Early English Printed Sermons


The necessity of keeping still unto the ordinances of religion, prayer, hearing the word, baptism, and the Lord's Supper set forth in a sermon preached in the countrey, on Acts VI.4. : wherein is also laid open, and manifested the errour of those people (commonly call'd Quakers) who do neglect the two latter.

Stafford, Richard, 1663-1703
Publisher: Printed and are to be sold by Ralph Simpson
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1698
Approximate Era: WilliamAndMary
TCP ID: A93747 ESTC ID: R202451 STC ID: S5126
Subject Headings: Bible. -- N.T. -- Acts VI, 4; Sermons, English -- 17th century; Worship;
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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 12.1% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 9.0% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 74.9% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 19.2% -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) 8.8% -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
New Testament (Vulgate) 6.303
Old Testament (ODRV) 4.742
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: 0.984
Evenness: 0.988
Book Prominence
Hosea (Geneva) 3.515
Acts (AKJV) 2.87
Hosea (AKJV) 2.158
Colossians (Geneva) 2.092
Jeremiah (AKJV) 1.816
1 Peter (AKJV) 1.682
Proverbs (Douay-Rheims) 1.661
Isaiah (AKJV) 1.187
Psalms (Douay-Rheims) 1.173
1 Paralipomenon (Douay-Rheims) 1.114
1 John (Vulgate) 1.089
Mark (Geneva) 1.06
Hosea (Douay-Rheims) 1.047
Mark (ODRV) 1.047
2 Timothy (Tyndale) 1.023
1 Thessalonians (Tyndale) 0.989
2 Peter (Tyndale) 0.977
2 Timothy (ODRV) 0.974
Ezekiel (Geneva) 0.956
Exodus (ODRV) 0.901
2 Timothy (Geneva) 0.892
Ezekiel (AKJV) 0.864
Deuteronomy (Geneva) 0.824
Colossians (ODRV) 0.821
Deuteronomy (Douay-Rheims) 0.815
2 Peter (AKJV) 0.815
1 Samuel (AKJV) 0.815
2 Corinthians (Tyndale) 0.791
Jeremiah (Geneva) 0.785
1 Thessalonians (AKJV) 0.784
1 John (ODRV) 0.768
Jeremiah (Douay-Rheims) 0.742
Colossians (AKJV) 0.727
2 Timothy (AKJV) 0.703
Revelation (AKJV) 0.7
Genesis (ODRV) 0.688
Deuteronomy (AKJV) 0.667
1 Peter (Geneva) 0.652
Exodus (AKJV) 0.651
Galatians (ODRV) 0.65
1 John (AKJV) 0.635
James (AKJV) 0.589
Ephesians (ODRV) 0.583
Galatians (AKJV) 0.563
Acts (ODRV) 0.547
Hebrews (Geneva) 0.492
2 Corinthians (ODRV) 0.48
Ephesians (Geneva) 0.433
John (Geneva) 0.365
1 Corinthians (Tyndale) 0.362
Isaiah (Douay-Rheims) 0.359
John (Tyndale) 0.357
Luke (Geneva) 0.336
Isaiah (Geneva) 0.329
Proverbs (Geneva) 0.304
Luke (ODRV) 0.242
Hebrews (AKJV) 0.207
John (ODRV) 0.179
Matthew (Tyndale) 0.149
Matthew (Geneva) 0.073
John (AKJV) 0.05
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 0.045
Luke (AKJV) 0.037
1 Corinthians (Geneva) -0.037
Proverbs (AKJV) -0.169
Romans (Geneva) -0.226
Matthew (AKJV) -0.28
1 Corinthians (AKJV) -0.333
Psalms (Geneva) -0.58
Romans (AKJV) -0.608
Psalms (AKJV) -1.547
Diversity: 0.991
Evenness: 0.99
Chapter Prominence
Hosea 6 (Geneva) 2.185
Hosea 6 (Douay-Rheims) 2.185
Acts 6 (AKJV) 2.184
Psalms 143 (AKJV) 1.457
Hosea 11 (AKJV) 1.454
Jeremiah 8 (AKJV) 1.43
Proverbs 28 (Douay-Rheims) 1.43
Hosea 6 (AKJV) 1.423
Isaiah 40 (AKJV) 1.401
Colossians 2 (Geneva) 1.387
1 Peter 3 (AKJV) 1.381
John 6 (Tyndale) 1.359
Psalms 101 (Douay-Rheims) 0.735
1 Samuel 29 (AKJV) 0.734
1 Paralipomenon 11 (Douay-Rheims) 0.733
Jeremiah 11 (Geneva) 0.733
Jeremiah 11 (AKJV) 0.73
Ezekiel 2 (Geneva) 0.729
Deuteronomy 9 (AKJV) 0.729
Mark 1 (ODRV) 0.729
Ezekiel 2 (AKJV) 0.729
Acts 25 (AKJV) 0.729
Isaiah 24 (Douay-Rheims) 0.728
Hosea 14 (Douay-Rheims) 0.726
Deuteronomy 12 (AKJV) 0.726
Genesis 17 (ODRV) 0.725
Isaiah 51 (AKJV) 0.725
Isaiah 24 (Geneva) 0.724
Mark 10 (Geneva) 0.724
Psalms 5 (Geneva) 0.724
1 John 1 (Vulgate) 0.723
Isaiah 37 (Douay-Rheims) 0.723
Psalms 42 (Geneva) 0.722
Jeremiah 4 (Douay-Rheims) 0.72
Exodus 19 (AKJV) 0.72
Deuteronomy 6 (Geneva) 0.718
Psalms 5 (AKJV) 0.714
Acts 23 (AKJV) 0.713
John 2 (Tyndale) 0.711
Deuteronomy 28 (AKJV) 0.708
John 2 (AKJV) 0.707
Acts 10 (ODRV) 0.707
Isaiah 38 (AKJV) 0.706
Deuteronomy 4 (Douay-Rheims) 0.705
Acts 10 (AKJV) 0.704
2 Timothy 4 (Tyndale) 0.704
Jeremiah 23 (AKJV) 0.704
Hebrews 6 (Geneva) 0.702
Colossians 4 (ODRV) 0.7
Luke 11 (Geneva) 0.7
Exodus 32 (AKJV) 0.699
Psalms 85 (Geneva) 0.699
Hosea 4 (AKJV) 0.698
Deuteronomy 32 (Douay-Rheims) 0.698
Matthew 28 (AKJV) 0.696
Isaiah 55 (AKJV) 0.694
Luke 2 (ODRV) 0.694
Psalms 84 (AKJV) 0.693
John 9 (Geneva) 0.693
Exodus 20 (ODRV) 0.692
Isaiah 1 (Douay-Rheims) 0.691
John 4 (ODRV) 0.688
Proverbs 19 (AKJV) 0.688
Isaiah 40 (Geneva) 0.685
2 Timothy 2 (ODRV) 0.684
Luke 17 (Geneva) 0.681
Isaiah 5 (Geneva) 0.68
Luke 17 (AKJV) 0.68
1 John 1 (AKJV) 0.68
Proverbs 1 (Geneva) 0.678
Revelation 22 (AKJV) 0.675
Luke 11 (AKJV) 0.674
Proverbs 27 (AKJV) 0.671
John 9 (AKJV) 0.67
1 Thessalonians 5 (Tyndale) 0.67
2 Timothy 2 (Geneva) 0.667
Hebrews 4 (AKJV) 0.667
2 Peter 3 (Tyndale) 0.665
Romans 10 (Geneva) 0.664
John 14 (AKJV) 0.663
Psalms 19 (AKJV) 0.66
John 15 (AKJV) 0.658
John 7 (AKJV) 0.658
2 Corinthians 4 (ODRV) 0.658
1 John 2 (ODRV) 0.657
Colossians 2 (ODRV) 0.653
2 Timothy 4 (AKJV) 0.653
Deuteronomy 32 (AKJV) 0.652
Ephesians 2 (ODRV) 0.651
Psalms 104 (AKJV) 0.65
Hebrews 6 (AKJV) 0.65
Matthew 7 (Geneva) 0.649
1 Corinthians 7 (Geneva) 0.649
Luke 1 (AKJV) 0.647
James 4 (AKJV) 0.646
2 Corinthians 5 (Tyndale) 0.646
1 Corinthians 12 (Geneva) 0.646
1 Corinthians 11 (Tyndale) 0.644
Colossians 2 (AKJV) 0.642
Romans 10 (AKJV) 0.636
Matthew 5 (Tyndale) 0.632
1 Peter 1 (Geneva) 0.627
Galatians 5 (ODRV) 0.627
John 1 (Tyndale) 0.625
1 Corinthians 7 (AKJV) 0.625
Ephesians 5 (Geneva) 0.617
James 2 (AKJV) 0.613
Matthew 7 (AKJV) 0.603
2 Peter 1 (AKJV) 0.598
1 Corinthians 10 (ODRV) 0.595
Galatians 6 (AKJV) 0.594
John 6 (ODRV) 0.592
James 1 (AKJV) 0.591
Psalms 107 (AKJV) 0.585
Ephesians 4 (ODRV) 0.57
Galatians 5 (AKJV) 0.568
1 Thessalonians 5 (AKJV) 0.567
Matthew 5 (AKJV) 0.554
Romans 12 (AKJV) 0.535
Ephesians 4 (Geneva) 0.477
1 Corinthians 10 (AKJV) 0.434
Diversity: 0.992
Evenness: 0.991
Verse Prominence
Hosea 6.5 (Douay-Rheims) 2.012
Acts 6.4 (AKJV) 2.008
Hosea 6.4 (Geneva) 2.004
Jeremiah 8.4 (AKJV) 1.342
John 6.6 (Tyndale) 1.341
Hosea 11.7 (AKJV) 1.34
John 2.25 (AKJV) 1.34
Isaiah 40.29 (AKJV) 1.338
Colossians 2.22 (Geneva) 1.336
1 Peter 3.21 (AKJV) 1.335
Psalms 143.2 (AKJV) 1.334
Hosea 6.4 (AKJV) 1.333
Proverbs 28.13 (Douay-Rheims) 1.332
Hosea 4.16 (AKJV) 0.671
Hosea 14.2 (Douay-Rheims) 0.671
Deuteronomy 9.12 (AKJV) 0.671
Deuteronomy 4.23 (Douay-Rheims) 0.671
Deuteronomy 32.2 (Douay-Rheims) 0.671
Proverbs 27.25 (AKJV) 0.671
Acts 10.48 (AKJV) 0.671
Genesis 17.14 (ODRV) 0.671
John 7.22 (AKJV) 0.671
Psalms 101.29 (Douay-Rheims) 0.671
1 Corinthians 7.6 (AKJV) 0.671
Ephesians 4.21 (ODRV) 0.671
1 Samuel 29.10 (AKJV) 0.671
Jeremiah 11.10 (Geneva) 0.671
Jeremiah 11.10 (AKJV) 0.671
Isaiah 51.7 (AKJV) 0.671
Ezekiel 2.7 (AKJV) 0.671
Acts 25.23 (AKJV) 0.671
Jeremiah 23.28 (AKJV) 0.671
James 1.7 (AKJV) 0.67
Hebrews 6.7 (Geneva) 0.67
John 2.24 (AKJV) 0.67
Hosea 6.7 (Geneva) 0.67
Exodus 32.7 (AKJV) 0.67
Proverbs 1.19 (Geneva) 0.67
1 Paralipomenon 11.17 (Douay-Rheims) 0.67
Deuteronomy 28.23 (AKJV) 0.67
Isaiah 24.9 (Douay-Rheims) 0.67
Isaiah 24.9 (Geneva) 0.67
Mark 10.9 (Geneva) 0.67
Psalms 5.5 (Geneva) 0.67
Ephesians 4.21 (Geneva) 0.67
Exodus 19.8 (AKJV) 0.67
Acts 23.12 (AKJV) 0.67
Ezekiel 2.5 (AKJV) 0.67
Romans 10.21 (AKJV) 0.67
Deuteronomy 12.5 (AKJV) 0.67
Ezekiel 2.5 (Geneva) 0.669
1 John 1.8 (Vulgate) 0.669
2 Timothy 2.24 (Geneva) 0.669
James 4.5 (AKJV) 0.669
John 2.25 (Tyndale) 0.669
John 15.8 (AKJV) 0.669
Isaiah 55.10 (AKJV) 0.669
Psalms 42.7 (Geneva) 0.669
Psalms 5.5 (AKJV) 0.669
Acts 10.47 (ODRV) 0.669
1 Corinthians 7.19 (Geneva) 0.669
1 Corinthians 7.19 (AKJV) 0.669
Psalms 85.8 (Geneva) 0.669
Luke 11.4 (AKJV) 0.669
Revelation 22.14 (AKJV) 0.669
Matthew 7.29 (Geneva) 0.668
Matthew 7.29 (AKJV) 0.668
Isaiah 40.31 (Geneva) 0.668
Hosea 6.7 (AKJV) 0.668
Hebrews 6.8 (AKJV) 0.668
Deuteronomy 6.6 (Geneva) 0.668
1 Corinthians 10.4 (ODRV) 0.668
Matthew 28.19 (AKJV) 0.668
Mark 1.8 (ODRV) 0.668
Proverbs 19.15 (AKJV) 0.668
Luke 11.4 (Geneva) 0.668
James 1.11 (AKJV) 0.667
Jeremiah 4.14 (Douay-Rheims) 0.667
2 Corinthians 5.4 (Tyndale) 0.667
Psalms 107.21 (AKJV) 0.667
2 Peter 1.8 (AKJV) 0.667
Romans 10.8 (Geneva) 0.667
1 Corinthians 10.4 (AKJV) 0.667
Isaiah 37.3 (Douay-Rheims) 0.667
Galatians 5.19 (ODRV) 0.667
Galatians 5.20 (AKJV) 0.667
2 Timothy 2.25 (ODRV) 0.666
Hebrews 6.9 (AKJV) 0.666
Matthew 5.48 (Tyndale) 0.666
Deuteronomy 32.2 (AKJV) 0.666
Hebrews 4.2 (AKJV) 0.666
John 9.31 (Geneva) 0.666
Matthew 5.19 (AKJV) 0.666
Colossians 2.20 (AKJV) 0.666
1 Corinthians 12.29 (Geneva) 0.666
1 John 2.4 (ODRV) 0.666
James 2.26 (AKJV) 0.665
Psalms 19.7 (AKJV) 0.665
Luke 17.32 (AKJV) 0.665
Luke 17.32 (Geneva) 0.665
John 15.2 (AKJV) 0.665
2 Timothy 4.1 (AKJV) 0.665
Romans 12.16 (AKJV) 0.665
Isaiah 5.6 (Geneva) 0.664
Hebrews 6.11 (AKJV) 0.664
Isaiah 5.5 (Geneva) 0.664
John 4.14 (ODRV) 0.664
Psalms 84.4 (AKJV) 0.664
John 9.31 (AKJV) 0.664
1 Corinthians 11.24 (Tyndale) 0.664
Luke 2.7 (ODRV) 0.664
1 Thessalonians 5.17 (Tyndale) 0.664
Isaiah 1.17 (Douay-Rheims) 0.664
Isaiah 5.4 (Geneva) 0.663
Colossians 2.12 (ODRV) 0.663
Psalms 104.24 (AKJV) 0.662
John 1.1 (Tyndale) 0.662
Ephesians 2.4 (ODRV) 0.662
John 14.15 (AKJV) 0.662
2 Timothy 4.2 (Tyndale) 0.662
Isaiah 38.8 (AKJV) 0.662
Ephesians 5.10 (Geneva) 0.661
Colossians 4.2 (ODRV) 0.66
John 6.68 (ODRV) 0.66
1 John 1.9 (AKJV) 0.657
1 Peter 1.24 (Geneva) 0.656
2 Corinthians 4.5 (ODRV) 0.656
1 Corinthians 10.12 (AKJV) 0.655
Exodus 20.8 (ODRV) 0.652
Luke 1.75 (AKJV) 0.649
1 Thessalonians 5.22 (AKJV) 0.642
2 Peter 3.18 (Tyndale) 0.638
Galatians 6.10 (AKJV) 0.617
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: 0.444
Evenness: 0.918
Part Prominence
New Testament 18.472
Old Testament -14.001
Diversity: 0.959
Evenness: 0.996
Book Prominence
Acts 4.489
Titus 2.77
Hosea 2.649
2 Peter 2.562
Daniel 2.511
Colossians 2.461
1 John 2.412
2 Timothy 2.403
James 2.338
Ezekiel 2.242
1 Peter 1.815
Exodus 1.731
Revelation 1.72
Deuteronomy 1.715
Jeremiah 1.605
Job 1.604
Hebrews 1.06
Proverbs 0.799
John 0.64
Luke 0.628
1 Corinthians 0.556
Isaiah 0.465
Romans -0.109
Matthew -0.334
Psalms -1.325
Diversity: 0.983
Evenness: 0.998
Chapter Prominence
Acts 6 3.253
Jeremiah 11 1.643
Ezekiel 2 1.64
Hosea 8 1.63
Job 42 1.626
Psalms 109 1.617
Isaiah 51 1.617
Deuteronomy 12 1.617
Psalms 85 1.617
Deuteronomy 5 1.614
Hebrews 8 1.607
Hosea 11 1.603
Psalms 102 1.596
Jeremiah 4 1.586
Jeremiah 8 1.583
Psalms 84 1.583
Hosea 6 1.577
Daniel 2 1.575
Psalms 145 1.573
Deuteronomy 28 1.567
Deuteronomy 4 1.563
Psalms 5 1.553
Jeremiah 23 1.551
John 2 1.55
1 John 1 1.544
John 9 1.543
Psalms 42 1.538
Luke 15 1.537
Isaiah 40 1.537
Hosea 4 1.531
Exodus 32 1.523
Revelation 22 1.522
Isaiah 58 1.514
Luke 11 1.507
Acts 10 1.488
John 7 1.487
Proverbs 1 1.485
John 11 1.478
1 Corinthians 7 1.471
Titus 3 1.466
John 4 1.461
2 Timothy 4 1.459
John 15 1.446
Deuteronomy 32 1.444
1 Peter 3 1.442
Romans 10 1.439
Colossians 2 1.438
Hebrews 6 1.437
Hebrews 9 1.434
John 6 1.419
Matthew 13 1.403
2 Peter 1 1.393
James 1 1.388
John 1 1.37
Isaiah 1 1.351
Acts 17 1.345
1 Corinthians 10 1.341
Romans 12 1.311
Matthew 5 1.11
Diversity: 0.986
Evenness: 0.999
Verse Prominence
Acts 6.4 2.623
Hosea 4.16 1.315
John 6.6 1.315
John 7.22 1.315
Psalms 102.28 1.315
Daniel 2.5 1.315
Jeremiah 8.4 1.314
Luke 15.29 1.314
Proverbs 1.19 1.314
Hosea 8.5 1.314
Deuteronomy 4.23 1.314
Matthew 13.6 1.314
Psalms 109.7 1.314
Acts 10.48 1.314
John 11.51 1.314
John 11.52 1.314
Luke 11.4 1.314
Hosea 11.7 1.313
Hosea 6.7 1.313
Exodus 32.7 1.313
John 2.23 1.313
Matthew 13.5 1.313
John 7.23 1.313
Jeremiah 11.11 1.313
Ezekiel 2.7 1.313
Job 42.8 1.313
Hosea 6.5 1.312
Ezekiel 2.5 1.312
Romans 10.21 1.312
Jeremiah 23.28 1.312
Psalms 145.2 1.311
Deuteronomy 28.23 1.311
Revelation 22.9 1.311
Revelation 22.3 1.311
Hebrews 8.5 1.311
2 Peter 1.8 1.31
Psalms 84.4 1.31
Acts 10.47 1.31
Hebrews 9.1 1.31
Psalms 42.7 1.309
Psalms 5.5 1.309
Deuteronomy 5.27 1.309
1 Corinthians 7.19 1.309
Isaiah 58.2 1.309
Isaiah 51.7 1.309
John 2.24 1.308
Deuteronomy 32.2 1.308
James 1.25 1.308
Luke 11.2 1.308
Deuteronomy 4.9 1.307
Isaiah 40.31 1.307
Hebrews 6.8 1.306
Colossians 2.20 1.306
Revelation 22.14 1.306
John 9.31 1.305
John 15.2 1.304
Matthew 5.19 1.303
Jeremiah 4.14 1.302
2 Timothy 4.1 1.302
Hebrews 6.7 1.301
Romans 12.3 1.301
Hosea 6.4 1.3
1 John 1.8 1.3
John 15.8 1.299
1 Corinthians 10.4 1.299
John 4.14 1.298
Psalms 85.8 1.298
1 John 1.9 1.296
Isaiah 1.17 1.296
1 Peter 3.21 1.294
Titus 3.3 1.292
Isaiah 1.16 1.292
John 1.1 1.288
Acts 17.23 1.288
Deuteronomy 12.5 1.287
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase