Early English Printed Sermons


The true Christians path way to heaven Wherein is shewed, the great afflictions which God imposeth upon His children in this life, and the assurance of their delivery out of the same. Being very profitable and comfortable for all those who are in any crosses or afflictions. Thereunto is added a prayer for morning and evening, and graces before and after meat. Dedicated to all those that desire to arrive at Mount Sion, the harbour of peace and joy. By William Simons.

Simons, William, fl. 1665
Publisher: printed by Andrevv Anderson
Place of Publication: Edinburgh
Publication Year: 1665
Approximate Era: CharlesII
TCP ID: A93269 ESTC ID: R231571 STC ID: S3805B
Subject Headings: God -- Knowableness; Prayers; Suffering;
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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 16.4% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 8.6% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 66.4% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 21.0% -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) 13.2% -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: 0.9
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Old Testament (Vulgate) 8.317
Apocrypha (AKJV) 5.442
New Testament (Vulgate) 5.191
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: 0.968
Evenness: 0.997
Book Prominence
Matthew (Tyndale) 4.975
Genesis (Vulgate) 2.973
Baruch (AKJV) 2.944
2 Corinthians (Vulgate) 2.927
Hosea (Geneva) 2.842
2 Peter (ODRV) 2.807
Daniel (AKJV) 2.787
2 Peter (Tyndale) 2.772
2 Peter (Geneva) 2.636
Colossians (ODRV) 2.617
2 Peter (AKJV) 2.611
James (Geneva) 2.608
1 Peter (Tyndale) 2.541
Job (Douay-Rheims) 2.453
Acts (ODRV) 2.342
Luke (Tyndale) 2.255
1 Peter (AKJV) 2.243
Isaiah (Douay-Rheims) 2.155
John (Tyndale) 2.153
2 Corinthians (AKJV) 2.135
Genesis (AKJV) 2.132
Isaiah (Geneva) 2.125
Job (AKJV) 2.037
Hebrews (AKJV) 2.003
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 1.841
Luke (AKJV) 1.832
Isaiah (AKJV) 1.748
Matthew (ODRV) 1.617
Romans (Geneva) 1.57
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 1.462
Psalms (Geneva) 1.215
Psalms (AKJV) 0.249
Diversity: 0.977
Evenness: 0.992
Chapter Prominence
Psalms 107 (AKJV) 5.85
Matthew 25 (Tyndale) 3.918
Genesis 39 (Vulgate) 1.999
2 Corinthians 1 (Vulgate) 1.997
Hosea 5 (Geneva) 1.99
Luke 15 (Tyndale) 1.989
Genesis 32 (AKJV) 1.98
Psalms 27 (Geneva) 1.98
Baruch 3 (AKJV) 1.979
Job 5 (Douay-Rheims) 1.978
Daniel 6 (AKJV) 1.973
Psalms 105 (Geneva) 1.97
Luke 13 (Tyndale) 1.969
Daniel 3 (AKJV) 1.969
Isaiah 26 (Geneva) 1.968
Psalms 91 (Geneva) 1.966
Psalms 109 (AKJV) 1.962
Acts 20 (ODRV) 1.962
Psalms 107 (Geneva) 1.961
2 Peter 2 (ODRV) 1.959
Job 13 (AKJV) 1.957
Isaiah 55 (Douay-Rheims) 1.956
Luke 15 (AKJV) 1.951
2 Peter 2 (Tyndale) 1.947
Psalms 39 (AKJV) 1.947
Psalms 16 (Geneva) 1.942
1 Peter 5 (Tyndale) 1.942
Isaiah 26 (AKJV) 1.927
James 1 (Geneva) 1.924
2 Peter 2 (AKJV) 1.916
Luke 13 (AKJV) 1.911
John 5 (Tyndale) 1.91
Luke 6 (AKJV) 1.91
Psalms 34 (AKJV) 1.906
Matthew 6 (ODRV) 1.895
Matthew 7 (ODRV) 1.88
1 Peter 4 (AKJV) 1.875
Psalms 119 (Geneva) 1.874
Hebrews 12 (AKJV) 1.871
1 Peter 1 (AKJV) 1.868
1 Corinthians 3 (AKJV) 1.868
2 Peter 1 (Geneva) 1.863
1 Corinthians 10 (ODRV) 1.86
Colossians 3 (ODRV) 1.86
2 Corinthians 4 (AKJV) 1.859
1 Peter 5 (AKJV) 1.838
Romans 8 (Geneva) 1.812
Diversity: 0.979
Evenness: 0.992
Verse Prominence
Psalms 107.13 (AKJV) 5.552
Matthew 25.34 (Tyndale) 3.694
Genesis 39.20 (Vulgate) 1.852
Luke 13.16 (Tyndale) 1.851
Psalms 107.28 (Geneva) 1.851
Luke 15.21 (Tyndale) 1.851
Isaiah 55.7 (Douay-Rheims) 1.851
John 5.5 (Tyndale) 1.851
Psalms 105.19 (Geneva) 1.851
Psalms 91.14 (Geneva) 1.851
Job 5.19 (Douay-Rheims) 1.851
Baruch 3.25 (AKJV) 1.851
Psalms 34.17 (AKJV) 1.85
Hosea 5.15 (Geneva) 1.85
Psalms 91.15 (Geneva) 1.85
Psalms 109.17 (AKJV) 1.85
2 Corinthians 1.3 (Vulgate) 1.85
Psalms 107.6 (AKJV) 1.849
Luke 15.18 (AKJV) 1.848
Psalms 34.6 (AKJV) 1.848
Genesis 32.26 (AKJV) 1.848
Daniel 6.20 (AKJV) 1.848
Hebrews 12.6 (AKJV) 1.847
2 Peter 2.9 (Tyndale) 1.847
1 Corinthians 10.26 (ODRV) 1.847
Daniel 3.23 (AKJV) 1.846
Matthew 6.32 (ODRV) 1.846
Luke 6.28 (AKJV) 1.846
Acts 20.32 (ODRV) 1.846
1 Peter 5.4 (Tyndale) 1.845
Psalms 27.14 (Geneva) 1.845
Psalms 39.9 (AKJV) 1.844
Matthew 7.21 (ODRV) 1.843
Isaiah 26.16 (AKJV) 1.843
Isaiah 26.16 (Geneva) 1.843
Psalms 119.71 (Geneva) 1.843
2 Peter 2.22 (ODRV) 1.843
Psalms 34.7 (AKJV) 1.842
2 Peter 2.22 (AKJV) 1.842
Romans 8.28 (Geneva) 1.841
James 1.3 (Geneva) 1.841
Job 13.15 (AKJV) 1.839
1 Peter 1.4 (AKJV) 1.838
1 Peter 4.13 (AKJV) 1.838
1 Corinthians 3.23 (AKJV) 1.837
Colossians 3.4 (ODRV) 1.831
Psalms 16.11 (Geneva) 1.825
Luke 13.24 (AKJV) 1.819
2 Peter 1.10 (Geneva) 1.811
2 Corinthians 4.17 (AKJV) 1.809
1 Peter 5.11 (AKJV) 1.768
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
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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: 0.667
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Apocrypha 28.862
Old Testament -14.001
New Testament -14.862
Diversity: 0.933
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Ecclesiasticus 6.466
Hosea 5.47
2 Peter 5.382
2 Samuel 5.053
1 Samuel 4.884
1 Peter 4.635
Job 4.424
Genesis 4.042
Hebrews 3.881
Luke 3.449
1 Corinthians 3.376
Isaiah 3.285
Romans 2.712
Matthew 2.487
Psalms 1.495
Diversity: 0.96
Evenness: 0.996
Chapter Prominence
Psalms 19 7.258
Ecclesiasticus 23 3.7
Genesis 45 3.656
Psalms 109 3.654
Hosea 5 3.649
Genesis 31 3.644
1 Samuel 3 3.641
Job 13 3.632
Psalms 30 3.609
2 Samuel 15 3.598
Psalms 33 3.594
Psalms 107 3.593
Job 5 3.586
Psalms 39 3.577
Luke 6 3.561
Isaiah 26 3.558
Matthew 15 3.543
1 Peter 4 3.511
Romans 10 3.476
2 Peter 2 3.448
1 Corinthians 3 3.444
2 Peter 1 3.43
Hebrews 13 3.343
Matthew 25 3.334
Psalms 119 3.308
Matthew 5 3.147
Diversity: 0.952
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Ecclesiasticus 23.13 4.761
Psalms 107.6 4.76
Genesis 31.24 4.76
Psalms 109.17 4.758
Job 5.19 4.757
1 Peter 4.13 4.754
Genesis 45.5 4.754
2 Peter 2.6 4.754
Psalms 33.17 4.753
Isaiah 26.16 4.75
1 Corinthians 3.23 4.75
2 Samuel 15.26 4.75
Psalms 119.71 4.748
Psalms 39.9 4.748
Hosea 5.15 4.747
Job 13.15 4.746
1 Samuel 3.18 4.746
Hebrews 13.5 4.733
1 Corinthians 3.22 4.732
2 Peter 1.10 4.724
Matthew 25.34 4.723
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase