Early English Printed Sermons


The sinfulness of worshipping God with men's institutions as it was delivered in a sermon / by Samuel Willard.

Willard, Samuel, 1640-1707
Publisher: Printed by Benjamin Harris and John Allen
Place of Publication: Boston
Publication Year: 1691
Approximate Era: WilliamAndMary
TCP ID: A66110 ESTC ID: W24933 STC ID: W2295
Subject Headings: Sermons, American -- 17th century; Theology, Practical; Worship;
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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 2.7% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 2.0% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 95.3% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 4.0% -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) 0.7% -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: 0.857
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 5.734
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: 0.923
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Joshua (Geneva) 7.577
Hosea (Geneva) 7.504
Ezekiel (Douay-Rheims) 7.352
Ecclesiastes (Douay-Rheims) 7.279
Hebrews (Tyndale) 7.241
Proverbs (Douay-Rheims) 6.884
Ephesians (AKJV) 6.741
Hebrews (AKJV) 6.665
Matthew (Geneva) 6.531
Romans (ODRV) 6.442
Proverbs (AKJV) 6.289
Matthew (AKJV) 6.178
Psalms (AKJV) 4.911
Diversity: 0.929
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Ezekiel 43 (Douay-Rheims) 7.14
Hosea 8 (Geneva) 7.134
Joshua 24 (Geneva) 7.123
Hebrews 3 (Tyndale) 7.122
Matthew 15 (Geneva) 7.115
Ecclesiastes 5 (Douay-Rheims) 7.111
Proverbs 6 (AKJV) 7.097
Psalms 81 (AKJV) 7.096
Hebrews 3 (AKJV) 7.095
Proverbs 1 (Douay-Rheims) 7.085
Matthew 15 (AKJV) 7.065
Psalms 122 (AKJV) 7.005
Romans 13 (ODRV) 6.985
Ephesians 5 (AKJV) 6.957
Diversity: 0.929
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Hosea 8.11 (Geneva) 7.142
Ezekiel 43.11 (Douay-Rheims) 7.141
Joshua 24.16 (Geneva) 7.14
Hebrews 3.2 (Tyndale) 7.14
Matthew 15.2 (Geneva) 7.139
Proverbs 6.34 (AKJV) 7.139
Proverbs 1.18 (Douay-Rheims) 7.139
Matthew 15.9 (AKJV) 7.136
Ecclesiastes 5.9 (Douay-Rheims) 7.136
Hebrews 3.2 (AKJV) 7.133
Psalms 81.12 (AKJV) 7.125
Ephesians 5.11 (AKJV) 7.122
Psalms 122.1 (AKJV) 7.121
Romans 13.5 (ODRV) 7.116
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: 0.93
Evenness: 0.992
Book Prominence
Exodus 10.385
Zechariah 5.33
Hosea 5.053
2 Chronicles 5.014
1 Kings 4.773
Ezekiel 4.646
Deuteronomy 4.119
Ephesians 4.088
Jeremiah 4.008
Hebrews 3.464
Proverbs 3.202
Acts 3.047
Isaiah 2.868
Matthew 2.07
Psalms 1.078
Diversity: 0.932
Evenness: 0.987
Chapter Prominence
Exodus 20 10.977
Exodus 32 10.968
Ezekiel 43 5.54
2 Chronicles 33 5.519
Hosea 8 5.519
Zechariah 7 5.515
Deuteronomy 5 5.502
Psalms 81 5.501
1 Kings 12 5.49
Isaiah 29 5.488
Jeremiah 7 5.454
Hebrews 3 5.432
Proverbs 30 5.418
Matthew 15 5.395
Ephesians 5 5.252
Acts 17 5.234
Diversity: 0.94
Evenness: 0.988
Verse Prominence
Exodus 32.5 9.997
Exodus 20.5 9.983
Deuteronomy 5.6 4.999
2 Chronicles 33.2 4.998
Hosea 8.11 4.998
2 Chronicles 33.17 4.997
Hosea 8.14 4.997
Jeremiah 7.31 4.997
Proverbs 30.6 4.995
Ezekiel 43.11 4.995
Hebrews 3.2 4.991
Psalms 81.12 4.991
Psalms 81.11 4.99
Ephesians 5.11 4.987
Zechariah 7.5 4.984
Isaiah 29.13 4.98
Matthew 15.9 4.979
Acts 17.11 4.973
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase