Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, on Wednesday the 11th of December, 1695 being a solemn day of fasting and humiliation, appointed by His Majesty, for imploring the blessing of Almighty God upon the consultations of this present Parliament / by John Williams ...

Williams, John, 1636?-1709
Publisher: Printed for Ri Chiswell and Tho Cockerill
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1695
Approximate Era: WilliamAndMary
TCP ID: A66421 ESTC ID: R7405 STC ID: W2728
Subject Headings: Church of England; Fast-day sermons; 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 3.1% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 2.4% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 94.5% 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 0.8% -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) 1.2% -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: 0.8
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 11.448
Old Testament (Geneva) 10.065
New Testament (Geneva) 8.942
Old Testament (AKJV) 7.954
New Testament (AKJV) 7.572
Diversity: 0.933
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
1 Samuel (Geneva) 6.424
1 Kings (Douay-Rheims) 6.39
1 Samuel (AKJV) 6.248
Exodus (Geneva) 6.227
Jeremiah (AKJV) 6.014
Ecclesiastes (AKJV) 5.918
Isaiah (Douay-Rheims) 5.791
Genesis (AKJV) 5.768
Luke (Geneva) 5.768
Isaiah (Geneva) 5.761
Proverbs (Geneva) 5.736
Isaiah (AKJV) 5.384
Proverbs (AKJV) 5.263
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 5.099
Psalms (AKJV) 3.885
Diversity: 0.947
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
1 Samuel 4 (Geneva) 5.256
1 Samuel 1 (AKJV) 5.252
Isaiah 62 (Douay-Rheims) 5.248
1 Kings 17 (Douay-Rheims) 5.247
1 Samuel 17 (AKJV) 5.247
1 Samuel 2 (Geneva) 5.245
Exodus 17 (Geneva) 5.244
Isaiah 10 (AKJV) 5.242
Isaiah 22 (Geneva) 5.241
1 Samuel 2 (AKJV) 5.235
Jeremiah 7 (AKJV) 5.235
Psalms 83 (AKJV) 5.221
Psalms 32 (AKJV) 5.22
Ecclesiastes 1 (AKJV) 5.208
Proverbs 3 (Geneva) 5.203
Genesis 1 (AKJV) 5.199
Luke 12 (Geneva) 5.17
Proverbs 3 (AKJV) 5.167
1 Corinthians 10 (AKJV) 4.961
Diversity: 0.947
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
1 Samuel 1.3 (AKJV) 5.262
1 Samuel 17.45 (AKJV) 5.262
Isaiah 22.8 (Geneva) 5.262
1 Samuel 4.11 (Geneva) 5.262
Ecclesiastes 1.4 (AKJV) 5.261
1 Kings 17.45 (Douay-Rheims) 5.261
Genesis 1.17 (AKJV) 5.261
Psalms 83.5 (AKJV) 5.26
Isaiah 10.12 (AKJV) 5.26
Psalms 32.9 (AKJV) 5.26
Proverbs 3.5 (AKJV) 5.259
1 Samuel 2.17 (Geneva) 5.258
Jeremiah 7.12 (AKJV) 5.257
Luke 12.48 (Geneva) 5.257
1 Samuel 2.17 (AKJV) 5.255
Exodus 17.11 (Geneva) 5.253
Isaiah 62.7 (Douay-Rheims) 5.253
Proverbs 3.6 (Geneva) 5.252
1 Corinthians 10.11 (AKJV) 5.23
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: 0.918
Evenness: 0.99
Book Prominence
Psalms 9.114
Ezra 6.729
1 Chronicles 6.534
Judges 6.045
1 Samuel 5.36
Ecclesiastes 5.186
Jeremiah 4.901
Proverbs 4.095
Acts 3.939
Luke 3.925
1 Corinthians 3.853
Isaiah 3.761
Romans 3.188
Diversity: 0.934
Evenness: 0.992
Chapter Prominence
Psalms 78 11.62
1 Chronicles 6 5.879
Judges 3 5.845
Ezra 7 5.844
Isaiah 62 5.84
1 Samuel 1 5.831
Isaiah 22 5.815
1 Samuel 17 5.813
Isaiah 10 5.788
Jeremiah 7 5.781
Romans 15 5.735
Ecclesiastes 9 5.717
Proverbs 3 5.701
Acts 13 5.656
1 Corinthians 10 5.556
Luke 12 5.51
Diversity: 0.955
Evenness: 0.989
Verse Prominence
Judges 3.6 7.406
Judges 3.1 7.405
Psalms 78.60 7.404
Ezra 7.3 3.703
1 Chronicles 6.7 3.703
Judges 3.4 3.703
Isaiah 22.8 3.702
Judges 3.8 3.702
Judges 3.10 3.702
1 Samuel 1.26 3.701
Acts 13.20 3.701
Judges 3.12 3.701
1 Samuel 1.15 3.7
Proverbs 3.5 3.696
1 Samuel 17.45 3.695
1 Corinthians 10.6 3.693
Jeremiah 7.4 3.692
Jeremiah 7.12 3.692
Isaiah 62.7 3.691
Proverbs 3.6 3.689
Isaiah 10.5 3.688
Ecclesiastes 9.11 3.687
Romans 15.4 3.674
Luke 12.48 3.673
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase