Early English Printed Sermons


Divine providence, the support of good men under all events a sermon preached before the Lord Mayor, &c. at Guild-Hall Chappel, June 20th, 1680 / by William Shelton, rector of St. James, Colchester.

Shelton, William, d. 1699
Publisher: Printed for Nathaniel Ranew and Jonathan Robinson
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1680
Approximate Era: CharlesII
TCP ID: A59651 ESTC ID: R37383 STC ID: S3098
Subject Headings: Bible. -- O.T. -- Psalms XCVII, 1; Providence and government of God; 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 9.1% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 7.0% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 85.7% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 11.2% -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 0.8% -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) 3.8% -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: 0.84
Evenness: 0.949
Part Prominence
Old Testament (AKJV) 17.954
Apocrypha (AKJV) 5.442
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 1.448
Old Testament (Geneva) 0.065
New Testament (Tyndale) -0.022
New Testament (Geneva) -1.058
New Testament (ODRV) -1.138
New Testament (AKJV) -2.428
Diversity: 0.955
Evenness: 0.986
Book Prominence
Psalms (AKJV) 8.33
Habakkuk (Geneva) 3.623
Baruch (AKJV) 3.617
Habakkuk (AKJV) 3.578
2 Samuel (Geneva) 3.479
Daniel (AKJV) 3.46
Lamentations (AKJV) 3.385
2 Chronicles (AKJV) 3.354
2 Corinthians (Tyndale) 3.26
Hebrews (Tyndale) 3.253
Deuteronomy (AKJV) 3.136
Job (Douay-Rheims) 3.127
1 John (AKJV) 3.104
Acts (ODRV) 3.016
Job (Geneva) 3.004
Hebrews (ODRV) 2.992
Philippians (AKJV) 2.942
1 Peter (AKJV) 2.916
2 Corinthians (AKJV) 2.809
Romans (Tyndale) 2.716
Job (AKJV) 2.71
Isaiah (AKJV) 2.421
Romans (Geneva) 2.244
Psalms (Geneva) 1.889
Romans (AKJV) 1.861
Diversity: 0.974
Evenness: 0.991
Chapter Prominence
Psalms 97 (AKJV) 6.621
Daniel 4 (AKJV) 4.429
Psalms 99 (Geneva) 2.218
Deuteronomy 11 (AKJV) 2.217
2 Samuel 18 (Geneva) 2.212
Baruch 2 (AKJV) 2.21
Job 39 (Geneva) 2.21
Daniel 7 (AKJV) 2.208
Habakkuk 3 (Geneva) 2.207
Acts 1 (ODRV) 2.206
Psalms 56 (AKJV) 2.204
Habakkuk 3 (AKJV) 2.203
2 Chronicles 20 (AKJV) 2.202
Job 5 (Douay-Rheims) 2.2
Psalms 31 (AKJV) 2.187
Acts 20 (ODRV) 2.185
Hebrews 6 (Tyndale) 2.184
Romans 5 (Tyndale) 2.184
Psalms 7 (AKJV) 2.182
Romans 4 (Tyndale) 2.17
Isaiah 59 (AKJV) 2.169
Job 34 (AKJV) 2.167
Psalms 46 (AKJV) 2.167
Psalms 50 (AKJV) 2.15
Romans 4 (Geneva) 2.149
Psalms 118 (Geneva) 2.149
Psalms 68 (AKJV) 2.149
Romans 2 (Tyndale) 2.143
Romans 4 (AKJV) 2.142
Psalms 104 (AKJV) 2.137
Job 21 (AKJV) 2.137
Hebrews 4 (ODRV) 2.134
2 Corinthians 5 (Tyndale) 2.133
Romans 3 (Tyndale) 2.125
Romans 11 (AKJV) 2.112
Lamentations 3 (AKJV) 2.109
2 Corinthians 4 (AKJV) 2.082
Philippians 3 (AKJV) 2.071
Psalms 37 (AKJV) 2.067
1 Peter 5 (AKJV) 2.06
1 John 3 (AKJV) 2.053
Romans 6 (AKJV) 2.019
Diversity: 0.975
Evenness: 0.991
Verse Prominence
Psalms 97.1 (AKJV) 6.372
Daniel 4.35 (AKJV) 4.252
2 Samuel 18.10 (Geneva) 2.127
Psalms 31.1 (AKJV) 2.127
Psalms 99.1 (Geneva) 2.127
Baruch 2.9 (AKJV) 2.127
Acts 20.24 (ODRV) 2.127
Job 21.9 (AKJV) 2.126
Job 5.13 (Douay-Rheims) 2.126
Psalms 37.40 (AKJV) 2.126
Deuteronomy 11.26 (AKJV) 2.126
Job 34.22 (AKJV) 2.125
Acts 1.7 (ODRV) 2.125
2 Corinthians 5.9 (Tyndale) 2.125
Psalms 68.3 (AKJV) 2.125
Daniel 7.14 (AKJV) 2.124
Job 21.7 (AKJV) 2.124
Psalms 56.3 (AKJV) 2.124
Psalms 7.11 (AKJV) 2.124
Job 39.35 (Geneva) 2.124
Romans 3.6 (Tyndale) 2.123
2 Chronicles 20.12 (AKJV) 2.123
Psalms 104.34 (AKJV) 2.123
Romans 5.3 (Tyndale) 2.123
Lamentations 3.31 (AKJV) 2.122
Habakkuk 3.18 (Geneva) 2.121
Habakkuk 3.18 (AKJV) 2.121
Romans 4.21 (Tyndale) 2.121
Psalms 50.16 (AKJV) 2.121
Hebrews 4.13 (ODRV) 2.12
Romans 6.6 (AKJV) 2.12
1 Peter 5.7 (AKJV) 2.12
Romans 4.15 (AKJV) 2.119
Romans 4.15 (Geneva) 2.119
Romans 2.6 (Tyndale) 2.117
Hebrews 6.19 (Tyndale) 2.116
Lamentations 3.40 (AKJV) 2.11
Isaiah 59.1 (AKJV) 2.109
Psalms 118.23 (Geneva) 2.107
Psalms 46.1 (AKJV) 2.106
Philippians 3.16 (AKJV) 2.105
1 John 3.4 (AKJV) 2.1
Romans 11.33 (AKJV) 2.09
2 Corinthians 4.17 (AKJV) 2.085
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: 0.444
Evenness: 0.918
Part Prominence
New Testament 18.472
Old Testament -14.001
Diversity: 0.945
Evenness: 0.994
Book Prominence
Romans 6.045
Joel 4.643
Habakkuk 4.524
2 Thessalonians 4.208
Leviticus 4.025
Judges 3.902
2 Chronicles 3.764
Daniel 3.665
2 Samuel 3.386
1 Samuel 3.217
Job 2.757
2 Corinthians 2.698
Hebrews 2.214
Proverbs 1.952
Acts 1.797
John 1.794
Isaiah 1.618
Matthew 0.82
Psalms -0.172
Diversity: 0.972
Evenness: 0.997
Chapter Prominence
Romans 2 5.072
Psalms 99 2.67
Judges 1 2.665
Psalms 56 2.662
2 Samuel 17 2.659
Psalms 97 2.657
Habakkuk 3 2.65
Job 34 2.649
Habakkuk 1 2.639
Psalms 46 2.639
Isaiah 54 2.639
Job 13 2.631
Psalms 31 2.618
Job 21 2.616
Isaiah 59 2.613
Leviticus 26 2.606
Psalms 7 2.606
2 Chronicles 20 2.605
Joel 2 2.599
1 Samuel 12 2.591
Job 5 2.585
Daniel 4 2.567
Proverbs 21 2.563
Acts 1 2.554
Romans 4 2.532
2 Thessalonians 2 2.528
2 Corinthians 4 2.474
Hebrews 6 2.473
Psalms 50 2.453
Acts 20 2.448
Romans 5 2.416
Matthew 10 2.407
John 1 2.406
Hebrews 13 2.342
Psalms 119 2.307
Hebrews 11 2.257
Diversity: 0.0
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Psalms 99.1 99.977
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase