Early English Printed Sermons


Divinity no enemy to astrology: intended to have been delivered in a sermon to the students in that art, but prevented by the sickness of the author T.S. D.D.

Swadlin, Thomas, 1600-1670
Publisher: Printed by J G for Nathaniel Brooke at the Angel in Corn hill
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1653
Approximate Era: Interregnum
TCP ID: A94133 ESTC ID: R207212 STC ID: S6215
Subject Headings: Astrology; 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 6.0% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 2.5% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 88.8% 100.0%
Foreign Percentage of units with foreign text 1.0% -inf%
NonLatinAlphabet Percentage of units with a NonLatinAlphabet placeholder 0.4% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 10.5% -inf%
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) 1.4% -inf%
foreign_cited Percentage of units with QP, foreign text, and an adjacent citation 0.7% -inf%
foreign_cited_exact Percentage of units with QP, foreign text, and an adjacent matching citation 0.7% -inf%
foreign_italicized Percentage of units with QP and foreign italicized text 1.0% -inf%
foreign_italicized_cited Percentage of units with QP, italicized foreign text, and an adjacent citation 0.7% -inf%
foreign_italicized_cited_exact Percentage of units with QP, italicized foreign text, and an adjacent matching citation 0.7% -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: 0.88
Evenness: 0.985
Part Prominence
New Testament (Geneva) 8.942
Apocrypha (AKJV) 5.442
Old Testament (ODRV) 3.631
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 1.448
Old Testament (Geneva) 0.065
New Testament (Tyndale) -0.022
New Testament (ODRV) -1.138
Old Testament (AKJV) -2.046
New Testament (AKJV) -2.428
Diversity: 0.957
Evenness: 0.992
Book Prominence
Matthew (Geneva) 6.246
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 6.218
Tobit (AKJV) 3.637
Daniel (AKJV) 3.46
2 Peter (Tyndale) 3.446
Daniel (Geneva) 3.437
1 Timothy (Tyndale) 3.416
Jeremiah (Douay-Rheims) 3.211
1 Timothy (Geneva) 3.182
Hebrews (ODRV) 2.992
Ephesians (Geneva) 2.902
Acts (AKJV) 2.87
John (Tyndale) 2.826
2 Corinthians (AKJV) 2.809
Luke (Geneva) 2.805
Isaiah (Geneva) 2.798
Matthew (Tyndale) 2.618
Luke (AKJV) 2.506
Psalms (ODRV) 2.493
Romans (ODRV) 2.453
Proverbs (AKJV) 2.301
Matthew (AKJV) 2.189
Psalms (Geneva) 1.889
Romans (AKJV) 1.861
Psalms (AKJV) 0.922
Diversity: 0.966
Evenness: 0.994
Chapter Prominence
Matthew 2 (Geneva) 6.049
1 Corinthians 15 (ODRV) 5.744
Jeremiah 10 (Douay-Rheims) 3.023
Tobit 4 (AKJV) 3.021
Matthew 2 (AKJV) 3.013
Isaiah 49 (Geneva) 3.011
Daniel 12 (AKJV) 3.008
Psalms 18 (ODRV) 3.002
Matthew 4 (Geneva) 3.001
Psalms 141 (AKJV) 3.0
John 4 (Tyndale) 2.991
Psalms 97 (AKJV) 2.985
Proverbs 6 (AKJV) 2.984
Luke 15 (AKJV) 2.982
Hebrews 10 (ODRV) 2.981
Daniel 12 (Geneva) 2.972
1 Timothy 2 (Tyndale) 2.963
Luke 6 (Geneva) 2.962
Acts 17 (AKJV) 2.962
2 Peter 3 (Tyndale) 2.96
Matthew 13 (Geneva) 2.958
Psalms 19 (AKJV) 2.955
1 Timothy 1 (Geneva) 2.954
Romans 15 (ODRV) 2.948
Matthew 5 (Tyndale) 2.927
Romans 11 (AKJV) 2.92
Luke 2 (AKJV) 2.92
Psalms 119 (Geneva) 2.904
John 3 (Tyndale) 2.895
2 Corinthians 4 (AKJV) 2.89
Ephesians 4 (Geneva) 2.772
Diversity: 0.967
Evenness: 0.994
Verse Prominence
Matthew 2.2 (Geneva) 5.879
1 Corinthians 15.41 (ODRV) 5.854
Luke 2.45 (AKJV) 2.941
Isaiah 49.12 (Geneva) 2.94
Matthew 2.5 (AKJV) 2.94
Matthew 4.19 (Geneva) 2.94
Psalms 119.135 (Geneva) 2.94
Proverbs 6.23 (AKJV) 2.939
Romans 11.13 (AKJV) 2.939
Psalms 18.7 (ODRV) 2.939
Jeremiah 10.2 (Douay-Rheims) 2.939
Acts 17.23 (AKJV) 2.938
John 4.46 (Tyndale) 2.938
Ephesians 4.10 (Geneva) 2.937
Tobit 4.8 (AKJV) 2.937
Hebrews 10.15 (ODRV) 2.936
Matthew 13.43 (Geneva) 2.935
Daniel 12.3 (AKJV) 2.935
Psalms 141.2 (AKJV) 2.935
1 Timothy 1.15 (Geneva) 2.932
Matthew 5.16 (Tyndale) 2.932
Romans 15.33 (ODRV) 2.931
Psalms 119.105 (Geneva) 2.929
2 Corinthians 4.6 (AKJV) 2.926
Luke 15.10 (AKJV) 2.926
Psalms 97.11 (AKJV) 2.924
1 Timothy 2.5 (Tyndale) 2.919
Luke 6.31 (Geneva) 2.913
Psalms 19.1 (AKJV) 2.913
2 Peter 3.18 (Tyndale) 2.908
Daniel 12.3 (Geneva) 2.897
John 3.13 (Tyndale) 2.886
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: 0.952
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Apocalypse 4.365
Canticles 4.065
2 Peter 3.478
2 Kings 3.444
Daniel 3.426
Numbers 3.333
1 Timothy 2.924
1 Peter 2.731
Deuteronomy 2.631
Ephesians 2.6
Jeremiah 2.52
2 Corinthians 2.46
Genesis 2.137
Proverbs 1.714
Acts 1.559
John 1.556
Luke 1.544
1 Corinthians 1.472
Isaiah 1.38
Matthew 0.582
Psalms -0.41
Diversity: 0.965
Evenness: 0.994
Chapter Prominence
Matthew 3 6.075
Acts 17 5.928
Apocalypse 22 3.109
Deuteronomy 22 3.104
Apocalypse 2 3.103
Isaiah 47 3.096
Psalms 141 3.084
Genesis 14 3.071
Deuteronomy 16 3.068
2 Kings 23 3.06
Jeremiah 18 3.059
Canticles 5 3.057
Matthew 2 3.032
Numbers 23 3.032
Proverbs 6 3.019
Daniel 12 3.011
John 2 3.009
Proverbs 20 2.993
Proverbs 23 2.992
Psalms 19 2.976
Acts 9 2.948
Luke 19 2.914
2 Corinthians 4 2.896
1 Timothy 1 2.895
1 Corinthians 3 2.866
2 Peter 1 2.851
Acts 2 2.823
Matthew 6 2.798
Ephesians 4 2.661
1 Peter 2 2.629
Diversity: 0.957
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Numbers 23.17 4.347
Apocalypse 22.16 4.347
Jeremiah 18.2 4.347
Proverbs 6.23 4.344
Isaiah 47.13 4.344
John 2.11 4.344
Canticles 5.5 4.343
Ephesians 4.9 4.342
Matthew 3.16 4.341
Matthew 2.2 4.34
Psalms 141.2 4.34
Deuteronomy 16.16 4.338
Psalms 19.8 4.337
1 Corinthians 3.6 4.333
Psalms 19.1 4.332
Proverbs 23.26 4.33
Proverbs 20.27 4.329
Matthew 6.6 4.329
Daniel 12.2 4.328
2 Peter 1.19 4.322
2 Corinthians 4.6 4.322
1 Timothy 1.15 4.317
1 Peter 2.9 4.31
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase