Early English Printed Sermons


A warning to back-sliders, or, A discovery for the recovery of fallen ones delivered in a sermon at Pauls, before the Right Honourable, the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the city of London / Ralph Venning.

Venning, Ralph, 1621?-1674
Publisher: Printed by T R E M for John Rothwel
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1654
Approximate Era: Interregnum
TCP ID: A64836 ESTC ID: R8176 STC ID: V229
Subject Headings: Bible. -- N.T. -- Revelation II, 5; Salvation; 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 4.7% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 3.1% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 79.6% 100.0%
Foreign Percentage of units with foreign text 0.2% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 16.6% -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) 5.1% -inf%
foreign_italicized Percentage of units with QP and foreign italicized text 0.2% -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: 0.889
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Apocrypha (AKJV) 6.553
Old Testament (ODRV) 4.742
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 2.559
Old Testament (Geneva) 1.177
New Testament (Tyndale) 1.09
New Testament (Geneva) 0.053
New Testament (ODRV) -0.027
Old Testament (AKJV) -0.935
New Testament (AKJV) -1.317
Diversity: 0.979
Evenness: 0.992
Book Prominence
2 Peter (Tyndale) 3.379
Galatians (Geneva) 3.153
Revelation (ODRV) 3.083
Jeremiah (AKJV) 2.983
Ephesians (AKJV) 2.685
Tobit (AKJV) 1.752
1 Esdras (AKJV) 1.739
1 Samuel (Geneva) 1.575
Leviticus (AKJV) 1.543
1 Kings (Douay-Rheims) 1.542
Hosea (AKJV) 1.507
Lamentations (AKJV) 1.499
Ezekiel (Douay-Rheims) 1.478
Ezekiel (AKJV) 1.448
Revelation (Tyndale) 1.439
2 Peter (AKJV) 1.399
1 Samuel (AKJV) 1.399
2 Corinthians (Tyndale) 1.375
Jeremiah (Geneva) 1.369
Hebrews (Tyndale) 1.367
Jeremiah (Douay-Rheims) 1.325
Ecclesiastes (Geneva) 1.323
Genesis (ODRV) 1.272
Exodus (AKJV) 1.235
Galatians (ODRV) 1.233
Galatians (AKJV) 1.146
Hebrews (Geneva) 1.076
2 Corinthians (Geneva) 1.07
Philippians (AKJV) 1.056
Luke (Tyndale) 1.043
Proverbs (Douay-Rheims) 1.01
John (Geneva) 0.948
2 Corinthians (AKJV) 0.923
Genesis (AKJV) 0.92
Romans (Tyndale) 0.831
Luke (ODRV) 0.826
Job (AKJV) 0.825
Hebrews (AKJV) 0.791
Matthew (Tyndale) 0.733
Matthew (Geneva) 0.656
John (AKJV) 0.634
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 0.628
Psalms (ODRV) 0.608
Proverbs (AKJV) 0.415
Matthew (ODRV) 0.405
Matthew (AKJV) 0.304
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 0.25
Psalms (Geneva) 0.003
Romans (AKJV) -0.024
Psalms (AKJV) -0.963
Diversity: 0.985
Evenness: 0.992
Chapter Prominence
Jeremiah 3 (AKJV) 2.438
Revelation 2 (ODRV) 2.436
Jeremiah 8 (AKJV) 2.429
Galatians 4 (Geneva) 2.417
2 Peter 2 (Tyndale) 2.416
Revelation 3 (ODRV) 2.409
Ephesians 5 (AKJV) 2.283
Psalms 119 (AKJV) 2.249
1 Esdras 3 (AKJV) 1.23
1 Samuel 24 (Geneva) 1.23
Psalms 80 (ODRV) 1.229
Genesis 24 (ODRV) 1.228
Tobit 10 (AKJV) 1.227
Jeremiah 3 (Douay-Rheims) 1.226
Jeremiah 14 (Douay-Rheims) 1.224
1 Samuel 24 (AKJV) 1.222
Jeremiah 2 (Douay-Rheims) 1.216
Ezekiel 16 (AKJV) 1.214
Psalms 4 (Geneva) 1.214
Hosea 2 (AKJV) 1.213
Ezekiel 16 (Douay-Rheims) 1.213
1 Kings 24 (Douay-Rheims) 1.212
Jeremiah 8 (Geneva) 1.211
Psalms 63 (AKJV) 1.21
Proverbs 6 (Douay-Rheims) 1.208
2 Corinthians 6 (Tyndale) 1.208
Psalms 120 (AKJV) 1.203
Jeremiah 2 (AKJV) 1.202
Exodus 23 (AKJV) 1.202
Psalms 12 (AKJV) 1.201
Psalms 118 (ODRV) 1.201
1 Corinthians 5 (AKJV) 1.201
John 13 (Geneva) 1.199
Proverbs 23 (Douay-Rheims) 1.198
Revelation 2 (Tyndale) 1.197
Luke 23 (Tyndale) 1.196
2 Corinthians 13 (AKJV) 1.193
Psalms 33 (ODRV) 1.193
Matthew 26 (Geneva) 1.192
Hebrews 11 (Tyndale) 1.191
Romans 10 (Tyndale) 1.188
Psalms 103 (Geneva) 1.187
Genesis 9 (AKJV) 1.186
Job 34 (AKJV) 1.18
2 Corinthians 6 (AKJV) 1.178
Galatians 4 (ODRV) 1.177
John 10 (AKJV) 1.176
Leviticus 19 (AKJV) 1.176
Proverbs 22 (AKJV) 1.172
Matthew 10 (Tyndale) 1.172
Ecclesiastes 12 (Geneva) 1.169
Luke 23 (ODRV) 1.167
Genesis 4 (AKJV) 1.167
Matthew 26 (AKJV) 1.165
Matthew 26 (ODRV) 1.163
Galatians 4 (AKJV) 1.162
2 Corinthians 6 (Geneva) 1.158
2 Peter 3 (AKJV) 1.147
Romans 10 (AKJV) 1.135
Hebrews 11 (Geneva) 1.132
Matthew 25 (Geneva) 1.13
Hebrews 10 (Geneva) 1.129
Lamentations 3 (AKJV) 1.121
Galatians 6 (ODRV) 1.119
Psalms 78 (AKJV) 1.118
Romans 3 (AKJV) 1.105
Philippians 3 (AKJV) 1.084
2 Corinthians 5 (AKJV) 1.075
Galatians 5 (AKJV) 1.067
Hebrews 11 (AKJV) 1.061
Hebrews 10 (AKJV) 1.057
Philippians 2 (AKJV) 1.015
1 Corinthians 15 (ODRV) 0.918
Diversity: 0.984
Evenness: 0.977
Verse Prominence
Revelation 2.5 (Tyndale) 6.917
1 Kings 24.12 (Douay-Rheims) 1.98
Jeremiah 8.5 (AKJV) 1.979
Ezekiel 16.63 (AKJV) 1.979
1 Samuel 24.17 (AKJV) 1.978
Revelation 3.6 (ODRV) 1.977
Jeremiah 3.22 (AKJV) 1.977
Revelation 2.5 (ODRV) 1.976
Galatians 4.14 (Geneva) 1.976
2 Peter 2.21 (Tyndale) 1.974
Psalms 119.59 (AKJV) 1.97
Ephesians 5.11 (AKJV) 1.959
Genesis 24.34 (ODRV) 0.99
Job 34.27 (AKJV) 0.99
Ezekiel 16.61 (AKJV) 0.99
Jeremiah 2.31 (Douay-Rheims) 0.99
Jeremiah 3.1 (Douay-Rheims) 0.99
1 Samuel 24.10 (AKJV) 0.99
1 Samuel 24.19 (Geneva) 0.99
1 Samuel 24.18 (AKJV) 0.99
Jeremiah 14.3 (Douay-Rheims) 0.99
Genesis 9.23 (AKJV) 0.99
2 Corinthians 6.14 (Tyndale) 0.99
Psalms 80.17 (ODRV) 0.989
1 Kings 24.17 (Douay-Rheims) 0.989
Matthew 26.75 (Geneva) 0.989
Lamentations 3.19 (AKJV) 0.989
1 Esdras 3.23 (AKJV) 0.989
Ezekiel 16.61 (Douay-Rheims) 0.989
Hebrews 11.14 (Geneva) 0.989
Galatians 4.19 (ODRV) 0.989
Proverbs 6.27 (Douay-Rheims) 0.989
Psalms 78.25 (AKJV) 0.988
Psalms 103.10 (Geneva) 0.988
Matthew 26.75 (ODRV) 0.988
Psalms 63.6 (AKJV) 0.988
2 Corinthians 13.1 (AKJV) 0.988
Jeremiah 2.5 (AKJV) 0.988
John 10.32 (AKJV) 0.988
Genesis 4.5 (AKJV) 0.988
Galatians 4.15 (AKJV) 0.988
Psalms 118.136 (ODRV) 0.988
Hosea 2.7 (AKJV) 0.987
Galatians 5.7 (AKJV) 0.987
Matthew 26.75 (AKJV) 0.987
Luke 23.43 (Tyndale) 0.987
Hebrews 11.13 (Tyndale) 0.987
Hebrews 11.14 (AKJV) 0.987
Romans 10.15 (Tyndale) 0.987
Galatians 4.16 (ODRV) 0.987
Psalms 33.12 (ODRV) 0.987
Tobit 10.9 (AKJV) 0.986
Jeremiah 8.6 (Geneva) 0.986
Psalms 12.2 (AKJV) 0.986
Revelation 2.4 (Tyndale) 0.985
Jeremiah 8.6 (AKJV) 0.985
Proverbs 23.31 (Douay-Rheims) 0.985
John 13.35 (Geneva) 0.985
1 Corinthians 5.10 (AKJV) 0.984
2 Peter 3.9 (AKJV) 0.983
Matthew 10.28 (Tyndale) 0.983
Hebrews 11.13 (AKJV) 0.983
Psalms 4.6 (Geneva) 0.982
Galatians 4.19 (AKJV) 0.981
Exodus 23.2 (AKJV) 0.981
Romans 3.23 (AKJV) 0.98
2 Corinthians 6.15 (AKJV) 0.98
2 Corinthians 6.15 (Geneva) 0.979
2 Corinthians 5.11 (AKJV) 0.977
Psalms 12.1 (AKJV) 0.977
Matthew 25.34 (Geneva) 0.977
Romans 10.15 (AKJV) 0.976
Psalms 120.5 (AKJV) 0.975
Ecclesiastes 12.14 (Geneva) 0.974
Matthew 10.24 (Tyndale) 0.974
Proverbs 22.6 (AKJV) 0.973
Philippians 3.19 (AKJV) 0.973
Luke 23.43 (ODRV) 0.969
Galatians 6.14 (ODRV) 0.965
Leviticus 19.17 (AKJV) 0.963
Hebrews 10.31 (AKJV) 0.956
Hebrews 10.31 (Geneva) 0.956
Philippians 2.12 (AKJV) 0.944
1 Corinthians 15.58 (ODRV) 0.94
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: 0.923
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Hosea 6.495
Ezekiel 6.088
1 Samuel 5.91
Galatians 5.873
Revelation 5.566
Jeremiah 5.451
2 Corinthians 5.39
John 4.486
Luke 4.474
1 Corinthians 4.402
Isaiah 4.311
Matthew 3.512
Psalms 2.521
Diversity: 0.938
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Psalms 63 6.196
1 Samuel 24 6.195
Jeremiah 8 6.167
Hosea 2 6.158
Jeremiah 2 6.144
Ezekiel 16 6.14
Jeremiah 3 6.127
1 Corinthians 5 6.123
Luke 15 6.12
Galatians 4 6.048
Isaiah 57 6.041
John 15 6.029
2 Corinthians 6 6.027
Revelation 2 6.026
Matthew 26 5.919
Psalms 119 5.854
Diversity: 0.923
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Isaiah 57.11 7.69
Matthew 26.25 7.689
Jeremiah 8.5 7.689
John 15.20 7.688
1 Corinthians 5.9 7.688
Psalms 63.6 7.687
Hosea 2.7 7.687
Jeremiah 3.1 7.683
Jeremiah 3.22 7.683
Jeremiah 8.6 7.676
Psalms 119.59 7.673
2 Corinthians 6.14 7.67
Revelation 2.5 7.658
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase