Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon preached before the Right Honourable, the Lord Mayor, and court of aldermen, of the city of London, at Guildhall-Chappel, August 18, 1678 by Robert Neville ...

Neville, Robert, 1640 or 1-1694
Publisher: Printed for Benj Billingsley
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1679
Approximate Era: CharlesII
TCP ID: B27215 ESTC ID: None STC ID: N525
Subject Headings: Church of England; 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 4.4% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 3.2% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 90.9% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 6.0% -inf%
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) 1.6% -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: 0.909
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Old Testament (Wycliffe) 8.599
Apocrypha (Douay-Rheims) 5.687
Apocrypha (AKJV) 4.533
New Testament (Vulgate) 4.282
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 0.539
Old Testament (Geneva) -0.844
New Testament (Tyndale) -0.931
New Testament (Geneva) -1.967
New Testament (ODRV) -2.047
Old Testament (AKJV) -2.955
New Testament (AKJV) -3.337
Diversity: 0.95
Evenness: 0.995
Book Prominence
Hebrews (AKJV) 8.063
Deuteronomy (Wycliffe) 4.524
1 John (Vulgate) 4.4
2 Timothy (Tyndale) 4.334
2 Peter (ODRV) 4.322
2 Timothy (ODRV) 4.285
2 Peter (AKJV) 4.126
Acts (Geneva) 4.001
Job (Douay-Rheims) 3.968
Ecclesiasticus (AKJV) 3.905
Ecclesiasticus (Douay-Rheims) 3.868
Acts (ODRV) 3.857
Job (Geneva) 3.846
Ecclesiastes (AKJV) 3.797
1 Peter (AKJV) 3.758
Proverbs (Douay-Rheims) 3.737
2 Corinthians (AKJV) 3.65
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 3.356
1 Corinthians (Geneva) 3.274
Matthew (ODRV) 3.132
Psalms (AKJV) 1.764
Diversity: 0.953
Evenness: 0.995
Chapter Prominence
Hebrews 9 (AKJV) 8.597
Deuteronomy 32 (Wycliffe) 4.343
Ecclesiasticus 36 (AKJV) 4.336
Ecclesiasticus 22 (Douay-Rheims) 4.332
1 John 3 (Vulgate) 4.332
Acts 24 (Geneva) 4.329
Job 3 (Douay-Rheims) 4.329
Proverbs 30 (Douay-Rheims) 4.329
Job 25 (Geneva) 4.325
2 Timothy 1 (ODRV) 4.321
2 Peter 3 (ODRV) 4.314
Acts 17 (ODRV) 4.313
2 Timothy 1 (Tyndale) 4.303
Psalms 97 (AKJV) 4.303
Ecclesiastes 9 (AKJV) 4.271
Matthew 10 (ODRV) 4.265
2 Peter 3 (AKJV) 4.26
1 Corinthians 2 (ODRV) 4.246
Psalms 90 (AKJV) 4.244
2 Corinthians 5 (AKJV) 4.188
1 Peter 5 (AKJV) 4.186
1 Corinthians 15 (Geneva) 4.086
Diversity: 0.953
Evenness: 0.995
Verse Prominence
Hebrews 9.27 (AKJV) 8.651
Deuteronomy 32.4 (Wycliffe) 4.347
Proverbs 30.20 (Douay-Rheims) 4.347
2 Timothy 1.18 (ODRV) 4.347
Acts 24.25 (Geneva) 4.346
Job 3.9 (Douay-Rheims) 4.346
1 John 3.20 (Vulgate) 4.344
2 Corinthians 5.10 (AKJV) 4.343
Ecclesiasticus 36.5 (AKJV) 4.342
Matthew 10.28 (ODRV) 4.342
2 Peter 3.4 (AKJV) 4.341
2 Peter 3.10 (ODRV) 4.341
Psalms 97.2 (AKJV) 4.341
Ecclesiasticus 22.12 (Douay-Rheims) 4.339
Psalms 90.4 (AKJV) 4.339
1 Corinthians 2.14 (ODRV) 4.336
Acts 17.31 (ODRV) 4.335
1 Corinthians 15.12 (Geneva) 4.334
Ecclesiastes 9.2 (AKJV) 4.333
Job 25.6 (Geneva) 4.33
2 Timothy 1.10 (Tyndale) 4.32
1 Peter 5.11 (AKJV) 4.264
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: 0.941
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Zephaniah 5.632
Amos 5.205
2 Peter 4.598
Mark 4.576
1 John 4.448
2 Timothy 4.44
Ezekiel 4.278
1 Samuel 4.1
Ecclesiastes 3.926
Revelation 3.756
Ephesians 3.72
Jeremiah 3.641
Job 3.64
2 Corinthians 3.58
Genesis 3.257
Acts 2.679
Psalms 0.711
Diversity: 0.944
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Ezekiel 15 5.541
Zephaniah 1 5.514
Job 33 5.502
Amos 4 5.501
Jeremiah 32 5.497
1 Samuel 8 5.486
Revelation 6 5.456
Mark 9 5.448
Psalms 89 5.438
Acts 24 5.435
Genesis 18 5.398
Ecclesiastes 9 5.39
2 Timothy 1 5.386
2 Peter 3 5.362
Ephesians 2 5.256
Acts 17 5.234
1 John 3 5.23
2 Corinthians 5 5.181
Diversity: 0.95
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Ezekiel 15.8 4.999
Psalms 89.14 4.998
Ezekiel 15.7 4.998
Jeremiah 32.18 4.997
Job 33.12 4.997
1 Samuel 8.3 4.996
2 Timothy 1.18 4.994
2 Peter 3.4 4.992
Zephaniah 1.12 4.989
Mark 9.44 4.988
Ecclesiastes 9.2 4.985
Amos 4.11 4.985
Ephesians 2.19 4.983
Revelation 6.8 4.982
Acts 24.25 4.98
2 Timothy 1.10 4.979
Genesis 18.25 4.971
1 John 3.20 4.97
Acts 17.31 4.963
2 Corinthians 5.10 4.938
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase