Early English Printed Sermons


The bride-womans counseller being a sermon preach'd at a wedding, May the 11th, 1699, at Sherbourn, in Dorsetshire / by John Sprint.

Sprint, John
Publisher: Printed by H Hills for the benefit of the poor
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1699
Approximate Era: WilliamAndMary
TCP ID: A61199 ESTC ID: T29597 STC ID: S5084
Subject Headings: Bible. -- N.T. -- Corinthians, 1st, VII, 34; Church of England; Sermons, English; Wedding sermons;
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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 8.4% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 5.9% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 79.3% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 12.3% -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 0.6% -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) 5.9% -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
Apocrypha (AKJV) 9.728
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: 0.95
Evenness: 0.985
Book Prominence
Ephesians (AKJV) 11.049
Colossians (Tyndale) 3.746
Colossians (Geneva) 3.622
1 Peter (ODRV) 3.566
Titus (AKJV) 3.546
Galatians (Geneva) 3.517
1 Timothy (Geneva) 3.478
1 Timothy (ODRV) 3.476
Genesis (Geneva) 3.388
Ecclesiasticus (AKJV) 3.36
Ephesians (ODRV) 3.348
Galatians (AKJV) 3.328
1 Timothy (AKJV) 3.292
Ephesians (Geneva) 3.198
1 Corinthians (Tyndale) 3.127
Genesis (AKJV) 3.102
Luke (ODRV) 3.008
Job (AKJV) 3.006
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 2.81
Isaiah (AKJV) 2.717
Proverbs (AKJV) 2.597
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 2.432
Romans (AKJV) 2.157
Diversity: 0.961
Evenness: 0.986
Chapter Prominence
Ephesians 5 (AKJV) 9.189
1 Corinthians 7 (ODRV) 6.174
Ecclesiasticus 26 (AKJV) 3.115
Isaiah 28 (AKJV) 3.092
Proverbs 31 (AKJV) 3.08
Genesis 2 (Geneva) 3.079
Proverbs 19 (AKJV) 3.078
1 Peter 3 (ODRV) 3.078
Galatians 4 (Geneva) 3.073
Proverbs 25 (AKJV) 3.07
Genesis 3 (AKJV) 3.067
Proverbs 21 (AKJV) 3.061
Colossians 3 (Tyndale) 3.06
Galatians 4 (AKJV) 3.052
Colossians 3 (Geneva) 3.051
Luke 1 (ODRV) 3.048
Job 21 (AKJV) 3.039
1 Corinthians 11 (Tyndale) 3.034
Colossians 1 (Geneva) 3.027
1 Corinthians 7 (AKJV) 3.015
Romans 1 (AKJV) 3.013
1 Timothy 2 (ODRV) 3.008
1 Timothy 2 (Geneva) 3.008
Ephesians 5 (Geneva) 3.007
1 Timothy 2 (AKJV) 2.999
1 Corinthians 11 (ODRV) 2.997
Ephesians 5 (ODRV) 2.968
Titus 2 (AKJV) 2.968
1 Corinthians 11 (AKJV) 2.939
Diversity: 0.966
Evenness: 0.975
Verse Prominence
1 Corinthians 7.3 (AKJV) 9.075
Ephesians 5.33 (AKJV) 6.811
Ephesians 5.24 (Geneva) 4.539
1 Corinthians 7.3 (ODRV) 4.537
1 Timothy 2.14 (AKJV) 2.272
Proverbs 19.13 (AKJV) 2.272
Proverbs 25.24 (AKJV) 2.272
Ecclesiasticus 26.22 (AKJV) 2.272
Titus 2.4 (AKJV) 2.272
Luke 1.25 (ODRV) 2.272
1 Corinthians 7.34 (AKJV) 2.271
Genesis 3.16 (AKJV) 2.271
Proverbs 21.9 (AKJV) 2.271
Colossians 3.18 (Geneva) 2.271
Ephesians 5.24 (AKJV) 2.271
Colossians 3.19 (Tyndale) 2.271
1 Corinthians 7.32 (ODRV) 2.271
Ephesians 5.33 (Geneva) 2.271
Romans 1.31 (AKJV) 2.27
Ecclesiasticus 26.24 (AKJV) 2.27
1 Peter 3.6 (ODRV) 2.27
Ephesians 5.22 (Geneva) 2.27
1 Corinthians 11.9 (ODRV) 2.269
1 Timothy 2.14 (Geneva) 2.269
Colossians 1.10 (Geneva) 2.269
Isaiah 28.10 (AKJV) 2.268
Genesis 2.18 (Geneva) 2.268
1 Timothy 2.14 (ODRV) 2.268
Job 21.13 (AKJV) 2.267
Luke 1.57 (ODRV) 2.266
1 Corinthians 11.7 (Tyndale) 2.265
Galatians 4.16 (Geneva) 2.264
Galatians 4.16 (AKJV) 2.264
Proverbs 31.26 (AKJV) 2.263
Ephesians 5.23 (AKJV) 2.263
1 Corinthians 11.9 (AKJV) 2.262
Ephesians 5.28 (ODRV) 2.261
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: 0.875
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Titus 11.423
1 Timothy 10.662
1 Peter 10.469
Ephesians 10.338
Genesis 9.875
Proverbs 9.452
Luke 9.282
1 Corinthians 9.21
Diversity: 0.909
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Proverbs 9 9.035
Proverbs 21 8.952
Genesis 2 8.941
1 Corinthians 7 8.895
Titus 2 8.887
1 Peter 3 8.867
Luke 1 8.866
1 Timothy 2 8.837
Genesis 3 8.823
Ephesians 5 8.787
1 Corinthians 11 8.723
Diversity: 0.909
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Proverbs 9.13 9.089
Proverbs 21.9 9.088
Titus 2.4 9.087
Luke 1.25 9.087
1 Corinthians 7.34 9.085
1 Timothy 2.14 9.084
Ephesians 5.22 9.084
1 Corinthians 11.7 9.081
1 Peter 3.6 9.08
Genesis 2.18 9.079
Genesis 3.16 9.079
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase