Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon preached upon Sunday the third of March in St Maries Oxford before the great assembly of the Members, of the Honourable House of Commons there assembled.

Wilde, George, 1610-1665
Publisher: printed by Leonard Lichfield printer to the Vniversity
Place of Publication: Oxford
Publication Year: 1644
Approximate Era: CivilWar
TCP ID: A96494 ESTC ID: R203284 STC ID: W2160
Subject Headings: 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 4.9% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 2.8% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 90.3% 100.0%
Foreign Percentage of units with foreign text 0.3% -inf%
NonLatinAlphabet Percentage of units with a NonLatinAlphabet placeholder 0.5% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 8.0% -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) 3.1% -inf%
foreign_italicized Percentage of units with QP and foreign italicized 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: 0.833
Evenness: 0.921
Part Prominence
Old Testament (AKJV) 21.287
Apocrypha (Douay-Rheims) 4.93
Apocrypha (AKJV) 3.776
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) -0.219
Old Testament (Geneva) -1.601
New Testament (Tyndale) -1.688
New Testament (Geneva) -2.725
New Testament (ODRV) -2.804
New Testament (AKJV) -4.094
Diversity: 0.944
Evenness: 0.971
Book Prominence
Psalms (AKJV) 12.603
1 Esdras (AKJV) 3.767
Nehemiah (AKJV) 3.734
Numbers (Douay-Rheims) 3.658
1 Kings (Geneva) 3.64
2 Samuel (Geneva) 3.621
2 Kings (AKJV) 3.614
Colossians (Tyndale) 3.592
1 Kings (AKJV) 3.565
2 Kings (Douay-Rheims) 3.528
2 Samuel (AKJV) 3.469
Galatians (Tyndale) 3.431
Deuteronomy (Douay-Rheims) 3.427
Ephesians (Tyndale) 3.362
Exodus (AKJV) 3.263
Ecclesiasticus (Douay-Rheims) 3.168
Hebrews (Geneva) 3.104
Philippians (AKJV) 3.084
Ephesians (AKJV) 2.895
Romans (Tyndale) 2.859
Proverbs (AKJV) 2.443
Matthew (ODRV) 2.433
Psalms (Geneva) 2.031
Diversity: 0.955
Evenness: 0.977
Chapter Prominence
Psalms 122 (AKJV) 12.765
1 Kings 20 (Geneva) 3.22
2 Kings 2 (Douay-Rheims) 3.219
1 Esdras 1 (AKJV) 3.219
Exodus 6 (AKJV) 3.219
1 Kings 20 (AKJV) 3.216
Ecclesiasticus 42 (Douay-Rheims) 3.214
Deuteronomy 1 (Douay-Rheims) 3.214
2 Kings 6 (AKJV) 3.212
Nehemiah 4 (AKJV) 3.212
2 Samuel 3 (Geneva) 3.21
Matthew 2 (ODRV) 3.208
Numbers 16 (Douay-Rheims) 3.207
2 Samuel 3 (AKJV) 3.202
2 Samuel 19 (AKJV) 3.202
Hebrews 2 (Geneva) 3.202
Psalms 68 (Geneva) 3.201
2 Samuel 15 (AKJV) 3.195
2 Kings 15 (Douay-Rheims) 3.193
Galatians 6 (Tyndale) 3.189
Colossians 3 (Tyndale) 3.161
Proverbs 20 (AKJV) 3.153
Ephesians 5 (Tyndale) 3.148
Matthew 12 (ODRV) 3.148
Psalms 122 (Geneva) 3.124
Romans 13 (Tyndale) 3.06
Philippians 4 (AKJV) 3.052
Ephesians 4 (AKJV) 2.873
Diversity: 0.957
Evenness: 0.959
Verse Prominence
Psalms 122.8 (AKJV) 11.893
Psalms 122.9 (AKJV) 9.511
Psalms 122.6 (AKJV) 4.679
1 Kings 20.8 (Geneva) 2.381
1 Kings 20.8 (AKJV) 2.381
Matthew 2.10 (ODRV) 2.38
2 Kings 6.24 (AKJV) 2.38
1 Kings 20.3 (AKJV) 2.38
Nehemiah 4.14 (AKJV) 2.38
Exodus 6.27 (AKJV) 2.38
2 Samuel 19.21 (AKJV) 2.379
1 Esdras 1.20 (AKJV) 2.379
Deuteronomy 1.40 (Douay-Rheims) 2.379
Psalms 68.15 (Geneva) 2.379
Numbers 16.7 (Douay-Rheims) 2.379
2 Samuel 15.4 (AKJV) 2.378
Ephesians 5.16 (Tyndale) 2.378
Psalms 122.8 (Geneva) 2.378
2 Samuel 3.1 (AKJV) 2.377
2 Kings 2.14 (Douay-Rheims) 2.377
2 Samuel 3.36 (Geneva) 2.377
Hebrews 2.11 (Geneva) 2.377
2 Kings 15.21 (Douay-Rheims) 2.376
Ecclesiasticus 42.22 (Douay-Rheims) 2.376
2 Samuel 3.36 (AKJV) 2.376
Galatians 6.10 (Tyndale) 2.375
Matthew 12.50 (ODRV) 2.374
Psalms 122.1 (Geneva) 2.372
Colossians 3.15 (Tyndale) 2.371
Proverbs 20.25 (AKJV) 2.369
Romans 13.14 (Tyndale) 2.365
Philippians 4.7 (AKJV) 2.357
Ephesians 4.32 (AKJV) 2.356
Psalms 122.6 (Geneva) 2.316
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: 0.938
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Nehemiah 5.705
Micah 5.466
1 Thessalonians 5.172
2 Chronicles 5.014
Colossians 4.865
2 Samuel 4.636
Philippians 4.502
1 Samuel 4.467
Galatians 4.431
Deuteronomy 4.119
Genesis 3.625
Proverbs 3.202
Isaiah 2.868
Romans 2.295
Matthew 2.07
Psalms 1.078
Diversity: 0.96
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
2 Chronicles 14 3.981
2 Chronicles 13 3.979
Genesis 48 3.969
Nehemiah 4 3.968
Micah 4 3.963
1 Samuel 22 3.961
2 Samuel 17 3.956
2 Samuel 10 3.956
2 Samuel 20 3.951
1 Samuel 13 3.939
2 Samuel 16 3.936
2 Samuel 2 3.929
2 Samuel 3 3.924
Deuteronomy 33 3.906
2 Samuel 15 3.894
Isaiah 2 3.888
Proverbs 20 3.868
Isaiah 9 3.864
Psalms 122 3.85
1 Thessalonians 5 3.797
Matthew 12 3.775
Philippians 4 3.771
Colossians 3 3.684
Galatians 6 3.68
Romans 2 3.666
Diversity: 0.966
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
2 Chronicles 13.14 3.448
Genesis 48.17 3.448
2 Samuel 17.4 3.447
2 Samuel 15.18 3.447
2 Samuel 15.23 3.447
Nehemiah 4.14 3.446
2 Samuel 3.1 3.446
1 Thessalonians 5.25 3.445
Nehemiah 4.17 3.445
Matthew 12.50 3.444
2 Samuel 16.23 3.444
Deuteronomy 33.11 3.443
2 Samuel 3.36 3.442
2 Chronicles 14.11 3.441
2 Samuel 2.14 3.441
1 Samuel 22.2 3.44
Proverbs 20.25 3.44
Micah 4.3 3.44
2 Samuel 17.2 3.439
Psalms 122.9 3.438
2 Samuel 15.4 3.438
Colossians 3.15 3.437
Psalms 122.8 3.436
2 Samuel 15.3 3.435
Isaiah 2.4 3.432
Philippians 4.7 3.426
Romans 2.22 3.426
Galatians 6.10 3.375
Psalms 122.6 3.37
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase