Early English Printed Sermons


The holy choice, or, Faith's triumph over all worldly pomp & glory a sermon preached in St. Maries in Scilly, Oct. 14, 1677 / by Nich. Phillips, twice chaplain to His Majesties garrison there ; and tendred at the council-table, Jan. 23, 1679.

Phillips, Nicholas
Publisher: Printed for Benjamin Harris
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1679
Approximate Era: CharlesII
TCP ID: A54719 ESTC ID: R36675 STC ID: P2035A_VARIANT
Subject Headings: Bible. -- N.T. -- Hebrews XI, 15; 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 4.2% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 2.4% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 86.5% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 8.2% -inf%
sim_score Average cosine similarity score of top Bible verse predictions per unit 0.7% -inf%
cross_score Average cross encoder score of top Bible verse predictions per unit 0.6% -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) 1.8% -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: 0.96
Part Prominence
New Testament (ODRV) 13.862
Apocrypha (Douay-Rheims) 4.93
Apocrypha (AKJV) 3.776
Old Testament (ODRV) 1.964
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) -0.219
Old Testament (Geneva) -1.601
New Testament (Tyndale) -1.688
New Testament (Geneva) -2.725
Old Testament (AKJV) -3.713
New Testament (AKJV) -4.094
Diversity: 0.965
Evenness: 0.974
Book Prominence
Hebrews (Geneva) 8.56
Hebrews (ODRV) 6.265
Daniel (AKJV) 4.408
Isaiah (Douay-Rheims) 3.775
2 Maccabees (Douay-Rheims) 2.277
2 Peter (Tyndale) 2.068
2 Esdras (AKJV) 2.061
Exodus (ODRV) 1.992
2 Timothy (Geneva) 1.983
Revelation (Tyndale) 1.946
2 Peter (Geneva) 1.931
Ecclesiastes (Douay-Rheims) 1.912
2 Peter (AKJV) 1.906
2 Corinthians (Tyndale) 1.882
Hebrews (Tyndale) 1.875
Revelation (AKJV) 1.791
Acts (Geneva) 1.781
Job (Douay-Rheims) 1.749
Exodus (AKJV) 1.742
Acts (ODRV) 1.638
2 Corinthians (Geneva) 1.577
2 Corinthians (ODRV) 1.571
Luke (Tyndale) 1.55
Acts (AKJV) 1.491
2 Corinthians (AKJV) 1.431
Proverbs (Geneva) 1.395
Luke (ODRV) 1.333
Hebrews (AKJV) 1.298
Matthew (Geneva) 1.164
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 1.136
Romans (ODRV) 1.075
1 Corinthians (Geneva) 1.054
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 0.758
Psalms (Geneva) 0.511
Romans (AKJV) 0.483
Psalms (AKJV) -0.456
Diversity: 0.974
Evenness: 0.98
Chapter Prominence
Hebrews 11 (Geneva) 7.305
Hebrews 11 (ODRV) 5.471
Daniel 3 (AKJV) 3.673
Isaiah 14 (Douay-Rheims) 3.652
Job 23 (Douay-Rheims) 1.85
2 Maccabees 6 (Douay-Rheims) 1.848
Exodus 2 (AKJV) 1.846
Ecclesiastes 6 (Douay-Rheims) 1.846
Exodus 1 (ODRV) 1.844
Psalms 113 (Geneva) 1.839
Revelation 20 (Tyndale) 1.836
Luke 20 (Tyndale) 1.832
Revelation 3 (AKJV) 1.828
Acts 5 (ODRV) 1.826
Proverbs 17 (Geneva) 1.822
Psalms 95 (AKJV) 1.817
Acts 7 (Geneva) 1.814
Psalms 51 (Geneva) 1.813
1 Corinthians 8 (Geneva) 1.81
Acts 7 (AKJV) 1.81
Hebrews 11 (Tyndale) 1.809
Matthew 27 (Geneva) 1.807
Matthew 18 (Geneva) 1.805
2 Esdras 7 (AKJV) 1.803
Acts 7 (ODRV) 1.799
2 Peter 2 (Tyndale) 1.798
2 Peter 1 (Tyndale) 1.795
Proverbs 21 (Geneva) 1.793
2 Corinthians 4 (Tyndale) 1.793
1 Corinthians 1 (ODRV) 1.783
2 Timothy 2 (Geneva) 1.783
Luke 16 (ODRV) 1.774
2 Peter 3 (Geneva) 1.757
Psalms 51 (AKJV) 1.754
2 Corinthians 4 (Geneva) 1.753
1 Corinthians 12 (ODRV) 1.743
1 Corinthians 12 (AKJV) 1.732
1 Corinthians 3 (AKJV) 1.72
2 Peter 1 (Geneva) 1.715
2 Peter 1 (AKJV) 1.715
2 Corinthians 4 (AKJV) 1.711
Matthew 5 (Geneva) 1.707
Romans 5 (AKJV) 1.705
Romans 13 (ODRV) 1.694
Hebrews 11 (AKJV) 1.679
2 Corinthians 5 (ODRV) 1.652
Romans 13 (AKJV) 1.491
Diversity: 0.976
Evenness: 0.981
Verse Prominence
Hebrews 11.24 (Geneva) 7.011
Hebrews 11.25 (ODRV) 5.254
Daniel 3.11 (AKJV) 3.506
Isaiah 14.15 (Douay-Rheims) 3.49
Job 23.9 (Douay-Rheims) 1.754
Matthew 18.30 (Geneva) 1.754
Luke 20.24 (Tyndale) 1.754
Exodus 1.16 (ODRV) 1.754
Exodus 2.2 (AKJV) 1.754
Proverbs 17.4 (Geneva) 1.754
Exodus 2.5 (AKJV) 1.754
Acts 7.23 (AKJV) 1.754
Acts 7.25 (Geneva) 1.754
2 Esdras 7.53 (AKJV) 1.754
Psalms 51.7 (Geneva) 1.753
Psalms 113.7 (Geneva) 1.753
Isaiah 14.27 (Douay-Rheims) 1.753
2 Maccabees 6.19 (Douay-Rheims) 1.752
Hebrews 11.17 (Tyndale) 1.752
Matthew 27.2 (Geneva) 1.752
Revelation 3.1 (AKJV) 1.752
Psalms 51.7 (AKJV) 1.751
2 Peter 2.13 (Tyndale) 1.751
1 Corinthians 8.4 (Geneva) 1.751
2 Timothy 2.3 (Geneva) 1.751
Ecclesiastes 6.2 (Douay-Rheims) 1.751
Acts 5.29 (ODRV) 1.75
Hebrews 11.25 (AKJV) 1.749
Matthew 5.10 (Geneva) 1.748
1 Corinthians 1.20 (ODRV) 1.747
Revelation 20.14 (Tyndale) 1.747
2 Corinthians 4.18 (Geneva) 1.745
1 Corinthians 12.26 (AKJV) 1.744
Acts 7.22 (ODRV) 1.744
Proverbs 21.30 (Geneva) 1.744
Psalms 95.6 (AKJV) 1.743
Romans 5.2 (AKJV) 1.743
2 Corinthians 4.18 (Tyndale) 1.741
1 Corinthians 3.19 (AKJV) 1.74
Romans 13.11 (AKJV) 1.738
2 Peter 1.21 (Tyndale) 1.736
1 Corinthians 12.12 (ODRV) 1.735
2 Peter 1.21 (Geneva) 1.733
2 Peter 1.21 (AKJV) 1.733
Luke 16.22 (ODRV) 1.733
2 Peter 3.18 (Geneva) 1.733
2 Corinthians 4.18 (AKJV) 1.732
Romans 13.1 (ODRV) 1.73
2 Corinthians 4.17 (Geneva) 1.718
2 Corinthians 5.1 (ODRV) 1.693
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
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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: 0.916
Evenness: 0.984
Book Prominence
1 Samuel 11.551
Matthew 9.153
2 Kings 5.349
Daniel 5.331
Galatians 4.848
Exodus 4.551
Genesis 4.042
Hebrews 3.881
Proverbs 3.619
Acts 3.463
John 3.461
Isaiah 3.285
Psalms 1.495
Diversity: 0.949
Evenness: 0.99
Chapter Prominence
1 Samuel 22 8.657
Matthew 5 8.139
2 Kings 1 4.318
Exodus 1 4.303
Exodus 2 4.302
Isaiah 14 4.29
Acts 27 4.278
Exodus 4 4.275
Genesis 15 4.272
Psalms 112 4.257
Daniel 6 4.252
Proverbs 19 4.237
Daniel 3 4.233
Isaiah 30 4.228
Proverbs 21 4.208
Acts 7 4.173
Acts 5 4.16
John 8 4.13
Galatians 6 4.028
Hebrews 12 3.944
Hebrews 11 3.902
Diversity: 0.932
Evenness: 0.987
Verse Prominence
1 Samuel 22.17 11.107
Matthew 5.10 11.082
Acts 27.4 5.554
Hebrews 11.15 5.553
Acts 7.23 5.553
Exodus 1.16 5.552
Isaiah 14.27 5.552
Acts 7.25 5.552
Genesis 15.13 5.55
Galatians 6.17 5.55
Exodus 4.10 5.549
Psalms 112.2 5.548
Acts 7.22 5.546
Proverbs 21.30 5.542
Acts 5.29 5.54
Hebrews 12.6 5.536
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase