Early English Printed Sermons


The means to keepe sinne from reigning in our mortall body A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse, May 26. 1629. By William Foster, Master of Arts, and parson of Hedgeley in the county of Buckingham.

Foster, William, 1591-1643
Publisher: Printed by Iohn Haviland
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1629
Approximate Era: CharlesI
TCP ID: A01092 ESTC ID: S120710 STC ID: 11204
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 15.4% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 10.1% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 70.4% 100.0%
Foreign Percentage of units with foreign text 2.4% -inf%
NonLatinAlphabet Percentage of units with a NonLatinAlphabet placeholder 1.2% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 20.5% -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 0.8% -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) 9.6% -inf%
foreign_cited Percentage of units with QP, foreign text, and an adjacent citation 1.9% -inf%
foreign_cited_exact Percentage of units with QP, foreign text, and an adjacent matching citation 1.7% -inf%
foreign_italicized Percentage of units with QP and foreign italicized text 2.4% -inf%
foreign_italicized_cited Percentage of units with QP, italicized foreign text, and an adjacent citation 1.9% -inf%
foreign_italicized_cited_exact Percentage of units with QP, italicized foreign text, and an adjacent matching citation 1.7% -inf%
foreign_latin Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP and foreign text 1.0% -inf%
foreign_latin_cited Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP, foreign text, and an adjacent citation 0.7% -inf%
foreign_latin_cited_exact Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP, foreign text, and an adjacent matching citation 0.7% -inf%
foreign_latin_italicized Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP and italicized foreign text 1.0% -inf%
foreign_latin_italicized_cited Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP, an adjacent citation, and italicized foreign text 0.7% -inf%
foreign_latin_italicized_cited_exact Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP, an adjacent matching citation, and italicized foreign text 0.7% -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: 0.901
Evenness: 0.966
Part Prominence
Apocrypha (AKJV) 12.109
New Testament (Vulgate) 6.303
Old Testament (Vulgate) 3.873
Apocrypha (Douay-Rheims) 2.152
New Testament (Geneva) 0.053
New Testament (ODRV) -0.027
Old Testament (ODRV) -0.814
New Testament (AKJV) -1.317
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) -2.996
Old Testament (Geneva) -4.379
New Testament (Tyndale) -4.466
Old Testament (AKJV) -6.49
Diversity: 0.976
Evenness: 0.979
Book Prominence
James (AKJV) 5.703
Ecclesiasticus (AKJV) 4.122
James (Vulgate) 3.123
James (Geneva) 2.752
James (ODRV) 2.716
Romans (ODRV) 1.924
Romans (Geneva) 1.714
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 1.607
Proverbs (Vulgate) 1.534
Luke (Vulgate) 1.458
John (Vulgate) 1.368
James (Tyndale) 1.35
Romans (Vulgate) 1.349
Romans (AKJV) 1.332
Jude (AKJV) 1.325
Lamentations (AKJV) 1.269
Exodus (ODRV) 1.254
Deuteronomy (Douay-Rheims) 1.168
Jeremiah (Geneva) 1.138
1 Thessalonians (AKJV) 1.137
Hebrews (Tyndale) 1.136
Ecclesiastes (Geneva) 1.093
Revelation (Geneva) 1.075
Revelation (AKJV) 1.053
Genesis (ODRV) 1.041
Revelation (ODRV) 1.034
Deuteronomy (AKJV) 1.019
1 John (AKJV) 0.988
Ecclesiasticus (Douay-Rheims) 0.909
Job (Geneva) 0.888
2 Corinthians (Geneva) 0.839
1 Peter (AKJV) 0.8
Ephesians (Geneva) 0.785
Proverbs (Douay-Rheims) 0.779
1 Corinthians (Tyndale) 0.715
Genesis (AKJV) 0.689
Proverbs (Geneva) 0.657
Ephesians (AKJV) 0.636
Romans (Tyndale) 0.6
Job (AKJV) 0.594
Matthew (Tyndale) 0.502
Matthew (Geneva) 0.426
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 0.398
Psalms (ODRV) 0.377
1 Corinthians (Geneva) 0.316
Isaiah (AKJV) 0.305
Proverbs (AKJV) 0.184
Matthew (ODRV) 0.174
Matthew (AKJV) 0.073
Psalms (Geneva) -0.228
Psalms (AKJV) -1.194
Diversity: 0.983
Evenness: 0.978
Chapter Prominence
Romans 6 (ODRV) 4.237
James 1 (AKJV) 4.203
Ecclesiasticus 21 (AKJV) 3.246
James 4 (AKJV) 3.171
James 3 (Vulgate) 2.168
Romans 4 (ODRV) 2.122
James 3 (ODRV) 2.104
James 1 (Geneva) 2.098
1 Corinthians 9 (AKJV) 2.086
Romans 6 (Geneva) 1.987
Romans 6 (AKJV) 1.971
Luke 19 (Vulgate) 1.085
Proverbs 1 (Vulgate) 1.084
Exodus 17 (ODRV) 1.083
John 14 (Vulgate) 1.079
Genesis 19 (ODRV) 1.076
Proverbs 9 (Geneva) 1.076
Ecclesiasticus 44 (AKJV) 1.075
Psalms 32 (Geneva) 1.074
Psalms 12 (Geneva) 1.073
Jeremiah 13 (Geneva) 1.069
Proverbs 12 (Douay-Rheims) 1.069
Ecclesiastes 5 (Geneva) 1.069
Isaiah 56 (AKJV) 1.069
Matthew 4 (Tyndale) 1.068
Matthew 8 (Geneva) 1.068
Job 15 (AKJV) 1.068
Matthew 17 (ODRV) 1.067
Hebrews 9 (Tyndale) 1.066
Romans 6 (Vulgate) 1.065
Job 4 (Geneva) 1.064
Proverbs 4 (Geneva) 1.06
Psalms 18 (ODRV) 1.058
Matthew 4 (Geneva) 1.058
Psalms 141 (AKJV) 1.057
James 3 (Tyndale) 1.056
Ecclesiasticus 31 (Douay-Rheims) 1.054
Jeremiah 17 (Geneva) 1.051
Revelation 2 (AKJV) 1.046
Proverbs 13 (AKJV) 1.045
Deuteronomy 5 (Douay-Rheims) 1.044
Ecclesiasticus 25 (Douay-Rheims) 1.044
Matthew 26 (Geneva) 1.044
Psalms 32 (AKJV) 1.044
Revelation 14 (ODRV) 1.044
Matthew 27 (AKJV) 1.04
Proverbs 10 (AKJV) 1.035
Psalms 58 (AKJV) 1.034
Psalms 39 (AKJV) 1.034
Revelation 20 (Geneva) 1.034
1 John 1 (AKJV) 1.032
Matthew 15 (ODRV) 1.032
Psalms 2 (ODRV) 1.031
Psalms 14 (AKJV) 1.031
Revelation 20 (AKJV) 1.028
Deuteronomy 5 (AKJV) 1.027
Genesis 49 (AKJV) 1.023
Matthew 12 (AKJV) 1.022
2 Corinthians 11 (Geneva) 1.021
Psalms 68 (AKJV) 1.013
Psalms 19 (AKJV) 1.012
Ephesians 6 (Geneva) 1.004
1 Corinthians 6 (Geneva) 1.004
Proverbs 4 (AKJV) 1.003
Romans 3 (Geneva) 1.001
Romans 3 (Tyndale) 0.99
Lamentations 3 (AKJV) 0.974
Romans 3 (ODRV) 0.963
1 Corinthians 15 (Tyndale) 0.954
1 Peter 5 (AKJV) 0.925
1 Thessalonians 5 (AKJV) 0.919
Jude 1 (AKJV) 0.905
1 Corinthians 15 (Geneva) 0.825
1 Corinthians 15 (ODRV) 0.771
Ephesians 4 (AKJV) 0.734
Diversity: 0.971
Evenness: 0.92
Verse Prominence
Romans 6.12 (Geneva) 12.218
Romans 6.12 (AKJV) 5.749
Romans 6.12 (ODRV) 4.313
Romans 6.13 (AKJV) 2.869
Romans 6.14 (ODRV) 2.864
James 1.15 (AKJV) 2.845
Ecclesiasticus 21.2 (AKJV) 2.155
James 4.7 (AKJV) 2.154
Romans 6.6 (AKJV) 2.151
James 1.15 (Geneva) 1.438
James 3.2 (Vulgate) 1.436
Romans 4.8 (ODRV) 1.436
James 3.2 (ODRV) 1.436
1 Corinthians 9.27 (AKJV) 1.427
Romans 6.23 (Geneva) 1.391
Romans 6.23 (AKJV) 1.39
Luke 19.14 (Vulgate) 0.719
Psalms 58.8 (AKJV) 0.719
Matthew 8.22 (Geneva) 0.719
Job 4.1 (Geneva) 0.719
Matthew 26.73 (Geneva) 0.719
Proverbs 13.3 (AKJV) 0.719
Isaiah 56.2 (AKJV) 0.719
Proverbs 1.17 (Vulgate) 0.719
Exodus 17.11 (ODRV) 0.719
James 3.2 (Tyndale) 0.718
Matthew 27.20 (AKJV) 0.718
Matthew 4.7 (Tyndale) 0.718
Matthew 4.11 (Geneva) 0.718
1 Corinthians 6.18 (Geneva) 0.718
Matthew 15.19 (ODRV) 0.718
James 1.26 (Geneva) 0.718
Proverbs 12.22 (Douay-Rheims) 0.718
Proverbs 10.19 (AKJV) 0.718
Ecclesiastes 5.2 (Geneva) 0.718
1 Corinthians 15.55 (Tyndale) 0.717
Ecclesiasticus 44.14 (AKJV) 0.717
Proverbs 9.18 (Geneva) 0.717
1 Corinthians 15.54 (Geneva) 0.717
Matthew 12.37 (AKJV) 0.717
Job 15.35 (AKJV) 0.717
Ecclesiasticus 25.22 (Douay-Rheims) 0.716
Proverbs 4.23 (Geneva) 0.716
Psalms 32.1 (Geneva) 0.716
Deuteronomy 5.11 (Douay-Rheims) 0.715
Deuteronomy 5.19 (Douay-Rheims) 0.715
Psalms 19.13 (AKJV) 0.715
Genesis 19.24 (ODRV) 0.715
John 14.6 (Vulgate) 0.715
Genesis 49.5 (AKJV) 0.715
Matthew 12.34 (AKJV) 0.715
Romans 6.12 (Vulgate) 0.715
Psalms 18.13 (ODRV) 0.714
Ephesians 4.29 (AKJV) 0.714
Deuteronomy 5.7 (AKJV) 0.714
Romans 3.10 (ODRV) 0.713
1 Corinthians 15.18 (Geneva) 0.713
Hebrews 9.27 (Tyndale) 0.713
Ecclesiasticus 31.37 (Douay-Rheims) 0.713
Psalms 39.1 (AKJV) 0.713
Psalms 32.2 (AKJV) 0.713
1 John 1.8 (AKJV) 0.712
Romans 3.10 (Tyndale) 0.712
Matthew 17.21 (ODRV) 0.712
Jeremiah 13.23 (Geneva) 0.711
Romans 3.13 (Geneva) 0.711
Psalms 68.21 (AKJV) 0.711
Psalms 12.4 (Geneva) 0.711
Ephesians 6.16 (Geneva) 0.71
Deuteronomy 5.20 (Douay-Rheims) 0.71
Revelation 2.10 (AKJV) 0.71
1 Thessalonians 5.6 (AKJV) 0.709
Psalms 141.3 (AKJV) 0.709
Lamentations 3.41 (AKJV) 0.709
Psalms 2.3 (ODRV) 0.707
Psalms 58.5 (AKJV) 0.707
Jeremiah 17.9 (Geneva) 0.698
Proverbs 4.23 (AKJV) 0.697
1 Corinthians 15.26 (Geneva) 0.694
2 Corinthians 11.14 (Geneva) 0.693
Revelation 20.14 (Geneva) 0.693
Revelation 20.14 (AKJV) 0.692
Revelation 14.13 (ODRV) 0.69
Psalms 14.1 (AKJV) 0.684
1 Corinthians 15.53 (Geneva) 0.681
1 Corinthians 15.56 (ODRV) 0.679
1 Corinthians 15.55 (Geneva) 0.677
Jude 1.25 (AKJV) 0.657
1 Peter 5.11 (AKJV) 0.636
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: 0.667
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Apocrypha 28.862
Old Testament -14.001
New Testament -14.862
Diversity: 0.957
Evenness: 0.995
Book Prominence
Ecclesiastes 6.044
4 Kings 3.961
Ecclesiasticus 3.8
Leviticus 3.025
1 John 2.566
James 2.492
Ezekiel 2.396
1 Timothy 2.162
Exodus 1.885
Revelation 1.874
Ephesians 1.838
Jeremiah 1.758
Job 1.757
2 Corinthians 1.698
Genesis 1.375
Hebrews 1.214
Proverbs 0.952
John 0.794
Luke 0.782
1 Corinthians 0.71
Isaiah 0.618
Romans 0.045
Matthew -0.18
Psalms -1.172
Diversity: 0.98
Evenness: 0.998
Chapter Prominence
Ecclesiastes 5 3.825
4 Kings 4 1.957
Ecclesiasticus 21 1.953
Leviticus 16 1.939
Job 4 1.907
Proverbs 12 1.906
Exodus 17 1.904
Psalms 38 1.904
Isaiah 56 1.9
Jeremiah 13 1.896
Psalms 58 1.893
Proverbs 13 1.883
Psalms 36 1.879
Proverbs 4 1.869
Psalms 32 1.868
Ezekiel 18 1.862
Psalms 68 1.852
Psalms 12 1.85
Psalms 14 1.848
Jeremiah 17 1.848
1 John 1 1.838
Jeremiah 3 1.838
Matthew 17 1.835
Psalms 39 1.834
Matthew 27 1.814
Psalms 19 1.812
2 Corinthians 11 1.81
James 3 1.806
Matthew 8 1.806
Genesis 49 1.805
Matthew 4 1.801
Matthew 15 1.8
1 Corinthians 9 1.797
Proverbs 10 1.793
Proverbs 1 1.779
1 Timothy 5 1.778
John 11 1.772
Revelation 14 1.769
James 4 1.764
Luke 19 1.75
Matthew 12 1.736
Revelation 2 1.736
Hebrews 9 1.728
Ephesians 6 1.716
James 1 1.682
Romans 6 1.669
Luke 16 1.643
Matthew 26 1.63
1 Corinthians 15 1.526
Ephesians 4 1.496
Diversity: 0.983
Evenness: 0.998
Verse Prominence
Ecclesiastes 5.3 3.331
Ecclesiasticus 21.2 1.666
Matthew 26.73 1.666
Proverbs 13.3 1.666
Psalms 58.7 1.666
Matthew 27.21 1.665
Luke 19.12 1.665
Job 4.2 1.665
Proverbs 12.2 1.665
Proverbs 10.19 1.665
Matthew 4.7 1.664
Psalms 14.5 1.664
Isaiah 56.2 1.664
Exodus 17.9 1.664
Matthew 12.37 1.663
Proverbs 12.22 1.663
Proverbs 1.17 1.663
Matthew 4.11 1.662
Matthew 8.22 1.662
Matthew 26.37 1.662
Jeremiah 3.3 1.661
1 Corinthians 15.45 1.66
Ezekiel 18.4 1.659
1 Corinthians 15.33 1.659
Genesis 49.5 1.659
Matthew 12.32 1.658
Psalms 68.21 1.657
1 Corinthians 15.44 1.657
Matthew 17.21 1.657
Psalms 12.2 1.656
Ephesians 4.29 1.656
Ephesians 4.10 1.656
Psalms 19.12 1.655
Psalms 32.2 1.654
Matthew 15.19 1.654
Romans 6.12 1.653
Psalms 12.4 1.653
James 1.26 1.653
Ephesians 6.17 1.652
Psalms 39.1 1.652
1 John 1.8 1.651
James 1.15 1.651
2 Corinthians 11.14 1.65
1 Timothy 5.6 1.65
Luke 16.24 1.65
James 4.7 1.647
Ephesians 6.16 1.647
1 Corinthians 9.27 1.644
Psalms 32.1 1.644
Jeremiah 13.23 1.643
James 3.2 1.643
Proverbs 4.23 1.642
Jeremiah 17.9 1.64
Luke 19.14 1.635
Psalms 14.1 1.629
Romans 6.23 1.624
Revelation 2.10 1.621
Hebrews 9.27 1.604
Revelation 14.13 1.558
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase