Early English Printed Sermons


The indispensable necessity of the knowledge of the Holy Scripture in order to man's eternal salvation and ignorance therein, the mother of idolatry and superstition asserted in a sermon / preached by John Tillotson ...

Tillotson, John, 1630-1694
Publisher: Printed for Will Norris
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1687
Approximate Era: JamesII
TCP ID: A62565 ESTC ID: R31967 STC ID: T1198
Subject Headings: Freedom of religion;
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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 1.8% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 1.8% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 90.3% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 8.0% -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) 3.0% -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: 0.84
Evenness: 0.971
Part Prominence
Old Testament (AKJV) 10.176
New Testament (AKJV) 9.794
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 2.559
Old Testament (Geneva) 1.177
New Testament (Tyndale) 1.09
New Testament (Geneva) 0.053
New Testament (ODRV) -0.027
Diversity: 0.928
Evenness: 0.941
Book Prominence
Matthew (AKJV) 17.84
Colossians (Tyndale) 6.198
Hosea (AKJV) 6.141
2 Timothy (AKJV) 5.92
Matthew (Geneva) 5.29
Hosea (Geneva) 3.037
Colossians (Geneva) 2.848
1 Peter (Tyndale) 2.737
1 Timothy (ODRV) 2.702
Genesis (Geneva) 2.614
James (AKJV) 2.58
Job (Geneva) 2.526
Hebrews (ODRV) 2.514
2 Corinthians (Geneva) 2.477
Luke (Tyndale) 2.45
Proverbs (Douay-Rheims) 2.418
John (Geneva) 2.356
Isaiah (Douay-Rheims) 2.35
John (Tyndale) 2.348
John (AKJV) 2.042
Romans (ODRV) 1.975
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 1.658
Diversity: 0.938
Evenness: 0.947
Chapter Prominence
Matthew 23 (AKJV) 17.534
Hosea 4 (AKJV) 5.845
Colossians 3 (Tyndale) 5.818
Matthew 23 (Geneva) 5.808
2 Timothy 3 (AKJV) 5.721
Job 24 (Geneva) 2.931
Proverbs 4 (Douay-Rheims) 2.928
Isaiah 8 (Douay-Rheims) 2.923
Luke 11 (Tyndale) 2.918
Genesis 9 (Geneva) 2.917
Matthew 15 (Geneva) 2.913
Hosea 4 (Geneva) 2.912
2 Corinthians 10 (Geneva) 2.906
John 15 (Geneva) 2.899
Matthew 19 (AKJV) 2.887
1 Peter 5 (Tyndale) 2.883
John 13 (AKJV) 2.881
Colossians 3 (Geneva) 2.868
Romans 12 (ODRV) 2.863
Romans 15 (ODRV) 2.859
Hebrews 11 (ODRV) 2.857
John 5 (Tyndale) 2.851
1 Timothy 2 (ODRV) 2.824
1 Corinthians 14 (AKJV) 2.803
James 1 (AKJV) 2.796
Diversity: 0.94
Evenness: 0.948
Verse Prominence
Matthew 23.13 (AKJV) 17.132
Matthew 23.13 (Geneva) 5.713
Hosea 4.6 (AKJV) 5.705
Colossians 3.16 (Tyndale) 5.704
2 Timothy 3.16 (AKJV) 5.689
Proverbs 4.7 (Douay-Rheims) 2.857
Luke 11.52 (Tyndale) 2.856
2 Corinthians 10.8 (Geneva) 2.856
Genesis 9.5 (Geneva) 2.855
1 Corinthians 14.19 (AKJV) 2.855
Job 24.13 (Geneva) 2.855
Colossians 3.15 (Geneva) 2.854
Matthew 15.3 (Geneva) 2.852
Romans 12.2 (ODRV) 2.852
John 15.22 (Geneva) 2.851
Matthew 23.14 (AKJV) 2.851
Isaiah 8.20 (Douay-Rheims) 2.85
Hosea 4.6 (Geneva) 2.85
1 Timothy 2.4 (ODRV) 2.848
Matthew 19.14 (AKJV) 2.846
John 13.17 (AKJV) 2.844
1 Peter 5.2 (Tyndale) 2.84
John 5.39 (Tyndale) 2.839
Romans 15.4 (ODRV) 2.838
James 1.17 (AKJV) 2.837
Hebrews 11.6 (ODRV) 2.83
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
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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: 0.8
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Hosea 18.803
2 Timothy 18.557
2 Corinthians 17.698
Romans 16.045
Matthew 15.82
Diversity: 0.8
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
2 Corinthians 10 19.887
Hosea 4 19.864
Romans 15 19.853
Matthew 23 19.72
2 Timothy 3 19.703
Diversity: 0.8
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
2 Corinthians 10.8 19.993
Matthew 23.13 19.986
Hosea 4.6 19.977
Romans 15.4 19.97
2 Timothy 3.16 19.948
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase