Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon preached at St. Martins in the Fields, at the funeral of the Reverend Doctor Hardy, Dean of Rochester, June 9th, 1670 by Richard Meggott ...

Meggott, Richard, d. 1692
Publisher: Printed by E Tyler and R Holt for Joseph Clark
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1670
Approximate Era: CharlesII
TCP ID: A50543 ESTC ID: R793 STC ID: M1620
Subject Headings: Funeral sermons; Hardy, Nathaniel, 1618-1670; Sermons, English -- 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 0.8% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 0.8% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 88.4% 100.0%
NonLatinAlphabet Percentage of units with a NonLatinAlphabet placeholder 0.4% -inf%
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 0.7% -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) 3.1% -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: 0.843
Evenness: 0.948
Part Prominence
Old Testament (AKJV) 15.227
Old Testament (Geneva) 8.247
Apocrypha (AKJV) 4.533
Old Testament (ODRV) 2.722
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 0.539
New Testament (Geneva) -1.967
New Testament (ODRV) -2.047
New Testament (AKJV) -3.337
Diversity: 0.947
Evenness: 0.981
Book Prominence
Job (AKJV) 11.006
Job (Geneva) 7.301
2 Thessalonians (ODRV) 3.927
Zechariah (AKJV) 3.803
1 Samuel (Geneva) 3.757
Wisdom (AKJV) 3.685
Deuteronomy (Douay-Rheims) 3.58
Exodus (Geneva) 3.56
Job (Douay-Rheims) 3.423
1 Timothy (AKJV) 3.292
2 Corinthians (Geneva) 3.252
Luke (Geneva) 3.101
Ephesians (AKJV) 3.049
Luke (ODRV) 3.008
Hebrews (AKJV) 2.972
John (ODRV) 2.945
Psalms (ODRV) 2.79
Isaiah (AKJV) 2.717
Proverbs (AKJV) 2.597
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 2.432
Romans (AKJV) 2.157
Psalms (AKJV) 1.219
Diversity: 0.938
Evenness: 0.943
Chapter Prominence
Job 14 (AKJV) 17.572
Job 7 (AKJV) 8.779
Job 7 (Geneva) 5.861
1 Samuel 28 (Geneva) 2.938
Psalms 89 (ODRV) 2.934
Job 11 (Douay-Rheims) 2.933
Deuteronomy 13 (Douay-Rheims) 2.932
Exodus 23 (Geneva) 2.929
Zechariah 1 (AKJV) 2.921
Job 38 (Geneva) 2.92
2 Thessalonians 2 (ODRV) 2.917
Job 11 (AKJV) 2.915
Luke 13 (Geneva) 2.913
Isaiah 38 (AKJV) 2.912
Wisdom 1 (AKJV) 2.911
Proverbs 1 (AKJV) 2.887
Luke 16 (ODRV) 2.863
1 Timothy 1 (AKJV) 2.852
2 Corinthians 4 (Geneva) 2.843
John 1 (ODRV) 2.84
Psalms 90 (AKJV) 2.837
Hebrews 12 (AKJV) 2.812
1 Corinthians 15 (AKJV) 2.739
Romans 6 (AKJV) 2.738
Romans 8 (AKJV) 2.609
Ephesians 4 (AKJV) 2.589
Diversity: 0.938
Evenness: 0.943
Verse Prominence
Job 14.14 (AKJV) 17.618
Job 7.1 (AKJV) 8.809
Job 7.1 (Geneva) 5.868
Luke 13.25 (Geneva) 2.941
1 Corinthians 15.38 (AKJV) 2.94
Deuteronomy 13.4 (Douay-Rheims) 2.94
Exodus 23.26 (Geneva) 2.94
Job 11.9 (Douay-Rheims) 2.94
Psalms 89.4 (ODRV) 2.94
1 Samuel 28.20 (Geneva) 2.94
2 Thessalonians 2.5 (ODRV) 2.94
Isaiah 38.9 (AKJV) 2.938
Job 38.16 (Geneva) 2.937
Proverbs 1.26 (AKJV) 2.936
Job 11.8 (AKJV) 2.936
Psalms 90.4 (AKJV) 2.932
John 1.47 (ODRV) 2.93
Zechariah 1.5 (AKJV) 2.928
Luke 16.19 (ODRV) 2.928
Wisdom 1.13 (AKJV) 2.927
Hebrews 12.23 (AKJV) 2.927
Ephesians 4.14 (AKJV) 2.927
Romans 8.25 (AKJV) 2.924
1 Timothy 1.17 (AKJV) 2.913
Romans 6.5 (AKJV) 2.906
2 Corinthians 4.17 (Geneva) 2.905
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: 0.8
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Exodus 17.885
Job 17.757
Proverbs 16.952
1 Corinthians 16.71
Psalms 14.828
Diversity: 0.8
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Exodus 23 19.92
Psalms 55 19.919
Proverbs 31 19.874
Job 14 19.847
1 Corinthians 15 19.565
Diversity: 0.833
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Exodus 23.25 16.663
Exodus 23.26 16.663
Proverbs 31.8 16.662
Psalms 55.23 16.655
1 Corinthians 15.51 16.651
Job 14.14 16.621
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase