Early English Printed Sermons


The system of grace, and free-will as 'tis held in the Catholick Church, and the Church of England; proposed, and vindicated. In a visitation sermon. By Stephen Nye.

Nye, Stephen, 1648?-1719
Publisher: printed for J Robinson at the Golden Lion in St Paul s Church yard and A Bell at the Cross Keys and Bible in Cornhil
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1700
Approximate Era: WilliamAndMary
TCP ID: A52615 ESTC ID: R217852 STC ID: N1509
Subject Headings: Free will and determinism; Grace (Theology); Sermons, English -- 18th 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 4.9% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 4.0% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 88.5% 100.0%
Foreign Percentage of units with foreign text 0.3% -inf%
NonLatinAlphabet Percentage of units with a NonLatinAlphabet placeholder 0.7% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 9.5% -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) 2.3% -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%



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: 0.828
Evenness: 0.917
Part Prominence
New Testament (Vulgate) 20.191
New Testament (Geneva) 13.942
New Testament (Tyndale) 2.478
New Testament (AKJV) 0.072
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) -2.302
Old Testament (Geneva) -3.685
New Testament (ODRV) -4.888
Old Testament (AKJV) -5.796
Diversity: 0.951
Evenness: 0.961
Book Prominence
1 Timothy (Vulgate) 10.201
Titus (Geneva) 10.044
Titus (Tyndale) 4.995
1 Thessalonians (AKJV) 4.678
Titus (AKJV) 4.675
Revelation (Geneva) 4.616
Acts (AKJV) 4.294
1 Corinthians (Geneva) 3.857
2 Timothy (Tyndale) 2.353
Lamentations (Geneva) 2.342
Titus (ODRV) 2.342
1 Thessalonians (Geneva) 2.248
Ezekiel (Douay-Rheims) 2.224
2 Timothy (Geneva) 2.222
Hebrews (Tyndale) 2.113
Acts (ODRV) 1.876
Hebrews (Geneva) 1.822
2 Corinthians (Geneva) 1.816
Philippians (AKJV) 1.802
Ephesians (Geneva) 1.762
John (Tyndale) 1.687
Isaiah (Geneva) 1.658
Ephesians (AKJV) 1.613
Job (AKJV) 1.57
Matthew (Tyndale) 1.478
Isaiah (AKJV) 1.282
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 0.996
Diversity: 0.962
Evenness: 0.966
Chapter Prominence
1 Timothy 2 (Vulgate) 8.5
Titus 2 (Geneva) 8.43
Titus 2 (Tyndale) 4.228
Revelation 3 (Geneva) 4.228
Acts 16 (AKJV) 4.225
John 1 (Tyndale) 4.145
Titus 2 (AKJV) 4.098
1 Thessalonians 5 (AKJV) 4.087
1 Corinthians 15 (Geneva) 3.994
Ezekiel 11 (Douay-Rheims) 2.116
Lamentations 5 (Geneva) 2.11
Ezekiel 36 (Douay-Rheims) 2.101
Ezekiel 33 (Douay-Rheims) 2.1
2 Timothy 2 (Tyndale) 2.099
Job 28 (AKJV) 2.099
Matthew 12 (Tyndale) 2.088
Acts 7 (AKJV) 2.086
Acts 7 (ODRV) 2.075
Isaiah 5 (Geneva) 2.072
2 Corinthians 3 (Geneva) 2.067
Isaiah 5 (AKJV) 2.062
Hebrews 13 (Tyndale) 2.061
2 Timothy 3 (Geneva) 2.06
Titus 2 (ODRV) 2.042
1 Thessalonians 5 (Geneva) 2.025
Hebrews 10 (Geneva) 2.022
John 6 (Tyndale) 2.016
Ephesians 2 (AKJV) 1.99
1 Corinthians 10 (Geneva) 1.945
1 Corinthians 15 (AKJV) 1.925
Philippians 2 (AKJV) 1.908
Ephesians 4 (Geneva) 1.869
1 Corinthians 10 (AKJV) 1.826
Ephesians 4 (AKJV) 1.775
Diversity: 0.962
Evenness: 0.966
Verse Prominence
1 Timothy 2.4 (Vulgate) 8.503
Titus 2.11 (Geneva) 8.496
Titus 2.11 (Tyndale) 4.253
Acts 16.14 (AKJV) 4.253
John 1.16 (Tyndale) 4.248
Revelation 3.20 (Geneva) 4.248
1 Thessalonians 5.19 (AKJV) 4.246
1 Corinthians 15.10 (Geneva) 4.246
Titus 2.11 (AKJV) 4.244
Lamentations 5.21 (Geneva) 2.127
2 Timothy 2.25 (Tyndale) 2.126
Acts 7.51 (AKJV) 2.125
Acts 7.51 (ODRV) 2.125
Hebrews 13.21 (Tyndale) 2.124
2 Timothy 3.17 (Geneva) 2.123
Isaiah 5.4 (AKJV) 2.123
Hebrews 10.24 (Geneva) 2.122
Matthew 12.35 (Tyndale) 2.122
Job 28.12 (AKJV) 2.121
Ezekiel 11.19 (Douay-Rheims) 2.12
Ezekiel 33.11 (Douay-Rheims) 2.12
Titus 2.11 (ODRV) 2.119
Isaiah 5.4 (Geneva) 2.119
1 Thessalonians 5.19 (Geneva) 2.118
2 Corinthians 3.5 (Geneva) 2.118
1 Corinthians 15.10 (AKJV) 2.118
John 6.44 (Tyndale) 2.117
Ezekiel 36.26 (Douay-Rheims) 2.111
Ephesians 4.7 (Geneva) 2.11
Ephesians 4.7 (AKJV) 2.11
Philippians 2.13 (AKJV) 2.107
Ephesians 2.8 (AKJV) 2.097
1 Corinthians 10.16 (Geneva) 2.043
1 Corinthians 10.16 (AKJV) 2.041
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: 0.947
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Lamentations 4.57
Titus 4.187
2 Peter 3.979
2 Timothy 3.821
Ezekiel 3.659
2 Samuel 3.649
Philippians 3.515
1 Timothy 3.426
Revelation 3.137
Ephesians 3.101
Jeremiah 3.022
2 Corinthians 2.961
Hebrews 2.477
Acts 2.06
John 2.057
1 Corinthians 1.973
Isaiah 1.882
Matthew 1.083
Psalms 0.092
Diversity: 0.962
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Ezekiel 12 3.835
Lamentations 5 3.815
2 Samuel 7 3.777
Ezekiel 36 3.767
Jeremiah 4 3.765
Ezekiel 18 3.748
Ezekiel 33 3.733
Jeremiah 31 3.72
2 Corinthians 3 3.7
Acts 16 3.694
Acts 7 3.671
2 Peter 3 3.653
Isaiah 5 3.645
Titus 2 3.643
Revelation 3 3.63
Matthew 12 3.622
2 Timothy 2 3.608
John 6 3.599
1 Timothy 2 3.593
John 1 3.549
1 Corinthians 10 3.52
Hebrews 13 3.485
Philippians 3 3.473
Psalms 119 3.45
1 Corinthians 15 3.411
Ephesians 4 3.382
Diversity: 0.963
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Ezekiel 12.2 3.703
2 Samuel 7.5 3.702
Psalms 119.35 3.701
Lamentations 5.21 3.701
Psalms 119.36 3.7
Matthew 12.35 3.698
Acts 16.17 3.695
Ephesians 4.7 3.694
Hebrews 13.21 3.693
Jeremiah 4.4 3.693
Isaiah 5.8 3.692
Ezekiel 18.31 3.692
Acts 16.14 3.69
2 Peter 3.9 3.69
1 Timothy 2.4 3.689
Acts 7.51 3.689
John 6.44 3.687
Jeremiah 31.33 3.685
2 Timothy 2.25 3.684
Ezekiel 36.26 3.682
2 Corinthians 3.5 3.682
1 Corinthians 15.10 3.682
Philippians 3.13 3.678
John 1.16 3.674
Revelation 3.20 3.674
Ezekiel 33.11 3.671
Titus 2.11 3.665
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase