Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon preached at the funeral oe [sic] the incomparably vertuous and truly pious gentlewoman Mrs. Dorothy Litster. By Edward Smith.

Smith, Edward, 1620 or 21-1682
Publisher: printed by T R for Will Palmer at the Palm Tree in Fleet street over against St Dunstan s Church
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1660
Approximate Era: CharlesII
TCP ID: A93339 ESTC ID: R208099 STC ID: S4022
Subject Headings: Funeral sermons -- 17th century; Litster, Dorothy;
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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 7.0% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 3.2% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 82.4% 100.0%
Foreign Percentage of units with foreign text 0.3% -inf%
NonLatinAlphabet Percentage of units with a NonLatinAlphabet placeholder 0.6% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 8.3% -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) 3.5% -inf%
foreign_cited Percentage of units with QP, foreign text, and an adjacent citation 0.3% -inf%
foreign_italicized Percentage of units with QP and foreign italicized text 0.3% -inf%
foreign_italicized_cited Percentage of units with QP, italicized foreign text, and an adjacent citation 0.3% -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: 0.889
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Apocrypha (Douay-Rheims) 7.708
New Testament (Vulgate) 6.303
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 2.559
Old Testament (Geneva) 1.177
New Testament (Tyndale) 1.09
New Testament (Geneva) 0.053
New Testament (ODRV) -0.027
Old Testament (AKJV) -0.935
New Testament (AKJV) -1.317
Diversity: 0.953
Evenness: 0.959
Book Prominence
Romans (AKJV) 13.947
Habakkuk (AKJV) 2.506
Titus (ODRV) 2.409
2 Peter (ODRV) 2.408
Romans (Vulgate) 2.393
Colossians (Geneva) 2.254
Philippians (Tyndale) 2.22
Ecclesiastes (Douay-Rheims) 2.218
Colossians (ODRV) 2.218
Philippians (Geneva) 2.214
1 Thessalonians (AKJV) 2.181
Colossians (AKJV) 2.124
Acts (Geneva) 2.087
1 Peter (Geneva) 2.049
1 John (AKJV) 2.032
James (AKJV) 1.986
Ecclesiasticus (Douay-Rheims) 1.954
Hebrews (ODRV) 1.92
2 Corinthians (ODRV) 1.877
1 Peter (AKJV) 1.844
Proverbs (Douay-Rheims) 1.824
2 Corinthians (AKJV) 1.737
Proverbs (Geneva) 1.701
Romans (Tyndale) 1.644
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 1.442
Romans (ODRV) 1.381
1 Corinthians (Geneva) 1.36
Proverbs (AKJV) 1.228
Romans (Geneva) 1.171
Matthew (AKJV) 1.117
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 1.064
Psalms (Geneva) 0.817
Psalms (AKJV) -0.15
Diversity: 0.97
Evenness: 0.973
Chapter Prominence
Romans 5 (AKJV) 11.174
Romans 5 (Vulgate) 1.87
Acts 13 (Geneva) 1.859
Psalms 45 (Geneva) 1.856
1 Thessalonians 2 (AKJV) 1.852
Ecclesiasticus 1 (Douay-Rheims) 1.852
Proverbs 10 (Douay-Rheims) 1.849
Proverbs 31 (Douay-Rheims) 1.848
Habakkuk 2 (AKJV) 1.847
Proverbs 10 (Geneva) 1.84
Psalms 16 (AKJV) 1.839
2 Corinthians 3 (ODRV) 1.833
Ecclesiastes 12 (Douay-Rheims) 1.832
Philippians 4 (Tyndale) 1.832
Psalms 94 (AKJV) 1.831
2 Corinthians 3 (AKJV) 1.828
Romans 5 (Geneva) 1.827
Matthew 12 (AKJV) 1.822
2 Corinthians 6 (ODRV) 1.818
Psalms 50 (AKJV) 1.814
Colossians 3 (Geneva) 1.813
2 Peter 1 (ODRV) 1.812
Hebrews 11 (ODRV) 1.802
Titus 2 (ODRV) 1.802
Proverbs 11 (AKJV) 1.801
Romans 9 (AKJV) 1.796
Philippians 3 (Geneva) 1.796
1 Thessalonians 4 (AKJV) 1.785
1 Corinthians 2 (ODRV) 1.785
James 3 (AKJV) 1.783
1 Peter 1 (Geneva) 1.778
1 John 2 (AKJV) 1.775
Philippians 3 (Tyndale) 1.765
Colossians 1 (AKJV) 1.763
Romans 3 (AKJV) 1.758
1 Peter 1 (AKJV) 1.755
Romans 8 (Tyndale) 1.753
Colossians 3 (ODRV) 1.747
2 Corinthians 4 (AKJV) 1.746
1 John 3 (AKJV) 1.717
Romans 8 (ODRV) 1.701
Romans 8 (Geneva) 1.699
2 Corinthians 5 (ODRV) 1.687
1 Corinthians 15 (AKJV) 1.684
Psalms 119 (AKJV) 1.667
1 Corinthians 15 (Geneva) 1.625
1 Corinthians 15 (ODRV) 1.57
Romans 8 (AKJV) 1.555
Diversity: 0.974
Evenness: 0.975
Verse Prominence
Romans 5.2 (AKJV) 10.158
Romans 5.1 (AKJV) 3.379
James 3.12 (AKJV) 1.694
Colossians 1.5 (AKJV) 1.694
Proverbs 10.28 (Geneva) 1.693
Romans 9.22 (AKJV) 1.693
2 Corinthians 3.9 (AKJV) 1.693
1 Thessalonians 2.12 (AKJV) 1.693
Psalms 119.162 (AKJV) 1.693
1 Peter 1.13 (Geneva) 1.692
Philippians 4.4 (Tyndale) 1.692
Matthew 12.34 (AKJV) 1.691
Psalms 94.19 (AKJV) 1.691
2 Corinthians 3.12 (ODRV) 1.691
Ecclesiasticus 1.18 (Douay-Rheims) 1.691
Romans 5.2 (Geneva) 1.691
Proverbs 10.28 (Douay-Rheims) 1.69
2 Corinthians 6.16 (ODRV) 1.69
Philippians 3.1 (Geneva) 1.69
Proverbs 31.30 (Douay-Rheims) 1.689
1 John 2.25 (AKJV) 1.689
Romans 5.3 (Vulgate) 1.689
Acts 13.30 (Geneva) 1.688
Proverbs 11.7 (AKJV) 1.688
Romans 3.24 (AKJV) 1.687
1 Peter 1.21 (AKJV) 1.687
Romans 8.24 (Tyndale) 1.687
Romans 8.24 (Geneva) 1.686
Romans 8.25 (ODRV) 1.686
2 Peter 1.6 (ODRV) 1.685
Colossians 3.4 (Geneva) 1.685
Habakkuk 2.3 (AKJV) 1.684
1 Thessalonians 4.13 (AKJV) 1.684
Hebrews 11.1 (ODRV) 1.683
Psalms 16.11 (AKJV) 1.683
Psalms 50.15 (AKJV) 1.682
1 John 3.3 (AKJV) 1.682
1 Corinthians 15.58 (AKJV) 1.682
1 Peter 1.4 (AKJV) 1.681
Psalms 45.13 (Geneva) 1.679
Romans 8.24 (AKJV) 1.679
Romans 8.25 (AKJV) 1.678
1 Thessalonians 4.14 (AKJV) 1.674
Colossians 3.4 (ODRV) 1.674
1 Corinthians 2.9 (ODRV) 1.673
1 Corinthians 15.41 (ODRV) 1.666
Philippians 3.21 (Tyndale) 1.665
Ecclesiastes 12.1 (Douay-Rheims) 1.662
Titus 2.12 (ODRV) 1.66
1 Corinthians 15.55 (Geneva) 1.653
2 Corinthians 4.17 (AKJV) 1.652
1 Corinthians 15.58 (ODRV) 1.645
2 Corinthians 5.1 (ODRV) 1.634
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: 0.5
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Old Testament 2.666
New Testament 1.805
Diversity: 0.917
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Lamentations 7.64
Titus 7.257
1 Thessalonians 7.256
James 6.826
1 Peter 6.302
Job 6.091
2 Corinthians 6.031
Hebrews 5.548
Luke 5.115
1 Corinthians 5.043
Romans 4.379
Psalms 3.162
Diversity: 0.944
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
1 Thessalonians 3 5.522
Job 13 5.483
Lamentations 3 5.422
2 Corinthians 3 5.41
1 Corinthians 9 5.392
2 Corinthians 12 5.392
Luke 13 5.382
Hebrews 2 5.37
Psalms 16 5.369
Titus 2 5.352
1 Thessalonians 4 5.341
Hebrews 6 5.326
2 Corinthians 4 5.326
Psalms 50 5.306
James 1 5.277
Romans 5 5.269
1 Peter 1 5.23
Romans 8 4.953
Diversity: 0.955
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Lamentations 3.30 4.544
1 Thessalonians 3.11 4.544
Lamentations 3.31 4.543
Lamentations 3.29 4.542
1 Peter 1.21 4.541
1 Thessalonians 3.12 4.541
Romans 8.19 4.537
1 Peter 1.13 4.536
Romans 8.25 4.535
2 Corinthians 4.16 4.532
2 Corinthians 12.10 4.53
Job 13.15 4.53
Romans 8.24 4.527
James 1.27 4.522
Hebrews 2.3 4.521
Hebrews 6.18 4.515
1 Thessalonians 4.13 4.514
2 Corinthians 3.18 4.513
Psalms 50.15 4.51
Titus 2.11 4.507
Titus 2.12 4.49
2 Corinthians 4.17 4.488
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase