Early English Printed Sermons


The way to excel. Meditations, awakened by the death of the reverend Mr. Joshua Moodey; with some short character of the eminent person: who slept in Jesus, 4d. 5 m. 1697. In the sixty fifth year of his age / by Cotton Mather.

Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728
Publisher: Printed by B Green and J Allen
Place of Publication: Boston
Publication Year: 1697
Approximate Era: WilliamAndMary
TCP ID: B09520 ESTC ID: W19638 STC ID: M1167
Subject Headings: Funeral sermons -- Massachusetts; Moodey, Joshua, 1633?-1697 -- Death and burial; Sermons, American -- Massachusetts;
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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 7.1% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 81.9% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 17.7% -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 0.7% -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) 6.0% -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: 0.844
Evenness: 0.98
Part Prominence
Old Testament (Geneva) 15.065
Apocrypha (Douay-Rheims) 9.097
New Testament (Tyndale) 2.478
New Testament (Geneva) 1.442
New Testament (ODRV) 1.362
Old Testament (AKJV) 0.454
New Testament (AKJV) 0.072
Diversity: 0.969
Evenness: 0.994
Book Prominence
Daniel (Geneva) 5.289
Matthew (ODRV) 4.142
Judith (Douay-Rheims) 2.723
Jude (Tyndale) 2.714
Titus (Tyndale) 2.644
Daniel (AKJV) 2.534
2 Peter (Tyndale) 2.52
Lamentations (AKJV) 2.459
Revelation (Tyndale) 2.399
2 Peter (Geneva) 2.383
1 John (Tyndale) 2.329
1 Thessalonians (AKJV) 2.328
1 John (Geneva) 2.317
Acts (Tyndale) 2.244
Revelation (AKJV) 2.243
Acts (Geneva) 2.234
Exodus (AKJV) 2.195
Hebrews (ODRV) 2.066
2 Corinthians (Geneva) 2.029
1 Peter (AKJV) 1.99
Acts (AKJV) 1.944
John (Tyndale) 1.9
Luke (Geneva) 1.879
John (ODRV) 1.722
John (AKJV) 1.594
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 1.588
Luke (AKJV) 1.58
1 Corinthians (Geneva) 1.506
Isaiah (AKJV) 1.495
Matthew (AKJV) 1.263
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 1.21
Psalms (Geneva) 0.963
Romans (AKJV) 0.935
Psalms (AKJV) -0.004
Diversity: 0.977
Evenness: 0.996
Chapter Prominence
Daniel 12 (Geneva) 4.109
Matthew 22 (ODRV) 4.027
Daniel 10 (AKJV) 2.078
Acts 6 (Geneva) 2.074
Revelation 1 (Tyndale) 2.074
Judith 8 (Douay-Rheims) 2.069
Psalms 138 (AKJV) 2.069
Revelation 7 (AKJV) 2.064
Acts 6 (AKJV) 2.062
Isaiah 6 (AKJV) 2.061
Exodus 34 (AKJV) 2.06
Acts 17 (Geneva) 2.057
Hebrews 1 (ODRV) 2.056
Titus 2 (Tyndale) 2.056
Luke 24 (Geneva) 2.055
Psalms 9 (Geneva) 2.051
Jude 1 (Tyndale) 2.046
Matthew 28 (AKJV) 2.044
Acts 17 (Tyndale) 2.043
Psalms 139 (Geneva) 2.038
Psalms 39 (AKJV) 2.031
2 Peter 1 (Tyndale) 2.026
2 Corinthians 3 (Geneva) 2.023
John 8 (Tyndale) 2.018
2 Corinthians 11 (Geneva) 2.018
Hebrews 13 (ODRV) 2.017
Matthew 18 (AKJV) 2.006
John 8 (AKJV) 2.002
Psalms 89 (AKJV) 2.0
1 John 5 (Geneva) 1.997
Psalms 103 (AKJV) 1.987
1 John 3 (Tyndale) 1.985
1 Corinthians 11 (Geneva) 1.975
Luke 2 (AKJV) 1.973
Lamentations 3 (AKJV) 1.97
1 Corinthians 11 (ODRV) 1.955
1 Peter 1 (AKJV) 1.951
2 Peter 1 (Geneva) 1.947
1 Corinthians 10 (ODRV) 1.943
Matthew 10 (AKJV) 1.941
John 6 (ODRV) 1.94
Psalms 37 (AKJV) 1.928
1 Thessalonians 5 (AKJV) 1.915
Matthew 6 (AKJV) 1.912
1 Corinthians 11 (AKJV) 1.897
Romans 13 (AKJV) 1.722
Diversity: 0.98
Evenness: 0.996
Verse Prominence
Matthew 22.30 (ODRV) 3.751
Daniel 12.3 (Geneva) 3.729
Acts 6.15 (Geneva) 1.886
Acts 6.15 (AKJV) 1.886
Daniel 10.6 (AKJV) 1.886
1 Corinthians 11.10 (ODRV) 1.886
Acts 17.24 (Geneva) 1.886
Judith 8.27 (Douay-Rheims) 1.886
Exodus 34.29 (AKJV) 1.886
Psalms 138.1 (AKJV) 1.886
Psalms 9.2 (Geneva) 1.886
Matthew 28.3 (AKJV) 1.885
Revelation 1.14 (Tyndale) 1.885
2 Peter 1.18 (Geneva) 1.885
Psalms 89.6 (AKJV) 1.885
1 Corinthians 11.10 (Geneva) 1.884
1 Corinthians 11.8 (AKJV) 1.884
Psalms 103.20 (AKJV) 1.884
Isaiah 6.3 (AKJV) 1.884
John 6.31 (ODRV) 1.884
1 Peter 1.12 (AKJV) 1.884
Titus 2.13 (Tyndale) 1.884
1 Corinthians 11.10 (AKJV) 1.883
Matthew 18.10 (AKJV) 1.883
2 Peter 1.18 (Tyndale) 1.883
Luke 2.13 (AKJV) 1.883
John 8.43 (Tyndale) 1.883
Revelation 7.15 (AKJV) 1.882
Hebrews 1.14 (ODRV) 1.882
Luke 24.26 (Geneva) 1.882
Hebrews 1.4 (ODRV) 1.881
Jude 1.6 (Tyndale) 1.881
Psalms 37.4 (AKJV) 1.879
Psalms 39.9 (AKJV) 1.879
Lamentations 3.39 (AKJV) 1.879
Matthew 10.29 (AKJV) 1.878
1 John 5.3 (Geneva) 1.878
Psalms 139.7 (Geneva) 1.877
1 Thessalonians 5.18 (AKJV) 1.876
1 John 3.8 (Tyndale) 1.876
Matthew 6.10 (AKJV) 1.875
Hebrews 13.7 (ODRV) 1.873
Romans 13.6 (AKJV) 1.872
John 8.44 (AKJV) 1.871
1 Peter 1.15 (AKJV) 1.87
2 Corinthians 3.18 (Geneva) 1.869
1 Corinthians 11.26 (ODRV) 1.868
Acts 17.28 (Tyndale) 1.866
1 Corinthians 11.20 (ODRV) 1.865
2 Corinthians 11.14 (Geneva) 1.86
1 Corinthians 10.31 (ODRV) 1.854
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: 0.944
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Judges 4.458
Daniel 4.22
1 John 4.121
1 Kings 4.079
1 Timothy 3.718
Ecclesiastes 3.599
1 Peter 3.524
Exodus 3.44
Revelation 3.429
2 Corinthians 3.253
Genesis 2.931
Hebrews 2.77
Acts 2.352
John 2.35
Luke 2.338
1 Corinthians 2.265
Matthew 1.376
Psalms 0.384
Diversity: 0.971
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Judges 13 2.923
Daniel 10 2.915
Psalms 138 2.908
Acts 6 2.861
Exodus 34 2.859
Psalms 30 2.847
Ecclesiastes 5 2.845
1 Kings 18 2.828
Psalms 39 2.814
Psalms 103 2.813
Psalms 139 2.807
Daniel 4 2.806
1 John 5 2.794
2 Corinthians 11 2.79
Revelation 1 2.789
1 Timothy 3 2.783
Hebrews 1 2.78
Acts 8 2.771
Acts 10 2.763
Psalms 37 2.75
Luke 2 2.728
John 8 2.723
Matthew 18 2.72
Matthew 28 2.701
John 6 2.694
Matthew 22 2.681
Genesis 3 2.674
Matthew 10 2.646
Acts 17 2.619
1 Corinthians 10 2.615
1 Peter 1 2.615
1 John 3 2.615
Matthew 25 2.571
Psalms 119 2.545
Diversity: 0.972
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Daniel 10.6 2.777
2 Corinthians 11.10 2.777
Judges 13.8 2.777
Psalms 119.38 2.776
Psalms 138.1 2.776
Acts 6.15 2.775
Matthew 28.3 2.775
Exodus 34.10 2.775
Psalms 103.21 2.775
1 Kings 18.12 2.774
Acts 8.39 2.774
Exodus 34.29 2.774
Ecclesiastes 5.6 2.774
Acts 17.24 2.771
Psalms 103.20 2.771
John 6.70 2.771
Matthew 22.30 2.77
Daniel 4.17 2.77
Revelation 1.10 2.77
Psalms 37.4 2.767
Genesis 3.5 2.765
Matthew 25.31 2.765
Matthew 18.10 2.765
Psalms 139.7 2.764
Matthew 10.29 2.764
Psalms 39.9 2.764
1 John 5.3 2.762
Acts 10.38 2.756
1 Peter 1.12 2.755
Hebrews 1.14 2.751
Luke 2.14 2.751
1 John 3.8 2.751
1 Corinthians 10.31 2.749
1 Timothy 3.16 2.747
John 8.44 2.744
Acts 17.28 2.733
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase