Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon preached at the anniversary meeting of the clergy-mens sons in the church of St. Mary-le-Bow, December 3, 1691 by Thomas Tenison.

Tenison, Thomas, 1636-1715
Publisher: Printed for Ric Chiswell
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1691
Approximate Era: WilliamAndMary
TCP ID: A64376 ESTC ID: R23739 STC ID: T718
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 1.9% -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 90.3% 100.0%
NonLatinAlphabet Percentage of units with a NonLatinAlphabet placeholder 0.5% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 7.7% -inf%
sim_score Average cosine similarity score of top Bible verse predictions per unit 0.7% -inf%
cross_score Average cross encoder score of top Bible verse predictions per unit 0.7% -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) 1.4% -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: 0.857
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
New Testament (Vulgate) 9.477
Old Testament (Geneva) 4.351
New Testament (Tyndale) 4.264
New Testament (Geneva) 3.227
New Testament (ODRV) 3.148
Old Testament (AKJV) 2.24
New Testament (AKJV) 1.858
Diversity: 0.955
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
1 Timothy (Vulgate) 4.49
James (Tyndale) 4.308
1 Timothy (Tyndale) 4.258
James (ODRV) 4.087
Acts (Tyndale) 4.012
Exodus (AKJV) 3.962
Galatians (AKJV) 3.874
1 Timothy (AKJV) 3.838
Philippians (AKJV) 3.784
Luke (Tyndale) 3.77
John (Geneva) 3.675
1 Corinthians (Tyndale) 3.673
2 Corinthians (AKJV) 3.65
John (AKJV) 3.361
Romans (ODRV) 3.295
1 Corinthians (Geneva) 3.274
Romans (Geneva) 3.085
Matthew (AKJV) 3.031
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 2.978
Psalms (Geneva) 2.731
Romans (AKJV) 2.703
Psalms (AKJV) 1.764
Diversity: 0.958
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
1 Timothy 5 (Vulgate) 4.161
Psalms 71 (Geneva) 4.154
Acts 8 (Tyndale) 4.149
Luke 14 (Tyndale) 4.144
Psalms 71 (AKJV) 4.142
1 Timothy 5 (Tyndale) 4.137
Exodus 23 (AKJV) 4.134
1 Corinthians 16 (AKJV) 4.132
John 7 (Geneva) 4.125
2 Corinthians 8 (AKJV) 4.118
James 2 (Tyndale) 4.108
1 Timothy 5 (AKJV) 4.108
James 4 (ODRV) 4.103
Psalms 50 (AKJV) 4.094
1 Corinthians 3 (Geneva) 4.093
John 7 (AKJV) 4.089
Romans 10 (ODRV) 4.071
Matthew 25 (AKJV) 4.067
1 Corinthians 3 (AKJV) 4.035
1 Corinthians 15 (Tyndale) 4.034
Galatians 6 (AKJV) 4.025
Romans 2 (Geneva) 4.005
Romans 2 (AKJV) 3.997
Philippians 4 (AKJV) 3.992
Diversity: 0.958
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
1 Timothy 5.10 (Tyndale) 4.165
Acts 8.2 (Tyndale) 4.164
2 Corinthians 8.13 (AKJV) 4.164
James 2.1 (Tyndale) 4.164
1 Timothy 5.17 (Vulgate) 4.163
1 Timothy 5.3 (AKJV) 4.163
Psalms 50.18 (AKJV) 4.162
Psalms 71.11 (Geneva) 4.162
1 Corinthians 16.14 (AKJV) 4.161
1 Corinthians 15.20 (Tyndale) 4.16
Psalms 71.11 (AKJV) 4.16
Luke 14.27 (Tyndale) 4.16
Exodus 23.2 (AKJV) 4.157
1 Corinthians 3.3 (Geneva) 4.155
1 Corinthians 3.3 (AKJV) 4.154
James 4.1 (ODRV) 4.151
John 7.24 (AKJV) 4.151
John 7.24 (Geneva) 4.151
Matthew 25.23 (AKJV) 4.148
Philippians 4.20 (AKJV) 4.143
Romans 10.17 (ODRV) 4.137
Romans 2.11 (AKJV) 4.122
Romans 2.11 (Geneva) 4.122
Galatians 6.10 (AKJV) 4.113
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: 0.889
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Mark 9.805
Numbers 9.682
James 9.603
Galatians 9.292
1 Timothy 9.274
Exodus 8.996
1 Corinthians 7.821
Matthew 6.931
Psalms 5.94
Diversity: 0.909
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Mark 12 9.038
Exodus 23 9.01
Matthew 20 8.959
Numbers 16 8.937
1 Timothy 5 8.908
James 2 8.903
1 Corinthians 12 8.889
Psalms 50 8.841
Matthew 22 8.831
Galatians 5 8.806
1 Corinthians 1 8.753
Diversity: 0.944
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
James 2.4 5.553
Mark 12.14 5.553
James 2.9 5.551
Psalms 50.18 5.55
Numbers 16.41 5.55
James 2.1 5.55
James 2.2 5.55
James 2.3 5.55
Psalms 50.17 5.549
Exodus 23.2 5.547
Matthew 20.15 5.547
1 Corinthians 12.3 5.547
Matthew 22.16 5.546
1 Corinthians 12.4 5.539
1 Timothy 5.22 5.537
Psalms 50.16 5.529
Galatians 5.19 5.529
Galatians 5.20 5.525
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase