Early English Printed Sermons


The state-reformer inquired into, in a sermon before the honourable judges at Ailesbury assises in Bucks, March 3. 1683/4 / By Francis Carswell, D.D. chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty.

Carswell, Francis, d. 1709
Publisher: Printed by J Macock for Awnsham Churchil at the Black Swan near Amen Corner
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1684
Approximate Era: CharlesII
TCP ID: B18511 ESTC ID: R213135 STC ID: C651
Subject Headings: Assize sermons -- England -- 17th century; Bible. -- O.T. -- Samuel, 2nd, XV, 3-4; Religion and justice; 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 4.3% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 2.9% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 90.5% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 5.2% -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) 1.8% -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: 0.864
Evenness: 0.983
Part Prominence
Old Testament (Geneva) 12.288
Apocrypha (AKJV) 6.553
Old Testament (ODRV) 4.742
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 2.559
New Testament (Tyndale) 1.09
New Testament (ODRV) -0.027
Old Testament (AKJV) -0.935
New Testament (AKJV) -1.317
Diversity: 0.966
Evenness: 0.994
Book Prominence
2 Samuel (Geneva) 5.836
Psalms (AKJV) 3.279
Joshua (Geneva) 2.915
Canticles (Douay-Rheims) 2.909
Amos (Douay-Rheims) 2.906
Joshua (AKJV) 2.888
Micah (AKJV) 2.867
Mark (ODRV) 2.843
Numbers (Douay-Rheims) 2.842
3 Kings (Douay-Rheims) 2.803
Jude (AKJV) 2.768
Daniel (Geneva) 2.764
2 Kings (Douay-Rheims) 2.713
2 Chronicles (AKJV) 2.68
2 Samuel (AKJV) 2.653
Deuteronomy (Geneva) 2.62
2 Timothy (AKJV) 2.499
Genesis (ODRV) 2.484
Ecclesiasticus (AKJV) 2.39
Ecclesiastes (AKJV) 2.282
Genesis (AKJV) 2.132
Isaiah (Geneva) 2.125
Romans (Tyndale) 2.043
Luke (ODRV) 2.038
John (ODRV) 1.975
Matthew (Tyndale) 1.945
Romans (ODRV) 1.78
Isaiah (AKJV) 1.748
Proverbs (AKJV) 1.627
Psalms (Geneva) 1.215
Romans (AKJV) 1.188
Diversity: 0.974
Evenness: 0.995
Chapter Prominence
2 Samuel 15 (Geneva) 4.741
Psalms 2 (AKJV) 4.656
Joshua 4 (Geneva) 2.378
Joshua 4 (AKJV) 2.377
Deuteronomy 24 (Geneva) 2.377
2 Samuel 20 (Geneva) 2.376
Mark 12 (ODRV) 2.375
3 Kings 1 (Douay-Rheims) 2.372
Numbers 12 (Douay-Rheims) 2.371
Isaiah 10 (Geneva) 2.369
Amos 6 (Douay-Rheims) 2.364
Genesis 32 (AKJV) 2.361
Ecclesiasticus 27 (AKJV) 2.361
Genesis 18 (ODRV) 2.36
Daniel 6 (Geneva) 2.355
Canticles 2 (Douay-Rheims) 2.354
Isaiah 33 (AKJV) 2.352
Psalms 149 (AKJV) 2.351
2 Samuel 15 (AKJV) 2.35
2 Kings 15 (Douay-Rheims) 2.348
Psalms 85 (Geneva) 2.345
Psalms 7 (AKJV) 2.34
Micah 6 (AKJV) 2.335
Psalms 89 (Geneva) 2.328
Ecclesiastes 1 (AKJV) 2.325
John 12 (ODRV) 2.322
2 Chronicles 19 (AKJV) 2.321
Matthew 7 (Tyndale) 2.317
Proverbs 27 (AKJV) 2.316
Luke 23 (ODRV) 2.313
Psalms 9 (AKJV) 2.306
Psalms 116 (Geneva) 2.289
Ecclesiastes 3 (AKJV) 2.287
Psalms 122 (Geneva) 2.279
Romans 2 (ODRV) 2.274
Romans 3 (AKJV) 2.252
Romans 8 (Tyndale) 2.247
Psalms 122 (AKJV) 2.243
2 Timothy 3 (AKJV) 2.22
Jude 1 (AKJV) 2.199
Diversity: 0.976
Evenness: 0.992
Verse Prominence
2 Samuel 15.4 (Geneva) 4.163
2 Kings 15.4 (Douay-Rheims) 4.163
2 Samuel 15.3 (Geneva) 4.161
Psalms 2.10 (AKJV) 4.153
Genesis 32.12 (AKJV) 2.083
Isaiah 33.22 (AKJV) 2.083
Luke 23.47 (ODRV) 2.083
Joshua 4.2 (AKJV) 2.083
Joshua 4.2 (Geneva) 2.083
Deuteronomy 24.9 (Geneva) 2.083
Numbers 12.2 (Douay-Rheims) 2.083
Isaiah 10.1 (Geneva) 2.083
John 12.6 (ODRV) 2.082
Genesis 18.18 (ODRV) 2.082
Mark 12.7 (ODRV) 2.082
Micah 6.4 (AKJV) 2.082
2 Samuel 20.9 (Geneva) 2.082
Matthew 7.3 (Tyndale) 2.082
2 Kings 15.3 (Douay-Rheims) 2.081
3 Kings 1.46 (Douay-Rheims) 2.081
Psalms 7.9 (AKJV) 2.081
2 Samuel 15.4 (AKJV) 2.08
Ecclesiastes 3.15 (AKJV) 2.08
Proverbs 27.22 (AKJV) 2.08
Amos 6.13 (Douay-Rheims) 2.08
Psalms 122.2 (AKJV) 2.079
Ecclesiasticus 27.26 (AKJV) 2.079
2 Samuel 15.3 (AKJV) 2.078
Psalms 122.5 (Geneva) 2.077
Psalms 89.20 (Geneva) 2.077
Ecclesiastes 1.9 (AKJV) 2.077
2 Timothy 3.13 (AKJV) 2.077
Daniel 6.21 (Geneva) 2.077
Romans 8.24 (Tyndale) 2.076
Canticles 2.15 (Douay-Rheims) 2.076
Psalms 9.8 (AKJV) 2.074
Romans 3.8 (AKJV) 2.071
Psalms 149.8 (AKJV) 2.068
Psalms 116.12 (Geneva) 2.061
Psalms 85.10 (Geneva) 2.058
Jude 1.8 (AKJV) 2.055
Romans 2.6 (ODRV) 2.055
2 Chronicles 19.6 (AKJV) 2.039
Psalms 122.6 (Geneva) 2.018
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: 0.952
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Amos 4.084
Micah 3.978
2 Chronicles 3.526
2 Peter 3.478
Mark 3.456
Numbers 3.333
1 Kings 3.285
2 Samuel 3.148
1 Samuel 2.979
Ecclesiastes 2.805
1 Peter 2.731
Exodus 2.647
Deuteronomy 2.631
Ephesians 2.6
Hebrews 1.976
Proverbs 1.714
John 1.556
Isaiah 1.38
Romans 0.807
Matthew 0.582
Psalms -0.41
Diversity: 0.976
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Deuteronomy 24 2.424
Psalms 71 2.399
Psalms 141 2.398
2 Samuel 17 2.395
Numbers 12 2.392
2 Samuel 14 2.391
Amos 5 2.389
Mark 12 2.386
1 Samuel 16 2.38
2 Samuel 16 2.375
1 Kings 12 2.374
Deuteronomy 8 2.373
Isaiah 29 2.371
Amos 6 2.368
Isaiah 33 2.363
Numbers 11 2.362
Psalms 21 2.362
Deuteronomy 1 2.356
2 Chronicles 19 2.352
Exodus 18 2.351
Ecclesiastes 3 2.349
2 Samuel 18 2.345
Ecclesiastes 1 2.343
Psalms 7 2.342
2 Samuel 15 2.333
Micah 6 2.313
Isaiah 9 2.303
John 19 2.296
Psalms 122 2.289
John 12 2.274
Hebrews 4 2.27
Psalms 82 2.267
Proverbs 8 2.238
1 Peter 3 2.215
Romans 3 2.197
2 Peter 2 2.183
Matthew 13 2.175
Psalms 2 2.172
Ephesians 5 2.135
1 Peter 2 1.944
Romans 13 1.75
Diversity: 0.983
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
2 Samuel 14.28 1.666
Ecclesiastes 3.15 1.666
2 Samuel 14.24 1.666
Exodus 18.26 1.665
Mark 12.7 1.665
Deuteronomy 24.9 1.665
Amos 5.6 1.665
2 Samuel 14.30 1.665
2 Samuel 17.4 1.665
Matthew 13.38 1.665
Psalms 141.4 1.665
Psalms 122.2 1.664
Psalms 7.4 1.664
Isaiah 29.21 1.664
2 Samuel 15.10 1.664
Psalms 71.9 1.664
1 Kings 12.10 1.664
Exodus 18.25 1.663
Numbers 12.2 1.663
Psalms 21.2 1.663
2 Samuel 16.22 1.663
2 Samuel 18.7 1.663
Hebrews 4.11 1.663
Isaiah 33.22 1.662
Psalms 122.5 1.662
Exodus 18.11 1.662
2 Samuel 15.6 1.662
John 12.5 1.662
1 Samuel 16.12 1.662
2 Chronicles 19.8 1.661
2 Chronicles 19.11 1.661
Numbers 11.16 1.661
Psalms 7.9 1.661
John 12.6 1.661
John 19.13 1.66
2 Chronicles 19.5 1.659
Deuteronomy 8.3 1.659
Amos 6.12 1.659
1 Samuel 16.1 1.658
Matthew 13.25 1.658
Isaiah 9.7 1.657
Numbers 12.8 1.657
Psalms 21.3 1.657
2 Samuel 17.2 1.657
Ecclesiastes 1.9 1.654
Psalms 122.4 1.648
1 Peter 3.4 1.647
2 Chronicles 19.7 1.646
Psalms 2.10 1.646
Ephesians 5.15 1.645
Deuteronomy 1.17 1.642
2 Peter 2.10 1.635
2 Chronicles 19.6 1.626
Exodus 18.21 1.623
1 Peter 2.14 1.617
Micah 6.8 1.617
Romans 3.8 1.608
Proverbs 8.15 1.57
Psalms 82.6 1.557
Romans 13.4 1.52
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase