Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon preach'd to the artillery-company, at S. Mary le Bow, October 21 1679 and published at their earnest request / by Edw. Pelling ...

Pelling, Edward, d. 1718
Publisher: Printed for Johnathon Edwin
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1679
Approximate Era: CharlesII
TCP ID: A53966 ESTC ID: R33043 STC ID: P1092
Subject Headings: Church of England; Conduct of life; Sermons, English -- 17th century; Soldiers -- Religious life;
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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 4.1% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 2.8% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 87.8% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 7.3% -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) 1.6% -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: 0.8
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
New Testament (Wycliffe) 18.379
New Testament (Tyndale) 9.978
New Testament (Geneva) 8.942
New Testament (ODRV) 8.862
New Testament (AKJV) 7.572
Diversity: 0.957
Evenness: 0.995
Book Prominence
Luke (AKJV) 6.802
John (Wycliffe) 3.825
Jude (AKJV) 3.738
1 Peter (ODRV) 3.566
Ephesians (Tyndale) 3.516
2 Timothy (AKJV) 3.468
1 Peter (Geneva) 3.418
Ephesians (ODRV) 3.348
Acts (ODRV) 3.312
2 Corinthians (ODRV) 3.245
Philippians (AKJV) 3.238
Luke (Tyndale) 3.224
Ephesians (Geneva) 3.198
Acts (AKJV) 3.166
Luke (Geneva) 3.101
Ephesians (AKJV) 3.049
Luke (ODRV) 3.008
John (ODRV) 2.945
Romans (ODRV) 2.75
Matthew (ODRV) 2.587
Romans (Geneva) 2.54
Matthew (AKJV) 2.485
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 2.432
Romans (AKJV) 2.157
Diversity: 0.963
Evenness: 0.996
Chapter Prominence
Luke 3 (AKJV) 6.885
John 3 (Wycliffe) 3.438
Luke 3 (Tyndale) 3.437
Luke 3 (ODRV) 3.426
Luke 3 (Geneva) 3.424
Acts 10 (ODRV) 3.42
Acts 5 (AKJV) 3.415
Ephesians 6 (Tyndale) 3.408
2 Corinthians 10 (ODRV) 3.408
John 18 (ODRV) 3.391
Ephesians 6 (ODRV) 3.39
Romans 7 (ODRV) 3.385
1 Corinthians 4 (AKJV) 3.381
Matthew 26 (AKJV) 3.379
1 Peter 5 (Geneva) 3.368
Ephesians 6 (Geneva) 3.365
Acts 24 (AKJV) 3.365
Ephesians 6 (AKJV) 3.358
1 Peter 2 (ODRV) 3.327
Matthew 22 (ODRV) 3.308
2 Timothy 3 (AKJV) 3.287
Ephesians 4 (ODRV) 3.283
Philippians 4 (AKJV) 3.274
Matthew 5 (AKJV) 3.267
Jude 1 (AKJV) 3.266
Matthew 5 (ODRV) 3.232
Romans 13 (Geneva) 3.123
Romans 13 (AKJV) 3.087
Diversity: 0.968
Evenness: 0.997
Verse Prominence
Luke 3.14 (AKJV) 6.057
Luke 3.10 (Geneva) 3.03
Luke 3.12 (Tyndale) 3.03
Ephesians 6.14 (Geneva) 3.029
Luke 3.14 (Tyndale) 3.028
2 Timothy 3.8 (AKJV) 3.027
Acts 10.2 (ODRV) 3.026
Ephesians 4.20 (ODRV) 3.026
Ephesians 6.10 (Tyndale) 3.026
Luke 3.9 (ODRV) 3.026
Acts 5.39 (AKJV) 3.026
John 3.17 (Wycliffe) 3.024
Ephesians 6.11 (AKJV) 3.023
Romans 7.12 (ODRV) 3.022
Luke 3.14 (Geneva) 3.021
1 Corinthians 4.2 (AKJV) 3.02
Ephesians 6.13 (ODRV) 3.02
2 Corinthians 10.4 (ODRV) 3.019
Ephesians 6.17 (Geneva) 3.017
Matthew 26.52 (AKJV) 3.015
1 Peter 5.4 (Geneva) 3.013
Matthew 5.3 (AKJV) 3.006
1 Peter 2.13 (ODRV) 3.005
John 18.36 (ODRV) 2.997
Matthew 22.21 (ODRV) 2.995
Philippians 4.8 (AKJV) 2.993
Matthew 5.3 (ODRV) 2.976
Acts 24.16 (AKJV) 2.973
Jude 1.25 (AKJV) 2.968
Romans 13.2 (AKJV) 2.921
Romans 13.1 (AKJV) 2.915
Romans 13.1 (Geneva) 2.879
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: 0.0
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
New Testament 51.805
Diversity: 0.864
Evenness: 0.983
Book Prominence
Romans 18.267
1 Timothy 9.274
1 Peter 9.08
Ephesians 8.949
2 Corinthians 8.809
Hebrews 8.325
Acts 7.908
Matthew 6.931
Diversity: 0.88
Evenness: 0.985
Chapter Prominence
Romans 13 19.311
2 Corinthians 10 9.887
Matthew 8 9.845
1 Timothy 3 9.842
Acts 10 9.822
Ephesians 6 9.756
Matthew 26 9.669
Hebrews 11 9.554
1 Peter 2 9.504
Diversity: 0.816
Evenness: 0.976
Verse Prominence
Romans 13.1 28.339
Acts 10.2 14.274
Ephesians 6.2 14.273
1 Timothy 3.15 14.263
Matthew 26.52 14.249
1 Peter 2.13 14.137
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase