Early English Printed Sermons


Two discourses The first, of evil-speaking: by His Grace, John, late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury. The second, of the government of the thoughts: by His Grace, John, Lord Archbishop of York. Both preach'd before Their Majesties, 1694.

Sharp, John, 1645-1714
Tillotson, John, 1630-1694
Publisher: printed for Walter Kettilby Brabazon Aylmer and William Rogers in St Paul s Church yard Cornhill and Fleetstreet
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1698
Approximate Era: WilliamAndMary
TCP ID: A62646 ESTC ID: R219325 STC ID: T1270B
Subject Headings: 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 4.2% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 2.4% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 90.9% 100.0%
NonLatinAlphabet Percentage of units with a NonLatinAlphabet placeholder 0.1% -inf%
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) 2.4% -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: 0.871
Evenness: 0.937
Part Prominence
New Testament (AKJV) 14.239
New Testament (Wycliffe) 5.046
New Testament (Tyndale) 3.312
Apocrypha (AKJV) 2.109
New Testament (Vulgate) 1.858
Old Testament (ODRV) 0.297
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) -1.885
Old Testament (Geneva) -3.268
New Testament (Geneva) -4.392
New Testament (ODRV) -4.471
Old Testament (AKJV) -5.379
Diversity: 0.966
Evenness: 0.975
Book Prominence
James (AKJV) 8.445
Proverbs (AKJV) 5.415
Wisdom (AKJV) 4.23
1 Peter (Tyndale) 4.057
James (Vulgate) 2.221
John (Wycliffe) 2.097
James (Tyndale) 2.035
Ecclesiastes (Douay-Rheims) 1.859
Galatians (Tyndale) 1.857
James (Geneva) 1.85
Exodus (Geneva) 1.833
1 John (Tyndale) 1.824
Titus (AKJV) 1.819
James (ODRV) 1.814
2 Timothy (AKJV) 1.741
Ecclesiasticus (AKJV) 1.632
Hebrews (ODRV) 1.561
Hebrews (Geneva) 1.531
Philippians (ODRV) 1.523
1 Peter (AKJV) 1.485
Proverbs (Geneva) 1.342
Ephesians (AKJV) 1.322
Luke (ODRV) 1.281
Job (AKJV) 1.279
Hebrews (AKJV) 1.245
Matthew (Tyndale) 1.187
Matthew (Geneva) 1.111
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 1.083
Luke (AKJV) 1.075
Psalms (ODRV) 1.062
1 Corinthians (Geneva) 1.001
Matthew (ODRV) 0.859
Romans (Geneva) 0.813
Matthew (AKJV) 0.758
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 0.705
Romans (AKJV) 0.43
Psalms (AKJV) -0.509
Diversity: 0.972
Evenness: 0.978
Chapter Prominence
James 1 (AKJV) 7.548
Proverbs 4 (AKJV) 5.685
James 3 (Vulgate) 3.84
Wisdom 1 (AKJV) 3.816
1 Peter 2 (Tyndale) 3.685
James 1 (Vulgate) 1.915
Ecclesiasticus 19 (AKJV) 1.913
John 9 (Wycliffe) 1.911
Psalms 15 (AKJV) 1.904
Exodus 22 (Geneva) 1.9
Proverbs 4 (Geneva) 1.896
Psalms 141 (AKJV) 1.893
Job 20 (AKJV) 1.892
James 1 (Tyndale) 1.888
Matthew 12 (Tyndale) 1.883
Proverbs 26 (AKJV) 1.882
Psalms 33 (ODRV) 1.882
Ecclesiastes 7 (Douay-Rheims) 1.871
Psalms 39 (AKJV) 1.87
Luke 9 (ODRV) 1.869
Matthew 24 (ODRV) 1.865
Matthew 12 (Geneva) 1.861
Matthew 12 (AKJV) 1.858
Matthew 15 (AKJV) 1.845
James 1 (ODRV) 1.845
James 3 (Geneva) 1.842
1 Corinthians 6 (Geneva) 1.84
Psalms 89 (AKJV) 1.839
Galatians 5 (Tyndale) 1.839
Hebrews 4 (ODRV) 1.835
1 Peter 3 (AKJV) 1.833
Ephesians 6 (AKJV) 1.833
Psalms 34 (AKJV) 1.829
Hebrews 13 (Geneva) 1.821
Luke 12 (AKJV) 1.817
Titus 3 (AKJV) 1.812
Romans 14 (Geneva) 1.811
Philippians 3 (ODRV) 1.788
1 John 4 (Tyndale) 1.787
Hebrews 13 (AKJV) 1.768
2 Timothy 3 (AKJV) 1.762
Romans 14 (AKJV) 1.756
1 Corinthians 15 (AKJV) 1.72
1 Corinthians 15 (ODRV) 1.607
Diversity: 0.978
Evenness: 0.976
Verse Prominence
James 1.26 (AKJV) 5.628
Ecclesiasticus 19.8 (AKJV) 4.223
Proverbs 4.23 (AKJV) 4.203
James 1.15 (AKJV) 4.193
Ecclesiasticus 19.13 (AKJV) 2.816
Wisdom 1.11 (AKJV) 2.815
James 3.2 (Vulgate) 2.814
Psalms 34.12 (AKJV) 2.812
1 Peter 2.23 (Tyndale) 2.804
Ecclesiasticus 19.14 (AKJV) 1.408
Ecclesiasticus 19.9 (AKJV) 1.408
Ecclesiasticus 19.10 (AKJV) 1.408
Ecclesiasticus 19.15 (AKJV) 1.407
Ecclesiastes 7.23 (Douay-Rheims) 1.407
Matthew 12.37 (Tyndale) 1.407
James 1.15 (Vulgate) 1.406
Matthew 12.37 (AKJV) 1.406
Hebrews 13.21 (Geneva) 1.406
1 Peter 3.10 (AKJV) 1.405
Psalms 34.13 (AKJV) 1.405
Matthew 12.34 (AKJV) 1.405
Proverbs 26.19 (AKJV) 1.405
Psalms 33.14 (ODRV) 1.405
Proverbs 4.23 (Geneva) 1.405
Ephesians 6.19 (AKJV) 1.405
Psalms 15.3 (AKJV) 1.404
Romans 14.16 (Geneva) 1.404
Job 20.16 (AKJV) 1.404
Proverbs 26.18 (AKJV) 1.404
Luke 9.24 (ODRV) 1.404
James 1.14 (Tyndale) 1.404
Psalms 89.51 (AKJV) 1.403
Psalms 39.1 (AKJV) 1.402
Romans 14.16 (AKJV) 1.402
Matthew 15.19 (AKJV) 1.402
James 1.26 (ODRV) 1.402
Galatians 5.24 (Tyndale) 1.402
Hebrews 4.12 (ODRV) 1.401
Titus 3.2 (AKJV) 1.4
2 Timothy 3.2 (AKJV) 1.4
Matthew 12.36 (Geneva) 1.4
Luke 12.34 (AKJV) 1.4
John 9.5 (Wycliffe) 1.4
Matthew 24.12 (ODRV) 1.399
1 Corinthians 15.33 (AKJV) 1.399
Psalms 141.3 (AKJV) 1.398
Exodus 22.28 (Geneva) 1.398
James 1.13 (AKJV) 1.397
James 1.14 (AKJV) 1.396
Psalms 15.1 (AKJV) 1.396
Hebrews 13.20 (AKJV) 1.394
James 3.6 (Geneva) 1.393
1 Corinthians 6.10 (Geneva) 1.392
1 Corinthians 15.19 (ODRV) 1.392
2 Timothy 3.5 (AKJV) 1.361
1 John 4.11 (Tyndale) 1.358
Philippians 3.20 (ODRV) 1.348
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: 0.625
Evenness: 0.946
Part Prominence
Apocrypha 20.529
Old Testament 2.666
New Testament -23.195
Diversity: 0.86
Evenness: 0.974
Book Prominence
1 Corinthians 16.71
Psalms 14.828
Ecclesiasticus 9.8
2 Timothy 8.557
James 8.492
Proverbs 6.952
Romans 6.045
Matthew 5.82
Diversity: 0.907
Evenness: 0.978
Chapter Prominence
Psalms 34 13.2
James 1 13.055
1 Corinthians 6 13.047
Ecclesiasticus 19 6.66
Psalms 15 6.584
Psalms 31 6.582
Proverbs 23 6.534
James 3 6.512
Matthew 15 6.506
Matthew 24 6.432
2 Timothy 3 6.37
Romans 1 6.225
Diversity: 0.941
Evenness: 0.983
Verse Prominence
Psalms 34.12 8.686
Psalms 34.13 8.686
James 1.26 8.682
1 Corinthians 6.10 8.654
Ecclesiasticus 19.16 4.346
Ecclesiasticus 19.13 4.346
Ecclesiasticus 19.14 4.346
Ecclesiasticus 19.15 4.346
Ecclesiasticus 19.9 4.346
Ecclesiasticus 19.10 4.346
Ecclesiasticus 19.8 4.345
Psalms 31.1 4.345
Matthew 24.12 4.338
Romans 1.29 4.337
Matthew 15.19 4.335
Psalms 15.1 4.329
James 3.2 4.325
2 Timothy 3.3 4.325
2 Timothy 3.2 4.317
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase