Early English Printed Sermons


The best and the worst magistrate: or, The people's happiness and unhappiness, laid open in a sermon preached at the late election of the Lord Major for the famous City of London, Sept. 29. 1648. / By Obadiah Sedgwick B. in D. and minister at Covent-Garden.

Chambers, Humphrey, 1598 or 9-1662
Sedgwick, Obadiah, 1600?-1658
Publisher: Printed by Peter Cole at the signe of the Printing Press in Cornhil near the Royal Exchange
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1648
Approximate Era: CivilWar
TCP ID: A92848 ESTC ID: R205183 STC ID: S2365
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 14.6% 1.0%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 11.0% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 81.0% 98.0%
Foreign Percentage of units with foreign text 0.4% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 17.2% -inf%
sim_score Average cosine similarity score of top Bible verse predictions per unit 0.8% 0.8%
cross_score Average cross encoder score of top Bible verse predictions per unit 0.8% 0.6%
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) 8.2% -inf%
foreign_cited Percentage of units with QP, foreign text, and an adjacent citation 0.2% -inf%
foreign_cited_exact Percentage of units with QP, foreign text, and an adjacent matching citation 0.2% -inf%
foreign_italicized Percentage of units with QP and foreign italicized text 0.4% -inf%
foreign_italicized_cited Percentage of units with QP, italicized foreign text, and an adjacent citation 0.2% -inf%
foreign_italicized_cited_exact Percentage of units with QP, italicized foreign text, and an adjacent matching citation 0.2% -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: 0.833
Evenness: 0.921
Part Prominence
Old Testament (Geneva) 23.399
Apocrypha (Douay-Rheims) 4.93
Old Testament (ODRV) 1.964
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) -0.219
New Testament (Tyndale) -1.688
New Testament (Geneva) -2.725
New Testament (ODRV) -2.804
Old Testament (AKJV) -3.713
New Testament (AKJV) -4.094
Diversity: 0.959
Evenness: 0.943
Book Prominence
Proverbs (AKJV) 13.597
Proverbs (Geneva) 5.736
1 Kings (AKJV) 3.052
Esther (Douay-Rheims) 1.61
Zephaniah (AKJV) 1.607
1 Maccabees (Douay-Rheims) 1.578
Joshua (Douay-Rheims) 1.566
Micah (Geneva) 1.554
2 Thessalonians (Tyndale) 1.547
Jonah (ODRV) 1.546
Daniel (ODRV) 1.531
Amos (Geneva) 1.501
Amos (AKJV) 1.468
1 Kings (Geneva) 1.461
2 Kings (AKJV) 1.434
Judges (AKJV) 1.428
1 Samuel (Geneva) 1.424
Daniel (AKJV) 1.423
Daniel (Geneva) 1.4
Numbers (AKJV) 1.395
1 Kings (Douay-Rheims) 1.39
Exodus (ODRV) 1.333
Ezekiel (Douay-Rheims) 1.327
Ezekiel (AKJV) 1.296
1 Samuel (AKJV) 1.248
Exodus (Geneva) 1.227
Jeremiah (Douay-Rheims) 1.174
Revelation (ODRV) 1.114
Exodus (AKJV) 1.084
Genesis (Geneva) 1.055
Jeremiah (AKJV) 1.014
Ecclesiasticus (Douay-Rheims) 0.989
Job (Geneva) 0.967
Proverbs (Douay-Rheims) 0.859
John (Geneva) 0.797
Isaiah (Douay-Rheims) 0.791
Genesis (AKJV) 0.768
Isaiah (Geneva) 0.761
Job (AKJV) 0.673
John (ODRV) 0.611
John (AKJV) 0.483
Psalms (ODRV) 0.456
Isaiah (AKJV) 0.384
Matthew (ODRV) 0.253
Matthew (AKJV) 0.152
Psalms (Geneva) -0.148
Romans (AKJV) -0.176
Psalms (AKJV) -1.115
Diversity: 0.979
Evenness: 0.966
Chapter Prominence
Proverbs 29 (AKJV) 9.716
Proverbs 29 (Geneva) 4.314
1 Kings 3 (AKJV) 2.16
Exodus 38 (Geneva) 1.087
Esther 11 (Douay-Rheims) 1.086
Ezekiel 27 (AKJV) 1.085
Psalms 100 (ODRV) 1.084
Exodus 6 (ODRV) 1.084
Ezekiel 48 (Douay-Rheims) 1.084
Ezekiel 23 (Douay-Rheims) 1.084
Jeremiah 24 (Douay-Rheims) 1.083
Daniel 1 (AKJV) 1.082
Exodus 2 (Geneva) 1.082
1 Maccabees 1 (Douay-Rheims) 1.082
2 Kings 8 (AKJV) 1.082
1 Kings 22 (Douay-Rheims) 1.081
Ezekiel 1 (AKJV) 1.081
Psalms 140 (Geneva) 1.08
Numbers 27 (AKJV) 1.08
Micah 3 (Geneva) 1.079
Ecclesiasticus 47 (Douay-Rheims) 1.079
Daniel 4 (ODRV) 1.078
1 Samuel 18 (Geneva) 1.077
1 Samuel 16 (Geneva) 1.075
1 Kings 16 (Douay-Rheims) 1.074
Zephaniah 3 (AKJV) 1.073
1 Kings 21 (Geneva) 1.072
Ezekiel 22 (AKJV) 1.071
Daniel 4 (AKJV) 1.071
Matthew 2 (AKJV) 1.07
Joshua 24 (Douay-Rheims) 1.069
2 Thessalonians 3 (Tyndale) 1.068
Judges 8 (AKJV) 1.067
Genesis 41 (AKJV) 1.066
Revelation 9 (ODRV) 1.066
Daniel 4 (Geneva) 1.065
Isaiah 40 (Douay-Rheims) 1.064
Exodus 4 (AKJV) 1.064
Exodus 18 (AKJV) 1.063
Job 31 (Geneva) 1.063
Jeremiah 31 (AKJV) 1.06
Daniel 6 (AKJV) 1.06
Ecclesiasticus 21 (Douay-Rheims) 1.06
Genesis 18 (AKJV) 1.057
Proverbs 12 (Geneva) 1.057
Proverbs 12 (AKJV) 1.056
Amos 5 (Geneva) 1.055
Genesis 18 (Geneva) 1.054
Ecclesiasticus 1 (Douay-Rheims) 1.053
Jonah 1 (ODRV) 1.052
Job 29 (AKJV) 1.051
John 13 (Geneva) 1.051
Isaiah 32 (AKJV) 1.051
Amos 5 (AKJV) 1.049
Psalms 72 (Geneva) 1.049
Psalms 101 (AKJV) 1.047
Proverbs 28 (Douay-Rheims) 1.046
John 13 (ODRV) 1.045
Isaiah 1 (Douay-Rheims) 1.043
Proverbs 28 (Geneva) 1.043
1 Samuel 12 (AKJV) 1.042
Jeremiah 5 (AKJV) 1.036
Psalms 133 (AKJV) 1.035
Psalms 75 (AKJV) 1.032
Isaiah 5 (Geneva) 1.031
Proverbs 16 (Geneva) 1.03
John 10 (AKJV) 1.028
Psalms 72 (AKJV) 1.027
Isaiah 40 (AKJV) 1.017
Proverbs 20 (AKJV) 1.014
Psalms 145 (AKJV) 1.003
Proverbs 28 (AKJV) 1.003
Psalms 104 (AKJV) 1.002
Psalms 122 (Geneva) 0.985
Isaiah 1 (AKJV) 0.962
Psalms 122 (AKJV) 0.949
Matthew 22 (ODRV) 0.947
Proverbs 14 (AKJV) 0.938
Matthew 6 (AKJV) 0.916
Romans 13 (AKJV) 0.726
Diversity: 0.982
Evenness: 0.97
Verse Prominence
Proverbs 29.2 (AKJV) 8.807
Proverbs 29.2 (Geneva) 3.911
1 Kings 3.9 (AKJV) 1.956
Ezekiel 27.29 (AKJV) 0.98
Job 31.4 (Geneva) 0.98
1 Samuel 18.5 (Geneva) 0.98
Daniel 1.20 (AKJV) 0.98
Esther 11.10 (Douay-Rheims) 0.98
1 Kings 22.19 (Douay-Rheims) 0.98
1 Kings 21.15 (Geneva) 0.98
1 Maccabees 1.26 (Douay-Rheims) 0.98
Proverbs 28.15 (Geneva) 0.98
Proverbs 28.15 (Douay-Rheims) 0.98
Revelation 9.5 (ODRV) 0.98
Zephaniah 3.3 (AKJV) 0.98
Daniel 4.21 (AKJV) 0.98
Daniel 4.12 (AKJV) 0.98
Daniel 4.9 (ODRV) 0.98
1 Samuel 16.6 (Geneva) 0.98
Exodus 38.17 (Geneva) 0.98
Ezekiel 23.45 (Douay-Rheims) 0.98
Ecclesiasticus 1.1 (Douay-Rheims) 0.979
Jeremiah 24.2 (Douay-Rheims) 0.979
Exodus 18.25 (AKJV) 0.979
Genesis 41.38 (AKJV) 0.979
Judges 8.2 (AKJV) 0.979
Exodus 2.23 (Geneva) 0.979
Matthew 2.16 (AKJV) 0.979
2 Kings 8.12 (AKJV) 0.979
Proverbs 28.15 (AKJV) 0.979
Daniel 6.24 (AKJV) 0.979
Micah 3.3 (Geneva) 0.979
Ezekiel 22.7 (AKJV) 0.979
Daniel 4.11 (Geneva) 0.979
Jeremiah 5.28 (AKJV) 0.979
Ezekiel 1.18 (AKJV) 0.979
Exodus 4.13 (AKJV) 0.979
1 Kings 16.7 (Douay-Rheims) 0.979
Exodus 6.26 (ODRV) 0.979
Proverbs 28.2 (Geneva) 0.978
Psalms 100.1 (ODRV) 0.978
Jeremiah 31.15 (AKJV) 0.978
Isaiah 1.23 (AKJV) 0.978
Amos 5.12 (AKJV) 0.978
Amos 5.7 (Geneva) 0.978
Isaiah 5.23 (Geneva) 0.978
Numbers 27.16 (AKJV) 0.978
2 Thessalonians 3.15 (Tyndale) 0.978
Ezekiel 48.35 (Douay-Rheims) 0.978
John 13.35 (ODRV) 0.977
Isaiah 40.11 (Douay-Rheims) 0.977
Psalms 104.21 (AKJV) 0.977
Psalms 140.3 (Geneva) 0.977
Ecclesiasticus 47.30 (Douay-Rheims) 0.977
John 10.11 (AKJV) 0.976
Psalms 72.7 (AKJV) 0.976
Psalms 72.12 (Geneva) 0.975
Exodus 18.21 (AKJV) 0.975
Proverbs 16.12 (Geneva) 0.975
1 Samuel 12.3 (AKJV) 0.975
Proverbs 20.28 (AKJV) 0.975
Proverbs 12.10 (AKJV) 0.975
Psalms 101.6 (AKJV) 0.975
Proverbs 12.26 (AKJV) 0.975
Genesis 18.19 (Geneva) 0.974
Genesis 18.19 (AKJV) 0.974
John 13.34 (Geneva) 0.974
Isaiah 1.17 (Douay-Rheims) 0.973
Psalms 145.8 (AKJV) 0.973
Psalms 75.3 (AKJV) 0.973
Proverbs 12.26 (Geneva) 0.973
Psalms 122.3 (AKJV) 0.972
Isaiah 40.11 (AKJV) 0.972
Proverbs 12.10 (Geneva) 0.972
Matthew 6.23 (AKJV) 0.972
Joshua 24.15 (Douay-Rheims) 0.97
Psalms 122.7 (Geneva) 0.97
Job 29.14 (AKJV) 0.969
Ecclesiasticus 1.17 (Douay-Rheims) 0.968
Amos 5.24 (Geneva) 0.967
Proverbs 28.1 (Geneva) 0.966
Isaiah 32.17 (AKJV) 0.966
Ecclesiasticus 21.13 (Douay-Rheims) 0.965
Amos 5.24 (AKJV) 0.964
Jonah 1.4 (ODRV) 0.964
Proverbs 28.1 (AKJV) 0.962
Matthew 22.39 (ODRV) 0.955
Romans 13.3 (AKJV) 0.955
Psalms 133.1 (AKJV) 0.946
Proverbs 14.34 (AKJV) 0.935
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: 0.97
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Zephaniah 2.78
Esther 2.575
Nehemiah 2.485
1 Chronicles 2.422
Amos 2.353
Canticles 2.334
Micah 2.246
Joshua 2.155
Judges 1.933
2 Chronicles 1.794
Daniel 1.695
Numbers 1.602
2 Timothy 1.588
1 Kings 1.554
Ezekiel 1.426
2 Samuel 1.416
1 Samuel 1.248
Ecclesiastes 1.074
1 Peter 0.999
Exodus 0.915
Revelation 0.904
Ephesians 0.868
Jeremiah 0.789
Job 0.788
2 Corinthians 0.728
Genesis 0.405
Proverbs -0.017
John -0.176
Luke -0.188
Isaiah -0.351
Romans -0.924
Matthew -1.15
Psalms -2.141
Diversity: 0.99
Evenness: 0.999
Chapter Prominence
Micah 3 1.924
Nehemiah 7 0.973
Ezekiel 48 0.972
Ezekiel 27 0.968
Jeremiah 24 0.966
Esther 10 0.965
Psalms 140 0.963
2 Samuel 8 0.963
Daniel 1 0.96
Nehemiah 6 0.955
1 Chronicles 22 0.954
Ezekiel 2 0.954
Judges 2 0.951
Esther 3 0.951
Ezekiel 28 0.951
Numbers 27 0.951
Micah 5 0.95
Psalms 28 0.945
Ezekiel 34 0.945
Zephaniah 3 0.945
Psalms 47 0.944
1 Kings 14 0.944
Esther 4 0.943
1 Samuel 30 0.942
1 Samuel 22 0.942
Judges 8 0.94
Canticles 3 0.94
1 Samuel 18 0.936
Exodus 2 0.935
Revelation 9 0.934
Genesis 42 0.934
Psalms 26 0.932
Amos 5 0.931
Amos 8 0.927
Psalms 133 0.927
Genesis 41 0.926
Proverbs 12 0.926
Psalms 72 0.925
Nehemiah 9 0.925
2 Chronicles 15 0.924
1 Samuel 16 0.921
Judges 9 0.92
1 Kings 10 0.918
Psalms 75 0.918
2 Samuel 23 0.915
Ezekiel 22 0.913
Isaiah 32 0.912
1 Kings 3 0.912
1 Samuel 17 0.911
Joshua 24 0.908
Job 29 0.908
Exodus 4 0.907
Numbers 25 0.905
Numbers 11 0.904
Jeremiah 22 0.904
Psalms 36 0.899
1 Kings 21 0.899
1 Kings 19 0.894
Exodus 18 0.893
Job 31 0.89
Psalms 104 0.889
Psalms 101 0.889
Psalms 112 0.889
Matthew 2 0.888
Daniel 6 0.884
2 Samuel 15 0.875
Proverbs 29 0.873
1 Samuel 12 0.868
Jeremiah 23 0.865
2 Corinthians 2 0.864
Isaiah 40 0.85
Proverbs 20 0.848
Daniel 4 0.845
Isaiah 3 0.844
Proverbs 30 0.843
Isaiah 49 0.842
Isaiah 26 0.835
Psalms 122 0.83
Isaiah 58 0.828
Numbers 16 0.827
Jeremiah 5 0.827
Proverbs 28 0.825
Genesis 18 0.823
Luke 18 0.819
Proverbs 14 0.818
Genesis 1 0.817
Proverbs 10 0.812
Romans 4 0.81
Psalms 82 0.808
Proverbs 16 0.801
Psalms 16 0.794
John 10 0.789
1 Peter 5 0.787
Ecclesiastes 12 0.779
Isaiah 5 0.779
2 Timothy 4 0.773
Luke 2 0.767
Luke 10 0.762
Ephesians 6 0.736
Isaiah 1 0.665
Romans 13 0.291
Diversity: 0.992
Evenness: 0.999
Verse Prominence
Micah 3.2 1.501
Ezekiel 27.29 0.752
Jeremiah 24.3 0.752
Revelation 9.5 0.751
Psalms 140.9 0.751
Ezekiel 22.4 0.751
Amos 8.8 0.751
1 Samuel 30.12 0.751
1 Samuel 18.5 0.751
Daniel 1.20 0.751
Judges 8.2 0.751
1 Kings 3.27 0.751
Judges 2.15 0.751
1 Kings 14.4 0.751
Esther 3.14 0.751
2 Samuel 8.11 0.751
2 Samuel 8.12 0.751
Ezekiel 48.33 0.751
Ezekiel 22.7 0.75
Job 31.4 0.75
Numbers 11.28 0.75
1 Chronicles 22.13 0.75
2 Chronicles 15.8 0.75
1 Samuel 22.19 0.75
Esther 4.3 0.75
Proverbs 30.30 0.75
Daniel 4.12 0.75
Nehemiah 7.64 0.75
Canticles 3.10 0.75
Judges 9.9 0.749
Psalms 72.12 0.749
1 Samuel 17.35 0.749
Judges 9.14 0.749
Psalms 26.10 0.749
Proverbs 10.6 0.749
Exodus 18.25 0.749
Genesis 42.18 0.749
Genesis 41.38 0.749
Numbers 16.15 0.749
Psalms 72.7 0.749
Judges 2.14 0.749
Ezekiel 28.24 0.749
Proverbs 28.15 0.749
Daniel 6.24 0.749
Ezekiel 22.27 0.749
Zephaniah 3.3 0.749
Amos 5.7 0.749
Isaiah 3.6 0.748
1 Kings 10.20 0.748
Amos 8.4 0.748
Isaiah 26.2 0.748
Luke 18.4 0.748
1 Kings 21.13 0.748
Jeremiah 5.28 0.748
Exodus 4.13 0.748
1 Samuel 16.6 0.748
Psalms 82.2 0.747
Ezekiel 34.2 0.747
1 Kings 3.26 0.747
1 Samuel 22.18 0.747
Matthew 2.16 0.747
Amos 5.12 0.747
Psalms 36.4 0.746
Exodus 2.23 0.746
Luke 2.8 0.745
1 Kings 3.28 0.745
Numbers 25.11 0.745
Psalms 101.6 0.745
Matthew 2.18 0.745
Ezekiel 2.6 0.745
Numbers 27.16 0.745
Micah 5.5 0.744
Isaiah 26.1 0.744
Luke 10.34 0.744
Psalms 104.15 0.744
Isaiah 58.12 0.744
Numbers 11.29 0.744
Jeremiah 22.15 0.744
Psalms 112.4 0.744
1 Kings 19.10 0.744
Isaiah 58.4 0.743
Psalms 75.3 0.743
Proverbs 12.10 0.743
Numbers 25.8 0.743
1 Samuel 16.7 0.743
Proverbs 29.2 0.742
Isaiah 3.7 0.742
Psalms 28.3 0.742
2 Samuel 15.4 0.742
Isaiah 40.11 0.742
Job 29.14 0.742
Proverbs 20.28 0.742
Psalms 122.7 0.742
Psalms 122.9 0.742
Isaiah 5.23 0.742
Proverbs 16.12 0.741
Psalms 101.1 0.741
Nehemiah 6.11 0.741
Isaiah 1.23 0.741
Nehemiah 9.27 0.74
Esther 10.3 0.74
Psalms 122.3 0.74
Romans 4.5 0.737
Amos 5.24 0.737
Psalms 47.9 0.737
John 10.11 0.737
1 Kings 3.9 0.737
2 Samuel 23.3 0.736
Proverbs 28.1 0.736
Jeremiah 23.6 0.735
Psalms 16.3 0.734
Isaiah 32.17 0.733
Isaiah 1.17 0.732
Isaiah 1.26 0.731
Genesis 18.19 0.73
Genesis 1.26 0.726
Joshua 24.15 0.725
2 Corinthians 2.16 0.724
Ephesians 6.12 0.724
1 Samuel 12.3 0.723
Psalms 133.1 0.722
Ecclesiastes 12.13 0.721
Proverbs 28.2 0.72
Isaiah 49.23 0.715
Proverbs 14.34 0.715
1 Peter 5.8 0.714
Exodus 18.21 0.708
Romans 13.3 0.699
2 Timothy 4.8 0.697
Psalms 82.6 0.642
Romans 13.4 0.606
Romans 13.1 0.52
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase