Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon preached November V, MDCLXXIII, at the Abbey-Church in Westminster by John, Lord Bishop of Chester.

Pearson, John, 1613-1686
Publisher: Printed by Andrew Clark for John Williams Junior
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1673
Approximate Era: CharlesII
TCP ID: A53899 ESTC ID: R23235 STC ID: P1009
Subject Headings: Bible. -- O.T. -- Psalms CXI, 4; 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 14.7% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 6.6% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 78.7% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 17.3% -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 0.8% -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) 8.6% -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: 0.81
Evenness: 0.911
Part Prominence
Old Testament (Geneva) 26.429
New Testament (Vulgate) 4.282
Old Testament (ODRV) 2.722
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 0.539
New Testament (Tyndale) -0.931
New Testament (ODRV) -2.047
Old Testament (AKJV) -2.955
New Testament (AKJV) -3.337
Diversity: 0.949
Evenness: 0.971
Book Prominence
Isaiah (Geneva) 12.428
Esther (Geneva) 6.615
Exodus (AKJV) 6.084
Jude (ODRV) 3.247
Esther (AKJV) 3.238
Joshua (Douay-Rheims) 3.232
John (Vulgate) 3.114
Romans (Vulgate) 3.095
1 Samuel (Geneva) 3.091
2 Peter (Tyndale) 3.076
Exodus (Geneva) 2.893
Revelation (AKJV) 2.799
Deuteronomy (AKJV) 2.765
Genesis (Geneva) 2.722
Job (Geneva) 2.634
John (Tyndale) 2.456
Romans (Tyndale) 2.346
Psalms (ODRV) 2.123
Romans (ODRV) 2.083
Isaiah (AKJV) 2.051
Matthew (AKJV) 1.819
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 1.765
Psalms (Geneva) 1.518
Romans (AKJV) 1.491
Psalms (AKJV) 0.552
Diversity: 0.967
Evenness: 0.979
Chapter Prominence
Isaiah 29 (Geneva) 9.284
Esther 9 (Geneva) 4.646
Exodus 12 (AKJV) 4.627
Psalms 147 (AKJV) 4.594
Psalms 149 (Geneva) 2.32
Joshua 4 (Douay-Rheims) 2.318
Esther 9 (AKJV) 2.318
Psalms 150 (AKJV) 2.316
Exodus 16 (Geneva) 2.315
1 Samuel 10 (Geneva) 2.312
Psalms 110 (ODRV) 2.309
Romans 5 (Vulgate) 2.309
Psalms 111 (Geneva) 2.308
Psalms 111 (AKJV) 2.307
Isaiah 29 (AKJV) 2.307
Job 38 (Geneva) 2.304
Revelation 19 (AKJV) 2.301
Psalms 71 (AKJV) 2.3
John 6 (Vulgate) 2.297
Psalms 147 (Geneva) 2.296
Genesis 18 (Geneva) 2.293
Psalms 102 (AKJV) 2.282
Psalms 75 (AKJV) 2.27
2 Peter 1 (Tyndale) 2.268
Jude 1 (ODRV) 2.267
Deuteronomy 5 (AKJV) 2.266
Psalms 105 (AKJV) 2.261
Psalms 145 (AKJV) 2.242
Romans 3 (Tyndale) 2.228
Psalms 44 (AKJV) 2.216
John 6 (Tyndale) 2.214
Romans 3 (AKJV) 2.196
Matthew 10 (AKJV) 2.184
Psalms 118 (AKJV) 2.182
Psalms 107 (AKJV) 2.176
Romans 13 (ODRV) 2.168
1 Corinthians 11 (AKJV) 2.14
Diversity: 0.97
Evenness: 0.98
Verse Prominence
Isaiah 29.15 (Geneva) 8.505
Esther 9.28 (Geneva) 4.254
Psalms 111.4 (AKJV) 4.253
Exodus 12.14 (AKJV) 4.253
Psalms 147.1 (AKJV) 4.248
Psalms 149.4 (Geneva) 2.127
Psalms 110.3 (ODRV) 2.127
Psalms 111.9 (Geneva) 2.127
Deuteronomy 5.15 (AKJV) 2.127
Exodus 16.32 (Geneva) 2.127
Joshua 4.14 (Douay-Rheims) 2.127
Psalms 105.44 (AKJV) 2.127
Esther 9.27 (AKJV) 2.127
Deuteronomy 5.12 (AKJV) 2.126
Psalms 145.2 (AKJV) 2.126
Psalms 71.17 (AKJV) 2.126
Isaiah 29.14 (AKJV) 2.126
Revelation 19.1 (AKJV) 2.125
Romans 5.9 (Vulgate) 2.125
Psalms 44.1 (AKJV) 2.125
John 6.51 (Vulgate) 2.124
Psalms 150.2 (AKJV) 2.124
Job 38.16 (Geneva) 2.124
Psalms 147.1 (Geneva) 2.123
1 Samuel 10.24 (Geneva) 2.123
Genesis 18.25 (Geneva) 2.122
Psalms 111.4 (Geneva) 2.121
Psalms 111.2 (AKJV) 2.121
Psalms 102.18 (AKJV) 2.12
John 6.31 (Tyndale) 2.119
Matthew 10.29 (AKJV) 2.119
Romans 3.8 (Tyndale) 2.119
Psalms 75.1 (AKJV) 2.118
Romans 3.8 (AKJV) 2.116
Romans 13.7 (ODRV) 2.115
2 Peter 1.21 (Tyndale) 2.109
Psalms 107.31 (AKJV) 2.098
1 Corinthians 11.26 (AKJV) 2.096
Jude 1.3 (ODRV) 2.095
Psalms 118.23 (AKJV) 2.066
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: 0.923
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Nehemiah 7.147
Joshua 6.817
2 Samuel 6.078
Exodus 5.577
Revelation 5.566
Deuteronomy 5.562
Ephesians 5.53
Genesis 5.067
John 4.486
Isaiah 4.311
Romans 3.738
Matthew 3.512
Psalms 2.521
Diversity: 0.957
Evenness: 0.992
Chapter Prominence
Psalms 29 7.362
Psalms 1 7.226
Isaiah 15 3.695
Joshua 3 3.694
Deuteronomy 15 3.672
Psalms 52 3.665
Psalms 71 3.664
Exodus 16 3.655
Psalms 111 3.653
Isaiah 50 3.65
Psalms 63 3.65
Nehemiah 9 3.648
Isaiah 14 3.646
2 Samuel 16 3.64
Psalms 147 3.624
Exodus 12 3.61
Isaiah 2 3.592
Revelation 1 3.552
Genesis 18 3.547
Psalms 16 3.517
Romans 3 3.462
John 6 3.456
Matthew 10 3.408
Ephesians 2 3.404
Romans 13 3.015
Diversity: 0.945
Evenness: 0.994
Verse Prominence
Psalms 29.2 9.992
Psalms 71.8 4.999
Exodus 16.32 4.998
John 6.41 4.998
Matthew 10.31 4.998
Isaiah 50.2 4.997
Isaiah 2.11 4.997
Exodus 12.14 4.997
Psalms 52.9 4.997
Nehemiah 9.5 4.996
Psalms 147.1 4.992
Psalms 111.4 4.989
Psalms 16.2 4.987
Matthew 10.29 4.987
Psalms 63.3 4.985
Genesis 18.25 4.971
Ephesians 2.2 4.968
Romans 13.7 4.956
Romans 3.8 4.941
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase