Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon preached at the Tovver, February 20. 1641. Being upon the Sabboth [sic] day. By the Bishop of Bath and VVells.

Piers, William, 1580-1670
Publisher: Printed for H S
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1642
Approximate Era: CivilWar
TCP ID: A90695 ESTC ID: R150 STC ID: P2210
Subject Headings: Bible. -- N.T. -- Corinthians, 2nd, XII, 8; 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 7.4% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 2.0% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 78.5% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 10.7% -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) 8.7% -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: 0.816
Evenness: 0.976
Part Prominence
Old Testament (Geneva) 18.637
New Testament (Tyndale) 4.264
New Testament (Geneva) 3.227
New Testament (ODRV) 3.148
Old Testament (AKJV) 2.24
New Testament (AKJV) 1.858
Diversity: 0.949
Evenness: 0.99
Book Prominence
Deuteronomy (Geneva) 8.286
2 Corinthians (Geneva) 7.947
Canticles (AKJV) 4.107
Hosea (AKJV) 4.037
James (Geneva) 3.926
1 John (Tyndale) 3.899
1 John (ODRV) 3.881
James (AKJV) 3.702
Ephesians (ODRV) 3.696
Hebrews (Geneva) 3.606
2 Corinthians (ODRV) 3.593
Philippians (AKJV) 3.586
1 Peter (AKJV) 3.56
1 Corinthians (Tyndale) 3.475
2 Corinthians (AKJV) 3.453
Matthew (Geneva) 3.186
Romans (Geneva) 2.888
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 2.78
Psalms (Geneva) 2.533
Romans (AKJV) 2.505
Psalms (AKJV) 1.567
Diversity: 0.963
Evenness: 0.991
Chapter Prominence
Deuteronomy 3 (Geneva) 6.245
2 Corinthians 12 (Geneva) 6.211
2 Corinthians 8 (AKJV) 6.201
Psalms 86 (Geneva) 3.115
Psalms 86 (AKJV) 3.106
2 Corinthians 12 (ODRV) 3.105
Hosea 5 (AKJV) 3.103
Hebrews 2 (Geneva) 3.101
James 5 (Geneva) 3.082
Canticles 2 (AKJV) 3.077
2 Corinthians 3 (ODRV) 3.071
Psalms 46 (AKJV) 3.07
2 Corinthians 12 (AKJV) 3.069
1 Corinthians 7 (Tyndale) 3.065
2 Corinthians 11 (Geneva) 3.059
James 5 (AKJV) 3.053
Matthew 11 (Geneva) 3.043
James 4 (AKJV) 3.035
1 John 3 (Tyndale) 3.027
1 John 3 (ODRV) 3.02
1 Corinthians 2 (AKJV) 3.018
Psalms 73 (AKJV) 2.998
1 Peter 1 (AKJV) 2.993
2 Corinthians 4 (AKJV) 2.984
Ephesians 4 (ODRV) 2.96
Romans 8 (Geneva) 2.937
Psalms 119 (AKJV) 2.905
Philippians 2 (AKJV) 2.905
Romans 8 (AKJV) 2.793
Diversity: 0.961
Evenness: 0.976
Verse Prominence
2 Corinthians 12.9 (AKJV) 10.507
Deuteronomy 3.23 (Geneva) 5.261
2 Corinthians 8.15 (AKJV) 5.259
2 Corinthians 12.9 (Geneva) 5.245
Psalms 86.7 (Geneva) 2.631
1 Corinthians 7.7 (Tyndale) 2.63
Psalms 86.7 (AKJV) 2.63
1 John 3.10 (Tyndale) 2.629
2 Corinthians 11.26 (Geneva) 2.629
2 Corinthians 4.9 (AKJV) 2.629
2 Corinthians 12.8 (AKJV) 2.628
1 John 3.10 (ODRV) 2.628
2 Corinthians 3.4 (ODRV) 2.627
James 4.2 (AKJV) 2.627
2 Corinthians 12.7 (ODRV) 2.626
Hebrews 2.18 (Geneva) 2.626
Ephesians 4.7 (ODRV) 2.625
1 Corinthians 2.5 (AKJV) 2.625
Psalms 119.75 (AKJV) 2.624
James 5.13 (Geneva) 2.624
James 5.13 (AKJV) 2.624
Canticles 2.2 (AKJV) 2.62
Hosea 5.15 (AKJV) 2.62
2 Corinthians 12.7 (AKJV) 2.619
1 Peter 1.5 (AKJV) 2.619
Romans 8.39 (Geneva) 2.616
Matthew 11.12 (Geneva) 2.611
Psalms 46.1 (AKJV) 2.61
Philippians 2.13 (AKJV) 2.61
Romans 8.37 (AKJV) 2.602
2 Corinthians 4.17 (AKJV) 2.588
Psalms 73.25 (AKJV) 2.587
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: 0.875
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Canticles 11.803
2 Thessalonians 11.708
Hosea 11.303
Ephesians 10.338
2 Corinthians 10.198
Hebrews 9.714
Romans 8.545
Psalms 7.328
Diversity: 0.9
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Hosea 5 9.945
Canticles 2 9.911
2 Thessalonians 3 9.896
2 Corinthians 12 9.837
Psalms 37 9.809
Romans 7 9.777
Ephesians 1 9.774
Ephesians 2 9.701
Psalms 119 9.604
Hebrews 12 9.596
Diversity: 0.5
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Canticles 2.2 49.983
2 Corinthians 12.8 49.982
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase