Early English Printed Sermons


The way to prosperity a sermon / preached to the honourable convention of the governour, council, and representatives of the Massachuset-Colony in New-England on May 23, 1690 by Cotton Mather.

Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728
Publisher: Printed by Richard Pierce for Benjamin Harris
Place of Publication: Boston
Publication Year: 1690
Approximate Era: WilliamAndMary
TCP ID: A50172 ESTC ID: R28821 STC ID: M1168
Subject Headings: God -- Omnipresence; Presence of God; Theology, Doctrinal;
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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 10.2% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 7.8% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 86.6% 100.0%
Foreign Percentage of units with foreign text 0.6% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 12.8% -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) 5.8% -inf%
foreign_cited Percentage of units with QP, foreign text, and an adjacent citation 0.3% -inf%
foreign_cited_exact Percentage of units with QP, foreign text, and an adjacent matching citation 0.3% -inf%
foreign_italicized Percentage of units with QP and foreign italicized text 0.6% -inf%
foreign_italicized_cited Percentage of units with QP, italicized foreign text, and an adjacent citation 0.3% -inf%
foreign_italicized_cited_exact Percentage of units with QP, italicized foreign text, and an adjacent matching citation 0.3% -inf%
foreign_latin Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP and foreign text 0.3% -inf%
foreign_latin_cited Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP, foreign text, and an adjacent citation 0.3% -inf%
foreign_latin_cited_exact Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP, foreign text, and an adjacent matching citation 0.3% -inf%
foreign_latin_italicized Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP and italicized foreign text 0.3% -inf%
foreign_latin_italicized_cited Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP, an adjacent citation, and italicized foreign text 0.3% -inf%
foreign_latin_italicized_cited_exact Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP, an adjacent matching citation, and italicized foreign text 0.3% -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: 0.875
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Old Testament (ODRV) 6.131
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 3.948
Old Testament (Geneva) 2.565
New Testament (Tyndale) 2.478
New Testament (Geneva) 1.442
New Testament (ODRV) 1.362
Old Testament (AKJV) 0.454
New Testament (AKJV) 0.072
Diversity: 0.968
Evenness: 0.988
Book Prominence
1 Thessalonians (Tyndale) 7.649
Isaiah (AKJV) 3.981
Joel (AKJV) 2.533
2 Thessalonians (Tyndale) 2.512
Ezra (AKJV) 2.5
1 Chronicles (AKJV) 2.5
Joshua (AKJV) 2.489
2 Timothy (Tyndale) 2.42
3 Kings (Douay-Rheims) 2.404
1 Kings (AKJV) 2.351
Hosea (AKJV) 2.321
1 Thessalonians (Geneva) 2.316
Ezekiel (AKJV) 2.261
2 Samuel (AKJV) 2.255
Deuteronomy (Geneva) 2.221
Jeremiah (Geneva) 2.182
1 Thessalonians (AKJV) 2.181
Jeremiah (Douay-Rheims) 2.139
Revelation (AKJV) 2.097
Exodus (AKJV) 2.048
Jeremiah (AKJV) 1.979
2 Corinthians (Geneva) 1.883
Isaiah (Douay-Rheims) 1.756
2 Corinthians (AKJV) 1.737
Luke (Geneva) 1.733
Genesis (AKJV) 1.733
Isaiah (Geneva) 1.726
Job (AKJV) 1.638
Hebrews (AKJV) 1.604
John (ODRV) 1.576
Psalms (ODRV) 1.421
1 Corinthians (Geneva) 1.36
Psalms (Geneva) 0.817
Romans (AKJV) 0.789
Psalms (AKJV) -0.15
Diversity: 0.976
Evenness: 0.992
Chapter Prominence
1 Thessalonians 4 (Tyndale) 6.071
Isaiah 43 (AKJV) 4.045
1 Chronicles 22 (AKJV) 2.037
Jeremiah 25 (Geneva) 2.036
Jeremiah 32 (AKJV) 2.035
Ezra 10 (AKJV) 2.032
3 Kings 22 (Douay-Rheims) 2.03
Psalms 10 (ODRV) 2.027
Hosea 7 (AKJV) 2.027
Joshua 7 (AKJV) 2.026
Jeremiah 23 (Douay-Rheims) 2.025
Joshua 1 (AKJV) 2.023
2 Thessalonians 3 (Tyndale) 2.022
1 Kings 8 (AKJV) 2.021
Joel 1 (AKJV) 2.021
Jeremiah 23 (Geneva) 2.02
Deuteronomy 1 (Geneva) 2.019
Isaiah 27 (AKJV) 2.019
Isaiah 43 (Douay-Rheims) 2.017
2 Samuel 23 (AKJV) 2.016
Jeremiah 32 (Douay-Rheims) 2.015
Genesis 28 (AKJV) 2.014
Luke 24 (Geneva) 2.012
2 Corinthians 13 (Geneva) 2.012
Isaiah 55 (Geneva) 2.01
Psalms 120 (AKJV) 2.01
Jeremiah 23 (AKJV) 2.01
Jeremiah 3 (AKJV) 2.009
Exodus 32 (AKJV) 2.005
2 Timothy 3 (Tyndale) 1.996
Revelation 21 (AKJV) 1.996
Psalms 139 (Geneva) 1.995
Job 22 (AKJV) 1.993
Ezekiel 18 (AKJV) 1.991
Psalms 77 (ODRV) 1.99
Psalms 46 (AKJV) 1.985
John 11 (ODRV) 1.966
1 Thessalonians 4 (Geneva) 1.955
1 Thessalonians 4 (AKJV) 1.939
1 Corinthians 11 (Geneva) 1.932
Isaiah 1 (AKJV) 1.915
Psalms 118 (AKJV) 1.897
Hebrews 13 (AKJV) 1.885
2 Corinthians 5 (AKJV) 1.881
Romans 12 (AKJV) 1.841
Romans 8 (AKJV) 1.709
Diversity: 0.976
Evenness: 0.992
Verse Prominence
1 Thessalonians 4.17 (Tyndale) 6.104
Isaiah 43.2 (AKJV) 4.07
John 11.32 (ODRV) 2.04
1 Chronicles 22.11 (AKJV) 2.04
Isaiah 43.12 (Douay-Rheims) 2.04
Jeremiah 23.33 (AKJV) 2.04
Jeremiah 23.33 (Geneva) 2.04
Deuteronomy 1.42 (Geneva) 2.04
Joel 1.2 (AKJV) 2.04
Jeremiah 25.4 (Geneva) 2.04
Joshua 7.12 (AKJV) 2.04
3 Kings 22.22 (Douay-Rheims) 2.04
Job 22.17 (AKJV) 2.039
Jeremiah 32.40 (AKJV) 2.039
Jeremiah 23.24 (Douay-Rheims) 2.039
Luke 24.29 (Geneva) 2.039
Genesis 28.15 (AKJV) 2.039
2 Samuel 23.5 (AKJV) 2.039
Exodus 32.26 (AKJV) 2.039
Isaiah 27.2 (AKJV) 2.039
Isaiah 1.7 (AKJV) 2.039
Hosea 7.1 (AKJV) 2.038
Joshua 1.9 (AKJV) 2.037
Jeremiah 3.22 (AKJV) 2.037
Ezra 10.4 (AKJV) 2.037
Hebrews 13.5 (AKJV) 2.037
Ezekiel 18.20 (AKJV) 2.037
2 Thessalonians 3.16 (Tyndale) 2.036
1 Kings 8.57 (AKJV) 2.036
Psalms 77.14 (ODRV) 2.036
Psalms 46.3 (AKJV) 2.036
Jeremiah 32.40 (Douay-Rheims) 2.035
Psalms 118.6 (AKJV) 2.035
Romans 12.16 (AKJV) 2.035
2 Timothy 3.1 (Tyndale) 2.035
Revelation 21.23 (AKJV) 2.035
Psalms 10.4 (ODRV) 2.032
Psalms 139.7 (Geneva) 2.031
2 Corinthians 13.11 (Geneva) 2.031
1 Thessalonians 4.17 (Geneva) 2.03
1 Corinthians 11.28 (Geneva) 2.029
Isaiah 55.6 (Geneva) 2.027
Psalms 120.5 (AKJV) 2.025
2 Corinthians 5.21 (AKJV) 2.021
1 Thessalonians 4.17 (AKJV) 2.02
Romans 8.31 (AKJV) 2.017
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: 0.964
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Joel 3.214
Ezra 3.158
Nehemiah 3.026
1 Chronicles 2.963
Amos 2.894
Malachi 2.775
Joshua 2.696
1 Thessalonians 2.494
Judges 2.474
Hosea 2.374
2 Chronicles 2.335
1 Kings 2.095
Ezekiel 1.967
2 Samuel 1.957
1 Samuel 1.789
Exodus 1.456
Revelation 1.445
Deuteronomy 1.441
Jeremiah 1.33
2 Corinthians 1.269
Genesis 0.947
Hebrews 0.786
Acts 0.368
John 0.366
Luke 0.353
Isaiah 0.19
Romans -0.383
Psalms -1.6
Diversity: 0.978
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Ezekiel 48 2.214
2 Chronicles 2 2.211
Amos 7 2.202
Ezra 10 2.198
1 Chronicles 22 2.196
Joel 1 2.194
Deuteronomy 31 2.191
Nehemiah 4 2.19
Hosea 9 2.185
Jeremiah 25 2.185
Psalms 120 2.178
Hosea 7 2.173
Nehemiah 9 2.167
Judges 6 2.167
Jeremiah 32 2.164
Hosea 11 2.158
2 Samuel 23 2.157
2 Samuel 7 2.153
Genesis 28 2.146
Malachi 2 2.144
Deuteronomy 1 2.139
Isaiah 43 2.136
1 Kings 8 2.136
Joshua 7 2.133
1 Kings 22 2.133
Ezekiel 18 2.124
2 Corinthians 13 2.12
Exodus 22 2.112
Psalms 5 2.108
Jeremiah 23 2.106
Jeremiah 3 2.099
Psalms 139 2.088
Psalms 118 2.087
Exodus 32 2.079
Luke 23 2.064
1 Samuel 2 2.047
Revelation 21 2.044
Psalms 73 2.04
John 11 2.034
1 Thessalonians 4 2.008
Isaiah 1 1.907
Acts 17 1.9
Hebrews 13 1.861
2 Corinthians 5 1.848
Romans 8 1.62
Diversity: 0.977
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Nehemiah 4.13 2.325
Deuteronomy 1.42 2.325
Exodus 22.15 2.324
1 Chronicles 22.11 2.324
Nehemiah 9.18 2.324
Jeremiah 23.33 2.324
2 Samuel 7.9 2.323
Genesis 28.15 2.323
Isaiah 43.10 2.323
John 11.21 2.323
Isaiah 1.7 2.323
Joel 1.2 2.323
Ezra 10.4 2.323
Psalms 73.23 2.322
Deuteronomy 31.17 2.322
Judges 6.12 2.322
Jeremiah 25.4 2.322
Amos 7.2 2.322
Ezekiel 18.20 2.321
Ezekiel 48.35 2.321
Hosea 7.1 2.321
Exodus 32.26 2.32
Joshua 7.12 2.32
1 Kings 22.22 2.32
Hosea 11.12 2.32
Psalms 118.6 2.319
Hosea 9.12 2.318
Jeremiah 3.22 2.317
Revelation 21.23 2.316
Jeremiah 23.24 2.314
1 Kings 8.27 2.314
2 Samuel 23.5 2.311
Romans 8.31 2.311
Acts 17.27 2.309
Jeremiah 32.40 2.308
Isaiah 43.2 2.304
2 Corinthians 5.4 2.303
2 Corinthians 13.11 2.302
Malachi 2.7 2.3
Luke 23.28 2.299
Hebrews 13.5 2.297
1 Thessalonians 4.17 2.293
1 Samuel 2.30 2.26
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase