Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon preach'd at Biddeford in the county of Devon, on the fifth of Novermber, 1688. By James Wood, Minister of the Gospel there.

Wood, James, minister of the Gospel
Publisher: s n
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1689
Approximate Era: WilliamAndMary
TCP ID: A66929 ESTC ID: R217185 STC ID: W3395
Subject Headings: Bible. -- N.T. -- Matthew, VII, 20; 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 11.2% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 3.4% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 84.9% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 11.2% -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 0.6% -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: 0.735
Evenness: 0.917
Part Prominence
New Testament (AKJV) 30.429
Old Testament (ODRV) 7.917
New Testament (Tyndale) 4.264
New Testament (Geneva) 3.227
New Testament (ODRV) 3.148
Diversity: 0.944
Evenness: 0.972
Book Prominence
1 Corinthians (Geneva) 10.267
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 9.971
1 Thessalonians (Geneva) 3.53
1 Peter (ODRV) 3.412
2 Corinthians (Tyndale) 3.403
Revelation (Geneva) 3.334
Galatians (ODRV) 3.261
Hebrews (Geneva) 3.104
2 Corinthians (ODRV) 3.091
1 Peter (AKJV) 3.059
Ephesians (Geneva) 3.044
John (Geneva) 2.976
1 Corinthians (Tyndale) 2.974
John (Tyndale) 2.969
Ephesians (AKJV) 2.895
Hebrews (AKJV) 2.819
Matthew (Geneva) 2.684
John (AKJV) 2.662
Psalms (ODRV) 2.636
Matthew (ODRV) 2.433
Matthew (AKJV) 2.332
Romans (AKJV) 2.004
Diversity: 0.953
Evenness: 0.976
Chapter Prominence
1 Corinthians 10 (Geneva) 9.817
1 Corinthians 10 (AKJV) 9.698
Psalms 5 (ODRV) 3.329
2 Corinthians 10 (Tyndale) 3.314
Hebrews 7 (Geneva) 3.312
Revelation 3 (Geneva) 3.306
John 19 (Tyndale) 3.298
1 Corinthians 4 (Tyndale) 3.298
Hebrews 7 (AKJV) 3.298
2 Corinthians 13 (ODRV) 3.289
Matthew 12 (Geneva) 3.271
John 9 (AKJV) 3.268
2 Corinthians 4 (ODRV) 3.256
1 Corinthians 10 (Tyndale) 3.247
John 1 (Geneva) 3.247
John 5 (Tyndale) 3.243
1 Thessalonians 5 (Geneva) 3.231
Galatians 6 (ODRV) 3.218
Matthew 7 (ODRV) 3.213
1 Peter 2 (ODRV) 3.212
Ephesians 2 (Geneva) 3.21
Matthew 7 (AKJV) 3.201
John 3 (Tyndale) 3.198
1 Peter 2 (AKJV) 3.168
Ephesians 4 (AKJV) 2.981
Romans 13 (AKJV) 2.972
Diversity: 0.955
Evenness: 0.977
Verse Prominence
1 Corinthians 10.16 (Geneva) 9.593
1 Corinthians 10.16 (AKJV) 9.591
1 Corinthians 4.7 (Tyndale) 3.225
Psalms 5.10 (ODRV) 3.225
John 9.16 (AKJV) 3.225
Revelation 3.21 (Geneva) 3.224
Hebrews 7.24 (Geneva) 3.224
1 Corinthians 10.16 (Tyndale) 3.223
John 5.27 (Tyndale) 3.223
John 1.47 (Geneva) 3.223
2 Corinthians 4.2 (ODRV) 3.223
Matthew 12.34 (Geneva) 3.221
Hebrews 7.27 (AKJV) 3.221
2 Corinthians 10.4 (Tyndale) 3.22
Matthew 7.16 (ODRV) 3.22
Galatians 6.2 (ODRV) 3.22
Matthew 7.20 (AKJV) 3.22
Matthew 7.15 (AKJV) 3.217
John 19.7 (Tyndale) 3.215
1 Thessalonians 5.22 (Geneva) 3.215
Ephesians 2.7 (Geneva) 3.213
John 3.20 (Tyndale) 3.213
Ephesians 4.20 (AKJV) 3.211
2 Corinthians 13.8 (ODRV) 3.21
1 Peter 2.13 (ODRV) 3.2
1 Peter 2.13 (AKJV) 3.18
Romans 13.1 (AKJV) 3.11
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: 0.955
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Zechariah 3.625
Titus 3.469
1 Thessalonians 3.468
Hosea 3.348
2 Kings 3.227
Numbers 3.117
1 John 3.111
1 Kings 3.069
2 Samuel 2.931
Philippians 2.798
Ephesians 2.383
Job 2.303
2 Corinthians 2.243
Genesis 1.921
Hebrews 1.76
Acts 1.342
John 1.34
Luke 1.327
1 Corinthians 1.255
Romans 0.591
Matthew 0.366
Psalms -0.626
Diversity: 0.972
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Psalms 120 2.734
Luke 5 2.731
Zechariah 13 2.729
Genesis 25 2.719
Luke 20 2.718
2 Kings 2 2.706
1 Thessalonians 2 2.7
1 Kings 19 2.691
Job 9 2.689
2 Samuel 12 2.666
Hebrews 7 2.649
Hosea 4 2.642
Acts 3 2.642
2 Corinthians 11 2.627
Numbers 16 2.624
Romans 16 2.619
1 John 4 2.607
1 Corinthians 4 2.601
Titus 3 2.577
1 John 2 2.568
John 8 2.56
Matthew 12 2.553
Ephesians 1 2.552
2 Corinthians 4 2.549
Hebrews 9 2.545
John 6 2.53
John 5 2.518
1 Corinthians 3 2.518
Hebrews 10 2.485
Acts 17 2.456
Philippians 2 2.45
Matthew 7 2.415
Psalms 119 2.382
Hebrews 11 2.332
Ephesians 4 2.313
Romans 13 2.089
Diversity: 0.977
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Luke 20.23 2.272
Job 9.16 2.272
1 Kings 19.13 2.271
2 Kings 2.13 2.271
John 8.54 2.271
Matthew 7.20 2.27
Zechariah 13.4 2.27
1 John 2.22 2.27
2 Samuel 12.31 2.27
Psalms 119.104 2.269
Luke 5.5 2.268
1 Thessalonians 2.11 2.268
1 John 4.3 2.267
Hebrews 7.24 2.267
Hebrews 9.25 2.267
Hebrews 10.12 2.267
Ephesians 4.20 2.267
John 5.23 2.266
Genesis 25.27 2.266
Psalms 120.3 2.266
John 5.27 2.265
Titus 3.4 2.265
1 Corinthians 3.19 2.265
Hebrews 10.14 2.263
Hebrews 9.24 2.263
2 Corinthians 11.3 2.262
Matthew 12.34 2.262
2 Corinthians 4.2 2.261
Psalms 119.128 2.259
Hebrews 9.28 2.259
Hosea 4.1 2.258
Hebrews 9.26 2.258
Ephesians 1.6 2.257
Acts 3.21 2.255
1 Corinthians 4.7 2.254
Romans 16.18 2.252
Hosea 4.2 2.251
Titus 3.5 2.247
Hebrews 11.37 2.245
Philippians 2.13 2.24
Ephesians 4.14 2.237
Acts 17.31 2.236
John 6.27 2.224
Romans 13.1 2.04
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase