Early English Printed Sermons


The serviceable man a discourse made unto the General Court of the Massachusets Colony, New-England, at the anniversary election, 28d. 3m. 1690 / by Cotton Mather ...

Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728
Publisher: Printed by Samuel Green for Joseph Browning
Place of Publication: Boston
Publication Year: 1690
Approximate Era: WilliamAndMary
TCP ID: A50160 ESTC ID: W19424 STC ID: M1150
Subject Headings: Election sermons -- Massachusetts; Sermons, American -- 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 7.2% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 4.1% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 90.0% 100.0%
NonLatinAlphabet Percentage of units with a NonLatinAlphabet placeholder 0.2% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 9.8% -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) 2.8% -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: 0.9
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
New Testament (Wycliffe) 8.379
Apocrypha (Douay-Rheims) 6.597
Old Testament (ODRV) 3.631
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 1.448
Old Testament (Geneva) 0.065
New Testament (Tyndale) -0.022
New Testament (Geneva) -1.058
New Testament (ODRV) -1.138
Old Testament (AKJV) -2.046
New Testament (AKJV) -2.428
Diversity: 0.975
Evenness: 0.993
Book Prominence
Nehemiah (AKJV) 6.554
Philemon (ODRV) 2.213
Philemon (AKJV) 2.201
Haggai (Douay-Rheims) 2.186
Ezra (Douay-Rheims) 2.176
Haggai (AKJV) 2.17
Nehemiah (Douay-Rheims) 2.167
1 Maccabees (Douay-Rheims) 2.134
Luke (Wycliffe) 2.123
Jonah (Geneva) 2.104
1 Chronicles (AKJV) 2.091
Joshua (AKJV) 2.08
2 Chronicles (Geneva) 2.058
Hosea (Douay-Rheims) 2.035
Hosea (Geneva) 2.033
1 Thessalonians (Tyndale) 1.977
Leviticus (AKJV) 1.947
Hosea (AKJV) 1.911
Ezekiel (Douay-Rheims) 1.882
1 John (Tyndale) 1.774
1 John (ODRV) 1.756
1 Peter (Tyndale) 1.733
Jeremiah (Douay-Rheims) 1.729
Revelation (Geneva) 1.71
Revelation (AKJV) 1.687
Revelation (ODRV) 1.669
Galatians (ODRV) 1.637
1 John (AKJV) 1.623
Ephesians (ODRV) 1.571
Jeremiah (AKJV) 1.569
Acts (ODRV) 1.534
Proverbs (Douay-Rheims) 1.414
Acts (AKJV) 1.388
Isaiah (Douay-Rheims) 1.347
John (Tyndale) 1.345
Isaiah (Geneva) 1.316
Job (AKJV) 1.229
Psalms (ODRV) 1.012
Isaiah (AKJV) 0.94
Proverbs (AKJV) 0.819
Matthew (ODRV) 0.809
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 0.654
Psalms (AKJV) -0.559
Diversity: 0.982
Evenness: 0.995
Chapter Prominence
Nehemiah 5 (AKJV) 4.829
Nehemiah 2 (Douay-Rheims) 1.61
2 Chronicles 24 (Geneva) 1.608
Ezra 4 (Douay-Rheims) 1.608
Philemon 1 (ODRV) 1.607
Hosea 10 (Douay-Rheims) 1.606
Ezekiel 20 (Douay-Rheims) 1.606
1 Maccabees 2 (Douay-Rheims) 1.605
Luke 7 (Wycliffe) 1.604
Isaiah 41 (Douay-Rheims) 1.603
Jeremiah 1 (Douay-Rheims) 1.603
Nehemiah 6 (AKJV) 1.603
Jeremiah 20 (AKJV) 1.602
Revelation 5 (ODRV) 1.602
Hosea 10 (Geneva) 1.601
Philemon 1 (AKJV) 1.601
Jeremiah 22 (Douay-Rheims) 1.601
Revelation 11 (Geneva) 1.6
Jonah 2 (Geneva) 1.6
Haggai 1 (Douay-Rheims) 1.599
1 Chronicles 16 (AKJV) 1.598
Revelation 11 (AKJV) 1.598
Hosea 10 (AKJV) 1.597
Jeremiah 29 (Douay-Rheims) 1.596
Isaiah 33 (Geneva) 1.596
Joshua 1 (AKJV) 1.595
Nehemiah 13 (AKJV) 1.594
Haggai 1 (AKJV) 1.592
Psalms 40 (AKJV) 1.587
Job 19 (AKJV) 1.587
Jeremiah 31 (AKJV) 1.586
Proverbs 19 (Douay-Rheims) 1.586
Isaiah 63 (AKJV) 1.585
Job 17 (AKJV) 1.583
Psalms 50 (ODRV) 1.582
Acts 5 (AKJV) 1.58
Leviticus 26 (AKJV) 1.577
Isaiah 22 (AKJV) 1.576
Psalms 109 (AKJV) 1.575
Isaiah 55 (Douay-Rheims) 1.569
Acts 2 (ODRV) 1.567
Proverbs 19 (AKJV) 1.566
Psalms 81 (AKJV) 1.566
1 Thessalonians 4 (Tyndale) 1.561
Psalms 133 (AKJV) 1.56
Psalms 105 (AKJV) 1.548
Proverbs 20 (AKJV) 1.54
Job 14 (AKJV) 1.538
1 Peter 1 (Tyndale) 1.533
Proverbs 28 (AKJV) 1.529
1 John 5 (ODRV) 1.522
1 John 3 (Tyndale) 1.515
John 1 (Tyndale) 1.503
Proverbs 16 (AKJV) 1.501
Galatians 6 (ODRV) 1.497
Psalms 37 (AKJV) 1.458
Ephesians 4 (ODRV) 1.448
1 John 3 (AKJV) 1.443
1 Corinthians 15 (AKJV) 1.41
Matthew 5 (ODRV) 1.396
Diversity: 0.983
Evenness: 0.995
Verse Prominence
Nehemiah 5.19 (AKJV) 4.684
Hosea 10.2 (AKJV) 1.562
Hosea 10.2 (Douay-Rheims) 1.562
Job 17.11 (AKJV) 1.562
Philemon 1.19 (AKJV) 1.562
John 1.47 (Tyndale) 1.562
Nehemiah 2.10 (Douay-Rheims) 1.562
Jeremiah 20.10 (AKJV) 1.562
Jeremiah 22.28 (Douay-Rheims) 1.562
2 Chronicles 24.16 (Geneva) 1.562
Job 14.21 (AKJV) 1.562
Revelation 5.10 (ODRV) 1.562
Jeremiah 29.11 (Douay-Rheims) 1.562
Proverbs 19.21 (Douay-Rheims) 1.562
Jeremiah 1.6 (Douay-Rheims) 1.562
Ezekiel 20.10 (Douay-Rheims) 1.562
Ezra 4.12 (Douay-Rheims) 1.562
Ezra 4.13 (Douay-Rheims) 1.562
Isaiah 22.18 (AKJV) 1.562
1 Chronicles 16.21 (AKJV) 1.562
1 Maccabees 2.58 (Douay-Rheims) 1.562
Nehemiah 6.14 (AKJV) 1.562
Hosea 10.2 (Geneva) 1.561
Philemon 1.19 (ODRV) 1.561
Isaiah 41.10 (Douay-Rheims) 1.561
Proverbs 20.7 (AKJV) 1.561
Matthew 5.12 (ODRV) 1.561
Luke 7.25 (Wycliffe) 1.561
Isaiah 22.15 (AKJV) 1.561
Revelation 11.5 (AKJV) 1.561
Revelation 11.5 (Geneva) 1.561
Jonah 2.3 (Geneva) 1.561
Psalms 109.4 (AKJV) 1.56
Proverbs 28.20 (AKJV) 1.56
1 Peter 1.7 (Tyndale) 1.56
Isaiah 63.19 (AKJV) 1.56
Haggai 1.13 (Douay-Rheims) 1.56
Psalms 37.39 (AKJV) 1.559
Psalms 40.5 (AKJV) 1.559
Acts 5.41 (AKJV) 1.559
Isaiah 33.22 (Geneva) 1.559
Leviticus 26.18 (AKJV) 1.559
Psalms 81.14 (AKJV) 1.559
Haggai 1.13 (AKJV) 1.559
Proverbs 19.21 (AKJV) 1.558
Ephesians 4.32 (ODRV) 1.558
Joshua 1.9 (AKJV) 1.558
Psalms 50.3 (ODRV) 1.557
Jeremiah 31.20 (AKJV) 1.557
1 John 5.2 (ODRV) 1.557
Psalms 105.14 (AKJV) 1.556
Job 19.21 (AKJV) 1.556
Nehemiah 13.14 (AKJV) 1.555
1 John 3.16 (Tyndale) 1.554
1 John 3.14 (AKJV) 1.553
1 Corinthians 15.33 (AKJV) 1.553
Acts 2.4 (ODRV) 1.552
Isaiah 55.8 (Douay-Rheims) 1.552
1 Thessalonians 4.17 (Tyndale) 1.544
Proverbs 16.7 (AKJV) 1.541
Galatians 6.16 (ODRV) 1.539
Psalms 133.1 (AKJV) 1.528
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: 0.955
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Haggai 4.283
Ezra 4.132
Esther 4.09
Nehemiah 4.0
Malachi 3.749
Joshua 3.67
Zechariah 3.625
Leviticus 3.57
Hosea 3.348
2 Chronicles 3.309
1 John 3.111
2 Samuel 2.931
1 Peter 2.514
Revelation 2.419
Jeremiah 2.304
Genesis 1.921
Proverbs 1.498
Acts 1.342
John 1.34
Isaiah 1.164
Matthew 0.366
Psalms -0.626
Diversity: 0.976
Evenness: 0.998
Chapter Prominence
Nehemiah 6 4.52
Jeremiah 39 2.263
2 Chronicles 21 2.259
Esther 10 2.258
2 Samuel 9 2.256
Nehemiah 2 2.248
Ezra 4 2.242
Nehemiah 13 2.235
Zechariah 2 2.234
Hosea 10 2.231
2 Chronicles 24 2.23
Jeremiah 1 2.229
Jeremiah 14 2.226
Psalms 72 2.217
2 Chronicles 32 2.216
Haggai 2 2.212
Psalms 40 2.211
Revelation 5 2.21
Joshua 1 2.208
Isaiah 37 2.206
Isaiah 22 2.205
Revelation 11 2.205
Genesis 15 2.197
Jeremiah 22 2.196
Acts 11 2.193
Psalms 105 2.192
Psalms 31 2.188
Isaiah 63 2.179
Leviticus 26 2.176
Proverbs 19 2.162
Jeremiah 31 2.146
Isaiah 55 2.142
Proverbs 20 2.14
Proverbs 28 2.117
John 12 2.107
Acts 9 2.096
Proverbs 16 2.093
Acts 5 2.085
Malachi 3 2.077
Matthew 11 1.992
1 John 3 1.947
1 Peter 1 1.947
Matthew 5 1.716
Diversity: 0.98
Evenness: 0.998
Verse Prominence
Nehemiah 6.14 3.845
Nehemiah 13.29 1.922
Ezra 4.12 1.922
Revelation 11.6 1.922
Isaiah 37.4 1.922
2 Chronicles 21.12 1.922
Isaiah 63.18 1.921
Nehemiah 2.10 1.921
Jeremiah 22.28 1.921
Jeremiah 39.11 1.921
Isaiah 63.19 1.921
Ezra 4.13 1.921
Psalms 31.21 1.921
Isaiah 22.15 1.921
2 Samuel 9.1 1.921
Psalms 72.15 1.92
2 Chronicles 24.16 1.92
Psalms 40.5 1.919
Acts 11.24 1.919
Proverbs 20.7 1.919
Psalms 40.17 1.919
Jeremiah 1.6 1.919
Psalms 105.14 1.919
2 Chronicles 32.33 1.918
Revelation 5.10 1.918
Jeremiah 14.9 1.918
Isaiah 37.38 1.918
Hosea 10.2 1.918
Nehemiah 13.22 1.917
Matthew 11.7 1.917
Proverbs 28.20 1.916
Joshua 1.2 1.916
Leviticus 26.23 1.916
Leviticus 26.24 1.916
Joshua 1.6 1.916
Joshua 1.5 1.914
Haggai 2.4 1.914
Jeremiah 31.20 1.913
Isaiah 55.8 1.912
Proverbs 19.21 1.91
Zechariah 2.8 1.91
Genesis 15.1 1.909
John 12.26 1.908
Jeremiah 31.33 1.904
Acts 5.41 1.904
1 Peter 1.7 1.904
Matthew 5.12 1.904
1 John 3.14 1.9
Proverbs 16.7 1.899
Acts 9.39 1.898
Malachi 3.16 1.896
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase