Early English Printed Sermons


The fiery tryal no strange thing delivered in a sermon preached at Charlestown February 15, 1681, being a day of humiliation / by Samuel Willard teacher of a church in Boston in New-England.

Willard, Samuel, 1640-1707
Publisher: Printed for Samuel Sewall
Place of Publication: Boston
Publication Year: 1682
Approximate Era: CharlesII
TCP ID: A66099 ESTC ID: R33663 STC ID: W2276
Subject Headings: Congregational churches; Fast-day sermons; Sermons, American -- 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 9.4% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 5.0% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 87.7% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 9.1% -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) 1.9% -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: 0.875
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Old Testament (ODRV) 6.131
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 3.948
Old Testament (Geneva) 2.565
New Testament (Tyndale) 2.478
New Testament (Geneva) 1.442
New Testament (ODRV) 1.362
Old Testament (AKJV) 0.454
New Testament (AKJV) 0.072
Diversity: 0.96
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Zechariah (Douay-Rheims) 3.862
Exodus (ODRV) 3.666
2 Timothy (Geneva) 3.658
Jeremiah (Geneva) 3.551
1 John (Tyndale) 3.551
2 Timothy (AKJV) 3.468
Acts (Tyndale) 3.466
Deuteronomy (AKJV) 3.432
1 Peter (Geneva) 3.418
Exodus (AKJV) 3.417
Job (Geneva) 3.301
Philippians (ODRV) 3.25
Luke (Tyndale) 3.224
1 Peter (AKJV) 3.213
Isaiah (Douay-Rheims) 3.124
2 Corinthians (AKJV) 3.105
Luke (ODRV) 3.008
Job (AKJV) 3.006
John (ODRV) 2.945
Matthew (Geneva) 2.838
Psalms (ODRV) 2.79
Isaiah (AKJV) 2.717
Matthew (AKJV) 2.485
Psalms (Geneva) 2.185
Psalms (AKJV) 1.219
Diversity: 0.97
Evenness: 0.991
Chapter Prominence
1 Peter 4 (AKJV) 7.567
Isaiah 31 (Douay-Rheims) 2.561
Acts 14 (Tyndale) 2.56
Zechariah 13 (Douay-Rheims) 2.56
Psalms 57 (Geneva) 2.559
Exodus 6 (AKJV) 2.558
Isaiah 38 (Douay-Rheims) 2.553
Luke 5 (Tyndale) 2.551
Exodus 1 (AKJV) 2.55
Psalms 65 (ODRV) 2.549
Jeremiah 4 (Geneva) 2.548
Exodus 3 (ODRV) 2.548
Luke 20 (Tyndale) 2.544
Isaiah 10 (AKJV) 2.543
Job 19 (Geneva) 2.541
Job 19 (AKJV) 2.539
Deuteronomy 28 (AKJV) 2.537
Isaiah 38 (AKJV) 2.535
Psalms 65 (AKJV) 2.529
Job 31 (AKJV) 2.523
Job 13 (AKJV) 2.522
Psalms 103 (Geneva) 2.516
2 Corinthians 6 (AKJV) 2.508
Luke 20 (ODRV) 2.501
2 Timothy 3 (Geneva) 2.496
Matthew 13 (Geneva) 2.492
1 Peter 4 (Geneva) 2.488
Matthew 16 (AKJV) 2.484
John 10 (ODRV) 2.483
1 John 3 (Tyndale) 2.466
1 Peter 1 (Geneva) 2.456
Isaiah 1 (AKJV) 2.439
Psalms 73 (AKJV) 2.437
1 Peter 1 (AKJV) 2.432
Matthew 10 (AKJV) 2.422
Philippians 1 (ODRV) 2.409
2 Timothy 3 (AKJV) 2.403
Diversity: 0.973
Evenness: 0.992
Verse Prominence
1 Peter 4.12 (AKJV) 7.135
Isaiah 31.9 (Douay-Rheims) 2.381
Acts 14.22 (Tyndale) 2.381
1 Peter 4.12 (Geneva) 2.38
Luke 5.26 (Tyndale) 2.38
Psalms 73.16 (AKJV) 2.38
Job 19.11 (AKJV) 2.38
Job 19.11 (Geneva) 2.38
Isaiah 38.13 (AKJV) 2.38
Isaiah 38.13 (Douay-Rheims) 2.38
Psalms 57.4 (Geneva) 2.38
Matthew 13.21 (Geneva) 2.38
Job 13.24 (AKJV) 2.38
Deuteronomy 28.50 (AKJV) 2.38
Jeremiah 4.18 (Geneva) 2.379
1 John 3.13 (Tyndale) 2.379
Zechariah 13.9 (Douay-Rheims) 2.379
Exodus 6.9 (AKJV) 2.379
Psalms 103.9 (Geneva) 2.379
Luke 20.7 (Tyndale) 2.378
Luke 20.7 (ODRV) 2.378
Psalms 65.12 (ODRV) 2.378
Matthew 10.16 (AKJV) 2.378
2 Corinthians 6.5 (AKJV) 2.377
Exodus 1.14 (AKJV) 2.377
1 Peter 1.6 (AKJV) 2.376
Job 31.3 (AKJV) 2.376
1 Peter 4.4 (AKJV) 2.376
John 10.13 (ODRV) 2.376
1 Peter 1.7 (Geneva) 2.376
Isaiah 10.5 (AKJV) 2.376
2 Timothy 3.12 (Geneva) 2.375
2 Timothy 3.12 (AKJV) 2.375
Psalms 65.7 (AKJV) 2.372
Exodus 3.2 (ODRV) 2.372
Isaiah 1.25 (AKJV) 2.372
1 Peter 4.4 (Geneva) 2.371
1 Peter 4.13 (AKJV) 2.367
Matthew 16.18 (AKJV) 2.363
Philippians 1.29 (ODRV) 2.346
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: 0.943
Evenness: 0.989
Book Prominence
Malachi 8.727
Zechariah 8.604
Jonah 4.363
Colossians 3.377
2 Timothy 3.319
1 Peter 2.731
Exodus 2.647
Revelation 2.636
Deuteronomy 2.631
Jeremiah 2.52
Job 2.519
Genesis 2.137
Hebrews 1.976
Acts 1.559
John 1.556
Luke 1.544
Isaiah 1.38
Matthew 0.582
Psalms -0.41
Diversity: 0.974
Evenness: 0.995
Chapter Prominence
Zechariah 13 4.714
Malachi 3 4.566
Isaiah 15 2.373
Isaiah 16 2.366
Isaiah 31 2.365
Exodus 6 2.356
Jonah 2 2.35
Psalms 57 2.342
Luke 5 2.335
Genesis 42 2.334
Isaiah 14 2.323
Isaiah 27 2.318
Psalms 66 2.316
Deuteronomy 8 2.315
Job 19 2.314
Isaiah 33 2.305
Revelation 18 2.296
Genesis 22 2.289
Psalms 77 2.287
Isaiah 10 2.287
Deuteronomy 28 2.281
Acts 14 2.275
Jeremiah 2 2.275
Jeremiah 31 2.255
Isaiah 49 2.242
Acts 8 2.21
Psalms 73 2.199
1 Peter 4 2.188
John 16 2.179
Psalms 9 2.177
Isaiah 57 2.172
Revelation 2 2.157
Colossians 1 2.154
Matthew 13 2.117
Matthew 10 2.086
2 Timothy 3 2.084
Matthew 16 2.073
1 Peter 1 2.055
Hebrews 11 1.935
Matthew 5 1.824
Diversity: 0.974
Evenness: 0.995
Verse Prominence
Zechariah 13.9 4.755
Malachi 3.3 4.754
Hebrews 11.11 2.38
Isaiah 33.13 2.38
Isaiah 31.9 2.38
Acts 14.21 2.38
Revelation 18.9 2.379
Luke 5.26 2.379
Psalms 9.2 2.379
Deuteronomy 28.50 2.379
Psalms 73.16 2.378
Job 19.11 2.378
Jeremiah 2.17 2.378
Exodus 6.9 2.378
Deuteronomy 28.49 2.378
Zechariah 13.8 2.378
Genesis 42.36 2.377
Deuteronomy 8.16 2.377
Psalms 77.8 2.376
Jeremiah 31.28 2.376
Psalms 66.12 2.375
Jonah 2.4 2.375
Isaiah 10.7 2.375
Isaiah 57.17 2.374
Psalms 57.4 2.372
Matthew 13.21 2.372
Psalms 73.13 2.372
1 Peter 4.4 2.369
Isaiah 27.9 2.369
Colossians 1.24 2.365
1 Peter 1.6 2.365
Hebrews 11.35 2.363
Acts 14.22 2.362
1 Peter 1.7 2.362
2 Timothy 3.12 2.36
Matthew 10.16 2.357
Matthew 5.10 2.352
Matthew 16.18 2.34
Hebrews 11.1 2.336
Isaiah 57.1 2.331
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase