Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon preached to the Artillery company, at St. Mary le Bow, September 13. 1676 by Richard Meggot ...

Meggott, Richard, d. 1692
Publisher: Printed for Nathanael Brooke
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1676
Approximate Era: CharlesII
TCP ID: A50546 ESTC ID: R9843 STC ID: M1625
Subject Headings: Church of England; 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 2.5% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 2.1% -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 6.8% -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) 3.2% -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: 0.816
Evenness: 0.976
Part Prominence
Old Testament (AKJV) 16.525
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 5.734
Old Testament (Geneva) 4.351
New Testament (Geneva) 3.227
New Testament (ODRV) 3.148
New Testament (AKJV) 1.858
Diversity: 0.954
Evenness: 0.981
Book Prominence
Proverbs (AKJV) 8.942
Ecclesiastes (AKJV) 6.148
Proverbs (Geneva) 5.966
2 Paralipomenon (Douay-Rheims) 3.277
Leviticus (Geneva) 3.275
Mark (AKJV) 3.235
4 Kings (Douay-Rheims) 3.233
1 Kings (AKJV) 3.167
1 Thessalonians (Geneva) 3.132
2 Peter (AKJV) 3.029
1 Thessalonians (AKJV) 2.998
Acts (Geneva) 2.904
Job (Douay-Rheims) 2.871
Philippians (AKJV) 2.686
1 Peter (AKJV) 2.661
Ephesians (Geneva) 2.646
Acts (AKJV) 2.614
John (ODRV) 2.393
Matthew (Geneva) 2.287
John (AKJV) 2.264
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 2.259
Matthew (ODRV) 2.035
Romans (Geneva) 1.988
Romans (AKJV) 1.606
Psalms (AKJV) 0.667
Diversity: 0.957
Evenness: 0.983
Chapter Prominence
Proverbs 19 (AKJV) 9.63
Proverbs 3 (Geneva) 6.391
Ecclesiastes 7 (AKJV) 6.359
4 Kings 25 (Douay-Rheims) 3.223
Leviticus 13 (Geneva) 3.222
2 Paralipomenon 9 (Douay-Rheims) 3.221
Job 40 (Douay-Rheims) 3.219
Mark 8 (AKJV) 3.217
1 Kings 10 (AKJV) 3.203
Acts 5 (Geneva) 3.197
Acts 5 (AKJV) 3.193
Ecclesiastes 5 (AKJV) 3.186
John 9 (ODRV) 3.184
Matthew 11 (ODRV) 3.178
Romans 9 (Geneva) 3.173
Psalms 14 (AKJV) 3.17
Ephesians 1 (Geneva) 3.168
John 9 (AKJV) 3.161
Matthew 13 (Geneva) 3.154
2 Peter 3 (AKJV) 3.138
Romans 9 (AKJV) 3.135
Philippians 1 (AKJV) 3.132
1 Thessalonians 5 (Geneva) 3.124
1 Peter 5 (AKJV) 3.064
1 Thessalonians 5 (AKJV) 3.058
Matthew 5 (ODRV) 3.009
1 Corinthians 15 (ODRV) 2.909
Diversity: 0.963
Evenness: 0.985
Verse Prominence
Proverbs 19.2 (AKJV) 8.568
Ecclesiastes 7.11 (AKJV) 5.709
Proverbs 3.14 (Geneva) 5.708
4 Kings 25.16 (Douay-Rheims) 2.857
Job 40.15 (Douay-Rheims) 2.857
Leviticus 13.44 (Geneva) 2.856
2 Paralipomenon 9.27 (Douay-Rheims) 2.856
Mark 8.24 (AKJV) 2.856
Acts 5.36 (AKJV) 2.856
Acts 5.36 (Geneva) 2.856
Ecclesiastes 5.13 (AKJV) 2.855
Psalms 14.4 (AKJV) 2.855
1 Kings 10.23 (AKJV) 2.855
John 9.1 (AKJV) 2.855
1 Thessalonians 5.7 (Geneva) 2.855
Philippians 1.10 (AKJV) 2.854
2 Peter 3.1 (AKJV) 2.854
Matthew 13.32 (Geneva) 2.854
Philippians 1.8 (AKJV) 2.854
Philippians 1.9 (AKJV) 2.854
Romans 9.20 (Geneva) 2.853
Matthew 11.19 (ODRV) 2.852
1 Corinthians 15.38 (ODRV) 2.852
John 9.2 (ODRV) 2.852
1 Thessalonians 5.7 (AKJV) 2.85
Romans 9.20 (AKJV) 2.847
1 Thessalonians 5.6 (AKJV) 2.847
Ephesians 1.11 (Geneva) 2.845
1 Corinthians 15.41 (ODRV) 2.829
Matthew 5.17 (ODRV) 2.814
1 Peter 5.11 (AKJV) 2.773
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: 0.9
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
1 Thessalonians 8.922
1 Kings 8.523
2 Samuel 8.386
Philippians 8.252
1 Timothy 8.162
Ecclesiastes 8.044
Exodus 7.885
Genesis 7.375
Proverbs 6.952
Acts 6.797
Diversity: 0.917
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Exodus 31 8.315
1 Kings 4 8.292
1 Kings 10 8.271
2 Samuel 23 8.268
2 Samuel 15 8.228
Proverbs 19 8.222
Genesis 4 8.167
Acts 5 8.145
1 Thessalonians 5 8.13
Ecclesiastes 7 8.095
Philippians 1 8.085
1 Timothy 6 8.074
Diversity: 0.933
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
2 Samuel 23.8 6.665
Exodus 31.3 6.663
Acts 5.36 6.663
Genesis 4.21 6.662
Ecclesiastes 7.11 6.662
1 Kings 10.27 6.662
Philippians 1.8 6.662
Proverbs 19.2 6.661
1 Thessalonians 5.6 6.661
1 Kings 4.33 6.66
1 Thessalonians 5.7 6.659
Philippians 1.9 6.658
Philippians 1.10 6.657
1 Timothy 6.20 6.654
2 Samuel 15.11 6.654
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase