Esther 10.3 (AKJV) 1.847
Psalms 39.6 (AKJV) 1.847
Isaiah 62.1 (AKJV) 1.847
Isaiah 60.12 (Douay-Rheims) 1.846
Hebrews 10.34 (AKJV) 1.845
Ephesians 5.16 (AKJV) 1.845
2 Timothy 3.2 (AKJV) 1.844
Romans 9.3 (AKJV) 1.844
1 Corinthians 15.27 (AKJV) 1.843
Romans 5.7 (AKJV) 1.843
Genesis 13.8 (Geneva) 1.843
Ephesians 1.22 (AKJV) 1.841
Judges 5.23 (AKJV) 1.84
Psalms 122.8 (AKJV) 1.84
Luke 17.33 (Geneva) 1.84
1 Corinthians 10.24 (Geneva) 1.839
Psalms 122.9 (AKJV) 1.839
1 Corinthians 6.19 (Geneva) 1.839
1 Paralipomenon 19.13 (Douay-Rheims) 1.838
1 John 3.16 (Geneva) 1.835
John 12.43 (ODRV) 1.833
1 Corinthians 10.31 (AKJV) 1.806
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: 0.444
Evenness: 0.918
Part Prominence
New Testament 18.472
Old Testament -14.001
Diversity: 0.959
Evenness: 0.996
Book Prominence
Matthew 3.512
Esther 3.391
Nehemiah 3.301
1 Chronicles 3.238
Amos 3.169
Canticles 3.15
Zechariah 2.926
Judges 2.749
Numbers 2.417
1 John 2.412
2 Timothy 2.403
2 Samuel 2.232
Philippians 2.098
Exodus 1.731
Revelation 1.72
Ephesians 1.684
Jeremiah 1.605
Job 1.604
2 Corinthians 1.544
Genesis 1.221
Hebrews 1.06
1 Corinthians 0.556
Isaiah 0.465
Romans -0.109
Psalms -1.325
Diversity: 0.978
Evenness: 0.998
Chapter Prominence
Matthew 16 3.948
Esther 10 2.113
Numbers 32 2.109
1 Chronicles 12 2.108
Isaiah 46 2.094
Isaiah 62 2.085
2 Samuel 10 2.083
2 Samuel 11 2.081
Genesis 13 2.079
Canticles 6 2.075
Nehemiah 9 2.072
Jeremiah 18 2.062
Job 19 2.061
2 Samuel 7 2.059
Psalms 102 2.057
Amos 6 2.056
Isaiah 60 2.047
Revelation 18 2.043
2 Samuel 24 2.04
Isaiah 66 2.037
Psalms 6 2.035
2 Corinthians 8 2.034
Isaiah 63 2.034
Zechariah 12 2.031
Isaiah 45 2.025
Psalms 12 2.017
2 Samuel 12 2.016
Exodus 32 1.984
Psalms 122 1.977
Judges 5 1.975
Matthew 3 1.953
Revelation 21 1.95
Romans 9 1.923
Ephesians 1 1.901
1 Corinthians 3 1.868
1 Corinthians 6 1.841
Hebrews 10 1.835
2 Timothy 3 1.831
Ephesians 5 1.824
1 John 3 1.802
1 Corinthians 10 1.802
Philippians 2 1.8
Matthew 25 1.758
Psalms 119 1.732
Hebrews 11 1.682
Matthew 5 1.571
Diversity: 0.978
Evenness: 0.998
Verse Prominence
Matthew 16.24 4.237
Isaiah 66.6 2.127
Job 19.29 2.127
Judges 5.17 2.127
Isaiah 45.4 2.126
Isaiah 46.13 2.126
Psalms 119.139 2.126
Isaiah 63.19 2.125
1 Chronicles 12.22 2.125
Judges 5.16 2.125
Psalms 102.16 2.124
Numbers 32.23 2.124
Zechariah 12.2 2.123
Nehemiah 9.37 2.123
Isaiah 60.12 2.122
Jeremiah 18.11 2.122
Revelation 18.20 2.122
Exodus 32.26 2.122
Canticles 6.9 2.122
Isaiah 62.1 2.121
2 Samuel 11.11 2.12
2 Corinthians 8.2 2.12
2 Samuel 7.2 2.119
2 Samuel 24.17 2.117
1 John 3.16 2.116
1 Corinthians 10.24 2.116
Matthew 25.40 2.115
Esther 10.3 2.115
Hebrews 11.24 2.114
Matthew 3.10 2.112
1 Corinthians 3.21 2.11
Amos 6.6 2.11
Hebrews 11.25 2.108
Genesis 13.8 2.108
Philippians 2.21 2.107
Ephesians 1.22 2.106
Hebrews 10.34 2.106
Ephesians 5.15 2.106
1 John 3.14 2.105
Romans 9.3 2.101
1 Corinthians 6.19 2.097
2 Timothy 3.2 2.097
2 Timothy 3.1 2.096
Matthew 5.29 2.095
Revelation 21.8 2.076
Judges 5.23 2.074
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase