Early English Printed Sermons


Directions for seeker & expectants, or, A guide for weak Christians in these distracted times wherein the language of Sions-builders is confounded : as it was delivered in a sermon at Wickham-Market ... published at the earnest entreatie of many, for a more publique good / by Zeph. Smith, Minister of Wickham-Market in Suffolke.

Smyth, Zeph. (Zephaniah), fl. 1646-1648
Publisher: Printed by Matthew Simmons for John Sweeting
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1646
Approximate Era: CivilWar
TCP ID: A60679 ESTC ID: R37570 STC ID: S4362
Subject Headings: Bible. -- O.T. -- Psalms CXIX, 102; 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 14.0% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 9.1% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 79.4% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 15.9% -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) 6.9% -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
Old Testament (ODRV) 13.631
Apocrypha (Douay-Rheims) 6.597
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
Old Testament (AKJV) -2.046
New Testament (AKJV) -2.428
Diversity: 0.983
Evenness: 0.993
Book Prominence
1 John (AKJV) 2.299
Hebrews (Geneva) 2.156
Hebrews (AKJV) 1.871
Matthew (Tyndale) 1.813
Psalms (ODRV) 1.688
Isaiah (AKJV) 1.616
Psalms (Douay-Rheims) 1.388
Malachi (Douay-Rheims) 1.351
2 Thessalonians (Tyndale) 1.33
Hosea (Geneva) 1.26
2 Timothy (Tyndale) 1.238
Titus (Geneva) 1.237
Titus (ODRV) 1.227
2 Thessalonians (AKJV) 1.197
Numbers (AKJV) 1.177
Hosea (AKJV) 1.138
Ezekiel (Douay-Rheims) 1.109
2 Timothy (Geneva) 1.107
Ezekiel (AKJV) 1.079
Ecclesiastes (Douay-Rheims) 1.035
Deuteronomy (Douay-Rheims) 1.03
2 Corinthians (Tyndale) 1.006
1 John (Tyndale) 1.001
Jeremiah (Geneva) 1.0
Hebrews (Tyndale) 0.998
Titus (AKJV) 0.996
1 John (Geneva) 0.989
Galatians (Geneva) 0.966
Jeremiah (Douay-Rheims) 0.956
Revelation (Geneva) 0.937
1 Timothy (ODRV) 0.926
2 Timothy (AKJV) 0.918
Acts (Geneva) 0.905
Galatians (ODRV) 0.865
James (AKJV) 0.804
Jeremiah (AKJV) 0.796
Ecclesiasticus (Douay-Rheims) 0.771
Job (Geneva) 0.75
1 Timothy (AKJV) 0.742
2 Corinthians (Geneva) 0.701
Luke (Tyndale) 0.674
Acts (AKJV) 0.615
John (Tyndale) 0.572
2 Corinthians (AKJV) 0.554
Isaiah (Geneva) 0.544
Proverbs (Geneva) 0.519
Ephesians (AKJV) 0.498
Luke (ODRV) 0.457
Job (AKJV) 0.456
John (ODRV) 0.394
Matthew (Geneva) 0.288
John (AKJV) 0.265
Luke (AKJV) 0.251
Romans (ODRV) 0.199
1 Corinthians (Geneva) 0.178
Proverbs (AKJV) 0.046
Matthew (ODRV) 0.036
Romans (Geneva) -0.011
Matthew (AKJV) -0.065
1 Corinthians (AKJV) -0.119
Psalms (Geneva) -0.366
Romans (AKJV) -0.393
Psalms (AKJV) -1.332
Diversity: 0.99
Evenness: 0.992
Chapter Prominence
Job 36 (Geneva) 1.629
Isaiah 50 (AKJV) 1.619
Isaiah 30 (Geneva) 1.617
Psalms 118 (ODRV) 1.606
Psalms 38 (AKJV) 1.606
Psalms 25 (AKJV) 1.588
2 Corinthians 3 (Geneva) 1.579
Matthew 11 (Tyndale) 1.561
Titus 2 (Geneva) 1.559
Hebrews 10 (Geneva) 1.534
1 Corinthians 2 (AKJV) 1.533
1 Corinthians 2 (Geneva) 1.533
1 John 4 (AKJV) 1.527
Hebrews 10 (AKJV) 1.462
Psalms 107 (Douay-Rheims) 0.819
Isaiah 27 (Geneva) 0.816
Psalms 138 (Geneva) 0.816
Ezekiel 3 (AKJV) 0.813
Ezekiel 13 (Douay-Rheims) 0.813
Psalms 86 (Geneva) 0.81
Isaiah 35 (AKJV) 0.81
Isaiah 54 (Geneva) 0.809
Malachi 4 (Douay-Rheims) 0.809
Ecclesiasticus 3 (Douay-Rheims) 0.808
Acts 16 (Geneva) 0.807
Isaiah 35 (Geneva) 0.807
Numbers 22 (AKJV) 0.807
Revelation 19 (Geneva) 0.806
Deuteronomy 29 (Douay-Rheims) 0.805
Ezekiel 14 (AKJV) 0.804
Titus 1 (Geneva) 0.801
Jeremiah 7 (Geneva) 0.801
2 Corinthians 10 (Tyndale) 0.8
Psalms 25 (Geneva) 0.8
Jeremiah 31 (Geneva) 0.799
Jeremiah 17 (Douay-Rheims) 0.797
Romans 16 (Geneva) 0.797
Jeremiah 8 (Geneva) 0.796
Acts 3 (AKJV) 0.795
2 Thessalonians 2 (Tyndale) 0.793
Revelation 2 (Geneva) 0.793
Acts 17 (Geneva) 0.793
Jeremiah 5 (Geneva) 0.793
Jeremiah 31 (AKJV) 0.793
Hosea 4 (Geneva) 0.79
Job 36 (AKJV) 0.789
Galatians 1 (Geneva) 0.789
Matthew 9 (Tyndale) 0.788
2 Timothy 4 (Tyndale) 0.788
Hosea 4 (AKJV) 0.783
Psalms 92 (AKJV) 0.78
Isaiah 55 (AKJV) 0.778
John 13 (ODRV) 0.778
Luke 18 (Tyndale) 0.777
John 16 (Tyndale) 0.777
Ecclesiastes 10 (Douay-Rheims) 0.776
Hebrews 12 (Tyndale) 0.776
2 Timothy 3 (Tyndale) 0.775
Matthew 19 (ODRV) 0.774
1 Corinthians 8 (AKJV) 0.771
Isaiah 30 (AKJV) 0.77
Isaiah 40 (Geneva) 0.769
Romans 9 (Geneva) 0.767
Job 21 (Geneva) 0.766
1 Corinthians 14 (Geneva) 0.764
1 Timothy 4 (ODRV) 0.764
John 7 (ODRV) 0.763
2 Corinthians 3 (AKJV) 0.761
John 10 (AKJV) 0.761
Proverbs 3 (Geneva) 0.76
Luke 10 (AKJV) 0.757
Matthew 7 (Tyndale) 0.755
2 Corinthians 11 (Geneva) 0.754
Luke 19 (ODRV) 0.753
Proverbs 29 (AKJV) 0.753
2 Timothy 3 (Geneva) 0.752
Proverbs 18 (AKJV) 0.75
Galatians 3 (ODRV) 0.746
Matthew 11 (AKJV) 0.745
1 Corinthians 13 (Geneva) 0.744
John 7 (AKJV) 0.742
1 John 4 (Geneva) 0.742
1 Timothy 4 (AKJV) 0.741
Matthew 11 (Geneva) 0.738
John 16 (AKJV) 0.737
2 Timothy 4 (AKJV) 0.737
Matthew 24 (Geneva) 0.737
Job 21 (AKJV) 0.734
Titus 2 (ODRV) 0.734
2 Thessalonians 2 (AKJV) 0.734
John 5 (Tyndale) 0.73
Romans 1 (ODRV) 0.728
1 Corinthians 1 (Geneva) 0.728
1 Corinthians 13 (AKJV) 0.726
John 3 (AKJV) 0.721
Matthew 24 (AKJV) 0.71
Hebrews 12 (AKJV) 0.691
1 Corinthians 3 (AKJV) 0.688
1 John 4 (Tyndale) 0.684
2 Timothy 2 (AKJV) 0.68
James 1 (AKJV) 0.675
1 Corinthians 1 (AKJV) 0.674
Titus 2 (AKJV) 0.663
1 Corinthians 10 (Geneva) 0.637
Romans 6 (AKJV) 0.617
Psalms 119 (AKJV) 0.599
1 Corinthians 10 (AKJV) 0.518
Ephesians 4 (AKJV) 0.467
Diversity: 0.991
Evenness: 0.993
Verse Prominence
Psalms 118.102 (ODRV) 1.515
Job 36.22 (Geneva) 1.515
Isaiah 30.21 (Geneva) 1.514
Psalms 25.4 (AKJV) 1.513
Isaiah 50.10 (AKJV) 1.511
Psalms 38.2 (AKJV) 1.511
2 Corinthians 3.6 (Geneva) 1.51
1 Corinthians 2.10 (Geneva) 1.502
1 Corinthians 2.10 (AKJV) 1.5
Matthew 11.28 (Tyndale) 1.489
1 John 4.1 (AKJV) 1.487
Hebrews 10.31 (AKJV) 1.481
Hebrews 10.31 (Geneva) 1.481
Titus 2.12 (Geneva) 1.475
Psalms 107.1 (Douay-Rheims) 0.757
Psalms 119.26 (AKJV) 0.757
Revelation 2.25 (Geneva) 0.757
Job 36.22 (AKJV) 0.757
Job 36.10 (AKJV) 0.757
Isaiah 54.8 (Geneva) 0.757
Psalms 86.15 (Geneva) 0.757
Isaiah 27.11 (Geneva) 0.757
1 Corinthians 1.9 (Geneva) 0.757
Revelation 19.11 (Geneva) 0.757
Ezekiel 13.10 (Douay-Rheims) 0.757
Acts 3.23 (AKJV) 0.757
Jeremiah 5.31 (Geneva) 0.757
2 Corinthians 11.15 (Geneva) 0.757
Numbers 22.12 (AKJV) 0.757
Ezekiel 14.4 (AKJV) 0.757
Ecclesiasticus 3.20 (Douay-Rheims) 0.757
Jeremiah 17.7 (Douay-Rheims) 0.756
1 Corinthians 14.38 (Geneva) 0.756
2 Corinthians 11.13 (Geneva) 0.756
Psalms 119.102 (AKJV) 0.756
Ezekiel 3.17 (AKJV) 0.756
Acts 17.11 (Geneva) 0.756
Acts 16.14 (Geneva) 0.756
Romans 16.20 (Geneva) 0.756
Titus 1.14 (Geneva) 0.756
Matthew 11.24 (Geneva) 0.756
Hebrews 12.25 (Tyndale) 0.756
Psalms 138.6 (Geneva) 0.756
2 Timothy 4.4 (Tyndale) 0.756
Galatians 3.22 (ODRV) 0.755
Titus 1.13 (Geneva) 0.755
Matthew 19.29 (ODRV) 0.755
Deuteronomy 29.19 (Douay-Rheims) 0.755
Isaiah 35.5 (AKJV) 0.755
Jeremiah 8.11 (Geneva) 0.755
1 Timothy 4.1 (ODRV) 0.755
Galatians 1.8 (Geneva) 0.755
Psalms 25.12 (AKJV) 0.755
Isaiah 40.31 (Geneva) 0.755
1 Corinthians 3.6 (AKJV) 0.754
Ecclesiastes 10.3 (Douay-Rheims) 0.754
Deuteronomy 29.20 (Douay-Rheims) 0.754
Isaiah 35.5 (Geneva) 0.754
John 7.17 (AKJV) 0.754
Matthew 24.5 (AKJV) 0.754
Jeremiah 31.19 (Geneva) 0.754
Malachi 4.2 (Douay-Rheims) 0.754
Psalms 92.14 (AKJV) 0.754
John 13.8 (ODRV) 0.754
2 Corinthians 3.6 (AKJV) 0.753
2 Timothy 3.16 (Tyndale) 0.753
Hebrews 12.25 (AKJV) 0.753
Psalms 25.9 (Geneva) 0.753
Matthew 7.15 (Tyndale) 0.753
Jeremiah 31.19 (AKJV) 0.753
Psalms 119.11 (AKJV) 0.752
Romans 9.16 (Geneva) 0.752
2 Corinthians 10.4 (Tyndale) 0.752
2 Timothy 2.15 (AKJV) 0.752
Proverbs 29.23 (AKJV) 0.752
Isaiah 30.10 (AKJV) 0.752
Luke 18.30 (Tyndale) 0.751
1 Corinthians 3.7 (AKJV) 0.751
John 7.37 (ODRV) 0.751
Romans 6.12 (AKJV) 0.751
John 10.29 (AKJV) 0.751
1 Corinthians 13.9 (Geneva) 0.751
Matthew 9.12 (Tyndale) 0.751
2 Thessalonians 2.11 (Tyndale) 0.75
Romans 1.16 (ODRV) 0.75
2 Timothy 4.2 (AKJV) 0.75
John 5.25 (Tyndale) 0.75
Hosea 4.17 (AKJV) 0.75
Hosea 4.17 (Geneva) 0.75
1 Timothy 4.2 (AKJV) 0.75
Luke 10.13 (AKJV) 0.75
Matthew 11.21 (AKJV) 0.75
Luke 19.10 (ODRV) 0.749
Jeremiah 7.4 (Geneva) 0.749
1 John 4.1 (Tyndale) 0.749
James 1.21 (AKJV) 0.748
1 Corinthians 1.18 (AKJV) 0.748
Isaiah 55.1 (AKJV) 0.748
1 Corinthians 8.2 (AKJV) 0.748
Proverbs 3.6 (Geneva) 0.747
Job 21.14 (Geneva) 0.746
Job 21.14 (AKJV) 0.746
Isaiah 40.1 (Geneva) 0.746
John 16.2 (Tyndale) 0.746
1 Corinthians 13.9 (AKJV) 0.745
John 3.19 (AKJV) 0.745
1 John 4.1 (Geneva) 0.745
2 Timothy 3.1 (Geneva) 0.745
John 16.13 (AKJV) 0.743
Matthew 24.35 (Geneva) 0.743
2 Thessalonians 2.10 (AKJV) 0.737
2 Corinthians 11.14 (Geneva) 0.731
Ephesians 4.11 (AKJV) 0.73
Proverbs 18.14 (AKJV) 0.73
Titus 2.12 (ODRV) 0.723
Titus 2.12 (AKJV) 0.694
1 Corinthians 10.16 (Geneva) 0.673
1 Corinthians 10.16 (AKJV) 0.671
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: 0.957
Evenness: 0.989
Book Prominence
Job 4.9
2 Corinthians 4.841
Acts 3.939
2 Thessalonians 2.779
Titus 2.495
Hosea 2.374
Mark 2.266
1 John 2.137
2 Timothy 2.129
James 2.064
Ezekiel 1.967
Galatians 1.753
1 Timothy 1.734
Revelation 1.445
Deuteronomy 1.441
Jeremiah 1.33
Hebrews 0.786
Proverbs 0.524
John 0.366
Luke 0.353
1 Corinthians 0.281
Isaiah 0.19
Romans -0.383
Matthew -0.608
Psalms -1.6
Diversity: 0.987
Evenness: 0.994
Chapter Prominence
Job 36 2.323
Isaiah 61 2.283
Psalms 32 2.26
Isaiah 30 2.233
2 Corinthians 3 2.207
Acts 17 2.031
Psalms 143 1.141
Job 27 1.139
Job 42 1.136
Isaiah 48 1.131
Psalms 92 1.131
Ezekiel 14 1.124
Isaiah 50 1.123
Psalms 38 1.119
Jeremiah 32 1.118
Isaiah 54 1.113
Isaiah 27 1.113
Psalms 110 1.109
Ezekiel 3 1.108
Mark 8 1.106
Deuteronomy 13 1.105
Deuteronomy 29 1.096
Jeremiah 8 1.093
Psalms 84 1.092
Psalms 23 1.092
Isaiah 43 1.091
Job 21 1.09
Isaiah 66 1.085
Psalms 77 1.083
Psalms 25 1.082
Psalms 27 1.072
1 Corinthians 8 1.066
2 Corinthians 10 1.063
Isaiah 8 1.061
Jeremiah 31 1.05
Psalms 42 1.048
Isaiah 40 1.046
Hosea 4 1.041
Acts 3 1.041
Acts 16 1.025
2 Corinthians 11 1.025
Revelation 1 1.024
Jeremiah 5 1.023
Luke 18 1.015
Galatians 1 1.008
1 John 4 1.006
2 Thessalonians 2 1.002
John 7 0.997
Proverbs 3 0.995
Titus 1 0.989
Galatians 3 0.979
Matthew 19 0.976
Proverbs 8 0.975
John 16 0.975
Titus 2 0.973
2 Timothy 4 0.969
Isaiah 57 0.967
John 15 0.955
Revelation 2 0.952
Romans 10 0.949
Hebrews 6 0.947
1 Timothy 4 0.944
Matthew 24 0.942
2 Timothy 2 0.938
Matthew 28 0.936
1 Corinthians 2 0.935
Matthew 13 0.913
John 14 0.899
James 1 0.898
Matthew 11 0.896
Romans 6 0.885
Hebrews 10 0.883
2 Timothy 3 0.88
Acts 2 0.875
John 3 0.843
1 Corinthians 1 0.839
Matthew 7 0.814
Psalms 119 0.781
Hebrews 12 0.773
Diversity: 0.988
Evenness: 0.995
Verse Prominence
Job 36.22 2.15
Psalms 32.8 2.147
Isaiah 30.21 2.14
2 Corinthians 3.6 2.13
Acts 17.11 2.124
Isaiah 61.1 2.124
Psalms 119.102 1.075
Psalms 143.11 1.075
Revelation 2.25 1.074
Psalms 27.11 1.074
Psalms 25.4 1.074
Ezekiel 14.4 1.074
Isaiah 54.1 1.073
Jeremiah 8.11 1.073
Isaiah 48.17 1.073
Acts 3.23 1.073
Proverbs 8.33 1.073
Job 36.10 1.072
Romans 6.20 1.072
Psalms 25.12 1.072
Job 27.9 1.072
Job 42.2 1.072
Psalms 38.2 1.071
Psalms 77.3 1.071
Psalms 119.2 1.07
Matthew 11.22 1.07
Matthew 24.5 1.07
Mark 8.34 1.07
2 Timothy 4.4 1.07
Titus 1.3 1.069
1 Corinthians 8.2 1.069
Isaiah 54.8 1.068
Galatians 3.22 1.068
1 Corinthians 2.7 1.068
Matthew 11.23 1.068
Psalms 119.1 1.067
Isaiah 27.11 1.067
Hosea 4.17 1.067
Psalms 92.13 1.067
Isaiah 43.4 1.066
Hebrews 12.25 1.066
2 Corinthians 11.13 1.066
Jeremiah 32.19 1.066
1 Corinthians 2.10 1.065
Isaiah 50.10 1.065
Hebrews 6.17 1.065
Matthew 19.29 1.064
Deuteronomy 13.1 1.064
Job 27.8 1.064
John 15.2 1.064
Jeremiah 31.34 1.064
Acts 2.39 1.063
Ezekiel 3.17 1.062
John 7.37 1.062
Isaiah 40.1 1.062
Acts 16.14 1.061
Psalms 42.1 1.06
Proverbs 3.6 1.06
Deuteronomy 29.19 1.059
2 Thessalonians 2.12 1.059
1 Timothy 4.2 1.058
Hebrews 10.31 1.058
Job 21.14 1.058
Matthew 7.15 1.058
John 14.26 1.058
2 Timothy 2.15 1.057
Romans 10.17 1.057
James 1.21 1.056
Romans 6.14 1.055
John 3.19 1.054
Isaiah 8.20 1.052
Psalms 27.4 1.051
1 Corinthians 1.21 1.051
Revelation 1.5 1.051
Isaiah 66.2 1.051
Isaiah 57.15 1.05
John 16.2 1.047
2 Corinthians 10.4 1.044
Matthew 11.21 1.044
2 Timothy 3.1 1.044
Luke 18.11 1.043
John 7.17 1.042
Titus 2.11 1.037
2 Thessalonians 2.11 1.036
Galatians 1.8 1.03
1 John 4.1 1.029
Titus 2.12 1.02
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase