Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon preach'd to the natives of the county of Dorset, residing in and about the cities of London and Westminster, at St. Mary Le Bowe, on Dec. 8, 1692, being the day of their anniversary feast by the Lord Bishop of Rochester.

Sprat, Thomas, 1635-1713
Publisher: In the Savoy printed by Edward Jones and sold by him and Randal Taylor
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1693
Approximate Era: WilliamAndMary
TCP ID: A61182 ESTC ID: R13442 STC ID: S5062
Subject Headings: Bible. -- N.T. -- Acts IV, 32;
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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 0.8% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 0.3% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 86.9% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 9.8% -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) 1.9% -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: 0.857
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
New Testament (Vulgate) 9.477
Old Testament (Geneva) 4.351
New Testament (Tyndale) 4.264
New Testament (Geneva) 3.227
New Testament (ODRV) 3.148
Old Testament (AKJV) 2.24
New Testament (AKJV) 1.858
Diversity: 0.951
Evenness: 0.971
Book Prominence
Acts (Geneva) 11.956
Galatians (AKJV) 5.578
Acts (AKJV) 5.416
Romans (ODRV) 5.0
2 Peter (Vulgate) 3.079
Titus (Geneva) 2.913
1 Thessalonians (Geneva) 2.809
Philippians (Geneva) 2.707
Acts (Tyndale) 2.591
Galatians (ODRV) 2.54
Acts (ODRV) 2.437
Philippians (ODRV) 2.375
Philippians (AKJV) 2.363
Ephesians (Geneva) 2.323
1 Corinthians (Tyndale) 2.252
Luke (Geneva) 2.226
Isaiah (Geneva) 2.219
Ephesians (AKJV) 2.174
Matthew (Geneva) 1.963
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 1.935
Luke (AKJV) 1.927
1 Corinthians (Geneva) 1.853
Isaiah (AKJV) 1.842
Matthew (AKJV) 1.61
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 1.557
Romans (AKJV) 1.282
Diversity: 0.965
Evenness: 0.977
Chapter Prominence
Acts 4 (Geneva) 9.478
Acts 4 (Tyndale) 4.732
Acts 2 (AKJV) 4.7
Romans 12 (ODRV) 4.684
Galatians 6 (AKJV) 4.62
Isaiah 56 (Geneva) 2.371
Isaiah 56 (AKJV) 2.363
Acts 1 (AKJV) 2.362
2 Peter 1 (Vulgate) 2.361
Acts 5 (ODRV) 2.355
Luke 24 (Geneva) 2.352
Acts 5 (Geneva) 2.352
Acts 2 (Tyndale) 2.344
Acts 2 (ODRV) 2.335
Acts 4 (AKJV) 2.327
Galatians 4 (ODRV) 2.323
Luke 10 (AKJV) 2.318
Matthew 12 (AKJV) 2.316
Acts 17 (AKJV) 2.313
Titus 2 (Geneva) 2.301
1 Corinthians 12 (Geneva) 2.292
1 Corinthians 12 (Tyndale) 2.287
Matthew 6 (Geneva) 2.282
1 Thessalonians 5 (Geneva) 2.279
1 Corinthians 12 (ODRV) 2.272
1 Corinthians 12 (AKJV) 2.261
Philippians 2 (Geneva) 2.259
1 Corinthians 11 (ODRV) 2.253
1 Corinthians 10 (ODRV) 2.241
Philippians 1 (ODRV) 2.226
Ephesians 5 (AKJV) 2.195
Romans 12 (AKJV) 2.181
Philippians 2 (AKJV) 2.161
Ephesians 4 (Geneva) 2.123
Ephesians 4 (AKJV) 2.028
Diversity: 0.974
Evenness: 0.982
Verse Prominence
Acts 4.32 (Geneva) 7.398
Acts 4.32 (Tyndale) 3.701
Acts 2.42 (AKJV) 3.695
Romans 12.13 (ODRV) 3.689
Ephesians 4.5 (AKJV) 3.668
Galatians 6.10 (AKJV) 3.65
Acts 2.43 (ODRV) 1.852
Luke 24.53 (Geneva) 1.852
Acts 2.46 (ODRV) 1.851
Acts 2.6 (AKJV) 1.851
Acts 4.31 (AKJV) 1.851
Acts 5.42 (ODRV) 1.851
Acts 1.14 (AKJV) 1.851
Luke 10.7 (AKJV) 1.85
Acts 4.34 (AKJV) 1.85
Acts 4.33 (Geneva) 1.85
Acts 2.1 (Tyndale) 1.849
Acts 4.35 (AKJV) 1.849
Acts 2.45 (AKJV) 1.849
Matthew 6.20 (Geneva) 1.848
Isaiah 56.7 (Geneva) 1.848
Isaiah 56.7 (AKJV) 1.848
Acts 4.35 (Tyndale) 1.848
Titus 2.14 (Geneva) 1.848
1 Corinthians 10.3 (ODRV) 1.847
Acts 5.42 (Geneva) 1.847
1 Corinthians 12.4 (ODRV) 1.846
Matthew 12.6 (AKJV) 1.846
Acts 2.46 (AKJV) 1.846
1 Corinthians 12.4 (Geneva) 1.845
Acts 4.32 (AKJV) 1.844
Philippians 1.8 (ODRV) 1.844
Acts 17.11 (AKJV) 1.843
Galatians 4.31 (ODRV) 1.842
1 Corinthians 11.1 (ODRV) 1.842
Acts 2.4 (ODRV) 1.841
1 Thessalonians 5.13 (Geneva) 1.841
Philippians 2.2 (AKJV) 1.841
1 Corinthians 12.4 (AKJV) 1.84
2 Peter 1.7 (Vulgate) 1.837
1 Corinthians 12.27 (Tyndale) 1.837
Philippians 2.1 (Geneva) 1.832
Ephesians 5.11 (AKJV) 1.831
Romans 12.5 (AKJV) 1.805
Ephesians 4.3 (AKJV) 1.739
Ephesians 4.3 (Geneva) 1.739
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: 0.0
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
New Testament 51.805
Diversity: 0.5
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Philippians 48.252
1 Corinthians 46.71
Diversity: 0.5
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
1 Corinthians 12 49.798
Philippians 2 49.672
Diversity: 0.5
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Philippians 2.1 49.968
1 Corinthians 12.13 49.967
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase