Early English Printed Sermons


Christianity restored to its primitive purity, or the mercenary church reform'd being an abstract of a sermon, preached at Oak-wood Chappel in Surry, and at the Abbey Church in Bath June the 27th. 1699. Shewing that all true pastors must preach freely. By Jos. Perkins.

Perkins, Joseph, b. 1658
Publisher: printed for the author
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1699
Approximate Era: WilliamAndMary
TCP ID: A54371 ESTC ID: R221439 STC ID: P1546
Subject Headings: 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 2.8% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 1.4% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 84.6% 100.0%
Foreign Percentage of units with foreign text 0.9% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 14.0% -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) 0.9% -inf%
foreign_cited Percentage of units with QP, foreign text, and an adjacent citation 0.5% -inf%
foreign_cited_exact Percentage of units with QP, foreign text, and an adjacent matching citation 0.5% -inf%
foreign_italicized Percentage of units with QP and foreign italicized text 0.5% -inf%
foreign_italicized_cited Percentage of units with QP, italicized foreign text, and an adjacent citation 0.5% -inf%
foreign_italicized_cited_exact Percentage of units with QP, italicized foreign text, and an adjacent matching citation 0.5% -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: 0.812
Evenness: 0.967
Part Prominence
New Testament (Geneva) 13.942
New Testament (AKJV) 12.572
New Testament (Vulgate) 7.691
New Testament (Tyndale) 2.478
New Testament (ODRV) 1.362
Old Testament (AKJV) 0.454
Diversity: 0.953
Evenness: 0.988
Book Prominence
1 Timothy (Geneva) 7.171
Acts (AKJV) 6.858
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 6.124
Matthew (Vulgate) 3.573
1 Timothy (Tyndale) 3.558
Philippians (Geneva) 3.428
1 Thessalonians (AKJV) 3.396
1 Timothy (ODRV) 3.322
Acts (Tyndale) 3.312
Jeremiah (AKJV) 3.193
Acts (ODRV) 3.158
1 Timothy (AKJV) 3.139
John (Geneva) 2.976
1 Corinthians (Tyndale) 2.974
Luke (ODRV) 2.854
John (ODRV) 2.791
Matthew (Geneva) 2.684
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 2.656
Luke (AKJV) 2.648
1 Corinthians (Geneva) 2.575
Matthew (ODRV) 2.433
Matthew (AKJV) 2.332
Romans (AKJV) 2.004
Diversity: 0.965
Evenness: 0.991
Chapter Prominence
Acts 20 (AKJV) 5.84
1 Timothy 5 (Geneva) 5.835
1 Corinthians 9 (AKJV) 5.795
1 Timothy 3 (Tyndale) 2.931
Luke 5 (ODRV) 2.919
Acts 4 (Tyndale) 2.911
Acts 19 (ODRV) 2.907
1 Thessalonians 2 (AKJV) 2.906
Acts 20 (ODRV) 2.904
Matthew 6 (Vulgate) 2.901
1 Corinthians 9 (Tyndale) 2.898
1 Corinthians 9 (ODRV) 2.896
John 10 (Geneva) 2.893
Jeremiah 5 (AKJV) 2.89
Luke 17 (AKJV) 2.885
1 Corinthians 9 (Geneva) 2.882
Matthew 10 (Geneva) 2.873
Luke 18 (ODRV) 2.866
Romans 4 (AKJV) 2.861
John 10 (ODRV) 2.86
1 Timothy 6 (Geneva) 2.857
1 Timothy 3 (AKJV) 2.855
1 Timothy 6 (ODRV) 2.847
Matthew 6 (ODRV) 2.837
Luke 12 (AKJV) 2.835
Philippians 2 (Geneva) 2.819
1 Corinthians 10 (ODRV) 2.801
Matthew 10 (AKJV) 2.799
1 Corinthians 1 (AKJV) 2.795
Matthew 6 (AKJV) 2.77
Romans 8 (AKJV) 2.609
Diversity: 0.969
Evenness: 0.992
Verse Prominence
Acts 20.33 (AKJV) 5.404
1 Timothy 5.18 (Geneva) 5.401
1 Corinthians 9.13 (AKJV) 5.391
1 Thessalonians 2.5 (AKJV) 2.702
Matthew 10.10 (Geneva) 2.702
John 10.13 (Geneva) 2.702
Acts 20.33 (ODRV) 2.701
1 Timothy 3.1 (Tyndale) 2.701
Luke 5.28 (ODRV) 2.701
1 Corinthians 9.13 (ODRV) 2.7
Matthew 10.16 (AKJV) 2.699
Acts 4.35 (Tyndale) 2.699
John 10.13 (ODRV) 2.698
Luke 12.23 (AKJV) 2.698
Jeremiah 5.30 (AKJV) 2.698
1 Corinthians 10.33 (ODRV) 2.697
Luke 18.28 (ODRV) 2.697
1 Corinthians 9.13 (Geneva) 2.697
Matthew 6.32 (ODRV) 2.697
1 Corinthians 1.17 (AKJV) 2.696
Matthew 6.23 (AKJV) 2.694
1 Timothy 6.10 (ODRV) 2.693
Romans 4.4 (AKJV) 2.692
Philippians 2.21 (Geneva) 2.691
Matthew 10.24 (Geneva) 2.691
Matthew 10.24 (AKJV) 2.691
1 Timothy 6.8 (Geneva) 2.69
Luke 17.10 (AKJV) 2.689
1 Timothy 3.1 (AKJV) 2.689
Acts 19.28 (ODRV) 2.689
1 Corinthians 9.16 (Tyndale) 2.686
Romans 8.32 (AKJV) 2.685
Matthew 6.9 (AKJV) 2.683
Matthew 6.33 (Vulgate) 2.676
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: 0.72
Evenness: 0.961
Book Prominence
Acts 36.797
2 Thessalonians 19.208
1 Thessalonians 18.922
Matthew 15.82
Diversity: 0.778
Evenness: 0.97
Chapter Prominence
Acts 20 33.079
1 Thessalonians 2 16.589
2 Thessalonians 3 16.563
Acts 4 16.452
Matthew 10 16.371
Diversity: 0.778
Evenness: 0.97
Verse Prominence
Acts 20.33 33.324
Acts 4.37 16.663
2 Thessalonians 3.8 16.662
Matthew 10.8 16.661
1 Thessalonians 2.5 16.66
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase