Early English Printed Sermons


Some seasonable reflections on the discovery of the late plot being a sermon preacht on that occasion / by William Sherlock ...

Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707
Publisher: Printed for Thomas Basset
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1683
Approximate Era: CharlesII
TCP ID: A59895 ESTC ID: R10020 STC ID: S3366
Subject Headings: Bible. -- O.T. -- Psalms XVIII, 50; Popish Plot, 1678; 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 2.7% -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 91.5% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 4.2% -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 0.7% -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) 2.7% -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: 0.909
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Apocrypha (Douay-Rheims) 5.687
Apocrypha (AKJV) 4.533
New Testament (Vulgate) 4.282
Old Testament (ODRV) 2.722
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 0.539
Old Testament (Geneva) -0.844
New Testament (Tyndale) -0.931
New Testament (Geneva) -1.967
New Testament (ODRV) -2.047
Old Testament (AKJV) -2.955
New Testament (AKJV) -3.337
Diversity: 0.933
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
1 Maccabees (AKJV) 6.585
2 Peter (Tyndale) 6.409
Matthew (Vulgate) 6.394
James (ODRV) 6.208
Ecclesiasticus (Douay-Rheims) 5.989
Philippians (ODRV) 5.917
Proverbs (Douay-Rheims) 5.859
Matthew (Geneva) 5.505
John (AKJV) 5.483
Psalms (ODRV) 5.456
Romans (ODRV) 5.416
Romans (Geneva) 5.207
Psalms (Geneva) 4.852
Romans (AKJV) 4.824
Psalms (AKJV) 3.885
Diversity: 0.918
Evenness: 0.925
Chapter Prominence
Psalms 18 (AKJV) 23.252
Romans 14 (AKJV) 6.5
1 Maccabees 3 (AKJV) 3.324
Psalms 19 (ODRV) 3.317
Psalms 106 (ODRV) 3.31
Psalms 20 (AKJV) 3.309
Proverbs 6 (Douay-Rheims) 3.306
Ecclesiasticus 10 (Douay-Rheims) 3.303
Psalms 65 (AKJV) 3.299
Matthew 22 (Vulgate) 3.296
Psalms 89 (Geneva) 3.281
Psalms 2 (ODRV) 3.278
John 18 (AKJV) 3.271
Romans 11 (Geneva) 3.27
James 3 (ODRV) 3.263
2 Peter 3 (Tyndale) 3.263
Matthew 16 (Geneva) 3.255
Psalms 2 (AKJV) 3.227
Psalms 118 (AKJV) 3.19
Romans 13 (ODRV) 3.175
Philippians 2 (ODRV) 3.117
Romans 13 (Geneva) 3.008
Romans 13 (AKJV) 2.972
Diversity: 0.934
Evenness: 0.937
Verse Prominence
Psalms 18.50 (AKJV) 19.98
Psalms 20.6 (AKJV) 5.71
Romans 14.19 (AKJV) 5.677
Ecclesiasticus 10.17 (Douay-Rheims) 2.856
Psalms 106.29 (ODRV) 2.856
Proverbs 6.27 (Douay-Rheims) 2.856
Psalms 19.10 (ODRV) 2.853
Psalms 89.22 (Geneva) 2.853
1 Maccabees 3.21 (AKJV) 2.852
Psalms 20.7 (AKJV) 2.85
Psalms 20.8 (AKJV) 2.85
Psalms 65.7 (AKJV) 2.848
Psalms 2.4 (AKJV) 2.847
Psalms 2.3 (ODRV) 2.845
Romans 13.7 (ODRV) 2.844
Romans 11.33 (Geneva) 2.843
Psalms 2.1 (AKJV) 2.842
Psalms 2.3 (AKJV) 2.838
Matthew 16.24 (Geneva) 2.833
Matthew 22.21 (Vulgate) 2.83
John 18.36 (AKJV) 2.829
James 3.15 (ODRV) 2.829
Romans 13.7 (AKJV) 2.825
2 Peter 3.18 (Tyndale) 2.824
Psalms 118.23 (AKJV) 2.796
Philippians 2.8 (ODRV) 2.747
Romans 13.1 (Geneva) 2.706
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: 0.667
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
2 Samuel 31.719
Romans 29.379
Psalms 28.162
Diversity: 0.893
Evenness: 0.987
Chapter Prominence
Psalms 7 18.085
2 Samuel 22 9.056
Psalms 3 8.999
Psalms 6 8.998
Psalms 8 8.967
Psalms 4 8.932
Psalms 1 8.909
Psalms 50 8.841
Psalms 2 8.823
Romans 2 8.757
Diversity: 0.0
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
2 Samuel 22.1 99.98
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase