Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon preached at the funeral of the Reverend Benjamin Whichcot, D.D. and minister of S. Lawrence Jewry, London, May 24th, 1683 by John Tillotson ...

Tillotson, John, 1630-1694
Whichcote, Benjamin, 1609-1683
Publisher: Printed by M Flesher for Brabazon Aylmer and William Rogers
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1683
Approximate Era: CharlesII
TCP ID: A62598 ESTC ID: R985 STC ID: T1235
Subject Headings: Funeral sermons; 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 1.3% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 82.7% 100.0%
NonLatinAlphabet Percentage of units with a NonLatinAlphabet placeholder 1.3% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 11.5% -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) 7.4% -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: 0.844
Evenness: 0.98
Part Prominence
Old Testament (AKJV) 12.954
New Testament (Vulgate) 7.691
Old Testament (ODRV) 6.131
New Testament (Tyndale) 2.478
New Testament (Geneva) 1.442
New Testament (ODRV) 1.362
New Testament (AKJV) 0.072
Diversity: 0.925
Evenness: 0.936
Book Prominence
2 Corinthians (ODRV) 16.487
2 Corinthians (AKJV) 12.898
Psalms (AKJV) 4.115
Titus (Vulgate) 3.43
Daniel (ODRV) 3.313
Philippians (Geneva) 3.03
2 Corinthians (Tyndale) 3.005
1 Thessalonians (AKJV) 2.998
Revelation (Geneva) 2.936
Acts (ODRV) 2.76
Hebrews (Geneva) 2.706
2 Corinthians (Geneva) 2.7
John (Geneva) 2.578
Hebrews (AKJV) 2.421
John (AKJV) 2.264
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 2.259
Romans (ODRV) 2.198
1 Corinthians (Geneva) 2.177
Matthew (AKJV) 1.934
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 1.88
Romans (AKJV) 1.606
Diversity: 0.938
Evenness: 0.945
Chapter Prominence
2 Corinthians 5 (ODRV) 14.952
2 Corinthians 5 (AKJV) 11.962
Psalms 42 (AKJV) 6.023
Daniel 12 (ODRV) 3.023
Titus 2 (Vulgate) 3.022
John 21 (Geneva) 3.013
John 21 (AKJV) 3.004
Matthew 27 (AKJV) 2.983
Acts 13 (ODRV) 2.981
Revelation 14 (Geneva) 2.949
2 Corinthians 5 (Tyndale) 2.941
Philippians 3 (Geneva) 2.939
1 Thessalonians 4 (AKJV) 2.929
Hebrews 13 (Geneva) 2.928
Romans 1 (AKJV) 2.918
2 Corinthians 5 (Geneva) 2.909
2 Corinthians 4 (AKJV) 2.89
Psalms 37 (AKJV) 2.875
Hebrews 13 (AKJV) 2.875
Romans 8 (ODRV) 2.844
1 Corinthians 11 (AKJV) 2.844
1 Corinthians 15 (AKJV) 2.828
Romans 6 (AKJV) 2.827
1 Corinthians 15 (Geneva) 2.769
1 Corinthians 15 (ODRV) 2.714
Diversity: 0.962
Evenness: 0.95
Verse Prominence
2 Corinthians 5.1 (ODRV) 8.711
2 Corinthians 5.6 (Geneva) 7.013
2 Corinthians 5.6 (AKJV) 7.003
2 Corinthians 5.8 (AKJV) 7.0
2 Corinthians 5.2 (AKJV) 5.251
Psalms 42.2 (AKJV) 3.501
2 Corinthians 5.2 (Geneva) 3.498
Titus 2.13 (Vulgate) 1.754
Matthew 27.52 (AKJV) 1.754
John 21.23 (Geneva) 1.753
John 21.23 (AKJV) 1.752
2 Corinthians 5.3 (ODRV) 1.752
Hebrews 13.21 (Geneva) 1.752
2 Corinthians 5.3 (Geneva) 1.751
2 Corinthians 5.5 (AKJV) 1.751
2 Corinthians 5.5 (Geneva) 1.751
Daniel 12.2 (ODRV) 1.751
1 Corinthians 15.51 (AKJV) 1.751
2 Corinthians 5.3 (AKJV) 1.75
2 Corinthians 5.4 (AKJV) 1.75
2 Corinthians 5.4 (ODRV) 1.749
1 Corinthians 15.18 (Geneva) 1.748
2 Corinthians 5.6 (ODRV) 1.748
1 Corinthians 15.20 (Geneva) 1.747
Romans 8.11 (ODRV) 1.746
2 Corinthians 5.1 (AKJV) 1.745
2 Corinthians 5.8 (Tyndale) 1.745
Acts 13.36 (ODRV) 1.743
Romans 1.4 (AKJV) 1.741
Hebrews 13.20 (AKJV) 1.74
Philippians 3.9 (Geneva) 1.734
1 Thessalonians 4.14 (AKJV) 1.733
2 Corinthians 5.1 (Geneva) 1.729
1 Corinthians 11.26 (AKJV) 1.722
Romans 6.5 (AKJV) 1.719
1 Corinthians 15.56 (ODRV) 1.714
2 Corinthians 4.17 (AKJV) 1.711
Revelation 14.13 (Geneva) 1.7
1 Corinthians 15.42 (Geneva) 1.697
Psalms 37.37 (AKJV) 1.692
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: 0.857
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
1 Thessalonians 13.208
Daniel 12.95
Revelation 12.16
2 Corinthians 11.984
Acts 11.082
1 Corinthians 10.995
Matthew 10.106
Diversity: 0.857
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Daniel 12 14.172
Matthew 27 14.139
Revelation 14 14.094
1 Thessalonians 4 14.071
2 Corinthians 6 14.063
Acts 13 14.06
1 Corinthians 15 13.851
Diversity: 0.833
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
1 Corinthians 15.21 16.66
Matthew 27.52 16.653
Daniel 12.2 16.647
Acts 13.36 16.645
1 Thessalonians 4.14 16.641
Revelation 14.13 16.558
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase