Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon against murder: by occasion of the Romanists putting the Protestants to death in the dukedome of Savoy. / By William Towers, B.D.

Towers, William, 1617?-1666
Publisher: Printed for Humphrey Mosely at the Princes Armes in Pauls Church yard
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1655
Approximate Era: Interregnum
TCP ID: A94768 ESTC ID: R207410 STC ID: T1962
Subject Headings: Bible. -- O.T. -- Exodus XX, 13; Sermons, English;
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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 6.1% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 3.7% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 86.9% 100.0%
Foreign Percentage of units with foreign text 0.5% -inf%
NonLatinAlphabet Percentage of units with a NonLatinAlphabet placeholder 0.5% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 12.6% -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 0.7% -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) 4.2% -inf%
foreign_italicized Percentage of units with QP and foreign italicized text 0.5% -inf%
foreign_latin Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP and foreign text 0.5% -inf%
foreign_latin_italicized Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP and italicized foreign text 0.5% -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: 0.812
Evenness: 0.875
Part Prominence
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 28.948
Old Testament (ODRV) 6.131
Apocrypha (Douay-Rheims) 2.847
New Testament (Vulgate) 1.441
Old Testament (Geneva) -3.685
New Testament (Tyndale) -3.772
New Testament (Geneva) -4.808
New Testament (ODRV) -4.888
Old Testament (AKJV) -5.796
New Testament (AKJV) -6.178
Diversity: 0.914
Evenness: 0.893
Book Prominence
Deuteronomy (Geneva) 14.975
Deuteronomy (Douay-Rheims) 14.965
Deuteronomy (AKJV) 14.817
Exodus (ODRV) 4.795
Matthew (Vulgate) 2.291
Exodus (Geneva) 2.124
1 John (ODRV) 2.098
2 Timothy (AKJV) 2.032
Genesis (ODRV) 2.018
Exodus (AKJV) 1.981
Genesis (Geneva) 1.953
Ecclesiasticus (Douay-Rheims) 1.886
John (Geneva) 1.694
John (Tyndale) 1.687
Luke (Geneva) 1.665
Romans (Tyndale) 1.577
Matthew (Geneva) 1.402
Romans (ODRV) 1.314
Matthew (ODRV) 1.151
Romans (Geneva) 1.104
Matthew (AKJV) 1.05
Psalms (Geneva) 0.749
Psalms (AKJV) -0.217
Diversity: 0.923
Evenness: 0.902
Chapter Prominence
Deuteronomy 5 (Geneva) 14.245
Deuteronomy 5 (Douay-Rheims) 14.243
Deuteronomy 5 (AKJV) 14.226
Exodus 20 (ODRV) 4.719
Psalms 139 (AKJV) 4.703
Ecclesiasticus 37 (Douay-Rheims) 2.371
Psalms 114 (AKJV) 2.369
Genesis 9 (Geneva) 2.357
Matthew 22 (Vulgate) 2.344
Romans 16 (ODRV) 2.343
Luke 10 (Geneva) 2.342
Exodus 20 (Geneva) 2.338
John 16 (Tyndale) 2.338
Matthew 3 (Geneva) 2.337
Exodus 20 (AKJV) 2.335
Psalms 139 (Geneva) 2.335
Matthew 3 (AKJV) 2.312
Genesis 2 (ODRV) 2.309
Romans 12 (Tyndale) 2.303
John 1 (Geneva) 2.294
1 John 3 (ODRV) 2.276
Romans 12 (Geneva) 2.266
Matthew 5 (Geneva) 2.236
2 Timothy 3 (AKJV) 2.22
Matthew 5 (ODRV) 2.164
Diversity: 0.929
Evenness: 0.907
Verse Prominence
Deuteronomy 5.17 (AKJV) 13.624
Deuteronomy 5.17 (Douay-Rheims) 13.624
Deuteronomy 5.17 (Geneva) 13.624
Exodus 20.13 (ODRV) 4.541
Psalms 139.21 (AKJV) 4.538
Ecclesiasticus 37.8 (Douay-Rheims) 2.272
Psalms 114.6 (AKJV) 2.272
John 1.20 (Geneva) 2.272
Luke 10.36 (Geneva) 2.272
Exodus 20.13 (AKJV) 2.271
Exodus 20.13 (Geneva) 2.271
Genesis 9.6 (Geneva) 2.271
Matthew 3.7 (Geneva) 2.271
Matthew 5.22 (Geneva) 2.27
Psalms 114.7 (AKJV) 2.269
Psalms 139.21 (Geneva) 2.268
Psalms 139.22 (AKJV) 2.268
Romans 12.19 (Tyndale) 2.267
2 Timothy 3.6 (AKJV) 2.266
Romans 12.19 (Geneva) 2.262
John 16.2 (Tyndale) 2.261
Romans 16.27 (ODRV) 2.256
1 John 3.15 (ODRV) 2.256
Genesis 2.17 (ODRV) 2.256
Matthew 3.8 (AKJV) 2.253
Matthew 5.44 (ODRV) 2.25
Matthew 22.21 (Vulgate) 2.246
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: 0.909
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Titus 8.014
1 John 7.657
Ezekiel 7.487
2 Samuel 7.477
Exodus 6.976
Genesis 6.466
John 5.885
Luke 5.873
Romans 5.136
Matthew 4.911
Psalms 3.919
Diversity: 0.933
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
2 Samuel 13 6.633
Ezekiel 22 6.6
Exodus 20 6.533
Psalms 139 6.533
Genesis 2 6.517
Matthew 3 6.492
Titus 3 6.466
John 16 6.465
Psalms 51 6.462
Luke 10 6.448
Psalms 50 6.417
Genesis 3 6.399
1 John 3 6.341
Romans 12 6.311
Matthew 5 6.11
Diversity: 0.941
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Luke 10.36 5.881
Exodus 20.13 5.88
Ezekiel 22.12 5.879
Matthew 3.1 5.879
Psalms 139.22 5.878
Matthew 5.21 5.877
2 Samuel 13.28 5.876
Psalms 51.14 5.875
Genesis 3.3 5.875
1 John 3.15 5.872
Psalms 139.21 5.861
Titus 3.10 5.859
Psalms 50.16 5.856
Romans 12.19 5.855
John 16.2 5.854
Genesis 2.17 5.844
Matthew 5.44 5.826
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase