Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon preached before the King at White-Hall, Decemb. the 24th. 1676 by Thomas Sprat ...

Sprat, Thomas, 1635-1713
Publisher: Printed for Henry Brome
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1677
Approximate Era: CharlesII
TCP ID: A61172 ESTC ID: R1442 STC ID: S5052
Subject Headings: Bible. -- N.T. -- Mark X, 15; Church of England; 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 2.9% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 1.7% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 93.0% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 3.2% -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) 1.2% -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: 0.875
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
New Testament (Wycliffe) 10.879
Apocrypha (Douay-Rheims) 9.097
Apocrypha (AKJV) 7.942
Old Testament (Geneva) 2.565
New Testament (Geneva) 1.442
New Testament (ODRV) 1.362
Old Testament (AKJV) 0.454
New Testament (AKJV) 0.072
Diversity: 0.945
Evenness: 0.994
Book Prominence
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 8.432
Mark (Geneva) 4.825
John (Wycliffe) 4.825
Mark (ODRV) 4.812
Mark (AKJV) 4.787
Lamentations (Geneva) 4.778
Lamentations (AKJV) 4.681
1 Timothy (Geneva) 4.478
Ecclesiasticus (AKJV) 4.36
Ephesians (ODRV) 4.348
Ecclesiasticus (Douay-Rheims) 4.322
1 Peter (AKJV) 4.213
2 Corinthians (AKJV) 4.105
Luke (Geneva) 4.101
Luke (ODRV) 4.008
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 3.81
Luke (AKJV) 3.802
1 Corinthians (Geneva) 3.728
Proverbs (AKJV) 3.597
Diversity: 0.941
Evenness: 0.968
Chapter Prominence
Luke 18 (ODRV) 15.309
1 Corinthians 14 (AKJV) 7.554
Mark 10 (ODRV) 3.836
Mark 10 (AKJV) 3.835
Mark 10 (Geneva) 3.835
John 9 (Wycliffe) 3.834
1 Corinthians 16 (ODRV) 3.833
Ecclesiasticus 37 (AKJV) 3.829
Ecclesiasticus 19 (Douay-Rheims) 3.828
Luke 5 (Geneva) 3.81
1 Corinthians 9 (ODRV) 3.801
2 Corinthians 8 (AKJV) 3.797
Luke 11 (AKJV) 3.785
Luke 20 (ODRV) 3.783
1 Timothy 1 (Geneva) 3.77
Lamentations 3 (Geneva) 3.753
Proverbs 3 (AKJV) 3.75
1 Corinthians 2 (ODRV) 3.744
1 Corinthians 2 (Geneva) 3.74
Lamentations 3 (AKJV) 3.733
1 Peter 2 (AKJV) 3.681
Ephesians 4 (ODRV) 3.681
Diversity: 0.941
Evenness: 0.968
Verse Prominence
Luke 18.17 (ODRV) 15.38
1 Corinthians 14.20 (AKJV) 7.687
Mark 10.15 (ODRV) 3.845
1 Corinthians 16.16 (ODRV) 3.845
Ecclesiasticus 37.17 (AKJV) 3.844
Luke 5.16 (Geneva) 3.844
Ecclesiasticus 19.22 (Douay-Rheims) 3.844
Mark 10.16 (AKJV) 3.843
Mark 10.16 (Geneva) 3.843
Luke 11.41 (AKJV) 3.84
1 Timothy 1.11 (Geneva) 3.84
2 Corinthians 8.21 (AKJV) 3.839
1 Corinthians 9.22 (ODRV) 3.839
John 9.5 (Wycliffe) 3.838
1 Corinthians 2.6 (ODRV) 3.837
Proverbs 3.34 (AKJV) 3.836
Lamentations 3.27 (Geneva) 3.836
Lamentations 3.27 (AKJV) 3.836
1 Peter 2.2 (AKJV) 3.83
Luke 20.25 (ODRV) 3.827
Ephesians 4.23 (ODRV) 3.825
1 Corinthians 2.14 (Geneva) 3.815
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
Lamentations 9.307
Titus 8.923
Mark 8.694
James 8.492
1 Peter 7.969
Hebrews 7.214
Luke 6.782
1 Corinthians 6.71
Romans 6.045
Matthew 5.82
Diversity: 0.909
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Mark 10 9.009
Lamentations 3 8.957
Luke 11 8.931
James 4 8.894
Matthew 19 8.89
Titus 2 8.887
1 Corinthians 14 8.878
Matthew 10 8.796
Romans 12 8.735
Hebrews 12 8.687
1 Peter 2 8.595
Diversity: 0.909
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Mark 10.15 9.089
1 Corinthians 14.20 9.085
Matthew 19.14 9.085
Lamentations 3.27 9.081
Luke 11.41 9.079
Matthew 10.16 9.067
James 4.6 9.066
Romans 12.2 9.06
1 Peter 2.2 9.059
Titus 2.14 9.057
Hebrews 12.1 9.04
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase