Early English Printed Sermons


The character of a good and bad subject, or, The duty of the people of England, Scotland, and Ireland manifestly proved by the word of God, wherein is made appear the fatal consequences of rebellious principles : in a sermon / preach'd by Constant Oates ...

Oates, Constant
Publisher: Printed for the author
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1682
Approximate Era: CharlesII
TCP ID: A53312 ESTC ID: R17279 STC ID: O26
Subject Headings: Bible. -- N.T. -- Romans XIII, 1; Obedience; 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 13.7% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 9.0% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 73.4% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 21.9% -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) 12.9% -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: 0.86
Evenness: 0.974
Part Prominence
Old Testament (Geneva) 10.065
New Testament (ODRV) 8.862
New Testament (Vulgate) 5.191
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 1.448
New Testament (Tyndale) -0.022
New Testament (Geneva) -1.058
Old Testament (AKJV) -2.046
New Testament (AKJV) -2.428
Diversity: 0.947
Evenness: 0.94
Book Prominence
1 Peter (Tyndale) 12.555
Romans (AKJV) 9.027
Romans (Tyndale) 5.534
Titus (Geneva) 4.135
2 Samuel (Geneva) 4.123
2 Kings (Douay-Rheims) 4.03
1 Peter (AKJV) 3.56
Romans (ODRV) 3.097
Luke (Vulgate) 2.045
Titus (Tyndale) 2.04
Titus (ODRV) 1.952
1 Kings (Douay-Rheims) 1.898
2 Samuel (AKJV) 1.797
1 Samuel (AKJV) 1.755
2 Peter (AKJV) 1.755
1 Peter (ODRV) 1.74
Ephesians (Tyndale) 1.69
1 Peter (Geneva) 1.592
Acts (ODRV) 1.486
Hebrews (ODRV) 1.462
2 Corinthians (Geneva) 1.426
Philippians (AKJV) 1.412
Ephesians (Geneva) 1.372
2 Corinthians (AKJV) 1.279
Ephesians (AKJV) 1.223
John (AKJV) 0.99
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 0.984
Matthew (ODRV) 0.761
Romans (Geneva) 0.714
Psalms (AKJV) -0.607
Diversity: 0.96
Evenness: 0.951
Chapter Prominence
1 Peter 2 (Tyndale) 10.553
Romans 13 (AKJV) 8.567
Romans 13 (Tyndale) 5.191
2 Samuel 15 (Geneva) 3.55
2 Kings 15 (Douay-Rheims) 3.539
Titus 3 (Geneva) 3.529
Romans 13 (ODRV) 3.413
1 Peter 5 (AKJV) 3.41
1 Peter 2 (AKJV) 3.406
2 Samuel 17 (AKJV) 1.782
2 Samuel 16 (Geneva) 1.78
1 Kings 26 (Douay-Rheims) 1.777
2 Samuel 16 (AKJV) 1.773
Luke 20 (Vulgate) 1.773
2 Samuel 18 (AKJV) 1.77
2 Kings 19 (Douay-Rheims) 1.762
Titus 2 (Tyndale) 1.759
1 Samuel 26 (AKJV) 1.758
Psalms 149 (AKJV) 1.756
Acts 4 (ODRV) 1.748
2 Corinthians 13 (AKJV) 1.745
Titus 3 (ODRV) 1.738
Matthew 28 (ODRV) 1.729
Matthew 23 (ODRV) 1.709
Ephesians 5 (Tyndale) 1.708
John 15 (AKJV) 1.708
1 Peter 5 (Geneva) 1.705
2 Peter 2 (AKJV) 1.702
Ephesians 6 (Geneva) 1.702
Ephesians 6 (AKJV) 1.696
Philippians 1 (AKJV) 1.692
2 Corinthians 4 (Geneva) 1.687
Hebrews 12 (ODRV) 1.675
Ephesians 5 (Geneva) 1.667
1 Peter 2 (ODRV) 1.664
1 Peter 2 (Geneva) 1.647
1 Corinthians 10 (ODRV) 1.646
Ephesians 4 (Geneva) 1.527
Romans 13 (Geneva) 1.461
Diversity: 0.971
Evenness: 0.958
Verse Prominence
1 Peter 2.17 (Tyndale) 8.388
Romans 13.1 (AKJV) 6.927
Romans 13.1 (Tyndale) 4.157
Romans 13.1 (Geneva) 4.074
2 Samuel 15.30 (Geneva) 2.815
Titus 3.1 (Geneva) 2.811
1 Peter 5.5 (AKJV) 2.805
2 Kings 15.31 (Douay-Rheims) 2.804
Romans 13.1 (ODRV) 2.793
1 Peter 2.13 (AKJV) 2.771
Romans 13.2 (AKJV) 2.708
1 Kings 26.23 (Douay-Rheims) 1.408
Acts 4.26 (ODRV) 1.408
2 Samuel 18.19 (AKJV) 1.408
2 Samuel 18.32 (AKJV) 1.408
2 Samuel 17.12 (AKJV) 1.408
2 Samuel 16.16 (Geneva) 1.408
2 Corinthians 13.1 (AKJV) 1.407
2 Corinthians 4.7 (Geneva) 1.407
2 Samuel 16.7 (AKJV) 1.407
2 Samuel 17.14 (AKJV) 1.406
1 Samuel 26.8 (AKJV) 1.406
Titus 3.1 (ODRV) 1.405
Ephesians 5.22 (Geneva) 1.405
1 Peter 5.5 (Geneva) 1.405
Titus 2.9 (Tyndale) 1.404
1 Corinthians 10.33 (ODRV) 1.403
2 Kings 19.30 (Douay-Rheims) 1.402
Philippians 1.15 (AKJV) 1.401
Ephesians 6.1 (Geneva) 1.401
Ephesians 6.1 (AKJV) 1.401
1 Samuel 26.11 (AKJV) 1.4
Luke 20.25 (Vulgate) 1.399
Ephesians 5.21 (Tyndale) 1.396
Ephesians 4.2 (Geneva) 1.396
Romans 13.7 (ODRV) 1.395
Psalms 149.8 (AKJV) 1.393
Matthew 23.12 (ODRV) 1.393
John 15.13 (AKJV) 1.393
1 Peter 2.21 (ODRV) 1.392
1 Samuel 26.9 (AKJV) 1.392
2 Peter 2.10 (AKJV) 1.391
Romans 13.2 (ODRV) 1.391
1 Peter 2.14 (AKJV) 1.387
Romans 13.7 (AKJV) 1.377
Matthew 28.18 (ODRV) 1.376
1 Peter 2.13 (Geneva) 1.373
Hebrews 12.14 (ODRV) 1.364
Romans 13.5 (AKJV) 1.362
Romans 13.2 (Geneva) 1.361
Romans 13.5 (Geneva) 1.323
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: 0.933
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
2 Peter 5.382
Colossians 5.281
James 5.159
2 Samuel 5.053
Philippians 4.919
1 Samuel 4.884
1 Peter 4.635
Ephesians 4.504
2 Corinthians 4.364
Hebrews 3.881
Acts 3.463
1 Corinthians 3.376
Romans 2.712
Matthew 2.487
Psalms 1.495
Diversity: 0.962
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Psalms 149 3.812
1 Samuel 18 3.802
2 Samuel 17 3.802
1 Samuel 26 3.791
2 Samuel 16 3.782
2 Samuel 19 3.758
2 Samuel 18 3.752
2 Samuel 15 3.74
Hebrews 3 3.723
Acts 10 3.668
1 Peter 5 3.652
James 4 3.649
Acts 4 3.631
Acts 13 3.62
Colossians 2 3.618
2 Corinthians 4 3.617
Matthew 28 3.606
Philippians 1 3.598
2 Peter 2 3.59
Matthew 22 3.586
Matthew 23 3.567
Matthew 6 3.519
1 Corinthians 15 3.411
Ephesians 4 3.382
1 Peter 2 3.351
Romans 13 3.157
Diversity: 0.97
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
1 Samuel 26.23 3.03
2 Samuel 18.19 3.03
1 Samuel 18.19 3.03
Acts 4.26 3.029
2 Samuel 19.24 3.029
2 Samuel 17.12 3.029
2 Samuel 16.15 3.029
2 Samuel 16.16 3.029
Matthew 23.12 3.028
Hebrews 3.17 3.027
1 Samuel 26.8 3.027
Acts 10.42 3.026
2 Samuel 15.30 3.026
2 Samuel 16.5 3.026
Matthew 22.17 3.025
Matthew 6.13 3.025
2 Samuel 15.31 3.024
Psalms 149.8 3.021
Philippians 1.10 3.021
Colossians 2.18 3.018
1 Corinthians 15.24 3.018
Ephesians 4.2 3.014
Acts 13.48 3.013
James 4.6 3.006
2 Corinthians 4.7 3.004
2 Samuel 19.30 3.004
Matthew 28.18 3.003
2 Peter 2.10 2.999
Romans 13.7 2.986
1 Peter 2.17 2.98
Romans 13.5 2.967
Romans 13.2 2.912
1 Peter 2.13 2.881
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase