Early English Printed Sermons


Paul's last farewel, or A sermon, preached at the funerall of that godly and learned minister of Jesus Christ, Mr. Thomas Blake. By Anthony Burgesse, pastor of the church at Sutton-Coldfield in Warwickshire. With a funeral oration made at Mr. Blakes death by Samuel Shaw, then schoolmaster of the Free-School at Tamworth.

Burgess, Anthony, d. 1664
Shaw, Samuel, 1635-1696
Publisher: printed for Abel Roper at the Sun against S Dunstans Church in Fleet street
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1658
Approximate Era: Interregnum
TCP ID: A77845 ESTC ID: R207730 STC ID: B5652
Subject Headings: Blake, Thomas, 1597?-1657; Funeral sermons, English -- 17th century; 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 8.7% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 4.9% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 86.8% 100.0%
Foreign Percentage of units with foreign text 0.8% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 9.4% -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) 3.8% -inf%
foreign_cited Percentage of units with QP, foreign text, and an adjacent citation 0.8% -inf%
foreign_italicized Percentage of units with QP and foreign italicized text 0.8% -inf%
foreign_italicized_cited Percentage of units with QP, italicized foreign text, and an adjacent citation 0.8% -inf%
foreign_latin Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP and foreign text 0.4% -inf%
foreign_latin_cited Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP, foreign text, and an adjacent citation 0.4% -inf%
foreign_latin_italicized Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP and italicized foreign text 0.4% -inf%
foreign_latin_italicized_cited Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP, an adjacent citation, and italicized foreign text 0.4% -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: 0.84
Evenness: 0.971
Part Prominence
New Testament (Tyndale) 12.201
New Testament (AKJV) 9.794
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 2.559
Old Testament (Geneva) 1.177
New Testament (Geneva) 0.053
New Testament (ODRV) -0.027
Old Testament (AKJV) -0.935
Diversity: 0.964
Evenness: 0.993
Book Prominence
1 Corinthians (Tyndale) 5.579
Hebrews (AKJV) 5.424
Leviticus (Douay-Rheims) 3.011
2 Kings (AKJV) 2.993
2 Timothy (ODRV) 2.965
1 Thessalonians (ODRV) 2.933
2 Timothy (Geneva) 2.884
1 Peter (ODRV) 2.792
1 Thessalonians (AKJV) 2.776
Ephesians (Tyndale) 2.742
2 Timothy (AKJV) 2.694
Acts (Tyndale) 2.692
1 Peter (Geneva) 2.644
Galatians (AKJV) 2.554
Acts (ODRV) 2.538
1 Timothy (AKJV) 2.518
2 Corinthians (Geneva) 2.477
Philippians (ODRV) 2.476
2 Corinthians (ODRV) 2.471
Acts (AKJV) 2.392
John (Geneva) 2.356
Proverbs (Geneva) 2.295
John (ODRV) 2.17
Matthew (Tyndale) 2.14
John (AKJV) 2.042
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 2.036
Isaiah (AKJV) 1.943
Proverbs (AKJV) 1.823
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 1.658
Diversity: 0.968
Evenness: 0.994
Chapter Prominence
1 Corinthians 4 (Tyndale) 5.679
Hebrews 13 (AKJV) 5.559
Leviticus 2 (Douay-Rheims) 2.855
2 Kings 2 (AKJV) 2.848
Isaiah 50 (AKJV) 2.837
2 Timothy 1 (ODRV) 2.831
Acts 20 (Tyndale) 2.829
Proverbs 29 (Geneva) 2.823
1 Thessalonians 2 (AKJV) 2.822
John 17 (Geneva) 2.822
Acts 20 (ODRV) 2.82
2 Corinthians 12 (Geneva) 2.818
Ephesians 6 (Tyndale) 2.817
Acts 20 (AKJV) 2.814
Matthew 13 (Tyndale) 2.811
1 Corinthians 13 (ODRV) 2.807
Galatians 1 (AKJV) 2.801
John 11 (AKJV) 2.798
Proverbs 29 (AKJV) 2.791
2 Corinthians 6 (ODRV) 2.788
John 17 (AKJV) 2.787
John 11 (ODRV) 2.782
1 Timothy 4 (AKJV) 2.778
1 Peter 5 (Geneva) 2.777
2 Timothy 4 (Geneva) 2.763
John 6 (AKJV) 2.751
1 Thessalonians 5 (ODRV) 2.743
1 Peter 2 (ODRV) 2.736
1 Corinthians 3 (AKJV) 2.725
2 Timothy 2 (AKJV) 2.717
Isaiah 57 (AKJV) 2.711
1 Thessalonians 5 (AKJV) 2.689
Philippians 2 (ODRV) 2.641
Diversity: 0.971
Evenness: 0.993
Verse Prominence
1 Corinthians 4.4 (Tyndale) 4.995
Hebrews 13.17 (AKJV) 4.98
2 Timothy 4.7 (Geneva) 4.976
Acts 20.36 (AKJV) 2.499
Acts 20.37 (AKJV) 2.499
Acts 20.37 (ODRV) 2.499
1 Thessalonians 2.10 (AKJV) 2.499
Philippians 2.24 (ODRV) 2.499
Ephesians 6.7 (Tyndale) 2.499
Acts 20.29 (Tyndale) 2.499
Acts 20.38 (AKJV) 2.498
Leviticus 2.13 (Douay-Rheims) 2.498
1 Peter 2.25 (ODRV) 2.498
2 Corinthians 12.7 (Geneva) 2.497
Proverbs 29.25 (Geneva) 2.497
Matthew 13.52 (Tyndale) 2.496
Isaiah 50.4 (AKJV) 2.496
2 Timothy 1.7 (ODRV) 2.496
John 11.36 (AKJV) 2.496
Galatians 1.6 (AKJV) 2.496
2 Kings 2.12 (AKJV) 2.496
1 Timothy 4.15 (AKJV) 2.494
Proverbs 29.25 (AKJV) 2.494
2 Corinthians 6.3 (ODRV) 2.493
1 Timothy 4.13 (AKJV) 2.493
1 Corinthians 13.9 (ODRV) 2.493
1 Thessalonians 5.21 (ODRV) 2.492
John 17.4 (AKJV) 2.492
John 17.4 (Geneva) 2.492
John 11.36 (ODRV) 2.492
1 Corinthians 3.12 (AKJV) 2.491
John 6.50 (AKJV) 2.491
2 Timothy 4.6 (Geneva) 2.489
2 Timothy 2.3 (AKJV) 2.489
1 Thessalonians 5.21 (AKJV) 2.484
1 Peter 5.4 (Geneva) 2.483
Isaiah 57.1 (AKJV) 2.445
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
Galatians 12.467
1 Thessalonians 6.065
2 Kings 5.825
2 Timothy 5.7
1 Timothy 5.305
Ecclesiastes 5.186
2 Corinthians 4.841
Hebrews 4.357
Proverbs 4.095
Acts 3.939
John 3.937
1 Corinthians 3.853
Isaiah 3.761
Diversity: 0.948
Evenness: 0.994
Chapter Prominence
Galatians 1 9.355
2 Kings 13 4.731
Isaiah 50 4.708
Proverbs 29 4.655
1 Timothy 3 4.604
2 Corinthians 12 4.599
1 Corinthians 9 4.598
2 Corinthians 1 4.589
1 Corinthians 4 4.585
John 11 4.573
Ecclesiastes 12 4.56
1 Thessalonians 5 4.559
2 Timothy 4 4.555
1 Timothy 4 4.53
John 17 4.526
Acts 20 4.508
1 Timothy 2 4.508
Hebrews 10 4.469
Hebrews 13 4.401
2 Corinthians 5 4.388
Diversity: 0.962
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Acts 20.37 3.844
Acts 20.36 3.843
Acts 20.38 3.841
1 Timothy 4.7 3.841
1 Timothy 2.3 3.838
1 Timothy 4.15 3.836
Ecclesiastes 12.11 3.835
Isaiah 50.4 3.834
John 11.26 3.834
Acts 20.29 3.834
2 Kings 13.14 3.834
2 Timothy 4.6 3.832
John 11.35 3.832
1 Corinthians 4.4 3.83
Hebrews 10.24 3.828
1 Timothy 3.2 3.826
1 Thessalonians 5.21 3.825
1 Corinthians 9.27 3.823
2 Corinthians 12.7 3.821
Proverbs 29.25 3.821
2 Timothy 4.2 3.808
2 Corinthians 1.12 3.805
John 17.3 3.802
2 Timothy 4.7 3.8
2 Timothy 4.8 3.791
Hebrews 13.17 3.791
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase