Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon preached on the 16th day of April 1696 in the parish church of St. Michael in New-Malton, being the thanksgiving day appointed for the discovery and disappointment of the horrible and barbarous conspiracy &c. / by William Perse.

Perse, William, 1640 or 41-1707
Publisher: Printed for E Whitlock
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1696
Approximate Era: WilliamAndMary
TCP ID: A54465 ESTC ID: R25780 STC ID: P1656
Subject Headings: Bible. -- O.T. -- Ecclesiastes X, 20; Sermons, English -- 17th century; William and Mary, 1689-1702;
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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 2.1% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 83.8% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 8.0% -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) 5.1% -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: 0.9
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Apocrypha (AKJV) 5.442
New Testament (Vulgate) 5.191
Old Testament (ODRV) 3.631
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 1.448
Old Testament (Geneva) 0.065
New Testament (Tyndale) -0.022
New Testament (Geneva) -1.058
New Testament (ODRV) -1.138
Old Testament (AKJV) -2.046
New Testament (AKJV) -2.428
Diversity: 0.963
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Esther (AKJV) 3.608
1 Chronicles (AKJV) 3.572
2 Kings (Geneva) 3.535
Zechariah (AKJV) 3.506
3 Kings (Douay-Rheims) 3.476
2 Kings (AKJV) 3.471
1 Corinthians (Vulgate) 3.458
Wisdom (AKJV) 3.388
2 Kings (Douay-Rheims) 3.386
2 Samuel (AKJV) 3.327
Ecclesiastes (Douay-Rheims) 3.29
Ecclesiastes (Geneva) 3.209
Acts (Geneva) 3.16
Exodus (AKJV) 3.121
Ecclesiasticus (AKJV) 3.063
Ecclesiastes (AKJV) 2.955
Philippians (ODRV) 2.954
Luke (Tyndale) 2.928
Genesis (AKJV) 2.805
Proverbs (Geneva) 2.773
Job (AKJV) 2.71
Hebrews (AKJV) 2.676
Psalms (ODRV) 2.493
Romans (Geneva) 2.244
Psalms (Geneva) 1.889
Romans (AKJV) 1.861
Psalms (AKJV) 0.922
Diversity: 0.978
Evenness: 0.998
Chapter Prominence
2 Samuel 3 (AKJV) 4.143
Psalms 140 (ODRV) 2.079
Esther 3 (AKJV) 2.077
2 Kings 6 (Geneva) 2.073
Zechariah 11 (AKJV) 2.072
Ecclesiasticus 17 (AKJV) 2.072
Psalms 140 (AKJV) 2.071
Psalms 64 (Geneva) 2.07
3 Kings 4 (Douay-Rheims) 2.07
2 Kings 6 (AKJV) 2.07
Acts 23 (Geneva) 2.069
Psalms 44 (ODRV) 2.069
1 Chronicles 16 (AKJV) 2.068
Acts 12 (Geneva) 2.067
Ecclesiastes 10 (Geneva) 2.064
2 Samuel 19 (AKJV) 2.059
Psalms 36 (ODRV) 2.058
Psalms 64 (AKJV) 2.057
Psalms 94 (Geneva) 2.056
Psalms 105 (Geneva) 2.053
Psalms 141 (AKJV) 2.053
Exodus 22 (AKJV) 2.05
Psalms 36 (AKJV) 2.05
Wisdom 5 (AKJV) 2.05
Ecclesiastes 1 (Douay-Rheims) 2.045
Psalms 7 (AKJV) 2.043
Psalms 76 (AKJV) 2.041
2 Kings 1 (Douay-Rheims) 2.039
1 Corinthians 15 (Vulgate) 2.039
Psalms 91 (AKJV) 2.037
Luke 12 (Tyndale) 2.036
Genesis 9 (AKJV) 2.035
Psalms 58 (AKJV) 2.03
Psalms 94 (AKJV) 2.028
Psalms 2 (ODRV) 2.028
Proverbs 1 (Geneva) 2.026
Ecclesiastes 10 (AKJV) 2.02
Psalms 118 (Geneva) 2.01
Philippians 4 (ODRV) 2.009
Job 5 (AKJV) 2.004
Psalms 37 (Geneva) 2.0
Psalms 2 (AKJV) 1.977
Romans 1 (AKJV) 1.971
Psalms 118 (AKJV) 1.94
Psalms 37 (AKJV) 1.928
Hebrews 11 (AKJV) 1.91
Romans 13 (Geneva) 1.758
Diversity: 0.985
Evenness: 0.999
Verse Prominence
2 Samuel 3.1 (AKJV) 2.895
Luke 12.6 (Tyndale) 1.449
Psalms 105.35 (Geneva) 1.449
Acts 12.11 (Geneva) 1.449
2 Kings 6.8 (AKJV) 1.449
2 Kings 6.9 (Geneva) 1.449
2 Kings 6.11 (Geneva) 1.449
2 Kings 6.12 (AKJV) 1.449
Zechariah 11.14 (AKJV) 1.449
Psalms 44.18 (ODRV) 1.449
Psalms 140.4 (AKJV) 1.449
Psalms 140.9 (ODRV) 1.449
Psalms 64.2 (AKJV) 1.448
Psalms 36.14 (ODRV) 1.448
2 Samuel 19.21 (AKJV) 1.448
2 Kings 1.16 (Douay-Rheims) 1.448
Ecclesiastes 1.13 (Douay-Rheims) 1.448
Luke 12.3 (Tyndale) 1.448
Ecclesiasticus 17.20 (AKJV) 1.448
Psalms 37.33 (Geneva) 1.448
Esther 3.13 (AKJV) 1.448
Psalms 36.10 (AKJV) 1.448
Psalms 37.15 (Geneva) 1.447
Romans 1.31 (AKJV) 1.447
Psalms 64.7 (Geneva) 1.447
Psalms 141.10 (AKJV) 1.447
Psalms 64.5 (Geneva) 1.446
Psalms 37.12 (AKJV) 1.446
3 Kings 4.29 (Douay-Rheims) 1.446
Psalms 7.14 (AKJV) 1.446
Psalms 37.32 (Geneva) 1.446
Psalms 37.32 (AKJV) 1.446
Wisdom 5.18 (AKJV) 1.446
Psalms 94.8 (AKJV) 1.445
Psalms 94.8 (Geneva) 1.445
Ecclesiastes 10.20 (Geneva) 1.445
Proverbs 1.18 (Geneva) 1.445
1 Corinthians 15.56 (Vulgate) 1.445
Romans 1.28 (AKJV) 1.445
Psalms 91.4 (AKJV) 1.445
Psalms 64.8 (AKJV) 1.445
Psalms 64.10 (Geneva) 1.445
Psalms 37.13 (AKJV) 1.444
Psalms 37.13 (Geneva) 1.444
1 Chronicles 16.22 (AKJV) 1.444
Psalms 94.9 (Geneva) 1.443
Psalms 2.5 (AKJV) 1.443
Acts 23.5 (Geneva) 1.443
Psalms 94.7 (AKJV) 1.443
Psalms 7.16 (AKJV) 1.443
Psalms 94.9 (AKJV) 1.442
Ecclesiastes 10.20 (AKJV) 1.441
Psalms 58.10 (AKJV) 1.44
Psalms 2.4 (AKJV) 1.439
Hebrews 11.29 (AKJV) 1.438
Psalms 2.2 (AKJV) 1.437
Psalms 2.3 (ODRV) 1.437
Psalms 2.9 (AKJV) 1.435
Romans 13.4 (Geneva) 1.434
Psalms 2.1 (AKJV) 1.434
Psalms 76.10 (AKJV) 1.434
Job 5.13 (AKJV) 1.432
Exodus 22.28 (AKJV) 1.431
Psalms 58.11 (AKJV) 1.431
Psalms 118.23 (Geneva) 1.429
Genesis 9.6 (AKJV) 1.425
Philippians 4.20 (ODRV) 1.405
Psalms 118.23 (AKJV) 1.388
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
Old Testament 52.666
Diversity: 0.75
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Ecclesiastes 23.044
Exodus 22.885
Isaiah 21.618
Psalms 19.828
Diversity: 0.833
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Psalms 58 16.599
Exodus 22 16.557
Isaiah 6 16.556
Ecclesiastes 10 16.477
Psalms 37 16.476
Psalms 9 16.463
Diversity: 0.875
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Psalms 9.4 12.496
Isaiah 6.6 12.494
Psalms 9.7 12.494
Psalms 37.12 12.489
Psalms 58.10 12.487
Psalms 58.11 12.483
Exodus 22.28 12.447
Ecclesiastes 10.20 12.431
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase