Early English Printed Sermons


Principiis obsta. The readie vvay to prevent sin By William Bagshaw.

Bagshawe, William, 1628-1702
Publisher: printed for Tho Parkhurst and are to be sold at the sign of the Bible and Three Crowns in Cheapside
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1671
Approximate Era: CharlesII
TCP ID: A77299 ESTC ID: R232407 STC ID: B433A
Subject Headings: Christian literature; Sin;
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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 8.0% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 5.0% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 89.1% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 3.9% -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) 1.8% -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: 0.864
Evenness: 0.983
Part Prominence
New Testament (ODRV) 11.084
Apocrypha (AKJV) 6.553
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 2.559
Old Testament (Geneva) 1.177
New Testament (Tyndale) 1.09
New Testament (Geneva) 0.053
Old Testament (AKJV) -0.935
New Testament (AKJV) -1.317
Diversity: 0.97
Evenness: 0.992
Book Prominence
Ecclesiastes (Geneva) 4.768
Matthew (ODRV) 3.85
Joel (Geneva) 2.554
Esther (AKJV) 2.536
Jonah (AKJV) 2.518
Psalms (AKJV) 2.482
Amos (Geneva) 2.466
4 Kings (Douay-Rheims) 2.416
Colossians (Tyndale) 2.378
2 Esdras (AKJV) 2.367
Ezekiel (AKJV) 2.261
Philippians (Geneva) 2.214
1 Thessalonians (AKJV) 2.181
James (AKJV) 1.986
Ephesians (ODRV) 1.98
Acts (ODRV) 1.944
Job (Geneva) 1.932
Ephesians (Geneva) 1.83
Proverbs (Douay-Rheims) 1.824
Isaiah (Douay-Rheims) 1.756
Genesis (AKJV) 1.733
Proverbs (Geneva) 1.701
Romans (Tyndale) 1.644
Job (AKJV) 1.638
Hebrews (AKJV) 1.604
Matthew (Tyndale) 1.546
Matthew (Geneva) 1.47
1 Corinthians (Geneva) 1.36
Isaiah (AKJV) 1.349
Proverbs (AKJV) 1.228
Romans (Geneva) 1.171
Matthew (AKJV) 1.117
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 1.064
Psalms (Geneva) 0.817
Romans (AKJV) 0.789
Diversity: 0.983
Evenness: 0.995
Chapter Prominence
Psalms 141 (AKJV) 2.955
Psalms 10 (AKJV) 2.922
Ecclesiastes 12 (Geneva) 2.92
Matthew 12 (ODRV) 2.908
Amos 7 (Geneva) 1.488
Ezekiel 23 (AKJV) 1.487
Esther 5 (AKJV) 1.486
4 Kings 5 (Douay-Rheims) 1.486
Esther 6 (AKJV) 1.478
Jonah 4 (AKJV) 1.477
Isaiah 56 (Douay-Rheims) 1.477
Proverbs 30 (Geneva) 1.474
Isaiah 11 (AKJV) 1.47
Joel 2 (Geneva) 1.467
Proverbs 6 (Douay-Rheims) 1.466
Matthew 15 (Geneva) 1.464
Job 42 (AKJV) 1.462
Proverbs 12 (AKJV) 1.462
Job 34 (Geneva) 1.462
Psalms 120 (AKJV) 1.461
Proverbs 20 (Geneva) 1.46
Acts 8 (ODRV) 1.458
2 Esdras 16 (AKJV) 1.457
Matthew 12 (Tyndale) 1.453
Genesis 6 (AKJV) 1.452
Job 31 (AKJV) 1.451
Isaiah 55 (AKJV) 1.451
Proverbs 6 (AKJV) 1.446
Job 22 (AKJV) 1.445
Psalms 4 (AKJV) 1.445
Proverbs 30 (AKJV) 1.444
Proverbs 10 (AKJV) 1.441
Matthew 15 (ODRV) 1.438
Job 34 (AKJV) 1.438
Proverbs 16 (Geneva) 1.436
Psalms 115 (Geneva) 1.435
Romans 14 (Tyndale) 1.435
Matthew 12 (Geneva) 1.43
Colossians 3 (Tyndale) 1.428
Matthew 7 (Tyndale) 1.428
Matthew 12 (AKJV) 1.427
Isaiah 40 (AKJV) 1.423
Romans 15 (AKJV) 1.421
Proverbs 20 (AKJV) 1.42
Proverbs 23 (AKJV) 1.415
Proverbs 4 (AKJV) 1.409
Psalms 145 (AKJV) 1.409
Philippians 3 (Geneva) 1.401
1 Thessalonians 4 (AKJV) 1.391
1 Corinthians 2 (AKJV) 1.386
1 Corinthians 11 (Geneva) 1.384
Matthew 25 (ODRV) 1.381
Romans 3 (AKJV) 1.363
James 1 (AKJV) 1.348
Hebrews 13 (AKJV) 1.337
Ephesians 4 (ODRV) 1.328
1 Corinthians 11 (AKJV) 1.307
Romans 6 (Geneva) 1.306
Romans 8 (Geneva) 1.305
1 Corinthians 15 (AKJV) 1.29
Romans 6 (AKJV) 1.289
Ephesians 4 (Geneva) 1.234
Romans 13 (AKJV) 1.131
Diversity: 0.984
Evenness: 0.995
Verse Prominence
Matthew 12.36 (ODRV) 2.848
Psalms 141.3 (AKJV) 2.847
Ecclesiastes 12.14 (Geneva) 2.841
Psalms 10.4 (AKJV) 2.821
Job 42.3 (AKJV) 1.428
Proverbs 30.32 (AKJV) 1.428
Proverbs 30.32 (Geneva) 1.428
Amos 7.2 (Geneva) 1.428
Isaiah 11.8 (AKJV) 1.428
Proverbs 6.18 (Douay-Rheims) 1.428
Proverbs 12.5 (AKJV) 1.428
Ezekiel 23.19 (AKJV) 1.428
Joel 2.6 (Geneva) 1.428
4 Kings 5.12 (Douay-Rheims) 1.428
Jonah 4.11 (AKJV) 1.427
Proverbs 10.19 (AKJV) 1.427
Matthew 12.36 (AKJV) 1.427
2 Esdras 16.54 (AKJV) 1.427
Matthew 15.19 (ODRV) 1.427
Proverbs 6.16 (AKJV) 1.427
Proverbs 23.7 (AKJV) 1.427
Psalms 120.3 (AKJV) 1.427
Romans 3.14 (AKJV) 1.427
Esther 6.13 (AKJV) 1.426
Proverbs 20.14 (Geneva) 1.426
Proverbs 4.16 (AKJV) 1.426
Job 34.21 (AKJV) 1.426
Job 34.21 (Geneva) 1.426
Matthew 12.36 (Tyndale) 1.426
Proverbs 20.9 (AKJV) 1.425
Job 31.24 (AKJV) 1.425
Esther 5.13 (AKJV) 1.425
Acts 8.22 (ODRV) 1.425
Isaiah 55.9 (AKJV) 1.425
Proverbs 16.1 (Geneva) 1.425
Matthew 12.34 (Geneva) 1.424
Matthew 15.19 (Geneva) 1.424
Matthew 7.18 (Tyndale) 1.424
Romans 14.12 (Tyndale) 1.424
Matthew 12.35 (Tyndale) 1.423
1 Corinthians 2.16 (AKJV) 1.423
Ephesians 4.29 (Geneva) 1.423
Isaiah 40.31 (AKJV) 1.422
Isaiah 56.12 (Douay-Rheims) 1.422
Hebrews 13.22 (AKJV) 1.422
Genesis 6.5 (AKJV) 1.421
Psalms 115.5 (Geneva) 1.42
Psalms 4.4 (AKJV) 1.42
Colossians 3.16 (Tyndale) 1.419
Job 22.12 (AKJV) 1.419
1 Corinthians 15.33 (AKJV) 1.419
Romans 13.14 (AKJV) 1.418
Ephesians 4.31 (Geneva) 1.416
1 Thessalonians 4.16 (AKJV) 1.415
Romans 15.2 (AKJV) 1.414
Romans 8.26 (Geneva) 1.411
Psalms 145.9 (AKJV) 1.41
Philippians 3.9 (Geneva) 1.409
Ephesians 4.23 (ODRV) 1.407
Proverbs 4.23 (AKJV) 1.406
1 Corinthians 11.31 (AKJV) 1.399
1 Corinthians 11.31 (Geneva) 1.399
James 1.15 (AKJV) 1.396
Matthew 25.41 (ODRV) 1.395
Romans 6.23 (Geneva) 1.381
Romans 6.23 (AKJV) 1.38
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: 0.972
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Zephaniah 2.527
Jonah 2.379
Esther 2.322
Amos 2.1
Canticles 2.081
2 Thessalonians 1.985
Malachi 1.981
Zechariah 1.858
1 Thessalonians 1.7
Judges 1.68
2 Kings 1.46
Colossians 1.392
Numbers 1.349
1 John 1.343
James 1.27
Ezekiel 1.174
2 Samuel 1.164
Philippians 1.03
1 Samuel 0.995
Ecclesiastes 0.821
Exodus 0.663
Revelation 0.652
Ephesians 0.615
Jeremiah 0.536
Job 0.535
2 Corinthians 0.476
Genesis 0.153
Proverbs -0.27
Acts -0.426
John -0.428
Luke -0.44
1 Corinthians -0.513
Isaiah -0.604
Romans -1.177
Matthew -1.402
Psalms -2.394
Diversity: 0.99
Evenness: 0.994
Chapter Prominence
Psalms 3 1.617
Psalms 39 1.583
Isaiah 55 1.578
Psalms 19 1.56
James 3 1.555
Matthew 15 1.549
Psalms 2 1.442
Romans 6 1.418
Psalms 119 1.313
Esther 5 0.839
Ezekiel 23 0.838
Job 40 0.836
2 Kings 12 0.836
Judges 14 0.836
Numbers 32 0.836
Amos 7 0.834
Esther 6 0.827
Isaiah 19 0.823
Zechariah 5 0.822
Zephaniah 3 0.82
1 Samuel 22 0.816
Genesis 23 0.816
Psalms 141 0.814
Jeremiah 20 0.812
Psalms 120 0.811
2 Samuel 11 0.808
Numbers 12 0.808
Psalms 26 0.806
Jonah 4 0.805
Amos 8 0.801
Canticles 4 0.801
Proverbs 12 0.8
Isaiah 64 0.797
Malachi 1 0.784
Isaiah 7 0.78
Psalms 62 0.776
Psalms 105 0.774
Job 21 0.768
Isaiah 66 0.764
Job 31 0.764
Psalms 104 0.764
Proverbs 4 0.763
Jeremiah 6 0.762
Isaiah 63 0.761
Psalms 145 0.761
Ecclesiastes 5 0.758
Psalms 144 0.757
2 Thessalonians 3 0.751
Proverbs 6 0.749
Psalms 45 0.749
Isaiah 6 0.744
Ezekiel 16 0.744
Psalms 12 0.744
Psalms 14 0.742
Jeremiah 3 0.732
1 John 1 0.732
Isaiah 40 0.725
Matthew 20 0.723
Proverbs 20 0.722
Proverbs 23 0.722
Psalms 139 0.721
Exodus 20 0.721
Acts 26 0.721
Proverbs 30 0.717
Ecclesiastes 11 0.717
Genesis 6 0.716
2 Corinthians 3 0.709
Romans 15 0.707
Genesis 2 0.705
2 Corinthians 7 0.705
Isaiah 58 0.702
Proverbs 28 0.699
Psalms 4 0.696
Luke 11 0.695
Proverbs 10 0.687
Acts 8 0.684
Revelation 21 0.677
Proverbs 16 0.675
Proverbs 1 0.673
Psalms 73 0.673
Psalms 16 0.668
Malachi 3 0.659
Ecclesiastes 12 0.653
John 16 0.653
John 4 0.649
1 Thessalonians 4 0.64
John 8 0.637
Romans 7 0.632
Matthew 12 0.63
Acts 13 0.629
Philippians 4 0.626
1 Corinthians 13 0.624
Romans 3 0.613
Psalms 50 0.605
James 1 0.576
John 1 0.558
Ephesians 5 0.551
Colossians 3 0.538
Acts 17 0.533
Matthew 26 0.523
Matthew 25 0.485
Luke 12 0.483
Philippians 3 0.482
2 Corinthians 5 0.48
1 Corinthians 15 0.42
Ephesians 4 0.39
Matthew 5 0.298
Romans 8 0.252
Diversity: 0.992
Evenness: 0.995
Verse Prominence
Matthew 12.35 2.184
Psalms 19.12 1.448
Psalms 39.1 1.445
Isaiah 55.7 1.44
Matthew 15.9 1.439
James 3.2 1.437
Job 40.3 0.73
Job 21.5 0.73
Judges 14.12 0.73
Isaiah 66.13 0.729
Proverbs 12.5 0.729
Ezekiel 23.19 0.729
Proverbs 28.6 0.729
Exodus 20.9 0.729
Psalms 144.11 0.729
Proverbs 10.14 0.729
Proverbs 30.32 0.728
Proverbs 6.18 0.728
Matthew 20.3 0.728
Isaiah 63.8 0.728
Zechariah 5.2 0.728
Isaiah 19.18 0.728
Psalms 26.4 0.728
Zephaniah 3.5 0.727
Job 40.5 0.727
Acts 13.20 0.727
Esther 5.13 0.727
Jeremiah 3.5 0.727
Proverbs 6.15 0.727
Proverbs 23.7 0.727
Acts 8.21 0.727
Jeremiah 6.19 0.727
Psalms 104.34 0.727
Matthew 26.50 0.727
Isaiah 6.7 0.727
Canticles 4.11 0.727
Job 40.4 0.726
Esther 6.13 0.726
Amos 7.2 0.726
Malachi 3.15 0.726
Proverbs 6.26 0.726
Proverbs 20.14 0.726
Proverbs 4.16 0.726
2 Kings 12.2 0.726
Matthew 5.32 0.726
Genesis 23.4 0.726
Romans 15.3 0.726
Numbers 32.23 0.726
John 1.7 0.726
Jeremiah 20.10 0.726
Luke 11.17 0.725
Luke 12.17 0.725
Luke 12.18 0.725
Acts 26.25 0.725
Genesis 2.15 0.725
John 16.9 0.725
Psalms 139.3 0.725
Proverbs 16.1 0.725
Psalms 62.8 0.724
Zechariah 5.3 0.724
Zephaniah 3.9 0.724
Proverbs 20.9 0.723
Acts 8.22 0.723
Psalms 119.96 0.723
2 Thessalonians 3.11 0.723
Psalms 120.3 0.723
Psalms 45.2 0.723
Psalms 139.2 0.723
Romans 3.19 0.722
Malachi 1.13 0.722
Psalms 73.22 0.722
John 1.2 0.722
Isaiah 6.5 0.721
Proverbs 1.10 0.721
Job 31.1 0.721
Ephesians 5.4 0.721
Matthew 20.6 0.721
Romans 7.7 0.72
Psalms 16.9 0.72
Ezekiel 16.49 0.72
Numbers 12.8 0.72
Philippians 3.7 0.72
Psalms 45.1 0.72
Isaiah 55.8 0.719
Matthew 5.28 0.719
Isaiah 58.13 0.719
Romans 15.2 0.719
Matthew 12.34 0.719
Ephesians 4.29 0.719
Matthew 5.18 0.718
Matthew 15.19 0.717
Amos 8.5 0.717
James 1.13 0.717
Isaiah 64.6 0.716
Ecclesiastes 5.2 0.716
Psalms 12.4 0.716
John 16.8 0.716
Romans 8.31 0.715
James 1.14 0.715
Matthew 5.22 0.715
Matthew 12.36 0.714
James 1.15 0.714
Psalms 14.4 0.714
1 Corinthians 13.5 0.713
Ephesians 5.16 0.713
Matthew 15.8 0.713
2 Corinthians 7.10 0.713
Malachi 3.14 0.712
Matthew 5.20 0.712
John 4.14 0.712
Psalms 4.4 0.712
1 John 1.9 0.71
Ephesians 5.15 0.709
Psalms 145.9 0.709
John 1.9 0.708
1 Thessalonians 4.11 0.707
Psalms 50.21 0.705
Proverbs 4.23 0.705
Luke 12.19 0.703
Genesis 6.5 0.703
Philippians 4.13 0.7
Proverbs 28.2 0.698
Colossians 3.16 0.698
1 John 1.7 0.697
John 8.44 0.697
Psalms 14.1 0.693
Acts 17.31 0.693
Matthew 25.41 0.684
Philippians 3.8 0.678
Colossians 3.5 0.677
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase