Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon preached in New Brentford Church in Middlesex December the 2d. 1697. Being the thanksgiving-day to almighty God for His Majesty's safe return, and for the happy and honourable peace, of which God hath made him the glorious instrument. By Christopher Johnson, M.A. School-master of Richmond in Surrey.

Johnson, Christopher, b. 1657 or 8
Publisher: printed by F Collins for Samuel Buckley at the Dolphin over against St Dunstan s Church in Fleetstreet
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1698
Approximate Era: WilliamAndMary
TCP ID: B25291 ESTC ID: None STC ID: J770aA
Subject Headings: Peace; 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 3.7% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 1.8% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 86.5% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 11.7% -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) 3.4% -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 (AKJV) 10.176
New Testament (Vulgate) 6.303
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 2.559
Old Testament (Geneva) 1.177
New Testament (Tyndale) 1.09
New Testament (Geneva) 0.053
New Testament (ODRV) -0.027
New Testament (AKJV) -1.317
Diversity: 0.88
Evenness: 0.869
Book Prominence
Numbers (AKJV) 31.157
Psalms (AKJV) 2.933
1 Chronicles (Geneva) 2.777
Esther (AKJV) 2.762
Joel (AKJV) 2.759
Ephesians (Vulgate) 2.758
Judges (Douay-Rheims) 2.729
1 Chronicles (AKJV) 2.725
Judges (Geneva) 2.706
Lamentations (Geneva) 2.635
Judges (AKJV) 2.619
Matthew (Vulgate) 2.584
1 Kings (Douay-Rheims) 2.581
1 Thessalonians (Geneva) 2.541
Colossians (Geneva) 2.48
1 Thessalonians (AKJV) 2.407
Ephesians (Tyndale) 2.373
Revelation (AKJV) 2.322
Genesis (AKJV) 1.959
John (ODRV) 1.802
Matthew (Geneva) 1.695
Matthew (AKJV) 1.343
Psalms (Geneva) 1.042
Romans (AKJV) 1.015
Diversity: 0.928
Evenness: 0.91
Chapter Prominence
Numbers 23 (AKJV) 23.37
Psalms 126 (AKJV) 4.177
Judges 8 (Douay-Rheims) 2.124
Psalms 150 (Geneva) 2.123
1 Kings 7 (Douay-Rheims) 2.122
1 Chronicles 21 (Geneva) 2.121
Esther 9 (AKJV) 2.12
Ephesians 2 (Vulgate) 2.119
Psalms 17 (Geneva) 2.117
Judges 7 (Geneva) 2.114
Genesis 31 (AKJV) 2.112
Revelation 7 (AKJV) 2.108
Judges 8 (AKJV) 2.108
Joel 1 (AKJV) 2.107
1 Chronicles 29 (AKJV) 2.1
Psalms 144 (Geneva) 2.098
Psalms 17 (AKJV) 2.097
Psalms 85 (Geneva) 2.092
Matthew 22 (Vulgate) 2.091
Ephesians 2 (Tyndale) 2.071
Psalms 49 (AKJV) 2.071
Psalms 126 (Geneva) 2.064
Genesis 49 (AKJV) 2.063
Psalms 115 (AKJV) 2.061
Matthew 10 (Geneva) 2.06
John 11 (ODRV) 2.053
Lamentations 3 (Geneva) 2.034
Psalms 103 (AKJV) 2.032
Colossians 1 (Geneva) 2.03
1 Thessalonians 5 (Geneva) 2.025
Psalms 144 (AKJV) 2.0
Matthew 10 (AKJV) 1.986
Psalms 118 (AKJV) 1.984
Psalms 107 (AKJV) 1.978
1 Thessalonians 5 (AKJV) 1.959
Romans 2 (AKJV) 1.958
Diversity: 0.928
Evenness: 0.91
Verse Prominence
Numbers 23.23 (AKJV) 23.391
Psalms 126.3 (AKJV) 4.218
1 Kings 7.10 (Douay-Rheims) 2.127
Joel 1.3 (AKJV) 2.126
1 Chronicles 21.27 (Geneva) 2.126
John 11.12 (ODRV) 2.126
Judges 8.35 (AKJV) 2.126
Judges 8.34 (Douay-Rheims) 2.126
Revelation 7.12 (AKJV) 2.125
Psalms 107.16 (AKJV) 2.125
Colossians 1.8 (Geneva) 2.125
Genesis 31.40 (AKJV) 2.125
Psalms 49.1 (AKJV) 2.125
Psalms 150.6 (Geneva) 2.125
Lamentations 3.44 (Geneva) 2.125
Psalms 17.8 (AKJV) 2.125
Ephesians 2.9 (Vulgate) 2.124
Genesis 49.24 (AKJV) 2.124
Psalms 115.18 (AKJV) 2.124
Psalms 17.8 (Geneva) 2.124
Esther 9.22 (AKJV) 2.124
Judges 7.20 (Geneva) 2.122
1 Chronicles 29.28 (AKJV) 2.122
Psalms 144.15 (Geneva) 2.12
1 Thessalonians 5.25 (Geneva) 2.12
1 Thessalonians 5.25 (AKJV) 2.12
Romans 2.4 (AKJV) 2.118
Matthew 10.24 (AKJV) 2.116
Matthew 10.24 (Geneva) 2.116
Ephesians 2.8 (Tyndale) 2.114
Psalms 126.3 (Geneva) 2.111
Psalms 103.1 (AKJV) 2.107
Psalms 85.10 (Geneva) 2.102
Matthew 22.21 (Vulgate) 2.101
Psalms 144.15 (AKJV) 2.074
Psalms 118.23 (AKJV) 2.066
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: 0.917
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Esther 7.878
1 Chronicles 7.725
Judges 7.236
Daniel 6.998
Numbers 6.905
1 Kings 6.857
2 Samuel 6.719
1 Samuel 6.551
Revelation 6.207
Job 6.091
Genesis 5.708
Psalms 3.162
Diversity: 0.941
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Esther 9 5.857
Judges 8 5.842
Judges 7 5.833
2 Samuel 20 5.833
1 Samuel 7 5.833
Genesis 31 5.823
Genesis 8 5.822
1 Kings 10 5.82
2 Samuel 2 5.811
Revelation 7 5.81
Job 13 5.81
1 Samuel 10 5.797
1 Chronicles 29 5.793
Numbers 23 5.79
Psalms 68 5.773
Daniel 3 5.767
Genesis 49 5.726
Diversity: 0.929
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Judges 8.35 7.141
2 Samuel 2.18 7.141
1 Chronicles 29.25 7.141
1 Samuel 7.10 7.141
2 Samuel 20.2 7.14
Job 13.16 7.14
Genesis 8.11 7.139
1 Samuel 10.12 7.139
Revelation 7.10 7.139
Psalms 68.13 7.137
Esther 9.22 7.136
Genesis 31.40 7.135
Numbers 23.23 7.133
Judges 7.20 7.133
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase