Early English Printed Sermons


The great blessing of primitive counsellours discoursed in a sermon preached in the audience of the governour, council, and representatives of the province of the Massachusets-Bay, in New England, May 21st, 1692, being the day for the election of counsellours in that province / by Increase Mather ...

Mather, Increase, 1639-1723
Publisher: Printed and sold by Benjamin Harris
Place of Publication: Boston
Publication Year: 1693
Approximate Era: WilliamAndMary
TCP ID: A50208 ESTC ID: R42164 STC ID: M1215
Subject Headings: Bible. -- O.T. -- Isaiah I, 26; 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 8.1% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 6.2% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 89.3% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 8.1% -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) 3.6% -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: 0.864
Evenness: 0.983
Part Prominence
New Testament (ODRV) 11.084
Apocrypha (AKJV) 6.553
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 2.559
Old Testament (Geneva) 1.177
New Testament (Tyndale) 1.09
New Testament (Geneva) 0.053
Old Testament (AKJV) -0.935
New Testament (AKJV) -1.317
Diversity: 0.967
Evenness: 0.997
Book Prominence
John (ODRV) 5.195
Nahum (AKJV) 3.094
Nehemiah (Douay-Rheims) 3.07
1 Chronicles (Geneva) 3.045
1 Maccabees (AKJV) 3.043
Esther (AKJV) 3.03
Ezra (AKJV) 2.993
Mark (AKJV) 2.912
2 Samuel (Geneva) 2.9
3 Kings (Douay-Rheims) 2.897
2 Chronicles (AKJV) 2.775
2 Samuel (AKJV) 2.748
Deuteronomy (Geneva) 2.715
Deuteronomy (AKJV) 2.557
Jeremiah (AKJV) 2.472
Isaiah (Douay-Rheims) 2.249
John (Tyndale) 2.248
Genesis (AKJV) 2.227
Luke (Geneva) 2.226
Isaiah (Geneva) 2.219
Proverbs (Geneva) 2.194
Luke (ODRV) 2.133
Job (AKJV) 2.131
Luke (AKJV) 1.927
Romans (ODRV) 1.875
Isaiah (AKJV) 1.842
Proverbs (AKJV) 1.722
Matthew (ODRV) 1.712
Matthew (AKJV) 1.61
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 1.557
Psalms (AKJV) 0.344
Diversity: 0.971
Evenness: 0.997
Chapter Prominence
John 3 (ODRV) 5.456
Jeremiah 49 (AKJV) 2.775
1 Chronicles 11 (Geneva) 2.775
Mark 15 (AKJV) 2.774
Jeremiah 38 (AKJV) 2.774
1 Maccabees 14 (AKJV) 2.773
Esther 10 (AKJV) 2.772
Nehemiah 9 (Douay-Rheims) 2.771
2 Samuel 24 (Geneva) 2.769
2 Chronicles 24 (AKJV) 2.768
Isaiah 61 (AKJV) 2.767
Nahum 1 (AKJV) 2.767
3 Kings 4 (Douay-Rheims) 2.765
Isaiah 3 (Douay-Rheims) 2.765
Luke 4 (Geneva) 2.763
Deuteronomy 1 (AKJV) 2.76
Genesis 41 (AKJV) 2.756
Deuteronomy 1 (Geneva) 2.756
Luke 4 (AKJV) 2.756
2 Samuel 23 (AKJV) 2.753
Luke 4 (ODRV) 2.751
Proverbs 11 (Geneva) 2.742
Ezra 9 (AKJV) 2.737
Job 31 (AKJV) 2.736
Psalms 4 (AKJV) 2.73
Luke 23 (AKJV) 2.729
1 Corinthians 4 (AKJV) 2.71
Isaiah 1 (Geneva) 2.696
Proverbs 11 (AKJV) 2.692
Proverbs 16 (AKJV) 2.666
Isaiah 1 (AKJV) 2.652
John 3 (Tyndale) 2.643
Matthew 22 (ODRV) 2.638
Romans 13 (ODRV) 2.62
Matthew 6 (AKJV) 2.607
Diversity: 0.971
Evenness: 0.997
Verse Prominence
John 3.27 (ODRV) 5.55
2 Samuel 24.3 (Geneva) 2.777
Job 31.34 (AKJV) 2.777
Mark 15.43 (AKJV) 2.777
Luke 23.52 (AKJV) 2.777
Jeremiah 49.7 (AKJV) 2.777
Genesis 41.39 (AKJV) 2.777
Deuteronomy 1.9 (Geneva) 2.777
1 Chronicles 11.25 (Geneva) 2.777
Jeremiah 38.15 (AKJV) 2.777
Nahum 1.11 (AKJV) 2.777
Luke 4.21 (Geneva) 2.777
Luke 4.21 (AKJV) 2.777
Nehemiah 9.37 (Douay-Rheims) 2.777
John 3.27 (Tyndale) 2.776
Isaiah 3.7 (Douay-Rheims) 2.776
Deuteronomy 1.12 (AKJV) 2.776
2 Chronicles 24.18 (AKJV) 2.776
Ezra 9.9 (AKJV) 2.776
3 Kings 4.29 (Douay-Rheims) 2.775
Psalms 4.3 (AKJV) 2.775
Isaiah 61.4 (AKJV) 2.775
Proverbs 11.14 (Geneva) 2.775
1 Maccabees 14.12 (AKJV) 2.775
Proverbs 16.33 (AKJV) 2.774
Esther 10.3 (AKJV) 2.773
1 Corinthians 4.7 (AKJV) 2.771
2 Samuel 23.3 (AKJV) 2.77
Proverbs 11.14 (AKJV) 2.766
Luke 4.21 (ODRV) 2.766
Romans 13.7 (ODRV) 2.765
Isaiah 1.26 (Geneva) 2.764
Isaiah 1.26 (AKJV) 2.754
Matthew 6.33 (AKJV) 2.747
Matthew 22.21 (ODRV) 2.743
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: 0.957
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Ezra 3.934
Esther 3.892
Nehemiah 3.803
1 Chronicles 3.739
Micah 3.564
Judges 3.25
2 Chronicles 3.112
Mark 3.042
2 Kings 3.03
Daniel 3.012
1 Kings 2.871
2 Samuel 2.734
Exodus 2.233
Deuteronomy 2.217
Jeremiah 2.106
Job 2.105
Genesis 1.723
Proverbs 1.3
John 1.142
Luke 1.13
1 Corinthians 1.057
Isaiah 0.966
Psalms -0.824
Diversity: 0.971
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
1 Chronicles 4 2.933
1 Chronicles 26 2.932
2 Chronicles 22 2.931
Esther 10 2.926
Jeremiah 49 2.926
Jeremiah 38 2.924
Mark 15 2.914
Nehemiah 1 2.91
Micah 4 2.904
Judges 1 2.903
Ezra 7 2.903
1 Kings 4 2.9
2 Kings 10 2.898
2 Samuel 17 2.897
Genesis 41 2.887
Nehemiah 9 2.886
Jeremiah 30 2.886
Jeremiah 32 2.883
2 Samuel 23 2.876
Jeremiah 18 2.875
Psalms 105 2.861
Deuteronomy 1 2.858
Exodus 18 2.853
Job 31 2.851
Luke 4 2.849
Daniel 6 2.845
Isaiah 11 2.838
Isaiah 3 2.804
Proverbs 11 2.804
Psalms 4 2.782
1 Corinthians 4 2.764
Proverbs 16 2.762
Isaiah 1 2.626
John 3 2.608
Diversity: 0.972
Evenness: 0.995
Verse Prominence
Isaiah 3.7 5.118
Deuteronomy 1.16 5.115
2 Samuel 17.15 2.564
1 Chronicles 4.3 2.564
1 Chronicles 26.14 2.564
Genesis 41.37 2.564
Jeremiah 38.15 2.564
2 Kings 10.20 2.563
Job 31.34 2.563
Mark 15.43 2.563
Jeremiah 49.7 2.563
Ezra 7.28 2.563
2 Chronicles 22.4 2.563
Jeremiah 30.8 2.563
John 3.27 2.562
Psalms 105.22 2.562
Isaiah 3.6 2.56
Exodus 18.18 2.56
Nehemiah 1.11 2.56
Luke 4.21 2.56
Nehemiah 9.37 2.56
Deuteronomy 1.9 2.559
Daniel 6.7 2.559
Proverbs 16.33 2.558
Deuteronomy 1.15 2.558
Proverbs 11.14 2.558
Jeremiah 18.18 2.557
1 Kings 4.29 2.556
Isaiah 3.3 2.556
Psalms 4.3 2.555
Jeremiah 32.19 2.555
Esther 10.3 2.552
2 Samuel 23.3 2.548
Isaiah 11.2 2.548
1 Corinthians 4.7 2.545
Isaiah 1.26 2.543
Deuteronomy 1.17 2.539
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase