Early English Printed Sermons


The right vvay: or A direction for obtaining good successe in a weighty enterprise. Set out in a sermon preached on the 12th of September, 1648. before the Lords on a day of humiliation for a blessing on a treaty between His Majesties and the Parliaments commissioners. / By W. Gouge.

Gouge, William, 1578-1653
Publisher: Printed by A Miller for Ioshua Kirton at the signe of the Spread Eagle in Pauls Church yard
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1648
Approximate Era: CivilWar
TCP ID: A85486 ESTC ID: R202327 STC ID: G1394
Subject Headings: 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 13.3% 1.1%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 9.9% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 84.4% 98.9%
Foreign Percentage of units with foreign text -inf% 1.1%
NonLatinAlphabet Percentage of units with a NonLatinAlphabet placeholder 0.4% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 13.3% 1.1%
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) 6.5% -inf%
foreign_cited Percentage of units with QP, foreign text, and an adjacent citation -inf% 1.1%
foreign_latin Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP and foreign text -inf% 1.1%
foreign_latin_cited Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP, foreign text, and an adjacent citation -inf% 1.1%



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: 0.827
Evenness: 0.896
Part Prominence
Old Testament (Geneva) 25.78
Apocrypha (Douay-Rheims) 3.739
Apocrypha (AKJV) 2.585
New Testament (Vulgate) 2.334
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) -1.409
New Testament (Tyndale) -2.879
New Testament (Geneva) -3.916
New Testament (ODRV) -3.995
Old Testament (AKJV) -4.903
New Testament (AKJV) -5.285
Diversity: 0.974
Evenness: 0.98
Book Prominence
Ezra (Geneva) 9.207
Ezra (AKJV) 3.572
Ezra (Douay-Rheims) 1.806
Esther (Geneva) 1.8
1 Esdras (AKJV) 1.773
Nehemiah (AKJV) 1.74
Jonah (AKJV) 1.738
Canticles (Douay-Rheims) 1.73
2 Paralipomenon (Douay-Rheims) 1.681
Leviticus (Geneva) 1.678
Mark (ODRV) 1.664
Leviticus (Douay-Rheims) 1.637
4 Kings (Douay-Rheims) 1.636
2 Samuel (Geneva) 1.627
Daniel (AKJV) 1.608
2 Timothy (ODRV) 1.591
Matthew (Vulgate) 1.579
2 Kings (Douay-Rheims) 1.534
2 Chronicles (AKJV) 1.502
2 Samuel (AKJV) 1.475
Colossians (ODRV) 1.438
1 Samuel (AKJV) 1.433
1 Peter (ODRV) 1.418
1 John (ODRV) 1.385
Jeremiah (Douay-Rheims) 1.359
1 Timothy (ODRV) 1.328
Acts (Geneva) 1.308
Genesis (Geneva) 1.24
Ecclesiasticus (Douay-Rheims) 1.174
Acts (ODRV) 1.164
1 Timothy (AKJV) 1.144
2 Corinthians (ODRV) 1.097
Acts (AKJV) 1.018
John (Geneva) 0.982
1 Corinthians (Tyndale) 0.979
Isaiah (Douay-Rheims) 0.976
Isaiah (Geneva) 0.946
Luke (ODRV) 0.86
Hebrews (AKJV) 0.824
Matthew (Geneva) 0.69
Luke (AKJV) 0.654
Isaiah (AKJV) 0.569
Proverbs (AKJV) 0.449
Matthew (ODRV) 0.439
Matthew (AKJV) 0.337
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 0.284
Psalms (Geneva) 0.037
Romans (AKJV) 0.009
Psalms (AKJV) -0.929
Diversity: 0.985
Evenness: 0.987
Chapter Prominence
Ezra 8 (Geneva) 5.95
Ezra 7 (AKJV) 2.363
Proverbs 21 (AKJV) 2.317
Ezra 8 (Douay-Rheims) 1.19
Matthew 17 (Vulgate) 1.19
Psalms 114 (Geneva) 1.188
Ezra 7 (Douay-Rheims) 1.186
2 Chronicles 16 (AKJV) 1.186
Leviticus 23 (Geneva) 1.186
Ezra 7 (Geneva) 1.185
Leviticus 16 (Douay-Rheims) 1.184
Esther 3 (Geneva) 1.184
Canticles 3 (Douay-Rheims) 1.182
Genesis 14 (Geneva) 1.182
2 Paralipomenon 33 (Douay-Rheims) 1.182
Mark 9 (ODRV) 1.182
1 Esdras 8 (AKJV) 1.181
2 Kings 5 (Douay-Rheims) 1.181
Nehemiah 2 (AKJV) 1.18
Ecclesiasticus 13 (Douay-Rheims) 1.179
Acts 14 (ODRV) 1.179
1 Samuel 1 (AKJV) 1.179
Psalms 114 (AKJV) 1.178
2 Samuel 12 (Geneva) 1.176
Acts 12 (Geneva) 1.174
Acts 12 (AKJV) 1.174
1 Timothy 3 (ODRV) 1.172
4 Kings 2 (Douay-Rheims) 1.172
2 Chronicles 20 (AKJV) 1.17
Jonah 3 (AKJV) 1.17
Matthew 17 (ODRV) 1.17
Jeremiah 17 (Douay-Rheims) 1.168
Isaiah 30 (Geneva) 1.168
Isaiah 11 (AKJV) 1.168
Isaiah 65 (AKJV) 1.167
2 Samuel 19 (AKJV) 1.167
Acts 13 (Geneva) 1.163
Daniel 3 (AKJV) 1.16
John 20 (Geneva) 1.159
Isaiah 11 (Douay-Rheims) 1.159
Matthew 4 (ODRV) 1.158
Psalms 91 (Geneva) 1.156
Isaiah 59 (Geneva) 1.156
Colossians 4 (ODRV) 1.156
Psalms 85 (Geneva) 1.154
Psalms 51 (Geneva) 1.152
Isaiah 58 (AKJV) 1.15
Psalms 139 (Geneva) 1.145
1 Corinthians 8 (AKJV) 1.141
2 Timothy 2 (ODRV) 1.139
Psalms 25 (AKJV) 1.139
Psalms 137 (AKJV) 1.137
2 Corinthians 3 (ODRV) 1.137
Isaiah 59 (AKJV) 1.137
Psalms 139 (AKJV) 1.132
Luke 6 (ODRV) 1.13
Psalms 105 (AKJV) 1.126
Psalms 115 (AKJV) 1.124
Hebrews 4 (AKJV) 1.122
Matthew 26 (AKJV) 1.121
Isaiah 40 (AKJV) 1.121
Matthew 18 (AKJV) 1.113
1 John 2 (ODRV) 1.113
Matthew 7 (Geneva) 1.104
1 Corinthians 10 (Tyndale) 1.104
1 Timothy 3 (AKJV) 1.104
1 Corinthians 9 (AKJV) 1.103
Luke 16 (AKJV) 1.103
Proverbs 3 (AKJV) 1.095
Psalms 51 (AKJV) 1.093
Matthew 6 (Geneva) 1.091
Matthew 7 (ODRV) 1.071
1 Peter 2 (ODRV) 1.069
Psalms 119 (Geneva) 1.065
Matthew 7 (AKJV) 1.058
Matthew 22 (ODRV) 1.05
Psalms 107 (AKJV) 1.041
Romans 14 (AKJV) 1.023
Diversity: 0.986
Evenness: 0.989
Verse Prominence
Ezra 8.23 (Geneva) 5.493
Ezra 7.15 (AKJV) 2.197
Proverbs 21.1 (AKJV) 2.176
Ezra 8.23 (Douay-Rheims) 1.099
Ezra 7.14 (Geneva) 1.099
Leviticus 23.4 (Geneva) 1.099
Psalms 107.7 (AKJV) 1.099
1 Esdras 8.51 (AKJV) 1.099
Genesis 14.12 (Geneva) 1.099
Acts 12.4 (Geneva) 1.099
Psalms 114.3 (Geneva) 1.099
Matthew 17.20 (Vulgate) 1.099
Ezra 8.21 (Douay-Rheims) 1.098
Ezra 7.10 (Douay-Rheims) 1.098
2 Chronicles 16.12 (AKJV) 1.098
2 Chronicles 20.3 (AKJV) 1.098
Psalms 119.27 (Geneva) 1.098
Ecclesiasticus 13.19 (Douay-Rheims) 1.098
1 Timothy 3.5 (ODRV) 1.098
Esther 3.8 (Geneva) 1.098
Acts 13.2 (Geneva) 1.098
Acts 14.22 (ODRV) 1.098
1 Samuel 1.15 (AKJV) 1.098
2 Samuel 12.16 (Geneva) 1.098
Acts 12.5 (AKJV) 1.098
2 Kings 5.1 (Douay-Rheims) 1.098
Psalms 114.5 (AKJV) 1.097
1 Corinthians 8.8 (AKJV) 1.097
Isaiah 65.1 (AKJV) 1.097
Isaiah 30.11 (Geneva) 1.097
Psalms 119.32 (Geneva) 1.097
Genesis 14.21 (Geneva) 1.097
Nehemiah 2.10 (AKJV) 1.097
Psalms 25.11 (AKJV) 1.097
Mark 9.23 (ODRV) 1.097
4 Kings 2.14 (Douay-Rheims) 1.097
2 Samuel 19.14 (AKJV) 1.097
Jonah 3.5 (AKJV) 1.096
Leviticus 16.31 (Douay-Rheims) 1.096
Psalms 139.2 (AKJV) 1.096
Psalms 139.2 (Geneva) 1.096
Jeremiah 17.10 (Douay-Rheims) 1.096
Daniel 3.28 (AKJV) 1.096
2 Paralipomenon 33.12 (Douay-Rheims) 1.096
Isaiah 11.7 (AKJV) 1.096
Psalms 107.33 (AKJV) 1.096
Psalms 107.35 (AKJV) 1.096
Canticles 3.1 (Douay-Rheims) 1.095
2 Corinthians 3.12 (ODRV) 1.095
Proverbs 3.6 (AKJV) 1.095
Psalms 137.4 (AKJV) 1.095
Luke 6.12 (ODRV) 1.095
Psalms 51.1 (AKJV) 1.095
Isaiah 58.3 (AKJV) 1.095
Isaiah 40.4 (AKJV) 1.095
2 Timothy 2.5 (ODRV) 1.094
John 20.17 (Geneva) 1.094
Matthew 7.7 (Geneva) 1.094
Psalms 91.11 (Geneva) 1.094
Psalms 105.41 (AKJV) 1.094
Matthew 4.5 (ODRV) 1.093
Hebrews 4.13 (AKJV) 1.093
Psalms 115.5 (AKJV) 1.093
1 Timothy 3.5 (AKJV) 1.093
Matthew 17.21 (ODRV) 1.092
Matthew 26.41 (AKJV) 1.092
1 Peter 2.9 (ODRV) 1.091
Isaiah 11.6 (AKJV) 1.091
Matthew 7.7 (AKJV) 1.09
Matthew 7.7 (ODRV) 1.089
1 John 2.25 (ODRV) 1.088
Isaiah 59.2 (Geneva) 1.088
Colossians 4.2 (ODRV) 1.088
1 Corinthians 9.27 (AKJV) 1.087
Psalms 51.17 (Geneva) 1.087
Matthew 6.11 (Geneva) 1.086
Isaiah 11.6 (Douay-Rheims) 1.085
Matthew 18.20 (AKJV) 1.084
Psalms 137.1 (AKJV) 1.083
Luke 16.9 (AKJV) 1.08
Isaiah 59.1 (AKJV) 1.08
Romans 14.12 (AKJV) 1.078
Matthew 22.39 (ODRV) 1.074
Psalms 85.10 (Geneva) 1.073
1 Corinthians 10.24 (Tyndale) 1.072
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: 0.971
Evenness: 0.993
Book Prominence
Esther 4.544
Jonah 2.101
Ezra 2.086
Nehemiah 1.955
Canticles 1.803
Acts 1.797
Joshua 1.625
Isaiah 1.618
Zechariah 1.58
Leviticus 1.525
2 Chronicles 1.264
Mark 1.194
2 Kings 1.182
Daniel 1.165
Colossians 1.115
Numbers 1.071
1 Kings 1.023
Ezekiel 0.896
2 Samuel 0.886
1 Samuel 0.717
Galatians 0.681
1 Timothy 0.662
1 Peter 0.469
Exodus 0.385
Revelation 0.374
Ephesians 0.338
Jeremiah 0.258
2 Corinthians 0.198
Genesis -0.125
Hebrews -0.286
Proverbs -0.548
John -0.706
Luke -0.718
1 Corinthians -0.79
Romans -1.455
Matthew -1.68
Psalms -2.672
Diversity: 0.991
Evenness: 0.997
Chapter Prominence
Esther 4 1.672
Acts 14 1.603
Matthew 17 1.583
Isaiah 58 1.557
Acts 13 1.483
Joshua 3 0.845
Jeremiah 39 0.845
Jeremiah 36 0.843
Psalms 114 0.843
Esther 2 0.841
2 Kings 25 0.837
Ezra 8 0.835
Leviticus 16 0.833
Ezra 6 0.833
Ezra 1 0.831
Nehemiah 2 0.83
Esther 6 0.827
Numbers 27 0.826
Jeremiah 44 0.826
2 Kings 3 0.826
Esther 3 0.825
2 Kings 1 0.825
Ezra 4 0.824
Nehemiah 1 0.823
Genesis 26 0.822
2 Samuel 5 0.821
Leviticus 23 0.819
2 Chronicles 33 0.818
Ezra 7 0.817
Canticles 3 0.814
Zechariah 7 0.814
2 Chronicles 16 0.808
Jonah 4 0.805
1 Samuel 7 0.805
Psalms 85 0.805
1 Samuel 1 0.803
Psalms 35 0.801
Genesis 14 0.8
Genesis 41 0.8
Exodus 17 0.798
Genesis 5 0.794
Genesis 20 0.794
Genesis 39 0.791
2 Kings 6 0.791
Jonah 3 0.789
Genesis 12 0.787
1 Samuel 17 0.785
2 Samuel 2 0.784
Psalms 115 0.783
2 Kings 2 0.783
Revelation 17 0.779
Psalms 137 0.776
Psalms 105 0.774
1 Kings 21 0.773
Isaiah 65 0.773
2 Samuel 19 0.767
Psalms 91 0.766
Genesis 32 0.766
Isaiah 59 0.765
Psalms 101 0.763
Daniel 2 0.763
Jeremiah 6 0.762
Psalms 25 0.761
Daniel 6 0.759
Genesis 17 0.758
Daniel 9 0.757
2 Chronicles 20 0.757
Exodus 14 0.753
Mark 9 0.747
1 Corinthians 8 0.744
Psalms 107 0.744
Ezekiel 16 0.744
2 Samuel 12 0.743
Jeremiah 17 0.742
Daniel 3 0.74
Acts 12 0.735
Jeremiah 31 0.728
Isaiah 40 0.725
Psalms 139 0.721
Acts 26 0.721
Isaiah 3 0.718
Proverbs 21 0.715
Luke 6 0.712
Exodus 32 0.711
2 Corinthians 7 0.705
Acts 16 0.703
John 20 0.7
1 Timothy 3 0.697
Matthew 4 0.695
1 Corinthians 9 0.691
Hebrews 4 0.686
Proverbs 3 0.673
Acts 5 0.667
1 Corinthians 7 0.659
Psalms 51 0.65
Luke 2 0.642
Matthew 18 0.633
Colossians 2 0.626
Romans 14 0.623
1 Timothy 4 0.622
Matthew 24 0.62
1 Timothy 2 0.601
Matthew 22 0.595
Galatians 5 0.57
Romans 6 0.563
Luke 16 0.537
1 Corinthians 10 0.529
Matthew 6 0.528
Matthew 7 0.492
Psalms 119 0.459
Ephesians 4 0.39
1 Peter 2 0.359
Diversity: 0.993
Evenness: 0.996
Verse Prominence
Jonah 3.7 1.905
Esther 4.17 1.274
Matthew 17.21 1.264
Acts 14.23 1.264
Esther 4.16 1.261
Isaiah 58.3 1.26
Acts 13.3 1.258
Leviticus 23.4 0.637
Jeremiah 36.9 0.637
Jeremiah 44.2 0.637
2 Kings 3.20 0.637
1 Samuel 17.6 0.637
Psalms 107.7 0.636
Psalms 119.27 0.636
Esther 4.1 0.636
Ezekiel 16.21 0.636
1 Samuel 1.7 0.636
1 Samuel 7.7 0.636
2 Samuel 12.18 0.636
2 Samuel 12.3 0.636
Joshua 3.16 0.636
Psalms 114.5 0.636
Psalms 105.41 0.636
Genesis 26.11 0.636
Genesis 41.39 0.636
2 Kings 1.15 0.636
Jeremiah 39.12 0.636
Daniel 2.48 0.636
Daniel 2.49 0.636
2 Kings 25.27 0.636
Ezra 6.7 0.636
Nehemiah 2.8 0.636
Esther 2.17 0.636
Esther 6.10 0.636
Psalms 119.91 0.635
Genesis 14.21 0.635
Esther 4.3 0.635
Matthew 24.41 0.635
1 Samuel 7.10 0.635
Acts 12.4 0.635
Psalms 114.3 0.635
2 Kings 2.8 0.635
Psalms 107.33 0.635
Jeremiah 39.11 0.635
Revelation 17.1 0.635
Acts 16.13 0.634
Psalms 137.2 0.634
Leviticus 16.29 0.634
Psalms 115.5 0.634
Jonah 4.11 0.634
Genesis 12.5 0.634
Ezekiel 16.20 0.634
Nehemiah 2.10 0.634
Genesis 39.7 0.634
Genesis 39.8 0.634
Exodus 14.21 0.634
2 Kings 2.14 0.634
2 Kings 6.32 0.634
Ezra 7.6 0.634
2 Samuel 19.9 0.634
Isaiah 40.4 0.634
Daniel 9.3 0.633
Psalms 115.6 0.633
Romans 14.2 0.633
Daniel 6.20 0.633
Matthew 6.11 0.633
Ezra 4.1 0.633
Luke 6.13 0.633
1 Samuel 1.15 0.633
2 Samuel 12.16 0.633
2 Samuel 12.24 0.633
2 Samuel 12.25 0.633
Revelation 17.15 0.633
2 Samuel 5.1 0.633
2 Samuel 19.14 0.633
Acts 5.40 0.633
Exodus 17.16 0.633
Matthew 4.5 0.632
Jonah 3.5 0.632
1 Kings 21.9 0.632
Daniel 3.28 0.632
Luke 6.12 0.632
Genesis 20.6 0.632
Psalms 25.11 0.632
Genesis 12.19 0.632
Genesis 12.20 0.632
2 Chronicles 16.12 0.631
Jonah 3.6 0.631
Psalms 137.4 0.631
Esther 3.8 0.631
2 Chronicles 33.13 0.631
1 Corinthians 8.8 0.63
Psalms 139.2 0.63
Canticles 3.2 0.63
Psalms 101.6 0.63
Isaiah 3.16 0.63
1 Timothy 3.5 0.63
Numbers 27.16 0.63
Genesis 32.26 0.63
Jonah 3.8 0.63
2 Chronicles 33.12 0.63
1 Kings 21.29 0.63
Mark 9.23 0.63
2 Samuel 2.26 0.63
2 Kings 6.33 0.63
Nehemiah 1.4 0.629
1 Corinthians 7.5 0.629
Isaiah 65.1 0.629
Psalms 119.32 0.629
Romans 14.12 0.629
2 Samuel 12.23 0.629
Ezra 1.1 0.629
Jeremiah 44.17 0.628
Psalms 101.2 0.627
Isaiah 59.1 0.627
Ezra 8.21 0.626
Colossians 2.23 0.626
2 Chronicles 20.3 0.625
Matthew 4.6 0.624
Matthew 17.4 0.624
Matthew 22.39 0.624
Acts 26.28 0.624
Luke 2.37 0.623
Ephesians 4.22 0.623
John 20.17 0.623
Psalms 137.1 0.622
Genesis 5.24 0.622
Proverbs 3.6 0.622
Jeremiah 31.18 0.622
Psalms 85.10 0.621
1 Corinthians 10.4 0.62
Jeremiah 17.10 0.619
Jeremiah 6.16 0.619
Psalms 91.11 0.619
Romans 6.6 0.618
Hebrews 4.13 0.618
Exodus 32.10 0.618
Exodus 32.32 0.616
Isaiah 59.2 0.615
1 Corinthians 9.27 0.614
2 Corinthians 7.11 0.614
Matthew 18.20 0.613
Psalms 51.17 0.612
Galatians 5.17 0.611
Genesis 17.1 0.608
Luke 16.9 0.607
Matthew 7.7 0.602
1 Peter 2.9 0.599
1 Timothy 4.8 0.58
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase