Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon preach'd before the honourable society of the natives of the most ancient county-palatine and city of Chester at St Mary le Bow, London, December 7th 1699. Published at the request of the stewards. By Peter Shelley, M.A. Rector of Woodford in Essex.

Shelley, Peter, b. 1650 or 51
Publisher: printed by Tho Warren for Thomas Bennet at the Half Moon in St Paul s Church yard
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1700
Approximate Era: WilliamAndMary
TCP ID: A59627 ESTC ID: R221101 STC ID: S3070
Subject Headings: 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 6.3% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 5.3% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 79.2% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 15.8% -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) 6.7% -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: 0.88
Evenness: 0.985
Part Prominence
New Testament (ODRV) 8.862
Apocrypha (Douay-Rheims) 6.597
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
Old Testament (AKJV) -2.046
New Testament (AKJV) -2.428
Diversity: 0.972
Evenness: 0.993
Book Prominence
Deuteronomy (AKJV) 4.31
John (ODRV) 3.823
Romans (Geneva) 3.418
Daniel (ODRV) 2.304
2 Thessalonians (Geneva) 2.273
2 Peter (ODRV) 2.216
Leviticus (AKJV) 2.164
Deuteronomy (Douay-Rheims) 2.019
Exodus (Geneva) 1.999
Ephesians (Tyndale) 1.955
1 Peter (Tyndale) 1.95
1 Timothy (Geneva) 1.917
1 Timothy (ODRV) 1.915
1 Peter (Geneva) 1.857
Exodus (AKJV) 1.856
Galatians (AKJV) 1.767
Ecclesiasticus (Douay-Rheims) 1.761
1 Timothy (AKJV) 1.731
Ecclesiastes (AKJV) 1.69
Luke (Tyndale) 1.663
1 Peter (AKJV) 1.652
Ephesians (Geneva) 1.637
Proverbs (Douay-Rheims) 1.631
John (Geneva) 1.569
2 Corinthians (AKJV) 1.544
Proverbs (Geneva) 1.508
Ephesians (AKJV) 1.488
Romans (Tyndale) 1.452
Hebrews (AKJV) 1.411
John (AKJV) 1.255
Luke (AKJV) 1.241
Psalms (ODRV) 1.229
Romans (ODRV) 1.189
Proverbs (AKJV) 1.036
Matthew (AKJV) 0.924
Psalms (Geneva) 0.624
Romans (AKJV) 0.596
Psalms (AKJV) -0.342
Diversity: 0.981
Evenness: 0.994
Chapter Prominence
Deuteronomy 15 (AKJV) 3.324
John 13 (ODRV) 3.291
Romans 2 (Geneva) 3.171
Romans 2 (AKJV) 3.163
Deuteronomy 15 (Douay-Rheims) 1.664
Ecclesiasticus 12 (Douay-Rheims) 1.663
Daniel 4 (ODRV) 1.658
Luke 20 (Tyndale) 1.647
Exodus 22 (Geneva) 1.644
Psalms 82 (Geneva) 1.642
Psalms 84 (Geneva) 1.641
Proverbs 19 (Douay-Rheims) 1.64
Exodus 22 (AKJV) 1.633
Psalms 95 (AKJV) 1.632
2 Thessalonians 3 (Geneva) 1.632
John 13 (Geneva) 1.631
Psalms 84 (AKJV) 1.625
Psalms 102 (AKJV) 1.623
Proverbs 28 (Geneva) 1.623
Psalms 91 (AKJV) 1.621
2 Corinthians 9 (AKJV) 1.615
Psalms 133 (AKJV) 1.614
Psalms 2 (ODRV) 1.611
Leviticus 19 (AKJV) 1.608
1 Timothy 5 (AKJV) 1.608
1 Timothy 5 (ODRV) 1.608
John 13 (AKJV) 1.607
Proverbs 22 (AKJV) 1.605
2 Peter 1 (ODRV) 1.592
Romans 12 (Tyndale) 1.589
Ephesians 4 (Tyndale) 1.584
Proverbs 28 (AKJV) 1.583
Psalms 145 (AKJV) 1.583
Proverbs 11 (AKJV) 1.581
Luke 16 (AKJV) 1.579
Ecclesiastes 12 (AKJV) 1.576
Proverbs 3 (AKJV) 1.571
Romans 14 (ODRV) 1.571
Psalms 122 (Geneva) 1.564
1 Timothy 2 (Geneva) 1.55
Ephesians 2 (Geneva) 1.544
1 Timothy 2 (AKJV) 1.541
Ephesians 2 (AKJV) 1.529
1 Peter 2 (Geneva) 1.528
Psalms 122 (AKJV) 1.528
Galatians 6 (AKJV) 1.525
Romans 13 (ODRV) 1.509
1 Peter 2 (Tyndale) 1.505
1 Peter 2 (AKJV) 1.501
Romans 13 (Tyndale) 1.501
Matthew 6 (AKJV) 1.496
Hebrews 10 (AKJV) 1.489
Romans 12 (AKJV) 1.466
Ephesians 4 (Geneva) 1.408
Ephesians 4 (AKJV) 1.314
Romans 13 (AKJV) 1.305
Diversity: 0.981
Evenness: 0.987
Verse Prominence
1 Peter 2.17 (AKJV) 4.34
1 Peter 2.17 (Tyndale) 4.286
Deuteronomy 15.10 (AKJV) 2.896
John 13.34 (ODRV) 2.89
Romans 2.11 (AKJV) 2.854
Romans 2.11 (Geneva) 2.854
Daniel 4.34 (ODRV) 1.449
Luke 20.22 (Tyndale) 1.449
Ecclesiasticus 12.9 (Douay-Rheims) 1.448
Deuteronomy 15.11 (Douay-Rheims) 1.448
Proverbs 28.27 (Geneva) 1.448
Leviticus 19.32 (AKJV) 1.447
Psalms 91.15 (AKJV) 1.447
Ephesians 4.12 (Tyndale) 1.447
Romans 14.18 (ODRV) 1.447
Psalms 102.22 (AKJV) 1.447
Proverbs 22.2 (AKJV) 1.447
Proverbs 28.27 (AKJV) 1.447
Psalms 95.2 (AKJV) 1.446
Proverbs 3.9 (AKJV) 1.445
1 Timothy 5.3 (AKJV) 1.445
Psalms 82.3 (Geneva) 1.445
Hebrews 10.25 (AKJV) 1.444
2 Thessalonians 3.13 (Geneva) 1.444
John 13.34 (Geneva) 1.443
Psalms 122.7 (AKJV) 1.441
Proverbs 11.25 (AKJV) 1.441
Proverbs 19.17 (Douay-Rheims) 1.441
1 Peter 2.15 (AKJV) 1.44
Luke 16.11 (AKJV) 1.439
Romans 12.5 (Tyndale) 1.439
Psalms 84.10 (AKJV) 1.439
Exodus 22.28 (Geneva) 1.439
1 Peter 2.17 (Geneva) 1.438
Psalms 122.3 (Geneva) 1.438
Romans 12.10 (AKJV) 1.437
2 Corinthians 9.11 (AKJV) 1.436
Romans 13.7 (ODRV) 1.436
2 Peter 1.7 (ODRV) 1.436
Psalms 84.10 (Geneva) 1.436
1 Peter 2.14 (Geneva) 1.435
Psalms 2.11 (ODRV) 1.435
Romans 13.5 (Tyndale) 1.432
John 13.35 (AKJV) 1.431
Psalms 145.9 (AKJV) 1.431
Exodus 22.28 (AKJV) 1.431
1 Timothy 2.1 (AKJV) 1.423
Ephesians 2.8 (Geneva) 1.422
1 Peter 2.14 (Tyndale) 1.421
1 Timothy 5.17 (ODRV) 1.421
Ephesians 2.8 (AKJV) 1.418
Romans 13.7 (AKJV) 1.418
Matthew 6.33 (AKJV) 1.418
Psalms 133.1 (AKJV) 1.415
1 Timothy 2.1 (Geneva) 1.414
Ecclesiastes 12.7 (AKJV) 1.409
1 Timothy 2.2 (Geneva) 1.405
1 Peter 2.13 (AKJV) 1.403
Galatians 6.10 (AKJV) 1.395
Ephesians 4.3 (AKJV) 1.337
Ephesians 4.3 (Geneva) 1.337
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: 0.9
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Leviticus 9.025
Daniel 8.665
1 Timothy 8.162
1 Peter 7.969
Exodus 7.885
Deuteronomy 7.869
Proverbs 6.952
John 6.794
Romans 6.045
Psalms 4.828
Diversity: 0.923
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Deuteronomy 15 7.66
Psalms 91 7.604
Psalms 145 7.599
Exodus 22 7.582
Proverbs 19 7.581
Leviticus 19 7.579
Daniel 4 7.557
Proverbs 11 7.555
Proverbs 3 7.511
John 13 7.488
1 Timothy 2 7.439
Romans 12 7.337
1 Peter 2 7.197
Diversity: 0.933
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
John 13.4 6.665
John 13.5 6.664
Daniel 4.34 6.663
Proverbs 3.1 6.663
John 13.3 6.662
Leviticus 19.32 6.66
Psalms 91.15 6.66
Romans 12.10 6.655
Proverbs 11.25 6.654
Psalms 145.9 6.645
Proverbs 3.9 6.642
Proverbs 19.17 6.642
1 Peter 2.17 6.616
Exodus 22.28 6.613
1 Timothy 2.1 6.599
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase