Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon preached before the king and queen at White-Hall, December 13th. 1691 by Edward Pelling ... ; published by Her Majesties special command.

Pelling, Edward, d. 1718
Publisher: Printed for John Everingham
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1692
Approximate Era: WilliamAndMary
TCP ID: A53981 ESTC ID: R33044 STC ID: P1102
Subject Headings: Christian life; Church of England; Conscience, Examination of; 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 2.6% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 1.6% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 83.3% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 7.8% -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) 3.6% -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: 0.828
Evenness: 0.926
Part Prominence
New Testament (AKJV) 18.342
New Testament (Tyndale) 5.363
Apocrypha (Douay-Rheims) 4.289
Old Testament (AKJV) 3.339
Old Testament (ODRV) 1.323
Old Testament (Geneva) -2.242
New Testament (Geneva) -3.366
New Testament (ODRV) -3.446
Diversity: 0.938
Evenness: 0.964
Book Prominence
Acts (AKJV) 13.981
Acts (Tyndale) 6.874
Philippians (AKJV) 6.646
Psalms (AKJV) 4.626
Lamentations (ODRV) 3.597
Mark (Tyndale) 3.549
Titus (ODRV) 3.482
2 Kings (AKJV) 3.471
2 Peter (Tyndale) 3.446
1 Thessalonians (AKJV) 3.253
Ecclesiastes (Geneva) 3.209
1 Timothy (Geneva) 3.182
1 Timothy (ODRV) 3.18
2 Timothy (AKJV) 3.172
Ecclesiasticus (Douay-Rheims) 3.026
Hebrews (Geneva) 2.961
1 Corinthians (Tyndale) 2.831
Psalms (ODRV) 2.493
Matthew (ODRV) 2.29
Romans (Geneva) 2.244
Romans (AKJV) 1.861
Diversity: 0.947
Evenness: 0.968
Chapter Prominence
Acts 24 (AKJV) 13.25
Acts 24 (Tyndale) 6.637
Psalms 44 (AKJV) 6.557
Philippians 4 (AKJV) 6.492
Ecclesiasticus 7 (Douay-Rheims) 3.321
2 Kings 20 (AKJV) 3.316
Mark 9 (Tyndale) 3.312
Psalms 36 (ODRV) 3.308
Lamentations 3 (ODRV) 3.295
Acts 26 (AKJV) 3.293
Hebrews 9 (Geneva) 3.285
Romans 15 (Geneva) 3.279
Ecclesiastes 11 (Geneva) 3.272
2 Peter 3 (Tyndale) 3.263
1 Timothy 1 (Geneva) 3.257
Matthew 10 (ODRV) 3.251
Titus 2 (ODRV) 3.248
1 Corinthians 10 (Tyndale) 3.247
1 Timothy 6 (ODRV) 3.239
Matthew 6 (ODRV) 3.229
2 Timothy 2 (AKJV) 3.193
Romans 2 (Geneva) 3.171
Romans 14 (AKJV) 3.166
1 Thessalonians 5 (AKJV) 3.165
Diversity: 0.951
Evenness: 0.971
Verse Prominence
Acts 24.16 (AKJV) 12.443
Acts 24.14 (Tyndale) 6.243
Philippians 4.8 (AKJV) 6.213
Psalms 44.21 (AKJV) 6.197
Psalms 36.13 (ODRV) 3.124
Lamentations 3.15 (ODRV) 3.123
Ecclesiastes 11.3 (Geneva) 3.123
Acts 24.15 (AKJV) 3.122
Romans 2.16 (Geneva) 3.122
1 Timothy 1.13 (Geneva) 3.121
Ecclesiasticus 7.40 (Douay-Rheims) 3.12
2 Kings 20.3 (AKJV) 3.12
Mark 9.46 (Tyndale) 3.12
Acts 26.9 (AKJV) 3.119
Matthew 10.30 (ODRV) 3.119
1 Corinthians 10.13 (Tyndale) 3.119
Romans 14.5 (AKJV) 3.119
1 Thessalonians 5.23 (AKJV) 3.117
Romans 14.23 (AKJV) 3.115
1 Timothy 6.7 (ODRV) 3.114
Matthew 6.13 (ODRV) 3.113
2 Timothy 2.12 (AKJV) 3.112
Romans 15.1 (Geneva) 3.111
Hebrews 9.27 (Geneva) 3.106
2 Peter 3.18 (Tyndale) 3.092
Titus 2.12 (ODRV) 3.09
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: 0.75
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
1 Timothy 23.162
Ecclesiastes 23.044
Acts 21.797
Isaiah 21.618
Diversity: 0.8
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Isaiah 38 19.904
Acts 26 19.866
Ecclesiastes 11 19.863
Acts 16 19.848
1 Timothy 1 19.77
Diversity: 0.667
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Acts 26.9 33.319
Ecclesiastes 11.3 33.319
1 Timothy 1.13 33.29
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase