Early English Printed Sermons


The best gift, or God's call upon young men for their hearts Delivered in a sermon to young men. By Thomas Vincent, minister sometime of Maudlins Milkstreet, London.

Vincent, Thomas, 1634-1678
Publisher: printed for George Calvert and Samuel Sprint and are to be sold at the Golden Ball in Duck Lane
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1672
Approximate Era: CharlesII
TCP ID: A64977 ESTC ID: R222561 STC ID: V427
Subject Headings: Christian life; Sermons, English -- 17th century; Young men -- Conduct of life;
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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 7.2% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 6.1% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 85.9% 100.0%
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 0.8% -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) 4.9% -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: 0.883
Evenness: 0.948
Part Prominence
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 10.198
Old Testament (AKJV) 6.704
New Testament (Wycliffe) 4.629
Apocrypha (Douay-Rheims) 2.847
Apocrypha (AKJV) 1.692
New Testament (AKJV) 0.072
Old Testament (ODRV) -0.119
Old Testament (Geneva) -3.685
New Testament (Tyndale) -3.772
New Testament (Geneva) -4.808
New Testament (ODRV) -4.888
Diversity: 0.964
Evenness: 0.979
Book Prominence
Proverbs (Douay-Rheims) 6.884
Proverbs (AKJV) 6.289
Ecclesiastes (Geneva) 4.634
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 3.56
Luke (Wycliffe) 2.465
2 Esdras (AKJV) 2.3
1 John (Geneva) 2.104
1 Peter (Tyndale) 2.075
Jeremiah (Douay-Rheims) 2.071
Colossians (AKJV) 2.057
Revelation (ODRV) 2.011
1 Peter (Geneva) 1.982
1 John (AKJV) 1.964
James (AKJV) 1.918
Ecclesiasticus (Douay-Rheims) 1.886
1 Timothy (AKJV) 1.857
Philippians (ODRV) 1.814
Luke (Tyndale) 1.789
2 Corinthians (AKJV) 1.669
Ephesians (AKJV) 1.613
Romans (Tyndale) 1.577
Job (AKJV) 1.57
John (ODRV) 1.509
Matthew (Geneva) 1.402
John (AKJV) 1.38
Psalms (ODRV) 1.354
Romans (ODRV) 1.314
1 Corinthians (Geneva) 1.293
Romans (Geneva) 1.104
Matthew (AKJV) 1.05
Psalms (Geneva) 0.749
Romans (AKJV) 0.721
Psalms (AKJV) -0.217
Diversity: 0.975
Evenness: 0.981
Chapter Prominence
Proverbs 23 (Douay-Rheims) 5.417
Proverbs 23 (AKJV) 5.377
Romans 11 (AKJV) 5.344
Ecclesiastes 11 (Geneva) 3.575
1 Corinthians 6 (AKJV) 3.521
Luke 2 (Wycliffe) 1.816
2 Esdras 9 (AKJV) 1.808
Psalms 72 (ODRV) 1.806
Psalms 12 (Geneva) 1.804
Psalms 24 (Geneva) 1.799
Jeremiah 17 (Douay-Rheims) 1.796
Psalms 63 (AKJV) 1.794
Proverbs 2 (Douay-Rheims) 1.794
Job 28 (AKJV) 1.79
Ecclesiasticus 10 (Douay-Rheims) 1.788
Psalms 51 (Geneva) 1.78
Proverbs 21 (Douay-Rheims) 1.78
Matthew 22 (Geneva) 1.766
2 Corinthians 6 (AKJV) 1.762
1 Peter 5 (Tyndale) 1.76
2 Corinthians 3 (AKJV) 1.759
Romans 11 (ODRV) 1.759
Revelation 3 (ODRV) 1.758
Psalms 27 (AKJV) 1.757
Ephesians 3 (AKJV) 1.757
Romans 11 (Geneva) 1.755
Luke 16 (Tyndale) 1.746
Matthew 15 (AKJV) 1.74
1 Peter 5 (Geneva) 1.738
1 Corinthians 6 (Geneva) 1.735
James 4 (AKJV) 1.728
Matthew 22 (AKJV) 1.728
Psalms 51 (AKJV) 1.72
John 3 (AKJV) 1.719
John 3 (ODRV) 1.718
1 Peter 1 (Geneva) 1.71
1 John 4 (AKJV) 1.706
1 John 2 (AKJV) 1.706
1 John 3 (Geneva) 1.699
Philippians 3 (ODRV) 1.684
Romans 8 (Tyndale) 1.684
Colossians 3 (AKJV) 1.679
1 Timothy 6 (AKJV) 1.663
2 Corinthians 5 (AKJV) 1.659
1 John 3 (AKJV) 1.649
Romans 2 (AKJV) 1.648
Ephesians 4 (AKJV) 1.466
Diversity: 0.978
Evenness: 0.983
Verse Prominence
Proverbs 23.26 (Douay-Rheims) 4.83
Proverbs 23.5 (AKJV) 4.812
Romans 11.33 (AKJV) 4.802
1 Corinthians 6.20 (AKJV) 3.204
Ecclesiastes 11.9 (Geneva) 3.197
Luke 2.19 (Wycliffe) 1.612
Jeremiah 17.9 (Douay-Rheims) 1.612
Proverbs 2.4 (Douay-Rheims) 1.612
2 Corinthians 6.16 (AKJV) 1.611
Psalms 51.16 (Geneva) 1.611
Ecclesiasticus 10.11 (Douay-Rheims) 1.611
2 Corinthians 3.9 (AKJV) 1.611
Psalms 72.12 (ODRV) 1.611
Proverbs 21.18 (Douay-Rheims) 1.61
Psalms 24.7 (Geneva) 1.609
Romans 2.28 (AKJV) 1.609
1 John 4.10 (AKJV) 1.609
2 Esdras 9.16 (AKJV) 1.609
1 John 4.16 (AKJV) 1.609
John 3.15 (ODRV) 1.608
Psalms 63.2 (AKJV) 1.608
Romans 2.29 (AKJV) 1.608
Psalms 63.1 (AKJV) 1.608
Job 28.17 (AKJV) 1.608
Ephesians 3.20 (AKJV) 1.607
Colossians 3.5 (AKJV) 1.607
Ephesians 4.18 (AKJV) 1.606
1 John 4.9 (AKJV) 1.606
Psalms 12.4 (Geneva) 1.605
Matthew 22.38 (AKJV) 1.605
Luke 16.20 (Tyndale) 1.605
Matthew 22.37 (Geneva) 1.604
1 Peter 5.7 (Tyndale) 1.603
1 Corinthians 6.8 (Geneva) 1.603
1 Timothy 6.9 (AKJV) 1.603
Matthew 15.8 (AKJV) 1.602
Psalms 51.17 (Geneva) 1.601
1 Peter 5.7 (Geneva) 1.6
1 Corinthians 6.19 (Geneva) 1.6
Philippians 3.19 (ODRV) 1.6
Psalms 27.4 (AKJV) 1.599
Romans 11.33 (Geneva) 1.599
Revelation 3.20 (ODRV) 1.599
1 John 3.20 (Geneva) 1.598
1 John 3.20 (AKJV) 1.598
Romans 8.32 (Tyndale) 1.597
James 4.4 (AKJV) 1.596
1 Peter 5.4 (Geneva) 1.595
Romans 11.33 (ODRV) 1.592
Psalms 51.17 (AKJV) 1.591
John 3.16 (AKJV) 1.591
2 Corinthians 5.20 (AKJV) 1.589
1 John 2.15 (AKJV) 1.584
1 Peter 1.4 (Geneva) 1.572
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: 0.933
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Colossians 5.281
1 John 5.232
James 5.159
Philippians 4.919
1 Timothy 4.829
Ecclesiastes 4.71
Ephesians 4.504
Job 4.424
2 Corinthians 4.364
Proverbs 3.619
Luke 3.449
1 Corinthians 3.376
Romans 2.712
Matthew 2.487
Psalms 1.495
Diversity: 0.952
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Psalms 63 4.708
Job 3 4.657
Psalms 27 4.657
Proverbs 23 4.629
Ecclesiastes 11 4.625
Ephesians 3 4.602
Matthew 15 4.601
1 John 4 4.591
James 4 4.565
Psalms 51 4.557
Romans 11 4.556
Luke 2 4.549
2 Corinthians 6 4.539
1 Timothy 6 4.503
Matthew 22 4.502
1 Corinthians 6 4.476
Colossians 3 4.446
Romans 2 4.428
Philippians 3 4.389
2 Corinthians 5 4.388
Ephesians 4 4.298
Diversity: 0.967
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Psalms 51.16 3.33
Ephesians 3.21 3.33
Luke 2.19 3.328
1 John 4.9 3.327
Job 3.20 3.326
Psalms 63.1 3.326
Psalms 63.2 3.326
Romans 2.29 3.325
Job 3.16 3.324
Romans 2.28 3.323
Matthew 22.38 3.321
Ephesians 3.20 3.321
1 John 4.8 3.321
1 John 4.10 3.32
Matthew 15.8 3.317
Matthew 22.37 3.313
2 Corinthians 6.16 3.311
James 4.4 3.31
Psalms 51.17 3.309
Psalms 27.4 3.309
Ephesians 4.18 3.307
1 Timothy 6.9 3.306
Proverbs 23.5 3.303
1 Corinthians 6.19 3.302
Philippians 3.19 3.3
Romans 11.33 3.299
1 Corinthians 6.20 3.298
Colossians 3.5 3.281
Ecclesiastes 11.9 3.279
2 Corinthians 5.20 3.269
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase