Early English Printed Sermons


The peaceable Christian A sermon.

Anonymous
Publisher: printed for Tho Snowden for Tho More at the Maiden Head over against St Dunstans Church
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1678
Approximate Era: CharlesII
TCP ID: A56754 ESTC ID: R221412 STC ID: P923
Subject Headings: Christian life; 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 5.4% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 4.1% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 86.9% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 5.9% -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) 3.6% -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: 0.706
Evenness: 0.785
Part Prominence
New Testament (AKJV) 34.631
New Testament (Geneva) 12.471
Old Testament (ODRV) -0.487
Old Testament (Geneva) -4.052
New Testament (Tyndale) -4.139
New Testament (ODRV) -5.255
Old Testament (AKJV) -6.164
Diversity: 0.885
Evenness: 0.884
Book Prominence
Romans (AKJV) 25.744
Romans (Geneva) 12.333
Titus (ODRV) 3.226
1 Thessalonians (ODRV) 3.156
Hebrews (Tyndale) 2.997
Titus (AKJV) 2.995
Ephesians (Tyndale) 2.965
1 Peter (Tyndale) 2.959
Ecclesiastes (Geneva) 2.954
2 Timothy (AKJV) 2.917
Hebrews (ODRV) 2.737
Proverbs (Geneva) 2.518
Romans (Tyndale) 2.461
Hebrews (AKJV) 2.421
Luke (AKJV) 2.25
Psalms (ODRV) 2.238
Romans (ODRV) 2.198
Proverbs (AKJV) 2.045
Matthew (ODRV) 2.035
Diversity: 0.885
Evenness: 0.884
Chapter Prominence
Romans 12 (AKJV) 27.386
Romans 12 (Geneva) 13.678
Psalms 63 (ODRV) 3.439
Proverbs 19 (Geneva) 3.421
1 Thessalonians 4 (ODRV) 3.412
Ecclesiastes 7 (Geneva) 3.412
Ephesians 6 (Tyndale) 3.408
Titus 3 (ODRV) 3.4
Hebrews 13 (Tyndale) 3.382
Romans 12 (ODRV) 3.37
Romans 12 (Tyndale) 3.37
Luke 6 (AKJV) 3.359
Titus 3 (AKJV) 3.338
Hebrews 12 (ODRV) 3.337
Proverbs 16 (AKJV) 3.336
2 Timothy 2 (AKJV) 3.308
Hebrews 13 (AKJV) 3.293
1 Peter 2 (Tyndale) 3.287
Matthew 5 (ODRV) 3.232
Diversity: 0.897
Evenness: 0.893
Verse Prominence
Romans 12.18 (AKJV) 25.773
Romans 12.18 (Geneva) 12.889
Hebrews 13.2 (AKJV) 3.224
Proverbs 19.11 (Geneva) 3.224
Proverbs 16.28 (AKJV) 3.224
Ecclesiastes 7.11 (Geneva) 3.223
Romans 12.14 (ODRV) 3.222
Luke 6.33 (AKJV) 3.222
Titus 3.2 (ODRV) 3.221
Ephesians 6.15 (Tyndale) 3.221
1 Thessalonians 4.11 (ODRV) 3.22
Romans 12.14 (Geneva) 3.22
Romans 12.19 (Tyndale) 3.22
Psalms 63.4 (ODRV) 3.219
Hebrews 13.1 (Tyndale) 3.219
2 Timothy 2.24 (AKJV) 3.217
Titus 3.2 (AKJV) 3.217
1 Peter 2.23 (Tyndale) 3.213
Romans 12.18 (Tyndale) 3.207
Matthew 5.44 (ODRV) 3.203
Hebrews 12.14 (ODRV) 3.181
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: 0.941
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Titus 4.806
1 Thessalonians 4.805
2 Timothy 4.44
2 Samuel 4.268
Galatians 4.063
1 Timothy 4.045
Ecclesiastes 3.926
1 Peter 3.851
Ephesians 3.72
Genesis 3.257
Hebrews 3.097
Proverbs 2.835
John 2.676
Luke 2.664
Romans 1.928
Matthew 1.702
Psalms 0.711
Diversity: 0.962
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Psalms 64 3.813
Psalms 120 3.802
2 Samuel 16 3.782
Proverbs 17 3.753
Proverbs 19 3.735
Luke 17 3.731
Luke 6 3.704
Romans 15 3.699
Genesis 49 3.69
Romans 16 3.688
Luke 23 3.688
1 Timothy 5 3.664
Titus 3 3.645
1 Thessalonians 5 3.643
Luke 2 3.633
Matthew 12 3.622
2 Timothy 2 3.608
Ecclesiastes 7 3.607
Ephesians 6 3.602
John 14 3.568
Galatians 5 3.561
Matthew 6 3.519
Romans 12 3.491
Hebrews 13 3.485
Hebrews 12 3.443
1 Peter 2 3.351
Diversity: 0.971
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Proverbs 19.6 2.856
Proverbs 17.9 2.856
Proverbs 17.7 2.856
Luke 6.33 2.855
Luke 6.27 2.855
Luke 6.28 2.855
Romans 15.33 2.854
Matthew 12.26 2.854
Luke 17.1 2.854
Matthew 6.12 2.852
Ecclesiastes 7.9 2.852
Psalms 64.3 2.852
Proverbs 19.11 2.851
Psalms 120.7 2.851
2 Samuel 16.10 2.851
Galatians 5.26 2.851
Hebrews 13.2 2.85
1 Thessalonians 5.14 2.849
Ephesians 6.15 2.849
Romans 12.21 2.848
Titus 3.2 2.847
Romans 15.13 2.846
Romans 16.20 2.842
1 Thessalonians 5.13 2.842
1 Peter 2.23 2.842
Luke 6.35 2.841
2 Timothy 2.24 2.839
Luke 23.34 2.838
Genesis 49.6 2.836
John 14.27 2.832
1 Timothy 5.8 2.831
Luke 2.14 2.83
Romans 12.19 2.83
Romans 12.18 2.821
Hebrews 12.14 2.801
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase