Early English Printed Sermons


The unreasonableness of infidelity a sermon preached at St. Martins in the Fields, April 6, 1696, being the fourth of the lecture for this present year, founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esquire / by John Williams ...

Williams, John, 1636?-1709
Publisher: Printed for Ri Chiswell and Tho Cockerill
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1696
Approximate Era: WilliamAndMary
TCP ID: A66430 ESTC ID: R38945 STC ID: W2737
Subject Headings: Bible. -- N.T. -- Luke XVI, 31; Church of England; 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 6.9% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 4.1% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 83.9% 100.0%
Foreign Percentage of units with foreign text 0.3% -inf%
NonLatinAlphabet Percentage of units with a NonLatinAlphabet placeholder 0.6% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 13.6% -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 0.8% -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) 1.9% -inf%
foreign_italicized Percentage of units with QP and foreign italicized text 0.3% -inf%
foreign_latin Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP and foreign text 0.3% -inf%
foreign_latin_italicized Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP and italicized foreign text 0.3% -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: 0.876
Evenness: 0.958
Part Prominence
New Testament (AKJV) 10.649
New Testament (Wycliffe) 6.071
New Testament (ODRV) 4.247
Apocrypha (AKJV) 3.134
New Testament (Vulgate) 2.884
Old Testament (ODRV) 1.323
Old Testament (Geneva) -2.242
New Testament (Tyndale) -2.329
New Testament (Geneva) -3.366
Old Testament (AKJV) -4.354
Diversity: 0.954
Evenness: 0.981
Book Prominence
Luke (AKJV) 9.147
Luke (ODRV) 5.904
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 5.707
Acts (Vulgate) 3.4
John (Wycliffe) 3.273
Mark (ODRV) 3.261
2 Timothy (Tyndale) 3.237
Daniel (Geneva) 3.182
Wisdom (AKJV) 3.133
2 Chronicles (AKJV) 3.098
2 Peter (Geneva) 3.053
Exodus (Geneva) 3.008
Exodus (AKJV) 2.865
Acts (ODRV) 2.76
2 Corinthians (ODRV) 2.694
Luke (Tyndale) 2.673
John (Geneva) 2.578
Luke (Geneva) 2.549
John (ODRV) 2.393
John (AKJV) 2.264
Psalms (ODRV) 2.238
Romans (ODRV) 2.198
1 Corinthians (Geneva) 2.177
Matthew (ODRV) 2.035
Psalms (AKJV) 0.667
Diversity: 0.963
Evenness: 0.985
Chapter Prominence
Luke 16 (AKJV) 8.484
Luke 16 (ODRV) 5.636
1 Corinthians 15 (ODRV) 5.398
Acts 23 (Vulgate) 2.854
Exodus 10 (Geneva) 2.85
John 11 (Wycliffe) 2.846
2 Chronicles 28 (AKJV) 2.846
Exodus 10 (AKJV) 2.845
Exodus 13 (AKJV) 2.844
Mark 6 (ODRV) 2.842
Daniel 5 (Geneva) 2.84
Wisdom 4 (AKJV) 2.839
2 Corinthians 12 (ODRV) 2.837
Luke 9 (AKJV) 2.828
John 20 (Geneva) 2.826
John 20 (AKJV) 2.82
2 Timothy 1 (Tyndale) 2.812
Matthew 11 (ODRV) 2.809
Psalms 77 (ODRV) 2.806
2 Peter 2 (Geneva) 2.806
John 20 (ODRV) 2.806
Acts 7 (ODRV) 2.805
Psalms 58 (AKJV) 2.804
Luke 16 (Geneva) 2.789
Luke 16 (Tyndale) 2.785
John 14 (AKJV) 2.784
John 11 (ODRV) 2.782
Romans 10 (ODRV) 2.761
Psalms 78 (AKJV) 2.74
John 6 (ODRV) 2.714
1 Corinthians 15 (Geneva) 2.596
Diversity: 0.975
Evenness: 0.986
Verse Prominence
Luke 16.29 (AKJV) 5.551
1 Corinthians 15.21 (ODRV) 3.701
Luke 16.31 (ODRV) 3.698
Luke 16.21 (AKJV) 3.697
Psalms 78.37 (AKJV) 3.696
Luke 16.25 (ODRV) 3.696
Luke 16.19 (ODRV) 3.691
Exodus 10.17 (AKJV) 1.851
Exodus 10.17 (Geneva) 1.851
Wisdom 4.12 (AKJV) 1.851
Luke 9.9 (AKJV) 1.851
Mark 6.19 (ODRV) 1.851
John 20.25 (ODRV) 1.851
Acts 7.56 (ODRV) 1.851
Matthew 11.24 (ODRV) 1.851
Luke 16.29 (ODRV) 1.85
Romans 10.14 (ODRV) 1.85
John 11.17 (ODRV) 1.85
John 20.31 (Geneva) 1.85
John 14.8 (AKJV) 1.85
Luke 16.31 (AKJV) 1.849
Acts 23.8 (Vulgate) 1.849
Exodus 10.20 (Geneva) 1.849
Exodus 10.27 (AKJV) 1.849
John 20.27 (AKJV) 1.849
Luke 16.26 (Geneva) 1.848
2 Peter 2.15 (Geneva) 1.848
John 20.9 (ODRV) 1.848
Psalms 77.16 (ODRV) 1.847
2 Corinthians 12.4 (ODRV) 1.847
John 11.14 (Wycliffe) 1.846
2 Chronicles 28.22 (AKJV) 1.846
Daniel 5.6 (Geneva) 1.846
Psalms 78.36 (AKJV) 1.845
Luke 16.30 (AKJV) 1.845
Luke 16.31 (Tyndale) 1.845
Exodus 13.21 (AKJV) 1.845
Luke 16.29 (Tyndale) 1.845
Luke 16.23 (Geneva) 1.844
Psalms 78.34 (AKJV) 1.843
Luke 16.25 (Geneva) 1.84
Psalms 58.5 (AKJV) 1.84
John 6.69 (ODRV) 1.839
1 Corinthians 15.12 (Geneva) 1.838
Luke 16.22 (ODRV) 1.83
2 Timothy 1.10 (Tyndale) 1.824
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: 0.667
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Apocrypha 28.862
Old Testament -14.001
New Testament -14.862
Diversity: 0.941
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Wisdom 5.66
Nehemiah 5.337
2 Chronicles 4.646
2 Peter 4.598
Mark 4.576
Daniel 4.547
Numbers 4.454
Exodus 3.767
Deuteronomy 3.752
2 Corinthians 3.58
Acts 2.679
John 2.676
Luke 2.664
1 Corinthians 2.592
Romans 1.928
Matthew 1.702
Psalms 0.711
Diversity: 0.966
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Wisdom 4 3.439
Numbers 31 3.435
2 Chronicles 28 3.425
Exodus 10 3.408
Exodus 7 3.405
Mark 4 3.401
Nehemiah 9 3.393
Mark 6 3.383
Psalms 58 3.381
Deuteronomy 1 3.365
Daniel 5 3.362
Numbers 23 3.355
Matthew 14 3.348
Acts 23 3.339
Acts 24 3.328
Psalms 78 3.304
Matthew 27 3.302
John 20 3.294
Matthew 15 3.287
2 Corinthians 12 3.285
Luke 13 3.275
Acts 7 3.273
Matthew 12 3.224
Romans 10 3.221
2 Peter 2 3.193
Matthew 22 3.188
John 14 3.17
Luke 16 3.13
1 Corinthians 10 3.122
Diversity: 0.975
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Wisdom 4.12 2.5
2 Chronicles 28.5 2.499
2 Chronicles 28.6 2.499
2 Chronicles 28.17 2.499
2 Chronicles 28.18 2.499
Exodus 7.9 2.499
Deuteronomy 1.32 2.499
Psalms 78.56 2.499
Exodus 10.16 2.498
Matthew 22.23 2.498
Psalms 78.22 2.498
Psalms 78.32 2.498
Psalms 78.24 2.498
Nehemiah 9.16 2.498
Matthew 12.13 2.498
John 20.30 2.497
Matthew 27.42 2.497
Matthew 15.27 2.497
Exodus 7.10 2.497
Mark 4.19 2.497
Acts 24.27 2.497
Matthew 14.2 2.497
Psalms 58.5 2.496
Numbers 31.16 2.496
John 20.25 2.495
Acts 7.56 2.494
John 14.8 2.494
2 Peter 2.15 2.492
Psalms 78.34 2.49
2 Corinthians 12.4 2.488
Acts 23.8 2.484
Mark 6.20 2.484
1 Corinthians 10.4 2.483
Acts 24.25 2.48
Exodus 7.8 2.474
Romans 10.14 2.473
Numbers 23.10 2.472
Luke 16.31 2.471
Luke 13.24 2.471
Romans 10.2 2.466
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase