Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon preached July 17, 1681, at the assizes in Huntingdon before the Right Honourable the Lord Chief Baron Mountague and Mr. Justice Windham, judges of the assize / by Benjamin Smith, Rector of Boxworth, in Cambridge-shire.

Smith, Benjamin, fl. 1681
Publisher: Printed for Tho Parkhurst
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1682
Approximate Era: CharlesII
TCP ID: A60407 ESTC ID: R37563 STC ID: S4021B
Subject Headings: Bible. -- N.T. -- Jude I, 3; 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 4.4% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 3.5% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 89.2% 100.0%
NonLatinAlphabet Percentage of units with a NonLatinAlphabet placeholder 0.8% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 9.0% -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 0.7% -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: 0.81
Evenness: 0.911
Part Prominence
New Testament (AKJV) 23.936
Apocrypha (AKJV) 4.533
New Testament (Vulgate) 4.282
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 0.539
New Testament (Tyndale) -0.931
New Testament (Geneva) -1.967
New Testament (ODRV) -2.047
Old Testament (AKJV) -2.955
Diversity: 0.939
Evenness: 0.928
Book Prominence
Jude (ODRV) 18.096
Jude (AKJV) 8.829
Galatians (AKJV) 3.874
Acts (ODRV) 3.857
1 Timothy (AKJV) 3.838
2 Timothy (ODRV) 2.012
2 Esdras (AKJV) 2.008
Matthew (Vulgate) 2.0
2 Timothy (Geneva) 1.931
Galatians (Tyndale) 1.857
Job (Douay-Rheims) 1.696
Hebrews (ODRV) 1.561
Philippians (ODRV) 1.523
Philippians (AKJV) 1.511
Luke (Tyndale) 1.497
1 Peter (AKJV) 1.485
John (Geneva) 1.403
John (Tyndale) 1.395
Luke (Geneva) 1.374
Romans (Tyndale) 1.285
Luke (ODRV) 1.281
Hebrews (AKJV) 1.245
Matthew (Geneva) 1.111
Romans (ODRV) 1.022
Isaiah (AKJV) 0.99
Matthew (ODRV) 0.859
Romans (Geneva) 0.813
Matthew (AKJV) 0.758
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 0.705
Romans (AKJV) 0.43
Psalms (AKJV) -0.509
Diversity: 0.952
Evenness: 0.939
Chapter Prominence
Jude 1 (ODRV) 15.627
Jude 1 (AKJV) 7.661
Acts 6 (ODRV) 3.915
Galatians 1 (AKJV) 3.866
1 Timothy 3 (AKJV) 3.835
2 Esdras 12 (AKJV) 1.952
Job 8 (Douay-Rheims) 1.947
Matthew 10 (Vulgate) 1.946
Acts 15 (ODRV) 1.941
Luke 14 (Tyndale) 1.938
John 13 (Tyndale) 1.938
Matthew 21 (ODRV) 1.937
Luke 14 (Geneva) 1.934
Isaiah 44 (AKJV) 1.931
John 15 (Tyndale) 1.928
Luke 9 (Tyndale) 1.927
Romans 16 (ODRV) 1.922
John 7 (Geneva) 1.92
Matthew 26 (Geneva) 1.918
2 Timothy 2 (ODRV) 1.909
Luke 9 (ODRV) 1.906
Luke 21 (Geneva) 1.904
2 Timothy 2 (Geneva) 1.892
Matthew 26 (AKJV) 1.892
2 Timothy 3 (ODRV) 1.884
Psalms 89 (AKJV) 1.877
Galatians 5 (Tyndale) 1.876
1 Peter 3 (AKJV) 1.871
Philippians 1 (AKJV) 1.867
Romans 1 (Geneva) 1.858
Hebrews 12 (ODRV) 1.85
1 Peter 4 (AKJV) 1.836
Hebrews 12 (AKJV) 1.832
Romans 8 (Tyndale) 1.827
Philippians 1 (ODRV) 1.806
Romans 13 (ODRV) 1.803
1 Corinthians 10 (AKJV) 1.659
Romans 13 (AKJV) 1.6
Diversity: 0.959
Evenness: 0.945
Verse Prominence
Jude 1.3 (ODRV) 14.253
Jude 1.3 (AKJV) 7.131
Acts 6.7 (ODRV) 3.571
Galatians 1.23 (AKJV) 3.57
1 Timothy 3.9 (AKJV) 3.562
Romans 16.22 (ODRV) 1.785
Matthew 26.27 (Geneva) 1.785
John 7.15 (Geneva) 1.785
Psalms 89.35 (AKJV) 1.784
Jude 1.4 (AKJV) 1.784
Jude 1.1 (AKJV) 1.784
Matthew 10.28 (Vulgate) 1.784
Hebrews 12.3 (ODRV) 1.784
Isaiah 44.25 (AKJV) 1.783
Galatians 5.6 (Tyndale) 1.783
Philippians 1.1 (ODRV) 1.783
Philippians 1.17 (AKJV) 1.783
Matthew 21.43 (ODRV) 1.783
1 Corinthians 10.33 (AKJV) 1.782
Romans 1.25 (Geneva) 1.782
Hebrews 12.3 (AKJV) 1.782
Luke 21.17 (Geneva) 1.781
2 Timothy 2.5 (Geneva) 1.781
John 13.35 (Tyndale) 1.781
Luke 9.56 (Tyndale) 1.78
Acts 15.26 (ODRV) 1.78
Job 8.9 (Douay-Rheims) 1.78
Romans 8.31 (Tyndale) 1.78
2 Timothy 2.18 (ODRV) 1.779
Luke 14.27 (Tyndale) 1.779
2 Esdras 12.28 (AKJV) 1.779
1 Peter 4.10 (AKJV) 1.778
John 15.23 (Tyndale) 1.778
Luke 14.26 (Geneva) 1.777
1 Peter 4.12 (AKJV) 1.777
Galatians 5.16 (Tyndale) 1.775
2 Timothy 3.6 (ODRV) 1.775
1 Peter 3.22 (AKJV) 1.774
Matthew 26.52 (AKJV) 1.771
Luke 9.55 (ODRV) 1.768
Romans 13.5 (ODRV) 1.759
Philippians 1.29 (ODRV) 1.751
Romans 13.4 (AKJV) 1.705
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: 0.929
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
1 John 5.709
2 Timothy 5.7
Philippians 5.395
Galatians 5.324
1 Timothy 5.305
1 Peter 5.112
Revelation 5.017
Hebrews 4.357
Acts 3.939
Luke 3.925
Isaiah 3.761
Romans 3.188
Matthew 2.963
Psalms 1.971
Diversity: 0.947
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Acts 6 5.183
Isaiah 44 5.183
Psalms 89 5.145
Revelation 12 5.138
Luke 9 5.121
Luke 14 5.119
1 Timothy 3 5.105
Galatians 1 5.094
1 John 4 5.093
Luke 13 5.09
Matthew 21 5.076
1 Peter 4 5.071
Philippians 1 5.015
Matthew 10 4.968
2 Timothy 3 4.966
Matthew 26 4.932
Hebrews 12 4.86
1 Peter 2 4.768
Romans 13 4.574
Diversity: 0.963
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Philippians 1.30 3.703
Acts 6.7 3.701
Galatians 1.23 3.701
Psalms 89.35 3.7
Luke 14.27 3.699
Philippians 1.1 3.698
Isaiah 44.25 3.696
Revelation 12.11 3.696
1 Timothy 3.9 3.695
1 Peter 4.12 3.693
Luke 9.56 3.692
Matthew 21.43 3.691
Hebrews 12.3 3.691
Luke 9.55 3.682
Matthew 26.27 3.682
2 Timothy 3.6 3.682
Luke 13.24 3.675
Matthew 10.28 3.673
Matthew 26.52 3.667
Luke 14.26 3.665
1 John 4.1 3.658
1 Peter 2.14 3.654
Hebrews 12.2 3.65
Romans 13.2 3.585
Romans 13.4 3.557
1 Peter 2.13 3.555
Romans 13.1 3.471
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase