Early English Printed Sermons


A preface, lecture, and a sermon preached by that famous servant of God, Mr. John Welsh.

Welch, John, ca. 1624-1681
Publisher: s n
Place of Publication: Holland
Publication Year: 1686
Approximate Era: JamesII
TCP ID: B10277 ESTC ID: R186362 STC ID: W1313
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 1.2% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 0.8% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 85.1% 100.0%
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) 2.7% -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: 0.817
Evenness: 0.906
Part Prominence
Old Testament (AKJV) 18.723
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 14.525
Old Testament (ODRV) 1.323
Old Testament (Geneva) -2.242
New Testament (Tyndale) -2.329
New Testament (Geneva) -3.366
New Testament (ODRV) -3.446
New Testament (AKJV) -4.735
Diversity: 0.938
Evenness: 0.955
Book Prominence
Jeremiah (AKJV) 12.68
Jeremiah (Douay-Rheims) 9.507
2 Corinthians (Geneva) 9.252
Canticles (Geneva) 6.501
Canticles (Douay-Rheims) 3.212
Canticles (AKJV) 3.092
Deuteronomy (Douay-Rheims) 2.914
1 Peter (ODRV) 2.899
1 John (Tyndale) 2.885
Jeremiah (Geneva) 2.884
Deuteronomy (AKJV) 2.765
James (AKJV) 2.688
Hebrews (ODRV) 2.622
Hebrews (Geneva) 2.591
John (Tyndale) 2.456
2 Corinthians (AKJV) 2.438
Matthew (Geneva) 2.172
John (AKJV) 2.149
Psalms (ODRV) 2.123
Isaiah (AKJV) 2.051
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 1.765
Psalms (AKJV) 0.552
Diversity: 0.952
Evenness: 0.963
Chapter Prominence
Jeremiah 2 (AKJV) 11.078
Jeremiah 2 (Douay-Rheims) 8.314
2 Corinthians 11 (Geneva) 8.268
Canticles 3 (Geneva) 5.546
Canticles 3 (Douay-Rheims) 2.769
Psalms 83 (ODRV) 2.768
Canticles 3 (AKJV) 2.762
Jeremiah 3 (Geneva) 2.761
Jeremiah 2 (Geneva) 2.759
Isaiah 42 (AKJV) 2.758
Hebrews 2 (Geneva) 2.754
Hebrews 5 (ODRV) 2.752
Isaiah 45 (AKJV) 2.748
John 19 (Tyndale) 2.743
Jeremiah 8 (AKJV) 2.738
Deuteronomy 5 (Douay-Rheims) 2.735
1 John 5 (Tyndale) 2.733
Psalms 81 (AKJV) 2.731
John 19 (AKJV) 2.731
Psalms 113 (ODRV) 2.729
2 Corinthians 11 (AKJV) 2.726
Matthew 10 (Geneva) 2.71
Deuteronomy 32 (AKJV) 2.695
1 Peter 1 (ODRV) 2.69
Psalms 2 (AKJV) 2.672
1 Corinthians 3 (AKJV) 2.646
James 1 (AKJV) 2.633
Psalms 37 (AKJV) 2.623
Diversity: 0.959
Evenness: 0.967
Verse Prominence
Jeremiah 2.14 (AKJV) 9.997
2 Corinthians 11.2 (Geneva) 7.491
Jeremiah 2.13 (Douay-Rheims) 7.49
Canticles 3.11 (Geneva) 4.997
Matthew 10.25 (Geneva) 2.499
Jeremiah 2.14 (Douay-Rheims) 2.499
Canticles 3.11 (Douay-Rheims) 2.499
Canticles 3.11 (AKJV) 2.499
Hebrews 2.16 (Geneva) 2.499
Jeremiah 3.1 (Geneva) 2.499
Psalms 81.10 (AKJV) 2.498
Canticles 3.10 (AKJV) 2.498
1 John 5.10 (Tyndale) 2.498
John 19.2 (AKJV) 2.498
Deuteronomy 5.6 (Douay-Rheims) 2.497
Deuteronomy 32.5 (AKJV) 2.497
Isaiah 42.24 (AKJV) 2.497
Psalms 2.7 (AKJV) 2.497
Psalms 83.2 (ODRV) 2.497
Isaiah 45.22 (AKJV) 2.497
Jeremiah 2.13 (Geneva) 2.496
2 Corinthians 11.2 (AKJV) 2.496
1 Corinthians 3.6 (AKJV) 2.496
Jeremiah 8.6 (AKJV) 2.495
Psalms 37.13 (AKJV) 2.495
Jeremiah 2.11 (AKJV) 2.493
Psalms 81.11 (AKJV) 2.493
James 1.5 (AKJV) 2.492
John 19.37 (Tyndale) 2.491
Hebrews 5.3 (ODRV) 2.49
1 Peter 1.23 (ODRV) 2.487
Psalms 113.9 (ODRV) 2.472
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: 0.667
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Jeremiah 31.092
2 Corinthians 31.031
Psalms 28.162
Diversity: 0.75
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Jeremiah 6 24.907
Psalms 103 24.872
2 Corinthians 11 24.849
Psalms 2 24.732
Diversity: 0.0
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Jeremiah 6.1 99.981
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase