Early English Printed Sermons


Christophilos. The true Christian subiect decyphered in a sermon preached at Saint Pauls London, on the seventh of August, Anno 1642. By Benjamin Spencer, Minister of St. Thomas Parish in Southwarke.

Spencer, Benjamin, b. 1595?
Publisher: Printed for Thomas Paybody dwelling in Pater Noster Row in Queenes Head Court
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1642
Approximate Era: CivilWar
TCP ID: A93663 ESTC ID: None STC ID: S4943
Subject Headings: Bible. -- O.T. -- Proverbs XXIV, 21-23; 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 13.9% 1.0%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 8.2% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 78.2% 99.0%
Foreign Percentage of units with foreign text 1.9% -inf%
NonLatinAlphabet Percentage of units with a NonLatinAlphabet placeholder 0.6% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 15.5% 1.0%
sim_score Average cosine similarity score of top Bible verse predictions per unit 0.7% -inf%
cross_score Average cross encoder score of top Bible verse predictions per unit 0.6% -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) 6.0% 1.0%
foreign_cited Percentage of units with QP, foreign text, and an adjacent citation 1.3% -inf%
foreign_cited_exact Percentage of units with QP, foreign text, and an adjacent matching citation 1.0% -inf%
foreign_italicized Percentage of units with QP and foreign italicized text 1.9% -inf%
foreign_italicized_cited Percentage of units with QP, italicized foreign text, and an adjacent citation 1.3% -inf%
foreign_italicized_cited_exact Percentage of units with QP, italicized foreign text, and an adjacent matching citation 1.0% -inf%
foreign_latin Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP and foreign text 0.3% -inf%
foreign_latin_italicized Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP and italicized foreign text 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: 0.707
Evenness: 0.777
Part Prominence
New Testament (Tyndale) 39.978
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 5.085
Old Testament (Geneva) -0.844
Old Testament (ODRV) -1.824
New Testament (AKJV) -3.337
New Testament (Geneva) -6.513
New Testament (ODRV) -6.592
Old Testament (AKJV) -7.501
Diversity: 0.943
Evenness: 0.921
Book Prominence
1 Peter (Tyndale) 19.154
Proverbs (Douay-Rheims) 4.549
Hosea (Geneva) 3.383
1 Peter (AKJV) 2.784
Proverbs (Geneva) 2.641
Romans (AKJV) 1.729
Habakkuk (Geneva) 1.705
Habakkuk (AKJV) 1.66
Judges (Geneva) 1.634
Micah (AKJV) 1.623
Amos (Geneva) 1.62
Titus (Geneva) 1.573
Daniel (AKJV) 1.542
2 Timothy (ODRV) 1.525
Numbers (AKJV) 1.514
1 Kings (Douay-Rheims) 1.509
1 Kings (AKJV) 1.505
Ecclesiastes (Douay-Rheims) 1.372
1 Peter (ODRV) 1.352
1 John (Geneva) 1.325
Ephesians (Tyndale) 1.302
Galatians (Geneva) 1.302
Ecclesiastes (Geneva) 1.291
1 Timothy (ODRV) 1.262
Job (Douay-Rheims) 1.209
1 Peter (Geneva) 1.203
Ephesians (ODRV) 1.134
Ecclesiastes (AKJV) 1.037
Isaiah (Douay-Rheims) 0.91
Isaiah (Geneva) 0.88
Romans (Tyndale) 0.798
Matthew (Tyndale) 0.7
John (AKJV) 0.602
Psalms (ODRV) 0.575
Isaiah (AKJV) 0.503
Proverbs (AKJV) 0.383
Romans (Geneva) 0.326
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 0.218
Psalms (Geneva) -0.029
Psalms (AKJV) -0.996
Diversity: 0.963
Evenness: 0.941
Chapter Prominence
1 Peter 2 (Tyndale) 14.907
Proverbs 24 (Douay-Rheims) 4.054
Hosea 11 (Geneva) 2.728
Proverbs 20 (Geneva) 2.707
Psalms 7 (AKJV) 2.699
1 Peter 2 (AKJV) 2.574
Romans 13 (AKJV) 2.379
Judges 9 (Geneva) 1.364
Job 4 (Douay-Rheims) 1.363
Amos 2 (Geneva) 1.362
1 Kings 26 (Douay-Rheims) 1.361
Job 28 (Douay-Rheims) 1.36
Psalms 64 (Geneva) 1.357
Psalms 20 (ODRV) 1.357
Daniel 4 (AKJV) 1.354
Psalms 110 (ODRV) 1.353
Psalms 7 (Geneva) 1.353
1 Kings 2 (AKJV) 1.353
Titus 1 (Geneva) 1.351
Psalms 130 (Geneva) 1.35
Habakkuk 2 (Geneva) 1.343
Proverbs 4 (Geneva) 1.343
Proverbs 12 (AKJV) 1.339
Proverbs 2 (AKJV) 1.339
Numbers 16 (AKJV) 1.335
Psalms 21 (AKJV) 1.333
Ephesians 6 (Tyndale) 1.33
Habakkuk 2 (AKJV) 1.33
Ecclesiastes 10 (Douay-Rheims) 1.326
Psalms 50 (Geneva) 1.326
Proverbs 28 (Geneva) 1.326
Ecclesiastes 9 (Geneva) 1.325
Micah 6 (AKJV) 1.324
Isaiah 30 (AKJV) 1.32
Romans 1 (Tyndale) 1.318
Isaiah 57 (Geneva) 1.317
Proverbs 1 (Geneva) 1.312
1 Timothy 5 (ODRV) 1.311
Proverbs 24 (AKJV) 1.298
John 12 (AKJV) 1.298
Proverbs 20 (AKJV) 1.297
Psalms 9 (AKJV) 1.295
Ecclesiastes 9 (AKJV) 1.293
2 Timothy 3 (ODRV) 1.293
1 John 4 (Geneva) 1.292
Matthew 22 (Tyndale) 1.288
Romans 3 (Geneva) 1.284
Ecclesiastes 12 (AKJV) 1.279
Isaiah 5 (Douay-Rheims) 1.277
Psalms 2 (AKJV) 1.264
1 Peter 2 (ODRV) 1.249
Galatians 5 (Geneva) 1.242
1 Peter 2 (Geneva) 1.231
Ephesians 4 (ODRV) 1.205
1 Corinthians 10 (AKJV) 1.068
Romans 13 (Geneva) 1.045
Diversity: 0.965
Evenness: 0.944
Verse Prominence
1 Peter 2.17 (Tyndale) 14.411
Proverbs 24.22 (Douay-Rheims) 3.928
Proverbs 20.28 (Geneva) 2.629
Hosea 11.8 (Geneva) 2.626
Psalms 7.12 (AKJV) 2.625
1 Peter 2.13 (AKJV) 2.586
Romans 13.2 (AKJV) 2.522
Judges 9.15 (Geneva) 1.315
Proverbs 12.7 (AKJV) 1.315
Job 4.9 (Douay-Rheims) 1.315
Titus 1.11 (Geneva) 1.314
1 Kings 26.9 (Douay-Rheims) 1.314
Numbers 16.26 (AKJV) 1.314
Daniel 4.27 (AKJV) 1.314
Psalms 50.21 (Geneva) 1.314
Micah 6.3 (AKJV) 1.314
Romans 1.22 (Tyndale) 1.314
Psalms 20.2 (ODRV) 1.314
Psalms 64.7 (Geneva) 1.313
Proverbs 24.23 (AKJV) 1.313
Ephesians 6.2 (Tyndale) 1.313
Proverbs 4.14 (Geneva) 1.313
Ecclesiastes 9.12 (Geneva) 1.313
Proverbs 28.21 (Geneva) 1.313
Psalms 7.16 (Geneva) 1.312
Proverbs 2.13 (AKJV) 1.312
2 Timothy 3.5 (ODRV) 1.312
Isaiah 57.20 (Geneva) 1.311
Habakkuk 2.11 (Geneva) 1.311
Habakkuk 2.11 (AKJV) 1.311
Galatians 5.15 (Geneva) 1.311
Amos 2.13 (Geneva) 1.311
Isaiah 5.4 (Douay-Rheims) 1.311
Job 28.28 (Douay-Rheims) 1.31
1 Peter 2.18 (Geneva) 1.31
Psalms 9.15 (AKJV) 1.309
1 Corinthians 10.15 (AKJV) 1.309
Proverbs 20.2 (AKJV) 1.308
Isaiah 30.18 (AKJV) 1.308
Proverbs 1.26 (Geneva) 1.308
Ecclesiastes 9.12 (AKJV) 1.308
1 Kings 2.27 (AKJV) 1.308
1 John 4.18 (Geneva) 1.307
Psalms 130.4 (Geneva) 1.306
Psalms 110.10 (ODRV) 1.303
John 12.43 (AKJV) 1.303
Psalms 2.9 (AKJV) 1.302
Ephesians 4.14 (ODRV) 1.302
Psalms 21.1 (AKJV) 1.302
Romans 3.18 (Geneva) 1.3
1 Peter 2.21 (ODRV) 1.299
Ecclesiastes 12.13 (AKJV) 1.298
Ecclesiastes 10.20 (Douay-Rheims) 1.297
Proverbs 24.21 (Douay-Rheims) 1.295
1 Peter 2.14 (AKJV) 1.294
1 Peter 2.13 (ODRV) 1.29
Matthew 22.21 (Tyndale) 1.288
1 Timothy 5.17 (ODRV) 1.287
Romans 13.5 (Geneva) 1.231
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: 0.966
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Amos 2.771
Micah 2.664
Titus 2.372
Judges 2.351
Hosea 2.251
2 Peter 2.164
2 Kings 2.13
Daniel 2.113
Colossians 2.063
Numbers 2.02
2 Timothy 2.006
2 Samuel 1.834
1 Samuel 1.666
Galatians 1.629
1 Timothy 1.611
Ecclesiastes 1.492
1 Peter 1.417
Revelation 1.322
Deuteronomy 1.317
Ephesians 1.286
Jeremiah 1.207
Job 1.206
2 Corinthians 1.146
Proverbs 0.401
Acts 0.245
Luke 0.23
Isaiah 0.067
Romans -0.506
Psalms -1.723
Diversity: 0.983
Evenness: 0.995
Chapter Prominence
Romans 13 3.926
Judges 19 1.516
Isaiah 24 1.509
Micah 5 1.508
Psalms 64 1.505
Psalms 57 1.499
Judges 18 1.498
Job 28 1.485
1 Samuel 26 1.483
2 Kings 9 1.483
Judges 9 1.479
Hosea 11 1.475
2 Kings 6 1.474
Amos 3 1.47
Judges 17 1.468
2 Samuel 3 1.463
Psalms 21 1.462
Revelation 13 1.461
Deuteronomy 1 1.456
1 Samuel 10 1.453
2 Samuel 18 1.445
Psalms 7 1.442
Psalms 144 1.441
Jeremiah 2 1.433
2 Samuel 15 1.433
Psalms 89 1.421
Job 5 1.421
Psalms 90 1.419
Isaiah 30 1.419
Psalms 42 1.41
Proverbs 20 1.406
Proverbs 23 1.405
Daniel 4 1.403
Proverbs 11 1.402
Luke 14 1.395
Romans 15 1.391
Numbers 16 1.385
Proverbs 28 1.383
Ecclesiastes 9 1.373
Psalms 82 1.366
Proverbs 24 1.362
Psalms 1 1.357
1 Timothy 5 1.356
Titus 1 1.351
Ecclesiastes 10 1.349
Psalms 37 1.347
Proverbs 8 1.337
Isaiah 5 1.337
Isaiah 57 1.329
Luke 19 1.328
2 Corinthians 6 1.315
1 Peter 3 1.314
Colossians 2 1.31
Romans 14 1.307
Ephesians 6 1.294
Psalms 50 1.289
Acts 20 1.284
2 Peter 2 1.283
Galatians 5 1.253
2 Timothy 3 1.242
Psalms 119 1.143
Ephesians 4 1.074
1 Peter 2 1.043
Diversity: 0.986
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
2 Samuel 18.8 1.408
Psalms 119.131 1.407
Luke 14.32 1.407
2 Kings 9.37 1.407
Isaiah 24.1 1.407
Deuteronomy 1.1 1.407
Proverbs 20.2 1.406
Judges 9.20 1.406
2 Samuel 3.1 1.406
Job 5.22 1.406
2 Kings 6.26 1.406
Proverbs 28.21 1.406
1 Samuel 10.26 1.405
Psalms 21.2 1.405
Amos 3.8 1.404
Jeremiah 2.10 1.404
Revelation 13.18 1.404
Proverbs 23.21 1.403
Psalms 89.51 1.403
Psalms 64.7 1.403
Proverbs 11.21 1.403
Judges 19.1 1.402
Titus 1.10 1.402
Psalms 37.36 1.402
Judges 18.1 1.401
2 Peter 2.18 1.401
Judges 9.15 1.401
Psalms 144.14 1.401
Colossians 2.21 1.4
Jeremiah 2.11 1.4
Colossians 2.20 1.399
Psalms 57.4 1.399
Proverbs 20.28 1.399
2 Samuel 15.4 1.398
Psalms 7.12 1.398
2 Peter 2.19 1.397
Ecclesiastes 9.12 1.397
Psalms 42.11 1.396
Ephesians 6.2 1.396
Proverbs 24.22 1.395
Colossians 2.8 1.395
Numbers 16.26 1.395
Romans 15.5 1.395
2 Samuel 15.3 1.395
Titus 1.11 1.394
Isaiah 5.4 1.394
Acts 20.30 1.394
Romans 14.19 1.393
Galatians 5.15 1.391
Hosea 11.8 1.39
1 Samuel 26.9 1.39
2 Corinthians 6.10 1.39
Daniel 4.27 1.388
Numbers 16.3 1.387
Isaiah 30.33 1.387
1 Peter 3.21 1.386
Isaiah 57.20 1.384
Psalms 82.7 1.382
Psalms 90.11 1.381
Job 28.28 1.38
2 Timothy 3.1 1.377
Luke 19.14 1.377
2 Timothy 3.5 1.374
Ephesians 4.14 1.372
1 Timothy 5.17 1.369
Judges 17.6 1.36
Romans 13.3 1.355
Ecclesiastes 10.20 1.339
Proverbs 8.15 1.312
Proverbs 24.21 1.294
1 Peter 2.13 1.26
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase