Early English Printed Sermons


Loyalty and conformity asserted, in two parts the first preached the seventh of August, 1681 ... : the second preached the sixteenth of October, 1681 ... / by Jos. Pleydell ...

Pleydell, Josiah, d. 1707
Publisher: Printed for Joanna Brome
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1682
Approximate Era: CharlesII
TCP ID: A55142 ESTC ID: R17033 STC ID: P2568
Subject Headings: Church of England; 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 1.4% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 0.5% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 96.7% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 3.3% -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) 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: 0.833
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Old Testament (Vulgate) 14.984
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 8.115
New Testament (Geneva) 5.608
New Testament (ODRV) 5.529
Old Testament (AKJV) 4.621
New Testament (AKJV) 4.239
Diversity: 0.929
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Leviticus (Vulgate) 7.13
Ecclesiastes (Douay-Rheims) 6.729
1 Peter (Geneva) 6.561
Exodus (AKJV) 6.56
Acts (ODRV) 6.455
Hebrews (Geneva) 6.401
Ephesians (Geneva) 6.341
John (Geneva) 6.273
Ephesians (AKJV) 6.192
Matthew (Geneva) 5.981
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 5.953
Romans (ODRV) 5.893
Romans (Geneva) 5.683
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 5.575
Diversity: 0.933
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Leviticus 9 (Vulgate) 6.664
Exodus 3 (AKJV) 6.647
Matthew 21 (Geneva) 6.645
Acts 12 (ODRV) 6.641
Ecclesiastes 4 (Douay-Rheims) 6.64
John 4 (Geneva) 6.616
Ephesians 6 (Geneva) 6.583
Ephesians 6 (AKJV) 6.577
Hebrews 13 (Geneva) 6.564
1 Peter 2 (Geneva) 6.528
1 Corinthians 14 (AKJV) 6.528
1 Corinthians 10 (ODRV) 6.527
Romans 13 (ODRV) 6.509
1 Corinthians 11 (AKJV) 6.481
Romans 13 (Geneva) 6.342
Diversity: 0.938
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Matthew 21.12 (Geneva) 6.249
Leviticus 9.16 (Vulgate) 6.247
1 Corinthians 11.5 (AKJV) 6.247
Romans 13.3 (Geneva) 6.246
Acts 12.6 (ODRV) 6.245
Ecclesiastes 4.17 (Douay-Rheims) 6.245
Exodus 3.5 (AKJV) 6.245
1 Corinthians 10.29 (ODRV) 6.244
Ephesians 6.1 (Geneva) 6.242
Ephesians 6.1 (AKJV) 6.242
Hebrews 13.17 (Geneva) 6.241
John 4.24 (Geneva) 6.24
Romans 13.5 (ODRV) 6.224
1 Peter 2.13 (Geneva) 6.215
1 Corinthians 14.40 (AKJV) 6.185
Romans 13.1 (Geneva) 6.099
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: 0.909
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
1 Timothy 7.253
Ecclesiastes 7.134
1 Peter 7.06
Exodus 6.976
Hebrews 6.305
Proverbs 6.043
Acts 5.888
John 5.885
Romans 5.136
Matthew 4.911
Psalms 3.919
Diversity: 0.941
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Psalms 59 5.862
Exodus 25 5.839
Acts 21 5.818
Acts 6 5.802
Ecclesiastes 5 5.786
John 2 5.766
Proverbs 14 5.72
Matthew 21 5.695
Matthew 19 5.682
Matthew 12 5.658
Hebrews 9 5.65
1 Timothy 4 5.65
Matthew 13 5.619
Romans 12 5.527
Hebrews 13 5.521
1 Peter 2 5.387
Romans 13 5.193
Diversity: 0.9
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Exodus 25.40 9.997
Acts 21.28 9.994
Proverbs 14.9 9.991
John 2.15 9.988
Ecclesiastes 5.1 9.985
1 Timothy 4.1 9.965
Hebrews 13.17 9.944
Romans 12.1 9.929
Romans 13.4 9.854
1 Peter 2.13 9.851
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase