Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon preacht on January 30th, 1683 in Westminster-Abby before the reverend and honourable, the Kings judges, and printed at their request by Edw. Pelling ...

Pelling, Edward, d. 1718
Publisher: Printed by H Hills Jun for William Abington
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1684
Approximate Era: CharlesII
TCP ID: A53971 ESTC ID: R23221 STC ID: P1096
Subject Headings: Bible. -- N.T. -- Romans XIII, 2; 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 3.0% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 1.9% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 91.4% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 6.5% -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) 3.5% -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: 0.792
Evenness: 0.885
Part Prominence
New Testament (AKJV) 19.151
New Testament (Tyndale) 11.031
New Testament (Geneva) 9.994
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 1.974
Old Testament (Geneva) -4.671
New Testament (ODRV) -5.875
Old Testament (AKJV) -6.783
Diversity: 0.873
Evenness: 0.909
Book Prominence
Romans (AKJV) 21.234
Romans (Tyndale) 14.397
Romans (Geneva) 13.924
2 Kings (Douay-Rheims) 7.375
2 Samuel (AKJV) 7.315
1 Peter (AKJV) 6.905
2 Thessalonians (AKJV) 3.594
1 Peter (ODRV) 3.412
1 John (ODRV) 3.38
Genesis (Geneva) 3.235
Genesis (AKJV) 2.948
Job (AKJV) 2.852
Diversity: 0.888
Evenness: 0.911
Chapter Prominence
Romans 13 (AKJV) 21.067
Romans 13 (Tyndale) 14.12
Romans 13 (Geneva) 13.961
2 Kings 1 (Douay-Rheims) 7.099
2 Samuel 1 (AKJV) 7.084
1 Peter 2 (AKJV) 6.977
Genesis 10 (Geneva) 3.569
Genesis 36 (Geneva) 3.569
Job 30 (AKJV) 3.547
Genesis 49 (Geneva) 3.531
Genesis 49 (AKJV) 3.507
2 Thessalonians 2 (AKJV) 3.486
1 John 3 (ODRV) 3.466
1 Peter 2 (ODRV) 3.45
Diversity: 0.917
Evenness: 0.913
Verse Prominence
Romans 13.2 (AKJV) 14.891
Romans 13.1 (AKJV) 14.884
Romans 13.1 (Tyndale) 9.931
Romans 13.1 (Geneva) 9.849
2 Samuel 1.14 (AKJV) 4.992
2 Kings 1.14 (Douay-Rheims) 4.988
1 Peter 2.14 (AKJV) 4.978
Romans 13.2 (Geneva) 4.953
Genesis 10.5 (Geneva) 2.5
2 Samuel 1.13 (AKJV) 2.5
Genesis 36.19 (Geneva) 2.499
Job 30.1 (AKJV) 2.498
1 John 3.12 (ODRV) 2.493
Genesis 49.3 (Geneva) 2.492
Genesis 49.3 (AKJV) 2.491
1 Peter 2.21 (AKJV) 2.487
1 Peter 2.13 (ODRV) 2.475
2 Thessalonians 2.4 (AKJV) 2.474
1 Peter 2.13 (AKJV) 2.454
Romans 13.4 (AKJV) 2.419
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: 0.9
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
2 Samuel 8.386
1 Samuel 8.217
1 Peter 7.969
Job 7.757
2 Corinthians 7.698
Genesis 7.375
Proverbs 6.952
1 Corinthians 6.71
Romans 6.045
Matthew 5.82
Diversity: 0.917
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Genesis 10 8.307
Job 30 8.297
1 Samuel 8 8.264
2 Samuel 1 8.245
2 Corinthians 7 8.184
Genesis 4 8.167
Proverbs 24 8.157
1 Corinthians 14 8.12
Matthew 22 8.073
1 Peter 2 7.838
Romans 8 7.731
Romans 13 7.644
Diversity: 0.917
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Job 30.1 8.33
1 Corinthians 14.34 8.327
1 Samuel 8.5 8.325
2 Samuel 1.14 8.323
1 Peter 2.21 8.315
Genesis 4.7 8.311
2 Corinthians 7.11 8.31
Romans 8.29 8.308
Matthew 22.21 8.246
Proverbs 24.21 8.219
Romans 13.2 8.215
1 Peter 2.13 8.184
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase