Early English Printed Sermons


A discourse of the necessity of Revelation and an holy life deliver'd in a visitation-sermon at Guilford, October 7, 1697 / by William Whitfeld.

Whitfeld, William, 1658-1717
Publisher: Printed by E Holt for Tho Bennet
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1698
Approximate Era: WilliamAndMary
TCP ID: A65927 ESTC ID: R26358 STC ID: W2014
Subject Headings: Revelation; Sermons, English -- 17th century; Visitation sermons;
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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 1.0% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 0.3% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 84.8% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 11.3% -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) 1.7% -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: 0.843
Evenness: 0.948
Part Prominence
New Testament (AKJV) 14.845
New Testament (Geneva) 7.123
Apocrypha (AKJV) 4.533
New Testament (Vulgate) 4.282
Old Testament (Geneva) -0.844
New Testament (Tyndale) -0.931
New Testament (ODRV) -2.047
Old Testament (AKJV) -2.955
Diversity: 0.959
Evenness: 0.982
Book Prominence
Acts (AKJV) 8.257
2 Peter (AKJV) 5.641
Acts (Geneva) 5.516
Ephesians (Geneva) 5.259
Colossians (Vulgate) 2.954
2 Timothy (Tyndale) 2.819
2 Peter (ODRV) 2.807
1 Timothy (Tyndale) 2.743
2 Samuel (AKJV) 2.653
Acts (Tyndale) 2.497
Ecclesiasticus (AKJV) 2.39
Galatians (AKJV) 2.358
Acts (ODRV) 2.342
1 Timothy (AKJV) 2.323
Hebrews (ODRV) 2.319
1 Corinthians (Tyndale) 2.158
Proverbs (Geneva) 2.1
Ephesians (AKJV) 2.079
Luke (ODRV) 2.038
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 1.841
Luke (AKJV) 1.832
Romans (ODRV) 1.78
1 Corinthians (Geneva) 1.759
Matthew (ODRV) 1.617
Romans (Geneva) 1.57
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 1.462
Romans (AKJV) 1.188
Psalms (AKJV) 0.249
Diversity: 0.968
Evenness: 0.984
Chapter Prominence
Acts 4 (AKJV) 7.089
Acts 4 (Geneva) 4.716
2 Peter 1 (AKJV) 4.625
Ephesians 4 (Geneva) 4.503
Ephesians 4 (AKJV) 4.409
2 Samuel 10 (AKJV) 2.377
1 Timothy 3 (Tyndale) 2.37
Acts 10 (Tyndale) 2.366
Ecclesiasticus 37 (AKJV) 2.364
Colossians 1 (Vulgate) 2.354
Acts 10 (AKJV) 2.35
1 Corinthians 13 (Tyndale) 2.35
Matthew 4 (ODRV) 2.349
Acts 17 (ODRV) 2.346
Acts 4 (ODRV) 2.343
Proverbs 15 (Geneva) 2.34
2 Timothy 1 (Tyndale) 2.336
1 Timothy 1 (Tyndale) 2.336
1 Corinthians 13 (ODRV) 2.331
Romans 4 (ODRV) 2.329
Ephesians 3 (AKJV) 2.32
Acts 17 (AKJV) 2.313
Psalms 50 (AKJV) 2.309
Galatians 4 (AKJV) 2.308
2 Peter 1 (ODRV) 2.306
1 Corinthians 13 (Geneva) 2.305
Luke 1 (ODRV) 2.304
Romans 4 (AKJV) 2.301
1 Timothy 3 (AKJV) 2.295
1 Corinthians 13 (AKJV) 2.288
1 Corinthians 2 (ODRV) 2.279
Romans 1 (Geneva) 2.278
Luke 12 (AKJV) 2.275
Luke 2 (AKJV) 2.271
Hebrews 12 (ODRV) 2.27
1 Corinthians 1 (AKJV) 2.235
Diversity: 0.976
Evenness: 0.988
Verse Prominence
Acts 4.12 (AKJV) 5.64
Acts 4.12 (Geneva) 3.762
2 Peter 1.5 (AKJV) 3.746
Ephesians 4.3 (AKJV) 3.661
Ephesians 4.3 (Geneva) 3.661
Matthew 4.16 (ODRV) 1.886
Psalms 50.1 (AKJV) 1.886
Ecclesiasticus 37.28 (AKJV) 1.886
Acts 17.32 (ODRV) 1.886
Proverbs 15.10 (Geneva) 1.886
Acts 4.29 (AKJV) 1.886
Luke 1.77 (ODRV) 1.885
2 Peter 1.9 (AKJV) 1.885
Acts 10.2 (AKJV) 1.885
Psalms 50.19 (AKJV) 1.885
Acts 10.35 (AKJV) 1.884
1 Timothy 3.9 (Tyndale) 1.884
2 Samuel 10.12 (AKJV) 1.884
2 Peter 1.8 (AKJV) 1.883
Acts 10.31 (Tyndale) 1.883
Psalms 50.18 (AKJV) 1.882
1 Timothy 1.19 (Tyndale) 1.882
Psalms 50.17 (AKJV) 1.882
1 Corinthians 13.12 (Tyndale) 1.881
Galatians 4.4 (AKJV) 1.88
Luke 2.32 (AKJV) 1.88
1 Corinthians 13.9 (Geneva) 1.88
1 Corinthians 13.9 (ODRV) 1.88
Ephesians 3.4 (AKJV) 1.88
Acts 17.21 (AKJV) 1.88
Psalms 50.16 (AKJV) 1.88
Romans 1.19 (Geneva) 1.879
Romans 4.21 (ODRV) 1.878
Luke 12.31 (AKJV) 1.878
1 Corinthians 1.18 (AKJV) 1.877
2 Peter 1.6 (ODRV) 1.877
2 Peter 1.6 (AKJV) 1.876
Romans 4.20 (AKJV) 1.875
1 Corinthians 13.12 (AKJV) 1.874
Psalms 50.23 (AKJV) 1.872
Acts 4.12 (ODRV) 1.872
Colossians 1.14 (Vulgate) 1.872
1 Corinthians 2.9 (ODRV) 1.865
2 Timothy 1.10 (Tyndale) 1.859
1 Timothy 3.16 (AKJV) 1.855
1 Corinthians 1.10 (AKJV) 1.855
Hebrews 12.14 (ODRV) 1.842
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: 0.5
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
2 Peter 48.716
Psalms 44.828
Diversity: 0.5
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Psalms 50 49.75
2 Peter 1 49.726
Diversity: 0.5
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Psalms 50.23 49.971
2 Peter 1.5 49.956
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase