Early English Printed Sermons


The vertue and value of baptism: in which the dignity and duty of [baptism], the due right of infants to [baptism], and their right above that of grown persons by [baptism], the degrading and destructive principles and practices of [baptism] are / catechetically propounded, plainly preached, and now published as an antidote to the baptism-despising dictates of John Simpson. By Zachariah Crofton ... ; Imprimatur, Edm. Calamy.

Crofton, Zachary, 1625 or 6-1672
Publisher: Printed by D M for J Nuthal living next door to the Dolphin in the Minories
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1658
Approximate Era: Interregnum
TCP ID: A80854 ESTC ID: R174314 STC ID: C7003B
Subject Headings: Baptism; Theology, Doctrinal;
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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 3.7% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 2.8% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 89.4% 100.0%
Foreign Percentage of units with foreign text 0.1% -inf%
NonLatinAlphabet Percentage of units with a NonLatinAlphabet placeholder 0.1% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 6.5% -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) 1.5% -inf%
foreign_italicized Percentage of units with QP and foreign italicized text 0.1% -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: 0.9
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Apocrypha (AKJV) 5.442
New Testament (Vulgate) 5.191
Old Testament (ODRV) 3.631
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 1.448
Old Testament (Geneva) 0.065
New Testament (Tyndale) -0.022
New Testament (Geneva) -1.058
New Testament (ODRV) -1.138
Old Testament (AKJV) -2.046
New Testament (AKJV) -2.428
Diversity: 0.98
Evenness: 0.984
Book Prominence
Galatians (ODRV) 3.763
Ephesians (ODRV) 3.696
Hebrews (AKJV) 3.32
1 Peter (Geneva) 2.316
Acts (AKJV) 2.064
1 Corinthians (Geneva) 1.627
Amos (Douay-Rheims) 1.325
Titus (Tyndale) 1.316
Mark (Tyndale) 1.294
Canticles (Geneva) 1.284
Amos (Geneva) 1.283
Mark (ODRV) 1.262
Leviticus (Douay-Rheims) 1.234
Judges (AKJV) 1.211
1 Corinthians (Vulgate) 1.204
2 Esdras (AKJV) 1.185
Ezekiel (Geneva) 1.171
Hosea (AKJV) 1.138
Ezekiel (Douay-Rheims) 1.109
Ezekiel (AKJV) 1.079
Colossians (Geneva) 1.072
2 Peter (Geneva) 1.054
Galatians (Tyndale) 1.034
1 Peter (ODRV) 1.015
2 Corinthians (Tyndale) 1.006
Jeremiah (Geneva) 1.0
1 Peter (Tyndale) 0.96
Acts (Geneva) 0.905
Genesis (ODRV) 0.903
Deuteronomy (AKJV) 0.881
Exodus (AKJV) 0.866
Galatians (AKJV) 0.777
Hebrews (ODRV) 0.738
Hebrews (Geneva) 0.707
Ecclesiastes (AKJV) 0.701
2 Corinthians (Geneva) 0.701
Luke (Tyndale) 0.674
Ephesians (Geneva) 0.647
1 Corinthians (Tyndale) 0.577
Isaiah (Douay-Rheims) 0.574
John (Tyndale) 0.572
2 Corinthians (AKJV) 0.554
Genesis (AKJV) 0.551
Isaiah (Geneva) 0.544
Ephesians (AKJV) 0.498
Romans (Tyndale) 0.462
Job (AKJV) 0.456
John (ODRV) 0.394
John (AKJV) 0.265
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 0.26
Luke (AKJV) 0.251
Psalms (ODRV) 0.239
Romans (ODRV) 0.199
Matthew (ODRV) 0.036
Romans (Geneva) -0.011
Matthew (AKJV) -0.065
1 Corinthians (AKJV) -0.119
Psalms (Geneva) -0.366
Romans (AKJV) -0.393
Psalms (AKJV) -1.332
Diversity: 0.984
Evenness: 0.966
Chapter Prominence
Ephesians 5 (AKJV) 7.566
Galatians 3 (ODRV) 2.251
Ephesians 2 (ODRV) 2.241
Romans 6 (ODRV) 2.214
Hebrews 10 (AKJV) 2.148
Romans 12 (AKJV) 2.125
Leviticus 12 (Douay-Rheims) 1.543
Acts 2 (Geneva) 1.515
Hebrews 10 (ODRV) 1.501
Romans 4 (ODRV) 1.499
Acts 2 (AKJV) 1.488
1 Peter 3 (Geneva) 1.478
Psalms 51 (AKJV) 1.453
1 Corinthians 10 (Geneva) 1.368
Judges 11 (AKJV) 0.773
Leviticus 9 (Douay-Rheims) 0.772
Psalms 57 (ODRV) 0.772
Ezekiel 44 (Douay-Rheims) 0.771
1 Corinthians 4 (Vulgate) 0.77
2 Esdras 15 (AKJV) 0.769
Ezekiel 34 (Douay-Rheims) 0.767
Leviticus 21 (Douay-Rheims) 0.767
Mark 10 (ODRV) 0.765
Deuteronomy 7 (AKJV) 0.763
Ezekiel 11 (Douay-Rheims) 0.763
Ezekiel 34 (Geneva) 0.762
Genesis 25 (ODRV) 0.76
Exodus 19 (AKJV) 0.76
Ezekiel 34 (AKJV) 0.759
Genesis 17 (AKJV) 0.759
Jeremiah 4 (Geneva) 0.759
Acts 1 (AKJV) 0.757
1 Corinthians 5 (ODRV) 0.757
Ezekiel 16 (AKJV) 0.755
Psalms 74 (AKJV) 0.754
1 Corinthians 10 (Vulgate) 0.754
Psalms 22 (Geneva) 0.754
Canticles 1 (Geneva) 0.753
Acts 8 (Geneva) 0.753
Amos 3 (Geneva) 0.753
Ezekiel 16 (Douay-Rheims) 0.753
Amos 3 (Douay-Rheims) 0.751
Isaiah 49 (Douay-Rheims) 0.75
1 Corinthians 12 (Vulgate) 0.747
Isaiah 9 (Geneva) 0.747
2 Esdras 14 (AKJV) 0.745
Mark 16 (Tyndale) 0.743
Luke 5 (AKJV) 0.74
Romans 11 (Tyndale) 0.74
Galatians 6 (Tyndale) 0.739
Job 3 (AKJV) 0.738
Titus 1 (Tyndale) 0.734
1 Peter 3 (ODRV) 0.728
Hebrews 9 (Geneva) 0.727
Hosea 6 (AKJV) 0.727
Matthew 3 (ODRV) 0.726
2 Corinthians 8 (AKJV) 0.726
Romans 4 (Tyndale) 0.723
Matthew 19 (AKJV) 0.721
2 Corinthians 4 (Tyndale) 0.717
2 Corinthians 3 (Geneva) 0.714
Romans 11 (Geneva) 0.712
Romans 5 (ODRV) 0.71
Hebrews 13 (ODRV) 0.709
1 Corinthians 1 (ODRV) 0.706
Luke 16 (Tyndale) 0.703
Matthew 18 (AKJV) 0.698
Matthew 12 (ODRV) 0.698
1 Peter 1 (Tyndale) 0.695
Hebrews 11 (ODRV) 0.691
Ecclesiastes 12 (AKJV) 0.685
Matthew 22 (AKJV) 0.685
Ephesians 6 (AKJV) 0.685
1 Corinthians 11 (Tyndale) 0.684
Psalms 116 (Geneva) 0.683
Colossians 1 (Geneva) 0.678
John 4 (AKJV) 0.674
Hebrews 11 (Geneva) 0.672
Galatians 3 (AKJV) 0.671
Hebrews 10 (Geneva) 0.67
1 Corinthians 12 (ODRV) 0.666
Romans 11 (AKJV) 0.665
Hebrews 12 (ODRV) 0.664
Romans 1 (AKJV) 0.663
Matthew 23 (AKJV) 0.662
1 Corinthians 6 (AKJV) 0.66
Ephesians 5 (Geneva) 0.657
1 Corinthians 12 (AKJV) 0.655
Ephesians 2 (Geneva) 0.652
1 Corinthians 11 (ODRV) 0.647
John 3 (Tyndale) 0.64
2 Peter 1 (Geneva) 0.639
Ephesians 2 (AKJV) 0.637
1 Peter 2 (Geneva) 0.637
John 6 (ODRV) 0.632
Ephesians 4 (ODRV) 0.61
Romans 13 (Tyndale) 0.609
Romans 2 (AKJV) 0.605
Romans 6 (Geneva) 0.588
Romans 6 (AKJV) 0.572
1 Corinthians 10 (AKJV) 0.473
Ephesians 4 (AKJV) 0.423
Diversity: 0.987
Evenness: 0.97
Verse Prominence
Ephesians 5.26 (AKJV) 6.524
Hebrews 10.22 (AKJV) 1.958
Romans 6.4 (ODRV) 1.951
Hebrews 10.22 (Geneva) 1.949
Galatians 3.27 (ODRV) 1.946
Ephesians 2.12 (ODRV) 1.945
Romans 12.5 (AKJV) 1.914
Hebrews 10.22 (ODRV) 1.307
1 Peter 3.21 (Geneva) 1.306
Romans 4.11 (ODRV) 1.305
Acts 2.42 (Geneva) 1.304
Romans 11.16 (AKJV) 1.303
Acts 2.39 (AKJV) 1.303
Leviticus 12.3 (Douay-Rheims) 1.301
Ephesians 2.12 (AKJV) 1.297
Psalms 51.5 (AKJV) 1.293
Matthew 3.17 (ODRV) 1.29
1 Corinthians 10.16 (Geneva) 1.223
Ezekiel 16.21 (AKJV) 0.653
Ezekiel 44.9 (Douay-Rheims) 0.653
John 4.2 (AKJV) 0.653
Acts 8.12 (Geneva) 0.653
Ezekiel 16.60 (Douay-Rheims) 0.653
1 Peter 2.10 (Geneva) 0.653
Romans 11.28 (Geneva) 0.653
Romans 11.28 (AKJV) 0.653
Matthew 18.6 (AKJV) 0.653
Judges 11.26 (AKJV) 0.653
Leviticus 9.14 (Douay-Rheims) 0.653
Matthew 3.3 (ODRV) 0.653
Exodus 19.22 (AKJV) 0.653
Mark 10.9 (ODRV) 0.653
2 Esdras 15.61 (AKJV) 0.653
Ezekiel 34.4 (Douay-Rheims) 0.653
Ezekiel 34.4 (Geneva) 0.653
Ezekiel 34.6 (AKJV) 0.653
Ezekiel 34.6 (Douay-Rheims) 0.653
Leviticus 21.6 (Douay-Rheims) 0.653
Psalms 57.4 (ODRV) 0.653
Romans 11.28 (Tyndale) 0.653
Ezekiel 16.59 (Douay-Rheims) 0.653
Psalms 116.17 (Geneva) 0.653
Hebrews 10.23 (Geneva) 0.652
Romans 4.11 (Tyndale) 0.652
Matthew 12.7 (ODRV) 0.652
Luke 5.16 (AKJV) 0.652
1 Corinthians 1.13 (ODRV) 0.652
Psalms 74.11 (AKJV) 0.652
Isaiah 49.22 (Douay-Rheims) 0.652
Psalms 22.10 (Geneva) 0.652
Job 3.11 (AKJV) 0.652
Canticles 1.6 (Geneva) 0.651
Hebrews 13.10 (ODRV) 0.651
Genesis 17.7 (AKJV) 0.651
Amos 3.2 (Geneva) 0.651
Romans 11.17 (Geneva) 0.651
1 Corinthians 4.1 (Vulgate) 0.651
Ephesians 2.13 (Geneva) 0.651
Hebrews 9.18 (Geneva) 0.651
Ephesians 5.26 (Geneva) 0.651
Acts 1.11 (AKJV) 0.651
1 Corinthians 5.5 (ODRV) 0.651
Ezekiel 34.3 (Geneva) 0.651
Ezekiel 34.5 (Geneva) 0.651
Jeremiah 4.22 (Geneva) 0.651
Hebrews 12.16 (ODRV) 0.651
Psalms 116.16 (Geneva) 0.651
Hebrews 10.19 (Geneva) 0.65
1 Peter 3.21 (ODRV) 0.65
Deuteronomy 7.6 (AKJV) 0.65
Genesis 25.19 (ODRV) 0.65
2 Corinthians 4.5 (Tyndale) 0.65
Ephesians 4.4 (AKJV) 0.65
Hosea 6.7 (AKJV) 0.65
Romans 5.19 (ODRV) 0.649
Ezekiel 34.3 (AKJV) 0.648
Amos 3.3 (Geneva) 0.648
2 Corinthians 3.9 (Geneva) 0.648
Galatians 6.15 (Tyndale) 0.648
Romans 6.13 (Geneva) 0.648
1 Corinthians 12.27 (Vulgate) 0.647
Isaiah 9.16 (Geneva) 0.647
Titus 1.15 (Tyndale) 0.647
1 Corinthians 11.23 (Tyndale) 0.646
Romans 6.6 (AKJV) 0.646
Ezekiel 11.19 (Douay-Rheims) 0.646
2 Corinthians 8.21 (AKJV) 0.646
Galatians 3.16 (AKJV) 0.645
Acts 2.42 (AKJV) 0.645
Romans 2.22 (AKJV) 0.644
Romans 1.17 (AKJV) 0.644
Ephesians 2.12 (Geneva) 0.643
Amos 3.2 (Douay-Rheims) 0.643
Ephesians 6.4 (AKJV) 0.643
1 Corinthians 10.16 (Vulgate) 0.643
Ephesians 2.18 (AKJV) 0.642
Romans 13.2 (Tyndale) 0.642
Hebrews 11.1 (ODRV) 0.642
Luke 16.22 (Tyndale) 0.642
1 Corinthians 12.13 (AKJV) 0.642
John 3.5 (Tyndale) 0.642
Matthew 23.2 (AKJV) 0.642
Matthew 19.14 (AKJV) 0.642
John 6.69 (ODRV) 0.641
Romans 6.12 (Geneva) 0.641
Colossians 1.14 (Geneva) 0.637
2 Peter 1.6 (Geneva) 0.637
1 Peter 3.4 (Geneva) 0.635
Romans 6.6 (Geneva) 0.635
2 Esdras 14.41 (AKJV) 0.635
Mark 16.16 (Tyndale) 0.633
1 Corinthians 6.20 (AKJV) 0.632
Romans 6.3 (AKJV) 0.632
Ephesians 4.23 (ODRV) 0.632
1 Corinthians 11.20 (ODRV) 0.632
1 Peter 1.15 (Tyndale) 0.631
Matthew 22.21 (AKJV) 0.631
1 Corinthians 12.27 (ODRV) 0.623
Hebrews 11.1 (Geneva) 0.622
Ecclesiastes 12.7 (AKJV) 0.613
1 Corinthians 10.16 (AKJV) 0.567
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: 0.444
Evenness: 0.918
Part Prominence
Old Testament 19.333
New Testament -14.862
Diversity: 0.942
Evenness: 0.952
Book Prominence
Ephesians 9.266
Romans 7.474
1 Peter 6.54
2 Peter 4.43
Mark 4.408
Ezekiel 4.11
Amos 2.18
Canticles 2.161
Leviticus 1.882
Titus 1.781
Judges 1.76
Colossians 1.472
Galatians 1.038
Exodus 0.742
Deuteronomy 0.726
Genesis 0.232
Hebrews 0.071
Acts -0.346
John -0.349
Luke -0.361
1 Corinthians -0.433
Isaiah -0.524
Matthew -1.323
Psalms -2.314
Diversity: 0.978
Evenness: 0.97
Chapter Prominence
Romans 4 4.83
Acts 2 4.698
Ephesians 5 4.696
Ezekiel 16 3.64
1 Peter 3 3.526
Ezekiel 44 2.482
Mark 10 2.418
1 Corinthians 7 2.304
1 Corinthians 12 2.298
Romans 11 2.294
2 Peter 1 2.226
Ephesians 2 2.201
Judges 11 1.233
Deuteronomy 14 1.226
Leviticus 25 1.224
Ezekiel 7 1.223
Exodus 5 1.213
Psalms 127 1.201
Mark 1 1.2
Ezekiel 9 1.194
Isaiah 64 1.193
Amos 3 1.182
Canticles 1 1.174
Luke 3 1.161
Exodus 12 1.156
Exodus 15 1.156
Genesis 17 1.153
Leviticus 26 1.153
Psalms 116 1.135
Mark 16 1.134
Isaiah 40 1.12
Isaiah 49 1.111
Exodus 32 1.107
Acts 1 1.102
Acts 16 1.098
Matthew 8 1.095
Matthew 4 1.09
Matthew 15 1.089
Luke 18 1.089
Acts 8 1.079
Matthew 3 1.075
Galatians 3 1.053
Titus 3 1.049
Acts 4 1.035
John 8 1.032
Matthew 18 1.029
Colossians 2 1.022
Matthew 22 0.99
1 Corinthians 6 0.964
Romans 6 0.959
Hebrews 10 0.957
1 Peter 1 0.924
1 Corinthians 10 0.924
Romans 2 0.916
1 Corinthians 1 0.912
Romans 12 0.895
Hebrews 13 0.889
Hebrews 11 0.804
Ephesians 4 0.786
1 Peter 2 0.754
Diversity: 0.983
Evenness: 0.974
Verse Prominence
Romans 4.11 3.907
Ephesians 5.26 3.903
Acts 2.38 3.903
Ezekiel 16.20 2.938
Acts 2.39 2.929
1 Peter 3.21 2.919
Ezekiel 44.9 1.96
Ezekiel 16.21 1.959
Romans 11.28 1.958
Mark 10.14 1.958
Ephesians 2.11 1.957
Romans 11.16 1.954
1 Corinthians 7.14 1.953
2 Peter 1.9 1.949
1 Corinthians 12.13 1.928
Isaiah 64.9 0.98
Ezekiel 16.59 0.98
Ezekiel 16.60 0.98
Judges 11.26 0.98
Leviticus 25.42 0.98
Exodus 5.1 0.979
Amos 3.1 0.979
Exodus 32.14 0.979
Luke 18.16 0.979
Isaiah 40.9 0.979
Mark 1.12 0.979
Romans 2.26 0.979
Acts 2.28 0.979
Acts 16.33 0.978
Genesis 17.13 0.978
Acts 8.12 0.978
Deuteronomy 14.1 0.978
Leviticus 26.42 0.978
Matthew 18.2 0.978
Exodus 12.48 0.978
Isaiah 49.22 0.978
Psalms 116.17 0.978
Deuteronomy 14.2 0.977
Matthew 18.5 0.977
Genesis 17.14 0.977
Hebrews 13.10 0.976
Matthew 15.26 0.976
Luke 3.21 0.976
Psalms 127.3 0.976
Isaiah 40.3 0.975
2 Peter 1.8 0.975
Matthew 18.4 0.974
1 Corinthians 1.13 0.974
Canticles 1.7 0.974
Matthew 18.6 0.973
Colossians 2.11 0.973
Exodus 15.2 0.973
Isaiah 40.11 0.971
2 Peter 1.7 0.971
Genesis 17.7 0.97
Galatians 3.27 0.97
2 Peter 1.6 0.97
Matthew 8.11 0.969
Matthew 18.3 0.969
Acts 2.41 0.969
Acts 4.25 0.969
1 Peter 1.2 0.968
Colossians 2.12 0.967
Acts 1.11 0.966
Psalms 116.16 0.966
1 Corinthians 10.16 0.962
Amos 3.2 0.961
Hebrews 10.22 0.958
Romans 2.22 0.958
Titus 3.3 0.957
1 Peter 2.5 0.956
Ephesians 2.12 0.955
1 Corinthians 6.20 0.945
1 Peter 2.9 0.943
Mark 16.16 0.938
2 Peter 1.5 0.936
Hebrews 11.1 0.935
Romans 12.1 0.91
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase