Early English Printed Sermons


Returning unto God the great concernment of a covenant people, or, A sermon preached to the second church in Boston in New-England, March 17, 1679/80 when that church did solemnly and explicitly renew their covenant with God, and one with another / by Increase Mather ...

Mather, Increase, 1639-1723
Publisher: Printed by John Foster
Place of Publication: Boston
Publication Year: 1680
Approximate Era: CharlesII
TCP ID: A50228 ESTC ID: R6349 STC ID: M1245
Subject Headings: Congregational churches; Covenants (Church polity); 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 11.3% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 7.5% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 82.5% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 14.0% -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) 4.0% -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: 0.84
Evenness: 0.971
Part Prominence
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 13.67
Old Testament (Geneva) 12.288
New Testament (Tyndale) 1.09
New Testament (Geneva) 0.053
New Testament (ODRV) -0.027
Old Testament (AKJV) -0.935
New Testament (AKJV) -1.317
Diversity: 0.974
Evenness: 0.994
Book Prominence
Hosea (Douay-Rheims) 4.358
Hosea (Geneva) 4.357
Hosea (AKJV) 4.235
Haggai (AKJV) 2.221
Zephaniah (AKJV) 2.213
Malachi (Geneva) 2.194
Malachi (Douay-Rheims) 2.174
Joshua (Geneva) 2.158
Amos (AKJV) 2.074
Daniel (AKJV) 2.029
Daniel (Geneva) 2.006
1 Kings (Douay-Rheims) 1.997
1 Kings (AKJV) 1.992
Lamentations (AKJV) 1.954
2 Chronicles (AKJV) 1.923
Ezekiel (AKJV) 1.902
2 Samuel (AKJV) 1.896
Revelation (Tyndale) 1.894
Jeremiah (Douay-Rheims) 1.78
2 Timothy (AKJV) 1.741
Galatians (ODRV) 1.688
Ephesians (ODRV) 1.621
Jeremiah (AKJV) 1.62
Hebrews (ODRV) 1.561
Ephesians (Geneva) 1.471
Acts (AKJV) 1.439
Isaiah (Douay-Rheims) 1.397
John (Tyndale) 1.395
2 Corinthians (AKJV) 1.378
Ephesians (AKJV) 1.322
Hebrews (AKJV) 1.245
John (ODRV) 1.217
Matthew (Tyndale) 1.187
Luke (AKJV) 1.075
Romans (ODRV) 1.022
Isaiah (AKJV) 0.99
Matthew (ODRV) 0.859
Matthew (AKJV) 0.758
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 0.705
Psalms (Geneva) 0.458
Romans (AKJV) 0.43
Diversity: 0.982
Evenness: 0.994
Chapter Prominence
Hosea 14 (Geneva) 3.218
Hosea 14 (Douay-Rheims) 3.217
Hosea 11 (AKJV) 3.21
Jeremiah 2 (AKJV) 3.193
Jeremiah 35 (Douay-Rheims) 1.61
Hosea 5 (Douay-Rheims) 1.609
Zephaniah 2 (AKJV) 1.606
Daniel 9 (Geneva) 1.605
1 Kings 11 (AKJV) 1.602
Jeremiah 15 (AKJV) 1.601
1 Kings 16 (Douay-Rheims) 1.6
Isaiah 64 (AKJV) 1.6
Jeremiah 14 (AKJV) 1.599
Haggai 2 (AKJV) 1.597
Amos 4 (AKJV) 1.597
Hosea 14 (AKJV) 1.595
2 Chronicles 15 (AKJV) 1.595
Daniel 9 (AKJV) 1.594
Joshua 24 (Geneva) 1.593
Hosea 6 (Douay-Rheims) 1.592
Ezekiel 36 (AKJV) 1.592
Malachi 3 (Douay-Rheims) 1.591
Isaiah 66 (Douay-Rheims) 1.59
Malachi 3 (Geneva) 1.589
2 Samuel 19 (AKJV) 1.589
Jeremiah 13 (AKJV) 1.588
Acts 3 (AKJV) 1.588
Hosea 13 (AKJV) 1.583
Lamentations 1 (AKJV) 1.582
Jeremiah 3 (AKJV) 1.581
Psalms 124 (Geneva) 1.58
Revelation 2 (Tyndale) 1.575
Isaiah 3 (AKJV) 1.573
Isaiah 55 (AKJV) 1.571
Psalms 78 (Geneva) 1.566
Hosea 6 (AKJV) 1.565
2 Corinthians 9 (AKJV) 1.561
2 Corinthians 6 (AKJV) 1.557
Galatians 2 (ODRV) 1.554
Luke 19 (AKJV) 1.553
Matthew 25 (Tyndale) 1.531
2 Timothy 4 (AKJV) 1.53
Hebrews 11 (ODRV) 1.529
Hebrews 6 (AKJV) 1.528
Matthew 25 (AKJV) 1.513
John 1 (ODRV) 1.512
John 1 (Tyndale) 1.503
Romans 11 (AKJV) 1.502
Matthew 7 (ODRV) 1.493
Isaiah 1 (AKJV) 1.488
Ephesians 4 (ODRV) 1.448
Matthew 6 (AKJV) 1.442
Matthew 5 (AKJV) 1.432
Romans 8 (ODRV) 1.427
1 Corinthians 15 (AKJV) 1.41
Matthew 5 (ODRV) 1.396
Ephesians 4 (Geneva) 1.354
Ephesians 4 (AKJV) 1.26
Diversity: 0.983
Evenness: 0.994
Verse Prominence
Hosea 11.7 (AKJV) 2.939
Hosea 14.3 (Douay-Rheims) 2.939
Hosea 14.1 (AKJV) 2.939
Hosea 14.2 (Geneva) 2.938
Jeremiah 2.21 (AKJV) 2.935
Haggai 2.17 (AKJV) 1.47
Hebrews 11.15 (ODRV) 1.47
Matthew 25.29 (Tyndale) 1.47
Hosea 5.5 (Douay-Rheims) 1.47
Daniel 9.12 (AKJV) 1.47
Isaiah 3.8 (AKJV) 1.47
Hosea 14.8 (AKJV) 1.47
Hosea 14.2 (Douay-Rheims) 1.47
Acts 3.25 (AKJV) 1.47
Daniel 9.27 (Geneva) 1.47
Isaiah 64.11 (AKJV) 1.47
Psalms 78.32 (Geneva) 1.47
Malachi 3.7 (Geneva) 1.47
Malachi 3.7 (Douay-Rheims) 1.47
Daniel 9.13 (AKJV) 1.47
Jeremiah 15.7 (AKJV) 1.47
Jeremiah 35.15 (Douay-Rheims) 1.47
1 Kings 11.4 (AKJV) 1.469
Matthew 5.32 (ODRV) 1.469
Jeremiah 3.14 (AKJV) 1.469
Jeremiah 14.7 (AKJV) 1.469
Galatians 2.6 (ODRV) 1.469
Amos 4.10 (AKJV) 1.469
2 Corinthians 9.2 (AKJV) 1.469
Hosea 13.13 (AKJV) 1.469
2 Samuel 19.11 (AKJV) 1.469
Matthew 5.31 (AKJV) 1.468
Isaiah 66.15 (Douay-Rheims) 1.468
Hosea 14.3 (AKJV) 1.468
Joshua 24.31 (Geneva) 1.468
2 Chronicles 15.12 (AKJV) 1.468
Matthew 25.5 (AKJV) 1.467
2 Timothy 4.10 (AKJV) 1.467
Hebrews 6.4 (AKJV) 1.467
Romans 11.22 (AKJV) 1.467
Hosea 6.1 (Douay-Rheims) 1.467
Zephaniah 2.2 (AKJV) 1.467
Revelation 2.4 (Tyndale) 1.466
Ezekiel 36.37 (AKJV) 1.466
1 Corinthians 15.12 (AKJV) 1.465
1 Kings 16.14 (Douay-Rheims) 1.463
2 Corinthians 6.2 (AKJV) 1.463
John 1.16 (Tyndale) 1.463
Lamentations 1.12 (AKJV) 1.462
Romans 8.11 (ODRV) 1.462
Isaiah 55.7 (AKJV) 1.461
John 1.16 (ODRV) 1.461
Isaiah 1.21 (AKJV) 1.46
Psalms 124.2 (Geneva) 1.46
Jeremiah 13.23 (AKJV) 1.459
Matthew 5.20 (AKJV) 1.459
Hosea 6.1 (AKJV) 1.457
Ephesians 4.7 (Geneva) 1.453
Ephesians 4.7 (AKJV) 1.453
Ephesians 4.23 (ODRV) 1.449
Luke 19.42 (AKJV) 1.449
Matthew 7.14 (ODRV) 1.44
Matthew 6.33 (AKJV) 1.44
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: 0.96
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Nehemiah 3.455
Malachi 3.203
Joshua 3.125
Zechariah 3.08
Hosea 2.803
2 Chronicles 2.764
Daniel 2.665
1 John 2.566
2 Timothy 2.557
1 Kings 2.523
Ezekiel 2.396
2 Samuel 2.386
Revelation 1.874
Jeremiah 1.758
Genesis 1.375
Hebrews 1.214
Proverbs 0.952
Acts 0.797
John 0.794
Luke 0.782
1 Corinthians 0.71
Isaiah 0.618
Romans 0.045
Matthew -0.18
Psalms -1.172
Diversity: 0.98
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Nehemiah 10 1.987
2 Chronicles 17 1.974
Hosea 1 1.969
Jeremiah 25 1.963
Zechariah 11 1.962
Jeremiah 14 1.953
2 Chronicles 34 1.953
1 Kings 11 1.949
Hosea 5 1.945
Nehemiah 9 1.944
2 Chronicles 15 1.943
Jeremiah 15 1.941
Hosea 11 1.936
Jeremiah 13 1.935
Hosea 14 1.932
Joshua 24 1.927
Genesis 28 1.924
Ezekiel 36 1.921
Isaiah 60 1.92
2 Samuel 19 1.912
Hosea 6 1.91
Daniel 9 1.903
Ezekiel 18 1.901
Jeremiah 2 1.894
Acts 19 1.886
John 2 1.884
Jeremiah 3 1.877
Revelation 12 1.875
Isaiah 55 1.869
Acts 3 1.865
Isaiah 3 1.863
Psalms 78 1.856
Matthew 3 1.825
Proverbs 3 1.819
Acts 5 1.812
Malachi 3 1.804
Romans 11 1.794
2 Timothy 4 1.793
1 John 2 1.79
Luke 19 1.789
Matthew 18 1.779
Revelation 2 1.776
Hebrews 6 1.771
Hebrews 9 1.767
John 1 1.703
Acts 2 1.698
Isaiah 1 1.684
1 Corinthians 10 1.674
Matthew 25 1.63
1 Corinthians 15 1.565
Diversity: 0.984
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Joshua 24.27 1.639
1 Kings 11.6 1.638
Acts 19.33 1.638
Hosea 5.5 1.638
Isaiah 3.8 1.638
Romans 11.11 1.638
Zechariah 11.14 1.638
Jeremiah 15.7 1.638
Jeremiah 25.5 1.638
Joshua 24.22 1.638
Matthew 25.8 1.637
Hosea 1.6 1.637
Jeremiah 14.7 1.637
Hosea 11.7 1.637
Psalms 78.32 1.637
Malachi 3.7 1.637
Isaiah 60.21 1.637
2 Samuel 19.11 1.637
Proverbs 3.8 1.637
Acts 5.13 1.637
Nehemiah 9.38 1.637
2 Chronicles 17.3 1.636
2 Timothy 4.14 1.636
Daniel 9.27 1.636
Acts 5.14 1.636
1 Corinthians 15.12 1.635
Zechariah 11.10 1.635
Jeremiah 2.21 1.635
John 2.11 1.635
1 Kings 11.4 1.634
Jeremiah 3.8 1.634
Revelation 12.15 1.634
2 Chronicles 34.31 1.634
Hosea 1.9 1.633
Hosea 14.1 1.632
Hosea 14.8 1.632
Ezekiel 18.30 1.632
2 Chronicles 15.12 1.632
Jeremiah 3.10 1.632
Ezekiel 36.37 1.631
Romans 11.22 1.63
Isaiah 1.21 1.629
Jeremiah 3.14 1.628
Matthew 18.3 1.628
Matthew 3.11 1.627
Acts 3.19 1.624
2 Timothy 4.10 1.623
Hosea 6.1 1.621
Isaiah 55.7 1.62
Genesis 28.20 1.62
Hebrews 6.5 1.618
Jeremiah 13.23 1.616
1 John 2.15 1.614
Hebrews 6.4 1.613
Hebrews 6.6 1.613
1 Corinthians 10.11 1.612
Luke 19.42 1.609
Hebrews 9.10 1.609
John 1.16 1.609
Revelation 2.5 1.605
Acts 2.37 1.604
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase