Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon preach'd before the Honourable House of Commons, on Wednesday the 16th of April, a day appointed by Their Majesties, for a solemn monthly fast by John Tillotson ...

Tillotson, John, 1630-1694
Publisher: Printed for Brabazon Aylmer William Rogers and John Tillotson
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1690
Approximate Era: WilliamAndMary
TCP ID: A62604 ESTC ID: R16574 STC ID: T1241
Subject Headings: Bible. -- O.T. -- Ecclesiastes IX, 11; Fast-day 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 5.0% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 3.8% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 83.3% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 10.6% -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) 5.3% -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: 0.949
Part Prominence
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 21.448
Apocrypha (AKJV) 5.442
Old Testament (ODRV) 3.631
Old Testament (Geneva) 0.065
New Testament (Geneva) -1.058
New Testament (ODRV) -1.138
Old Testament (AKJV) -2.046
New Testament (AKJV) -2.428
Diversity: 0.959
Evenness: 0.985
Book Prominence
Ecclesiastes (Douay-Rheims) 9.264
Ecclesiastes (Geneva) 5.957
Esther (Douay-Rheims) 3.17
Lamentations (ODRV) 3.119
4 Kings (Douay-Rheims) 3.01
Judges (AKJV) 2.988
2 Esdras (AKJV) 2.961
Daniel (Geneva) 2.959
Leviticus (AKJV) 2.951
1 Peter (ODRV) 2.792
Galatians (Geneva) 2.742
Revelation (AKJV) 2.691
Acts (Geneva) 2.682
Deuteronomy (AKJV) 2.658
Ecclesiastes (AKJV) 2.477
Acts (AKJV) 2.392
Isaiah (Douay-Rheims) 2.35
Isaiah (Geneva) 2.32
Proverbs (Geneva) 2.295
Job (AKJV) 2.232
Hebrews (AKJV) 2.198
Psalms (ODRV) 2.015
Romans (ODRV) 1.975
1 Corinthians (Geneva) 1.954
Isaiah (AKJV) 1.943
Proverbs (AKJV) 1.823
Psalms (Geneva) 1.411
Psalms (AKJV) 0.445
Diversity: 0.972
Evenness: 0.986
Chapter Prominence
Ecclesiastes 9 (Douay-Rheims) 6.51
Ecclesiastes 4 (Geneva) 4.326
Isaiah 58 (AKJV) 4.307
Ecclesiastes 9 (Geneva) 4.303
Isaiah 40 (AKJV) 4.278
Esther 14 (Douay-Rheims) 2.169
4 Kings 19 (Douay-Rheims) 2.169
Isaiah 37 (Geneva) 2.167
2 Esdras 12 (AKJV) 2.165
Isaiah 37 (AKJV) 2.164
Isaiah 37 (Douay-Rheims) 2.162
Psalms 148 (ODRV) 2.16
Isaiah 58 (Douay-Rheims) 2.158
Daniel 4 (Geneva) 2.152
Psalms 136 (Geneva) 2.151
Deuteronomy 23 (AKJV) 2.148
Acts 10 (Geneva) 2.148
Isaiah 58 (Geneva) 2.144
Galatians 1 (Geneva) 2.143
Isaiah 26 (Geneva) 2.142
Leviticus 26 (AKJV) 2.138
Lamentations 3 (ODRV) 2.135
Revelation 1 (AKJV) 2.132
Judges 5 (AKJV) 2.128
Job 9 (AKJV) 2.127
Psalms 78 (Geneva) 2.127
Ecclesiastes 7 (Douay-Rheims) 2.122
Proverbs 21 (Geneva) 2.115
Proverbs 3 (Geneva) 2.114
Proverbs 21 (AKJV) 2.11
Psalms 33 (AKJV) 2.107
Isaiah 26 (AKJV) 2.1
Ecclesiastes 9 (AKJV) 2.097
Acts 24 (AKJV) 2.091
1 Peter 1 (ODRV) 2.086
1 Corinthians 1 (Geneva) 2.082
Proverbs 3 (AKJV) 2.078
Psalms 44 (AKJV) 2.064
Hebrews 13 (AKJV) 2.018
Romans 8 (ODRV) 1.988
Diversity: 0.978
Evenness: 0.988
Verse Prominence
Ecclesiastes 9.11 (Douay-Rheims) 5.083
Ecclesiastes 4.7 (Geneva) 3.389
Ecclesiastes 9.11 (Geneva) 3.386
Isaiah 40.29 (AKJV) 3.386
Isaiah 58.8 (AKJV) 3.384
Isaiah 58.6 (AKJV) 3.377
Isaiah 37.27 (AKJV) 1.695
Ecclesiastes 7.28 (Douay-Rheims) 1.695
Isaiah 37.26 (AKJV) 1.695
Isaiah 26.12 (Geneva) 1.694
Daniel 4.32 (Geneva) 1.694
4 Kings 19.22 (Douay-Rheims) 1.694
Isaiah 37.28 (Douay-Rheims) 1.694
Isaiah 37.29 (Douay-Rheims) 1.694
Isaiah 37.32 (Douay-Rheims) 1.694
Isaiah 58.9 (Douay-Rheims) 1.694
Proverbs 3.7 (AKJV) 1.694
Isaiah 58.5 (Geneva) 1.693
Isaiah 37.23 (Geneva) 1.693
1 Peter 1.3 (ODRV) 1.693
Lamentations 3.37 (ODRV) 1.693
Psalms 78.9 (Geneva) 1.693
Isaiah 37.29 (AKJV) 1.693
Proverbs 3.5 (Geneva) 1.693
Isaiah 26.10 (Geneva) 1.693
Romans 8.37 (ODRV) 1.693
Psalms 148.11 (ODRV) 1.692
Esther 14.6 (Douay-Rheims) 1.692
Psalms 136.15 (Geneva) 1.692
Acts 10.31 (Geneva) 1.692
Isaiah 58.7 (Geneva) 1.691
Leviticus 26.8 (AKJV) 1.691
Galatians 1.5 (Geneva) 1.691
Proverbs 21.31 (AKJV) 1.69
Ecclesiastes 9.11 (AKJV) 1.689
Proverbs 21.31 (Geneva) 1.689
1 Corinthians 1.28 (Geneva) 1.689
Isaiah 58.5 (Douay-Rheims) 1.689
Isaiah 58.7 (AKJV) 1.688
2 Esdras 12.28 (AKJV) 1.688
Deuteronomy 23.9 (AKJV) 1.687
Job 9.12 (AKJV) 1.686
Judges 5.20 (AKJV) 1.686
Psalms 44.6 (AKJV) 1.686
Proverbs 21.30 (Geneva) 1.685
Isaiah 26.11 (AKJV) 1.684
Proverbs 3.6 (Geneva) 1.684
Ecclesiastes 9.10 (Geneva) 1.683
Psalms 33.16 (AKJV) 1.683
Hebrews 13.20 (AKJV) 1.681
Revelation 1.6 (AKJV) 1.68
Acts 24.16 (AKJV) 1.638
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: 0.0
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Old Testament 52.666
Diversity: 0.75
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Deuteronomy 22.869
Proverbs 21.952
Isaiah 21.618
Psalms 19.828
Diversity: 0.875
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Deuteronomy 23 12.451
Isaiah 37 12.433
Psalms 44 12.431
Psalms 33 12.39
Proverbs 21 12.361
Isaiah 26 12.354
Isaiah 58 12.347
Proverbs 3 12.319
Diversity: 0.941
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Isaiah 37.23 5.881
Isaiah 37.26 5.881
Isaiah 37.32 5.881
Isaiah 37.27 5.88
Isaiah 37.28 5.88
Isaiah 37.29 5.88
Isaiah 26.10 5.875
Psalms 44.6 5.874
Proverbs 21.31 5.874
Proverbs 3.5 5.874
Psalms 33.16 5.872
Isaiah 58.5 5.87
Proverbs 21.30 5.868
Proverbs 3.6 5.868
Deuteronomy 23.9 5.867
Isaiah 26.11 5.851
Isaiah 58.6 5.845
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase