Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon preached at White-hall, April the 4th, 1679 by John Tillotson ...

Tillotson, John, 1630-1694
Publisher: Printed for Brabazon Aylmer and William Rogers
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1679
Approximate Era: CharlesII
TCP ID: A62596 ESTC ID: R10423 STC ID: T1233
Subject Headings: Bible. -- N.T. -- Epistles of John, 1st, IV, 1; Sermons -- England -- London -- 17th century; Sermons, English;
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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 1.6% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 0.5% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 93.3% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 6.2% -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) 1.8% -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: 0.82
Evenness: 0.943
Part Prominence
New Testament (Tyndale) 19.978
New Testament (ODRV) 8.862
Old Testament (ODRV) 3.631
Old Testament (Geneva) 0.065
New Testament (Geneva) -1.058
Old Testament (AKJV) -2.046
New Testament (AKJV) -2.428
Diversity: 0.929
Evenness: 0.945
Book Prominence
1 John (AKJV) 17.258
1 John (Tyndale) 10.266
1 John (ODRV) 6.676
Exodus (ODRV) 3.238
Deuteronomy (Geneva) 3.161
1 John (Geneva) 3.111
Exodus (AKJV) 2.988
Ephesians (ODRV) 2.92
Galatians (AKJV) 2.9
Philippians (AKJV) 2.81
John (Geneva) 2.701
John (Tyndale) 2.694
Ephesians (AKJV) 2.62
Hebrews (AKJV) 2.544
John (ODRV) 2.516
John (AKJV) 2.387
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 2.382
Romans (ODRV) 2.321
1 Corinthians (Geneva) 2.3
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 2.004
Romans (AKJV) 1.729
Diversity: 0.932
Evenness: 0.947
Chapter Prominence
1 John 4 (AKJV) 17.129
1 John 4 (Tyndale) 10.209
1 John 4 (ODRV) 6.826
Deuteronomy 13 (Geneva) 3.441
Exodus 4 (ODRV) 3.439
Exodus 4 (AKJV) 3.425
1 Corinthians 6 (ODRV) 3.396
Galatians 1 (AKJV) 3.392
1 John 4 (Geneva) 3.371
Romans 9 (AKJV) 3.358
Romans 10 (ODRV) 3.352
John 3 (AKJV) 3.349
John 3 (ODRV) 3.349
John 3 (Geneva) 3.34
John 3 (Tyndale) 3.313
1 Corinthians 14 (AKJV) 3.31
Ephesians 4 (ODRV) 3.283
Philippians 4 (AKJV) 3.274
Hebrews 10 (AKJV) 3.271
1 Corinthians 10 (Geneva) 3.265
1 Corinthians 10 (AKJV) 3.147
Ephesians 4 (AKJV) 3.096
Diversity: 0.936
Evenness: 0.949
Verse Prominence
1 John 4.1 (AKJV) 16.638
1 John 4.1 (Tyndale) 9.991
1 John 4.1 (ODRV) 6.662
Exodus 4.5 (ODRV) 3.333
Deuteronomy 13.2 (Geneva) 3.332
Exodus 4.1 (AKJV) 3.331
John 3.20 (AKJV) 3.331
John 3.21 (AKJV) 3.33
1 Corinthians 6.2 (ODRV) 3.329
John 3.20 (Geneva) 3.329
Romans 10.8 (ODRV) 3.329
John 3.19 (ODRV) 3.324
Romans 9.20 (AKJV) 3.323
1 Corinthians 14.33 (AKJV) 3.321
1 John 4.1 (Geneva) 3.321
John 3.20 (Tyndale) 3.321
Ephesians 4.14 (AKJV) 3.32
Ephesians 4.3 (ODRV) 3.317
Galatians 1.8 (AKJV) 3.315
Hebrews 10.23 (AKJV) 3.312
Philippians 4.20 (AKJV) 3.309
1 Corinthians 10.16 (Geneva) 3.249
1 Corinthians 10.16 (AKJV) 3.247
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: 0.667
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Galatians 31.514
Exodus 31.218
Deuteronomy 31.203
Diversity: 0.667
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Deuteronomy 13 33.262
Exodus 4 33.26
Galatians 1 33.165
Diversity: 0.75
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Exodus 4.2 24.994
Exodus 4.1 24.992
Deuteronomy 13.1 24.988
Galatians 1.8 24.955
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase