Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon preached before the peers, in the abby-church at Westminster October 10, MDCLXVI / by Seth Lord Bishop of Exon.

Ward, Seth, 1617-1689
Publisher: Printed by E C for James Collins
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1666
Approximate Era: CharlesII
TCP ID: A67572 ESTC ID: R10647 STC ID: W828
Subject Headings: Bible. -- O.T. -- Ecclesiastes XI, 9; 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 3.4% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 3.2% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 70.1% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 27.0% -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 0.8% -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) 8.6% -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: 0.909
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Apocrypha (ODRV) 7.761
Apocrypha (AKJV) 4.533
New Testament (Vulgate) 4.282
Old Testament (ODRV) 2.722
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 0.539
Old Testament (Geneva) -0.844
New Testament (Tyndale) -0.931
New Testament (Geneva) -1.967
New Testament (ODRV) -2.047
Old Testament (AKJV) -2.955
New Testament (AKJV) -3.337
Diversity: 0.982
Evenness: 0.995
Book Prominence
Lamentations (Geneva) 2.903
Ecclesiastes (Geneva) 2.63
Ecclesiastes (AKJV) 2.376
2 Corinthians (AKJV) 2.23
2 Timothy (Vulgate) 1.543
Zephaniah (ODRV) 1.538
Joel (Douay-Rheims) 1.489
Joel (Geneva) 1.485
Nehemiah (AKJV) 1.45
Jonah (AKJV) 1.449
Micah (AKJV) 1.4
Wisdom (ODRV) 1.382
1 Kings (Geneva) 1.356
Jude (AKJV) 1.3
Daniel (Geneva) 1.296
Ezekiel (Geneva) 1.284
1 Kings (AKJV) 1.282
Hosea (AKJV) 1.252
Lamentations (AKJV) 1.244
Ezekiel (Douay-Rheims) 1.222
2 Timothy (Geneva) 1.22
2 Peter (Geneva) 1.168
Ecclesiastes (Douay-Rheims) 1.149
2 Peter (AKJV) 1.143
1 Thessalonians (AKJV) 1.112
Ephesians (Tyndale) 1.079
Acts (Tyndale) 1.029
Revelation (AKJV) 1.028
Deuteronomy (AKJV) 0.995
1 Peter (Geneva) 0.98
Exodus (AKJV) 0.979
Ecclesiasticus (AKJV) 0.922
Jeremiah (AKJV) 0.909
Job (Geneva) 0.863
Hebrews (ODRV) 0.851
Hebrews (Geneva) 0.82
2 Corinthians (ODRV) 0.808
Luke (Tyndale) 0.787
Acts (AKJV) 0.728
John (Geneva) 0.692
Isaiah (Douay-Rheims) 0.687
Luke (Geneva) 0.663
Isaiah (Geneva) 0.657
Proverbs (Geneva) 0.632
Romans (Tyndale) 0.575
Luke (ODRV) 0.57
Job (AKJV) 0.569
Hebrews (AKJV) 0.535
John (ODRV) 0.507
Matthew (Tyndale) 0.477
Matthew (Geneva) 0.401
Luke (AKJV) 0.365
Psalms (ODRV) 0.352
Isaiah (AKJV) 0.28
Matthew (ODRV) 0.149
Romans (Geneva) 0.102
Matthew (AKJV) 0.048
Psalms (Geneva) -0.252
Romans (AKJV) -0.28
Psalms (AKJV) -1.219
Diversity: 0.989
Evenness: 0.991
Chapter Prominence
Hebrews 9 (AKJV) 3.571
Hebrews 9 (Geneva) 1.786
Luke 17 (AKJV) 1.779
Ecclesiastes 12 (Geneva) 1.77
Ecclesiastes 12 (AKJV) 1.744
Lamentations 3 (Geneva) 1.742
2 Corinthians 5 (AKJV) 1.675
Psalms 97 (ODRV) 0.915
2 Timothy 3 (Vulgate) 0.914
Isaiah 34 (Douay-Rheims) 0.914
Isaiah 34 (Geneva) 0.912
Deuteronomy 11 (AKJV) 0.912
Job 35 (Geneva) 0.911
Job 35 (AKJV) 0.908
Zephaniah 1 (ODRV) 0.908
Psalms 43 (ODRV) 0.907
Joel 3 (Geneva) 0.907
Deuteronomy 30 (AKJV) 0.906
Luke 9 (Geneva) 0.904
Nehemiah 4 (AKJV) 0.904
Lamentations 2 (AKJV) 0.903
1 Kings 21 (Geneva) 0.902
Isaiah 66 (AKJV) 0.902
Daniel 5 (Geneva) 0.901
Psalms 125 (AKJV) 0.9
Psalms 56 (AKJV) 0.9
Jonah 3 (AKJV) 0.897
1 Kings 21 (AKJV) 0.896
Jeremiah 18 (AKJV) 0.896
Isaiah 9 (Douay-Rheims) 0.896
Exodus 33 (AKJV) 0.895
Job 10 (Geneva) 0.895
Luke 3 (ODRV) 0.895
Ecclesiasticus 5 (AKJV) 0.894
Psalms 135 (AKJV) 0.892
Wisdom 5 (ODRV) 0.892
Joel 2 (Douay-Rheims) 0.891
Luke 9 (AKJV) 0.888
Acts 24 (Tyndale) 0.888
Psalms 18 (Geneva) 0.886
Isaiah 9 (AKJV) 0.886
Ezekiel 18 (Geneva) 0.884
Ezekiel 18 (Douay-Rheims) 0.883
Psalms 58 (Geneva) 0.883
Isaiah 22 (AKJV) 0.881
Luke 23 (Tyndale) 0.879
Acts 17 (Tyndale) 0.878
Acts 26 (AKJV) 0.877
Psalms 104 (Geneva) 0.875
Psalms 127 (AKJV) 0.874
Isaiah 1 (Douay-Rheims) 0.874
Micah 6 (AKJV) 0.872
Psalms 139 (Geneva) 0.872
Ecclesiastes 11 (AKJV) 0.871
Hosea 6 (AKJV) 0.869
Psalms 103 (Geneva) 0.869
Luke 6 (Tyndale) 0.869
Romans 4 (Tyndale) 0.866
Isaiah 5 (Geneva) 0.862
Ecclesiastes 12 (Douay-Rheims) 0.862
Psalms 14 (AKJV) 0.861
John 7 (ODRV) 0.86
Psalms 115 (Geneva) 0.86
Matthew 24 (ODRV) 0.86
Proverbs 1 (Geneva) 0.86
Revelation 22 (AKJV) 0.857
Luke 21 (AKJV) 0.857
Psalms 22 (AKJV) 0.851
2 Timothy 3 (Geneva) 0.849
2 Corinthians 6 (ODRV) 0.849
Psalms 50 (AKJV) 0.845
Ephesians 5 (Tyndale) 0.84
Matthew 11 (Tyndale) 0.839
1 Peter 5 (Geneva) 0.837
Matthew 25 (Tyndale) 0.836
Isaiah 1 (Geneva) 0.836
Matthew 24 (Geneva) 0.835
2 Peter 3 (AKJV) 0.83
Luke 16 (AKJV) 0.83
Hebrews 4 (ODRV) 0.83
Isaiah 5 (Douay-Rheims) 0.825
2 Peter 3 (Geneva) 0.822
Matthew 25 (AKJV) 0.817
Matthew 25 (Geneva) 0.813
Matthew 6 (ODRV) 0.813
Hebrews 10 (Geneva) 0.812
Luke 12 (AKJV) 0.811
John 3 (Geneva) 0.809
Matthew 24 (AKJV) 0.808
Hebrews 12 (ODRV) 0.807
Matthew 25 (ODRV) 0.806
Romans 14 (Geneva) 0.805
Lamentations 3 (AKJV) 0.804
Psalms 144 (AKJV) 0.79
Hebrews 12 (AKJV) 0.789
Psalms 107 (AKJV) 0.767
1 Thessalonians 5 (AKJV) 0.749
Romans 2 (AKJV) 0.747
Hebrews 10 (AKJV) 0.74
Jude 1 (AKJV) 0.735
Diversity: 0.99
Evenness: 0.992
Verse Prominence
Hebrews 9.27 (AKJV) 3.104
Ecclesiastes 12.6 (AKJV) 1.572
Isaiah 9.10 (AKJV) 1.572
Lamentations 3.22 (Geneva) 1.568
Luke 17.30 (AKJV) 1.566
2 Corinthians 5.11 (AKJV) 1.562
Ecclesiastes 12.14 (Geneva) 1.559
Hebrews 9.27 (Geneva) 1.556
Ecclesiastes 12.7 (AKJV) 1.535
Luke 9.29 (AKJV) 0.787
Luke 9.29 (Geneva) 0.787
2 Timothy 3.2 (Vulgate) 0.787
Matthew 24.2 (ODRV) 0.787
Isaiah 34.9 (Douay-Rheims) 0.787
Psalms 97.9 (ODRV) 0.787
Matthew 24.17 (ODRV) 0.787
Matthew 24.18 (AKJV) 0.787
Psalms 104.4 (Geneva) 0.787
Isaiah 9.11 (AKJV) 0.787
Isaiah 9.12 (AKJV) 0.787
Luke 12.58 (AKJV) 0.787
Matthew 24.6 (Geneva) 0.787
Isaiah 66.15 (AKJV) 0.787
Isaiah 9.9 (Douay-Rheims) 0.787
Isaiah 9.8 (Douay-Rheims) 0.787
Isaiah 5.19 (Geneva) 0.786
Job 35.6 (AKJV) 0.786
Luke 21.11 (AKJV) 0.786
Psalms 50.3 (AKJV) 0.786
Psalms 18.10 (Geneva) 0.786
Psalms 43.2 (ODRV) 0.786
Psalms 103.10 (Geneva) 0.786
Acts 26.27 (AKJV) 0.786
Ephesians 5.14 (Tyndale) 0.786
Deuteronomy 11.26 (AKJV) 0.786
Lamentations 2.1 (AKJV) 0.786
Nehemiah 4.17 (AKJV) 0.786
Job 35.7 (Geneva) 0.785
Psalms 56.8 (AKJV) 0.785
Isaiah 34.10 (Geneva) 0.785
Proverbs 1.27 (Geneva) 0.785
Psalms 135.7 (AKJV) 0.785
1 Kings 21.20 (Geneva) 0.785
1 Kings 21.20 (AKJV) 0.785
1 Kings 21.27 (Geneva) 0.785
Wisdom 5.4 (ODRV) 0.785
Jeremiah 18.12 (AKJV) 0.785
Ezekiel 18.32 (Geneva) 0.785
Luke 3.11 (ODRV) 0.785
Luke 23.30 (Tyndale) 0.784
Isaiah 1.18 (Douay-Rheims) 0.784
Matthew 25.35 (Tyndale) 0.784
Zephaniah 1.15 (ODRV) 0.784
2 Corinthians 6.9 (ODRV) 0.784
Joel 3.15 (Geneva) 0.783
2 Peter 3.12 (AKJV) 0.783
Jonah 3.9 (AKJV) 0.783
Isaiah 1.9 (Geneva) 0.783
Ezekiel 18.31 (Douay-Rheims) 0.782
2 Peter 3.4 (Geneva) 0.782
Isaiah 5.25 (Douay-Rheims) 0.782
Daniel 5.6 (Geneva) 0.782
Ecclesiasticus 5.2 (AKJV) 0.782
Deuteronomy 30.15 (AKJV) 0.782
Matthew 25.33 (Geneva) 0.781
John 7.37 (ODRV) 0.781
Luke 21.26 (AKJV) 0.781
Joel 2.12 (Douay-Rheims) 0.781
Matthew 25.31 (Geneva) 0.781
Proverbs 1.24 (Geneva) 0.781
2 Peter 3.3 (AKJV) 0.78
Psalms 125.3 (AKJV) 0.78
Job 10.10 (Geneva) 0.78
Psalms 144.14 (AKJV) 0.78
Matthew 25.42 (Tyndale) 0.78
Ecclesiastes 12.3 (Douay-Rheims) 0.78
Ecclesiastes 11.9 (AKJV) 0.78
Exodus 33.20 (AKJV) 0.779
Romans 4.4 (Tyndale) 0.779
Psalms 139.7 (Geneva) 0.778
Matthew 25.34 (Tyndale) 0.778
Jude 1.19 (AKJV) 0.776
Revelation 22.17 (AKJV) 0.775
Psalms 115.3 (Geneva) 0.775
Matthew 25.36 (AKJV) 0.775
1 Peter 5.6 (Geneva) 0.775
2 Timothy 3.1 (Geneva) 0.775
Lamentations 3.40 (Geneva) 0.775
Hosea 6.1 (AKJV) 0.774
Luke 6.36 (Tyndale) 0.774
Romans 14.10 (Geneva) 0.774
1 Thessalonians 5.2 (AKJV) 0.773
John 3.15 (Geneva) 0.772
Acts 24.25 (Tyndale) 0.772
Romans 2.6 (AKJV) 0.771
Hebrews 12.29 (AKJV) 0.77
Hebrews 12.29 (ODRV) 0.77
Luke 16.9 (AKJV) 0.769
Psalms 58.11 (Geneva) 0.769
Psalms 22.1 (AKJV) 0.769
Lamentations 3.40 (AKJV) 0.769
Acts 17.28 (Tyndale) 0.767
Matthew 11.30 (Tyndale) 0.767
Matthew 6.20 (ODRV) 0.766
Isaiah 22.13 (AKJV) 0.766
Lamentations 3.33 (AKJV) 0.766
2 Corinthians 5.20 (AKJV) 0.764
Micah 6.8 (AKJV) 0.763
Matthew 11.28 (Tyndale) 0.761
Psalms 107.31 (AKJV) 0.758
Psalms 127.1 (AKJV) 0.757
Hebrews 10.31 (AKJV) 0.753
Hebrews 10.31 (Geneva) 0.753
Matthew 25.41 (ODRV) 0.753
Psalms 14.1 (AKJV) 0.752
Hebrews 4.16 (ODRV) 0.742
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: 0.833
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
1 Kings 15.19
Exodus 14.551
Revelation 14.541
Luke 13.449
Isaiah 13.285
Matthew 12.487
Diversity: 0.875
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Isaiah 34 12.482
Exodus 33 12.429
1 Kings 21 12.418
Isaiah 66 12.409
Revelation 6 12.4
Luke 21 12.371
Isaiah 9 12.364
Matthew 24 12.265
Diversity: 0.0
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Isaiah 66.15 99.981
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase