Early English Printed Sermons


The doctrine of the cross, or, The duty of Christian suffering as it is necessary and subservient in order to the obtaining eternal salvation, delivered in a sermon on Matth. 13. 20, 21 / by Richard Stafford.

Stafford, Richard, 1663-1703
Publisher: s n
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1697
Approximate Era: WilliamAndMary
TCP ID: A93738 ESTC ID: R42710 STC ID: S5118
Subject Headings: Bible. -- N.T. -- Matthew XIII, 20-21; Sermons, English -- 17th century; Suffering -- Religious aspects -- Christianity;
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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 11.5% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 6.9% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 78.1% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 14.8% -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) 6.9% -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: 0.909
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Apocrypha (Douay-Rheims) 5.687
Apocrypha (AKJV) 4.533
New Testament (Vulgate) 4.282
Old Testament (ODRV) 2.722
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 0.539
Old Testament (Geneva) -0.844
New Testament (Tyndale) -0.931
New Testament (Geneva) -1.967
New Testament (ODRV) -2.047
Old Testament (AKJV) -2.955
New Testament (AKJV) -3.337
Diversity: 0.982
Evenness: 0.997
Book Prominence
Isaiah (AKJV) 2.166
Habakkuk (Douay-Rheims) 1.66
Habakkuk (Geneva) 1.643
1 Maccabees (Douay-Rheims) 1.636
Daniel (ODRV) 1.589
Joshua (AKJV) 1.582
Mark (AKJV) 1.511
Romans (Vulgate) 1.486
Daniel (AKJV) 1.48
1 Kings (Douay-Rheims) 1.448
2 Timothy (Geneva) 1.382
Revelation (Tyndale) 1.345
Philippians (Geneva) 1.306
1 Samuel (AKJV) 1.305
James (Geneva) 1.302
1 Peter (ODRV) 1.29
James (ODRV) 1.265
1 John (Geneva) 1.264
Jeremiah (Douay-Rheims) 1.231
2 Timothy (AKJV) 1.192
Acts (Tyndale) 1.19
Revelation (AKJV) 1.189
1 Peter (Geneva) 1.142
Ecclesiasticus (AKJV) 1.084
James (AKJV) 1.078
Ephesians (ODRV) 1.073
Job (Geneva) 1.025
Hebrews (ODRV) 1.012
Luke (Tyndale) 0.949
Proverbs (Douay-Rheims) 0.916
Acts (AKJV) 0.89
1 Corinthians (Tyndale) 0.852
Isaiah (Douay-Rheims) 0.848
John (Tyndale) 0.847
2 Corinthians (AKJV) 0.829
Luke (Geneva) 0.825
Isaiah (Geneva) 0.818
Luke (ODRV) 0.732
Job (AKJV) 0.73
Hebrews (AKJV) 0.697
John (ODRV) 0.669
Psalms (AKJV) 0.667
Matthew (Tyndale) 0.639
Matthew (Geneva) 0.562
John (AKJV) 0.54
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 0.534
Luke (AKJV) 0.526
Psalms (ODRV) 0.514
Romans (ODRV) 0.474
Proverbs (AKJV) 0.321
Matthew (ODRV) 0.311
Romans (Geneva) 0.264
Matthew (AKJV) 0.21
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 0.156
Psalms (Geneva) -0.091
Romans (AKJV) -0.118
Diversity: 0.99
Evenness: 0.997
Chapter Prominence
Job 27 (AKJV) 1.919
Psalms 12 (AKJV) 1.908
Job 34 (AKJV) 1.887
Isaiah 57 (AKJV) 1.796
Isaiah 51 (Douay-Rheims) 0.966
Isaiah 61 (Geneva) 0.965
Joshua 23 (AKJV) 0.963
1 Maccabees 2 (Douay-Rheims) 0.963
Romans 2 (Vulgate) 0.962
Mark 4 (AKJV) 0.961
1 Samuel 10 (AKJV) 0.96
Isaiah 51 (AKJV) 0.96
Isaiah 51 (Geneva) 0.959
Isaiah 61 (Douay-Rheims) 0.959
Daniel 6 (ODRV) 0.959
1 Kings 18 (Douay-Rheims) 0.959
Habakkuk 3 (Douay-Rheims) 0.956
Revelation 6 (AKJV) 0.956
Jeremiah 50 (Douay-Rheims) 0.956
Psalms 138 (AKJV) 0.956
Habakkuk 3 (Geneva) 0.955
1 Maccabees 3 (Douay-Rheims) 0.955
Ecclesiasticus 25 (AKJV) 0.954
Isaiah 2 (Douay-Rheims) 0.953
Psalms 11 (Geneva) 0.953
Isaiah 2 (AKJV) 0.95
Acts 14 (AKJV) 0.947
Psalms 40 (AKJV) 0.945
Daniel 6 (AKJV) 0.944
Isaiah 63 (AKJV) 0.943
Proverbs 16 (Douay-Rheims) 0.942
Job 34 (Geneva) 0.941
Job 36 (AKJV) 0.94
Job 42 (AKJV) 0.94
Revelation 21 (Tyndale) 0.939
Isaiah 11 (Douay-Rheims) 0.939
James 5 (ODRV) 0.938
1 Peter 4 (ODRV) 0.938
John 15 (Tyndale) 0.938
Psalms 41 (AKJV) 0.936
Psalms 31 (AKJV) 0.935
Luke 15 (Geneva) 0.933
Acts 26 (AKJV) 0.93
Luke 18 (Tyndale) 0.929
Isaiah 55 (AKJV) 0.929
1 Corinthians 9 (Tyndale) 0.928
Job 13 (AKJV) 0.928
Hebrews 2 (ODRV) 0.928
Acts 5 (Tyndale) 0.928
Psalms 145 (Geneva) 0.927
Proverbs 31 (AKJV) 0.926
Psalms 77 (ODRV) 0.92
James 2 (Geneva) 0.916
Ephesians 1 (ODRV) 0.915
Matthew 28 (ODRV) 0.914
John 17 (ODRV) 0.912
Matthew 10 (Tyndale) 0.908
James 4 (ODRV) 0.907
Psalms 115 (AKJV) 0.904
Luke 22 (AKJV) 0.904
2 Timothy 3 (Geneva) 0.903
Isaiah 40 (AKJV) 0.901
Matthew 13 (Geneva) 0.899
Psalms 9 (AKJV) 0.896
Luke 18 (ODRV) 0.895
1 Peter 4 (Geneva) 0.895
2 Corinthians 1 (AKJV) 0.894
John 15 (AKJV) 0.894
James 1 (ODRV) 0.893
Matthew 10 (ODRV) 0.888
Psalms 145 (AKJV) 0.887
Hebrews 11 (ODRV) 0.887
Psalms 104 (AKJV) 0.886
1 John 5 (Geneva) 0.884
Matthew 13 (AKJV) 0.883
Luke 16 (AKJV) 0.883
Luke 1 (AKJV) 0.882
Matthew 22 (AKJV) 0.881
John 5 (Tyndale) 0.881
Philippians 3 (Geneva) 0.88
Romans 10 (ODRV) 0.875
Psalms 2 (AKJV) 0.865
Luke 12 (AKJV) 0.865
Matthew 16 (ODRV) 0.862
Psalms 44 (AKJV) 0.861
Matthew 23 (AKJV) 0.858
James 2 (AKJV) 0.848
Hebrews 12 (AKJV) 0.842
John 3 (Tyndale) 0.836
1 Corinthians 1 (AKJV) 0.825
Psalms 37 (AKJV) 0.816
2 Timothy 3 (AKJV) 0.81
Romans 2 (Geneva) 0.809
Romans 2 (AKJV) 0.801
Matthew 5 (AKJV) 0.79
Romans 8 (Geneva) 0.783
1 Corinthians 15 (AKJV) 0.768
1 Corinthians 15 (ODRV) 0.654
Romans 8 (AKJV) 0.639
Diversity: 0.99
Evenness: 0.996
Verse Prominence
Isaiah 57.11 (AKJV) 1.785
Psalms 12.3 (AKJV) 1.784
Psalms 40.4 (AKJV) 1.784
Job 34.19 (AKJV) 1.783
Psalms 12.2 (AKJV) 1.782
Job 27.6 (AKJV) 1.78
1 Samuel 10.7 (AKJV) 0.893
1 Corinthians 15.34 (ODRV) 0.893
Joshua 23.6 (AKJV) 0.893
Isaiah 61.7 (Geneva) 0.893
Isaiah 61.7 (Douay-Rheims) 0.893
1 Peter 4.14 (ODRV) 0.893
Proverbs 16.8 (Douay-Rheims) 0.893
John 15.18 (Tyndale) 0.893
John 15.25 (AKJV) 0.893
Psalms 31.11 (AKJV) 0.893
1 Kings 18.29 (Douay-Rheims) 0.893
James 5.10 (ODRV) 0.893
Isaiah 2.22 (Douay-Rheims) 0.893
James 5.11 (ODRV) 0.892
Isaiah 51.12 (Douay-Rheims) 0.892
Isaiah 51.13 (Geneva) 0.892
Luke 15.5 (Geneva) 0.892
Mark 4.17 (AKJV) 0.892
Job 36.21 (AKJV) 0.892
Luke 18.29 (ODRV) 0.892
Psalms 40.3 (AKJV) 0.892
Psalms 40.2 (AKJV) 0.892
Daniel 6.10 (ODRV) 0.892
1 Maccabees 2.60 (Douay-Rheims) 0.892
Job 42.7 (AKJV) 0.892
John 5.21 (Tyndale) 0.892
Revelation 6.9 (AKJV) 0.892
Luke 1.45 (AKJV) 0.892
Psalms 77.9 (ODRV) 0.892
Jeremiah 50.27 (Douay-Rheims) 0.892
Acts 14.22 (AKJV) 0.892
James 2.1 (AKJV) 0.892
Job 34.19 (Geneva) 0.892
James 4.12 (ODRV) 0.892
Hebrews 12.8 (AKJV) 0.891
Matthew 22.16 (AKJV) 0.891
Psalms 41.11 (AKJV) 0.891
Matthew 13.21 (AKJV) 0.891
Isaiah 63.3 (AKJV) 0.891
Matthew 10.38 (ODRV) 0.891
1 Corinthians 9.23 (Tyndale) 0.891
Acts 26.27 (AKJV) 0.891
Isaiah 55.4 (AKJV) 0.891
Psalms 138.3 (AKJV) 0.891
Isaiah 51.13 (AKJV) 0.891
Luke 22.28 (AKJV) 0.891
Luke 16.19 (AKJV) 0.891
1 Corinthians 15.34 (AKJV) 0.89
Daniel 6.10 (AKJV) 0.89
Psalms 115.11 (AKJV) 0.89
Romans 2.11 (Vulgate) 0.89
Luke 22.29 (AKJV) 0.89
Matthew 10.33 (Tyndale) 0.889
Matthew 28.20 (ODRV) 0.889
James 2.1 (Geneva) 0.889
Luke 12.5 (AKJV) 0.889
Matthew 13.22 (Geneva) 0.888
1 Corinthians 1.23 (AKJV) 0.888
1 Peter 4.16 (Geneva) 0.888
James 1.16 (ODRV) 0.888
Matthew 5.18 (AKJV) 0.888
Psalms 44.17 (AKJV) 0.888
Psalms 145.8 (Geneva) 0.888
Hebrews 2.18 (ODRV) 0.888
Isaiah 40.17 (AKJV) 0.888
1 Corinthians 15.24 (AKJV) 0.888
Psalms 11.6 (Geneva) 0.888
Isaiah 11.2 (Douay-Rheims) 0.888
Proverbs 31.22 (AKJV) 0.888
Ecclesiasticus 25.12 (AKJV) 0.887
2 Timothy 3.12 (Geneva) 0.887
2 Timothy 3.12 (AKJV) 0.887
John 17.24 (ODRV) 0.887
Psalms 9.9 (AKJV) 0.887
Habakkuk 3.18 (Geneva) 0.886
Psalms 104.5 (AKJV) 0.886
Luke 18.30 (Tyndale) 0.886
Psalms 145.8 (AKJV) 0.886
Psalms 37.16 (AKJV) 0.886
1 Maccabees 3.60 (Douay-Rheims) 0.886
Isaiah 2.22 (AKJV) 0.885
Revelation 21.8 (Tyndale) 0.884
Romans 8.24 (Geneva) 0.884
Matthew 16.24 (ODRV) 0.883
Habakkuk 3.17 (Douay-Rheims) 0.882
Hebrews 11.1 (ODRV) 0.881
Psalms 2.2 (AKJV) 0.88
Job 13.15 (AKJV) 0.88
Psalms 9.10 (AKJV) 0.879
1 John 5.4 (Geneva) 0.877
Romans 8.24 (AKJV) 0.877
2 Corinthians 1.10 (AKJV) 0.876
Philippians 3.14 (Geneva) 0.876
Ephesians 1.19 (ODRV) 0.874
Matthew 23.9 (AKJV) 0.87
Acts 5.29 (Tyndale) 0.864
Romans 10.17 (ODRV) 0.863
Romans 2.11 (AKJV) 0.848
Romans 2.11 (Geneva) 0.848
John 3.13 (Tyndale) 0.837
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: 0.959
Evenness: 0.996
Book Prominence
Habakkuk 7.216
2 Thessalonians 3.054
Malachi 3.049
Joshua 2.971
Leviticus 2.871
Mark 2.54
Daniel 2.511
1 John 2.412
2 Timothy 2.403
James 2.338
1 Samuel 2.063
1 Timothy 2.009
1 Peter 1.815
Revelation 1.72
Jeremiah 1.605
Job 1.604
Hebrews 1.06
Proverbs 0.799
Acts 0.643
John 0.64
Luke 0.628
1 Corinthians 0.556
Isaiah 0.465
Matthew -0.334
Psalms -1.325
Diversity: 0.982
Evenness: 0.995
Chapter Prominence
Isaiah 51 3.076
Habakkuk 3 3.072
Isaiah 57 2.916
Luke 12 2.753
Job 36 1.532
Joshua 6 1.532
Psalms 138 1.529
Psalms 149 1.529
Joshua 23 1.523
Job 42 1.522
1 Samuel 18 1.518
Mark 4 1.515
Psalms 41 1.51
Job 34 1.509
Proverbs 12 1.508
Psalms 40 1.501
Isaiah 61 1.492
Acts 22 1.491
Psalms 17 1.482
Mark 10 1.48
Psalms 31 1.478
1 Samuel 10 1.477
Isaiah 63 1.469
Daniel 6 1.466
Revelation 6 1.462
2 Thessalonians 1 1.458
Acts 14 1.456
Psalms 12 1.452
Isaiah 2 1.45
Leviticus 19 1.449
Revelation 12 1.438
Acts 26 1.429
Luke 9 1.42
1 John 5 1.416
Jeremiah 5 1.409
James 5 1.405
Isaiah 53 1.4
1 John 4 1.392
Revelation 21 1.384
1 Timothy 5 1.38
James 2 1.375
Psalms 37 1.371
1 Peter 4 1.37
Malachi 3 1.367
Psalms 9 1.358
Acts 4 1.348
John 15 1.341
Luke 1 1.338
1 Peter 3 1.338
Luke 22 1.335
John 17 1.326
Matthew 28 1.322
Psalms 50 1.313
Matthew 22 1.302
Matthew 13 1.299
Matthew 10 1.267
2 Timothy 3 1.266
Luke 16 1.244
Hebrews 12 1.159
1 Corinthians 15 1.128
Diversity: 0.985
Evenness: 0.994
Verse Prominence
Isaiah 57.11 2.529
Isaiah 51.13 2.526
Habakkuk 3.18 2.521
Luke 12.5 2.519
Habakkuk 3.17 2.515
Luke 12.4 2.513
Job 36.20 1.266
Proverbs 12.6 1.266
1 Samuel 10.7 1.265
John 15.21 1.265
Psalms 31.11 1.265
Isaiah 2.21 1.265
Mark 4.17 1.264
Isaiah 61.7 1.264
Isaiah 51.14 1.264
Luke 1.20 1.263
Psalms 40.4 1.263
1 Samuel 18.23 1.263
Acts 26.27 1.263
Psalms 138.3 1.263
1 John 4.17 1.262
Jeremiah 5.28 1.262
Psalms 41.11 1.262
1 Peter 4.16 1.262
John 15.18 1.262
John 15.24 1.262
James 2.11 1.262
Luke 22.28 1.262
Luke 22.29 1.262
Revelation 12.17 1.261
John 15.20 1.261
Psalms 149.9 1.261
Psalms 12.6 1.261
2 Thessalonians 1.5 1.26
Matthew 10.38 1.26
Psalms 50.18 1.26
Mark 10.29 1.26
Psalms 9.9 1.26
Job 34.19 1.26
Isaiah 63.3 1.258
Isaiah 2.22 1.258
Matthew 13.21 1.257
Hebrews 12.8 1.257
Matthew 13.20 1.256
Mark 10.30 1.256
Matthew 10.9 1.256
Job 42.5 1.256
James 5.11 1.256
1 Peter 4.19 1.256
1 Peter 3.19 1.256
Matthew 22.16 1.256
Malachi 3.5 1.256
Luke 16.15 1.255
Psalms 12.2 1.255
1 Corinthians 15.24 1.254
Matthew 10.30 1.253
John 15.22 1.253
Psalms 9.10 1.253
Matthew 10.29 1.252
Isaiah 53.7 1.252
Luke 9.23 1.251
Revelation 6.9 1.25
Luke 16.19 1.249
1 Timothy 5.22 1.247
John 15.19 1.246
2 Timothy 3.12 1.245
Daniel 6.10 1.245
Psalms 17.14 1.243
Acts 4.19 1.243
1 John 5.4 1.242
Leviticus 19.17 1.223
Revelation 21.8 1.214
Matthew 28.20 1.214
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase