Early English Printed Sermons


A spittle sermon preach'd in St. Brides Parish-Church, on Wednesday in Easterweek, being the second day of April, 1684 before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, the Court of Aldermen, and the sheriffs of the now Protestant, and loyal city of London / by Thomas Pittis ...

Pittis, Thomas, 1636-1687
Publisher: Printed by B W for Edward Vize
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1684
Approximate Era: CharlesII
TCP ID: A54949 ESTC ID: R10785 STC ID: P2318
Subject Headings: Bible. -- O.T. -- Ecclesiastes II, 6; 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 6.2% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 3.7% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 85.8% 100.0%
Foreign Percentage of units with foreign text 0.2% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 10.3% -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) 5.7% -inf%
foreign_cited Percentage of units with QP, foreign text, and an adjacent citation 0.2% -inf%
foreign_cited_exact Percentage of units with QP, foreign text, and an adjacent matching citation 0.2% -inf%
foreign_italicized Percentage of units with QP and foreign italicized text 0.2% -inf%
foreign_italicized_cited Percentage of units with QP, italicized foreign text, and an adjacent citation 0.2% -inf%
foreign_italicized_cited_exact Percentage of units with QP, italicized foreign text, and an adjacent matching citation 0.2% -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
Apocrypha (AKJV) 7.942
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: 0.974
Evenness: 0.995
Book Prominence
Luke (Geneva) 3.863
Job (AKJV) 3.768
Judges (AKJV) 2.143
2 Timothy (ODRV) 2.12
Wisdom (AKJV) 2.066
Deuteronomy (Geneva) 1.971
Ecclesiastes (Douay-Rheims) 1.967
Galatians (Tyndale) 1.966
Deuteronomy (Douay-Rheims) 1.961
1 Peter (ODRV) 1.947
2 Corinthians (Tyndale) 1.938
1 Thessalonians (AKJV) 1.931
Ephesians (Tyndale) 1.897
Ecclesiastes (Geneva) 1.886
1 Timothy (ODRV) 1.857
Acts (Tyndale) 1.847
Job (Douay-Rheims) 1.804
1 Peter (Geneva) 1.799
Genesis (Geneva) 1.769
Hebrews (Geneva) 1.639
Ecclesiastes (AKJV) 1.632
2 Corinthians (ODRV) 1.626
Philippians (AKJV) 1.619
Luke (Tyndale) 1.605
Proverbs (Douay-Rheims) 1.573
Acts (AKJV) 1.547
John (Tyndale) 1.504
2 Corinthians (AKJV) 1.486
Proverbs (Geneva) 1.45
Hebrews (AKJV) 1.353
Matthew (Geneva) 1.219
John (AKJV) 1.197
Luke (AKJV) 1.183
Romans (ODRV) 1.131
Proverbs (AKJV) 0.978
Matthew (ODRV) 0.968
Romans (Geneva) 0.921
Matthew (AKJV) 0.866
Romans (AKJV) 0.538
Psalms (AKJV) -0.4
Diversity: 0.979
Evenness: 0.995
Chapter Prominence
Job 22 (AKJV) 3.726
Luke 21 (Geneva) 3.716
Proverbs 11 (AKJV) 3.688
Judges 19 (AKJV) 1.883
Deuteronomy 15 (Geneva) 1.88
Acts 28 (AKJV) 1.874
Proverbs 27 (Douay-Rheims) 1.872
Acts 10 (Tyndale) 1.872
Genesis 19 (Geneva) 1.869
2 Corinthians 10 (Tyndale) 1.867
Ecclesiastes 11 (Douay-Rheims) 1.863
John 2 (Tyndale) 1.863
Job 2 (Douay-Rheims) 1.861
Deuteronomy 6 (Douay-Rheims) 1.86
2 Timothy 1 (ODRV) 1.86
Proverbs 27 (Geneva) 1.859
Luke 21 (Tyndale) 1.859
2 Corinthians 9 (ODRV) 1.857
1 Peter 4 (ODRV) 1.854
Wisdom 5 (AKJV) 1.853
Proverbs 10 (Douay-Rheims) 1.849
Acts 17 (Tyndale) 1.847
Galatians 1 (Tyndale) 1.845
Proverbs 19 (AKJV) 1.84
Ecclesiastes 11 (AKJV) 1.84
2 Corinthians 9 (AKJV) 1.835
Matthew 22 (Geneva) 1.834
Galatians 2 (Tyndale) 1.834
Acts 4 (AKJV) 1.833
Matthew 24 (ODRV) 1.829
Ecclesiastes 11 (Geneva) 1.826
Luke 21 (AKJV) 1.826
Proverbs 27 (AKJV) 1.822
John 12 (AKJV) 1.815
Matthew 26 (ODRV) 1.815
Romans 15 (AKJV) 1.815
Luke 16 (Tyndale) 1.815
1 Peter 4 (Geneva) 1.811
Romans 12 (ODRV) 1.809
Psalms 18 (AKJV) 1.805
Ephesians 4 (Tyndale) 1.804
Proverbs 28 (AKJV) 1.803
2 Corinthians 5 (Tyndale) 1.798
1 Thessalonians 4 (AKJV) 1.785
Hebrews 11 (Geneva) 1.784
Romans 12 (Geneva) 1.772
1 Timothy 2 (ODRV) 1.77
Hebrews 13 (AKJV) 1.731
Matthew 6 (AKJV) 1.716
Philippians 4 (AKJV) 1.713
Diversity: 0.981
Evenness: 0.991
Verse Prominence
Ecclesiastes 11.6 (AKJV) 4.679
Luke 21.4 (Geneva) 3.124
Job 22.2 (AKJV) 3.119
Proverbs 11.25 (AKJV) 3.117
Matthew 22.39 (Geneva) 1.562
Job 2.12 (Douay-Rheims) 1.562
Judges 19.23 (AKJV) 1.562
Acts 17.15 (Tyndale) 1.562
Acts 28.1 (AKJV) 1.562
Proverbs 27.2 (Geneva) 1.562
Proverbs 27.2 (Douay-Rheims) 1.562
Luke 21.1 (Tyndale) 1.562
Luke 21.3 (AKJV) 1.562
Romans 15.15 (AKJV) 1.562
Hebrews 11.37 (Geneva) 1.562
Ecclesiastes 11.2 (Geneva) 1.561
Ecclesiastes 11.3 (AKJV) 1.561
Genesis 19.7 (Geneva) 1.561
Hebrews 13.2 (AKJV) 1.561
Deuteronomy 15.10 (Geneva) 1.561
Proverbs 28.27 (AKJV) 1.561
2 Corinthians 9.10 (AKJV) 1.561
Philippians 4.19 (AKJV) 1.561
Philippians 4.17 (AKJV) 1.56
2 Corinthians 9.6 (ODRV) 1.56
Ecclesiastes 11.4 (Douay-Rheims) 1.56
Ecclesiastes 11.4 (AKJV) 1.56
John 12.8 (AKJV) 1.56
Acts 4.35 (AKJV) 1.56
2 Corinthians 9.11 (ODRV) 1.56
Ecclesiastes 11.2 (Douay-Rheims) 1.559
John 2.1 (Tyndale) 1.559
Matthew 26.11 (ODRV) 1.559
2 Timothy 1.11 (ODRV) 1.559
Galatians 2.15 (Tyndale) 1.559
Acts 10.31 (Tyndale) 1.559
Proverbs 19.17 (AKJV) 1.558
Psalms 18.10 (AKJV) 1.558
Ephesians 4.32 (Tyndale) 1.558
2 Corinthians 10.13 (Tyndale) 1.558
Proverbs 10.22 (Douay-Rheims) 1.557
1 Peter 4.10 (Geneva) 1.557
Matthew 6.3 (AKJV) 1.557
Proverbs 27.6 (AKJV) 1.555
Luke 21.2 (AKJV) 1.555
Wisdom 5.10 (AKJV) 1.554
Ecclesiastes 11.1 (AKJV) 1.553
Matthew 24.12 (ODRV) 1.553
1 Peter 4.10 (ODRV) 1.552
Deuteronomy 6.5 (Douay-Rheims) 1.551
2 Corinthians 9.6 (AKJV) 1.551
2 Corinthians 5.2 (Tyndale) 1.551
Ecclesiastes 11.1 (Geneva) 1.55
Luke 16.9 (Tyndale) 1.549
Romans 12.13 (ODRV) 1.548
1 Timothy 2.3 (ODRV) 1.546
Galatians 1.5 (Tyndale) 1.543
1 Thessalonians 4.17 (AKJV) 1.542
Romans 12.13 (Geneva) 1.54
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: 0.933
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Judges 5.569
James 5.159
Philippians 4.919
Ecclesiastes 4.71
1 Peter 4.635
Deuteronomy 4.536
2 Corinthians 4.364
Hebrews 3.881
Proverbs 3.619
Acts 3.463
John 3.461
Luke 3.449
Romans 2.712
Matthew 2.487
Psalms 1.495
Diversity: 0.955
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Judges 19 4.523
Deuteronomy 15 4.513
Luke 5 4.499
2 Corinthians 9 4.483
Proverbs 27 4.475
Proverbs 19 4.435
John 2 4.429
Luke 21 4.417
Ecclesiastes 11 4.408
Luke 14 4.402
Acts 16 4.394
John 12 4.38
Acts 10 4.367
Psalms 16 4.359
1 Peter 4 4.353
Philippians 4 4.316
Matthew 22 4.285
James 1 4.267
Luke 16 4.227
Matthew 6 4.218
Romans 12 4.19
Hebrews 13 4.185
Diversity: 0.952
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Luke 5.13 4.761
John 12.8 4.76
Luke 21.1 4.76
Acts 10.31 4.76
1 Peter 4.9 4.759
Proverbs 27.2 4.759
2 Corinthians 9.10 4.758
Acts 16.15 4.757
Proverbs 27.6 4.756
Deuteronomy 15.10 4.756
Romans 12.13 4.755
Matthew 6.3 4.754
Philippians 4.18 4.754
Ecclesiastes 11.6 4.753
2 Corinthians 9.6 4.749
Psalms 16.2 4.749
James 1.5 4.744
Matthew 22.37 4.741
Proverbs 19.17 4.737
Luke 16.9 4.732
Hebrews 13.16 4.725
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase