Early English Printed Sermons


The true mark of the beast, or, The present degeneracy of the Church of Rome from the faith once delivered to the saints a sermon on November 5, 1681 / by Edward Pelling ...

Pelling, Edward, d. 1718
Publisher: Printed for Joseph Hindmarsh and Walter Davis
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1682
Approximate Era: CharlesII
TCP ID: A53985 ESTC ID: R1620 STC ID: P1106
Subject Headings: Catholic Church -- Controversial literature; 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 5.5% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 4.0% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 88.3% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 9.8% -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 0.7% -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) 2.8% -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: 0.875
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
New Testament (Vulgate) 7.691
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 3.948
Old Testament (Geneva) 2.565
New Testament (Tyndale) 2.478
New Testament (Geneva) 1.442
New Testament (ODRV) 1.362
Old Testament (AKJV) 0.454
New Testament (AKJV) 0.072
Diversity: 0.964
Evenness: 0.993
Book Prominence
Hebrews (ODRV) 5.74
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 4.884
Galatians (Vulgate) 3.131
2 Peter (ODRV) 3.003
2 Timothy (ODRV) 2.965
Ecclesiastes (Douay-Rheims) 2.812
Galatians (Tyndale) 2.811
1 Peter (ODRV) 2.792
James (ODRV) 2.767
1 Peter (Tyndale) 2.737
2 Timothy (AKJV) 2.694
Acts (Tyndale) 2.692
Acts (Geneva) 2.682
1 Peter (Geneva) 2.644
Acts (ODRV) 2.538
2 Corinthians (ODRV) 2.471
1 Peter (AKJV) 2.438
Ephesians (Geneva) 2.424
Acts (AKJV) 2.392
Job (AKJV) 2.232
John (ODRV) 2.17
Matthew (Tyndale) 2.14
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 2.036
Romans (ODRV) 1.975
1 Corinthians (Geneva) 1.954
Romans (Geneva) 1.766
Psalms (Geneva) 1.411
Romans (AKJV) 1.383
Psalms (AKJV) 0.445
Diversity: 0.972
Evenness: 0.993
Chapter Prominence
Hebrews 7 (ODRV) 4.842
1 Corinthians 10 (Geneva) 4.695
1 Corinthians 10 (AKJV) 4.576
Psalms 113 (Geneva) 2.426
Galatians 3 (Vulgate) 2.424
Acts 15 (Tyndale) 2.423
Acts 24 (ODRV) 2.417
Job 12 (AKJV) 2.415
Acts 17 (ODRV) 2.404
Ecclesiastes 1 (Douay-Rheims) 2.401
Romans 16 (ODRV) 2.401
Acts 4 (ODRV) 2.401
2 Corinthians 10 (ODRV) 2.399
Galatians 4 (Tyndale) 2.394
Acts 4 (Geneva) 2.393
1 Peter 3 (ODRV) 2.392
2 Timothy 2 (ODRV) 2.387
Acts 4 (AKJV) 2.385
1 Corinthians 14 (Geneva) 2.383
John 18 (ODRV) 2.382
Psalms 115 (AKJV) 2.372
Matthew 16 (Tyndale) 2.371
James 3 (ODRV) 2.369
Romans 10 (Geneva) 2.368
1 Peter 3 (Geneva) 2.367
1 Corinthians 3 (ODRV) 2.366
2 Peter 1 (ODRV) 2.364
1 Peter 1 (ODRV) 2.351
Romans 10 (ODRV) 2.343
Romans 11 (AKJV) 2.329
Romans 1 (AKJV) 2.327
1 Peter 4 (AKJV) 2.314
2 Timothy 3 (AKJV) 2.278
1 Peter 2 (Tyndale) 2.278
Ephesians 4 (Geneva) 2.181
1 Corinthians 15 (Geneva) 2.178
1 Corinthians 15 (ODRV) 2.123
Romans 13 (Geneva) 2.114
Diversity: 0.974
Evenness: 0.994
Verse Prominence
Hebrews 7.27 (ODRV) 4.539
1 Corinthians 10.16 (Geneva) 4.461
1 Corinthians 10.16 (AKJV) 4.459
Acts 17.2 (ODRV) 2.272
Acts 15.11 (Tyndale) 2.272
Psalms 115.4 (AKJV) 2.272
Romans 1.8 (AKJV) 2.271
1 Corinthians 15.4 (ODRV) 2.271
Ecclesiastes 1.4 (Douay-Rheims) 2.27
Romans 16.17 (ODRV) 2.27
Psalms 113.2 (Geneva) 2.27
Romans 10.9 (Geneva) 2.269
Galatians 3.20 (Vulgate) 2.269
1 Corinthians 14.15 (Geneva) 2.269
Romans 10.8 (ODRV) 2.268
Romans 10.8 (Geneva) 2.268
Romans 11.20 (AKJV) 2.268
Job 12.22 (AKJV) 2.268
1 Corinthians 15.51 (ODRV) 2.267
1 Peter 3.15 (Geneva) 2.266
2 Timothy 2.18 (ODRV) 2.266
1 Peter 3.18 (ODRV) 2.265
1 Peter 1.18 (ODRV) 2.265
Acts 24.15 (ODRV) 2.265
1 Peter 4.2 (AKJV) 2.265
Romans 11.6 (AKJV) 2.263
2 Peter 1.19 (ODRV) 2.263
2 Timothy 3.17 (AKJV) 2.262
Acts 4.12 (Geneva) 2.262
Galatians 4.26 (Tyndale) 2.262
1 Corinthians 3.12 (ODRV) 2.262
2 Corinthians 10.4 (ODRV) 2.261
1 Corinthians 15.12 (Geneva) 2.259
Acts 4.12 (ODRV) 2.258
Acts 4.12 (AKJV) 2.253
Ephesians 4.5 (Geneva) 2.25
James 3.17 (ODRV) 2.247
1 Peter 2.13 (Tyndale) 2.246
Matthew 16.18 (Tyndale) 2.244
John 18.36 (ODRV) 2.24
Romans 13.5 (Geneva) 2.188
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: 0.0
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
New Testament 51.805
Diversity: 0.875
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
2 Peter 11.216
2 Timothy 11.057
1 Peter 10.469
Ephesians 10.338
Hebrews 9.714
Acts 9.297
1 Corinthians 9.21
Romans 8.545
Diversity: 0.933
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Hebrews 7 6.538
Romans 16 6.508
Acts 5 6.479
Romans 11 6.461
1 Corinthians 14 6.453
Acts 4 6.452
1 Peter 3 6.442
Romans 10 6.439
2 Peter 1 6.393
Hebrews 10 6.374
2 Timothy 3 6.37
Acts 17 6.345
1 Corinthians 15 6.232
Romans 1 6.225
Ephesians 4 6.202
Diversity: 0.957
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Acts 5.11 4.346
Acts 17.3 4.345
Hebrews 7.28 4.345
1 Corinthians 15.1 4.344
1 Corinthians 15.4 4.344
1 Corinthians 15.2 4.343
Hebrews 7.27 4.342
Hebrews 10.10 4.342
1 Corinthians 15.3 4.339
Romans 1.8 4.338
Romans 10.9 4.338
Hebrews 7.9 4.337
Romans 11.5 4.337
Romans 10.8 4.334
1 Peter 3.15 4.334
Romans 11.20 4.333
Acts 17.18 4.331
1 Peter 3.18 4.33
2 Timothy 3.17 4.326
Acts 4.12 4.324
2 Peter 1.19 4.322
Ephesians 4.5 4.314
Romans 16.17 4.278
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase