Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon of nobilitie· Preached at VVhite-hall, before the King in February 1606. By George Meriton Doctor of Diuinity, one of his Maiesties chaplaines in ordinary; and parson of Hadleigh in Suffolke.

Meriton, George, d. 1624
Publisher: By George Eld for Thomas Clarke and are to be sold at the signe of the Angell in Saint Paules Church yard
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1607
Approximate Era: JamesI
TCP ID: A07451 ESTC ID: S112666 STC ID: 17838
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 0.7% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 0.4% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 85.0% 100.0%
Foreign Percentage of units with foreign text 1.0% -inf%
NonLatinAlphabet Percentage of units with a NonLatinAlphabet placeholder 0.4% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 14.0% -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) 1.8% -inf%
foreign_italicized Percentage of units with QP and foreign italicized text 1.0% -inf%
foreign_latin Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP and foreign text 0.4% -inf%
foreign_latin_italicized Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP and italicized foreign text 0.4% -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: 0.88
Evenness: 0.985
Part Prominence
New Testament (Geneva) 8.942
Apocrypha (AKJV) 5.442
Old Testament (ODRV) 3.631
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 1.448
Old Testament (Geneva) 0.065
New Testament (Tyndale) -0.022
New Testament (ODRV) -1.138
Old Testament (AKJV) -2.046
New Testament (AKJV) -2.428
Diversity: 0.971
Evenness: 0.997
Book Prominence
Acts (Geneva) 5.011
Esther (Douay-Rheims) 2.722
Ezekiel (Douay-Rheims) 2.438
2 Peter (Geneva) 2.383
Philippians (Tyndale) 2.366
Colossians (ODRV) 2.364
2 Peter (AKJV) 2.358
1 Peter (ODRV) 2.344
1 John (Tyndale) 2.329
Galatians (Geneva) 2.294
1 Peter (Tyndale) 2.289
Genesis (ODRV) 2.231
Genesis (Geneva) 2.166
Ecclesiasticus (AKJV) 2.137
Galatians (AKJV) 2.106
Acts (ODRV) 2.09
Hebrews (Geneva) 2.036
Ecclesiastes (AKJV) 2.029
Philippians (ODRV) 2.028
Luke (Tyndale) 2.002
Acts (AKJV) 1.944
John (Geneva) 1.908
John (Tyndale) 1.9
Proverbs (Geneva) 1.847
Romans (Tyndale) 1.791
John (ODRV) 1.722
Matthew (Tyndale) 1.692
Matthew (Geneva) 1.616
John (AKJV) 1.594
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 1.588
Romans (ODRV) 1.527
Matthew (ODRV) 1.364
Matthew (AKJV) 1.263
Romans (AKJV) 0.935
Psalms (AKJV) -0.004
Diversity: 0.976
Evenness: 0.996
Chapter Prominence
Acts 17 (Geneva) 4.321
Romans 9 (AKJV) 4.257
Genesis 13 (ODRV) 2.167
Ecclesiasticus 22 (AKJV) 2.167
Esther 6 (Douay-Rheims) 2.165
Ezekiel 3 (Douay-Rheims) 2.158
Acts 22 (ODRV) 2.158
Proverbs 25 (Geneva) 2.156
Psalms 67 (AKJV) 2.156
Ezekiel 16 (Douay-Rheims) 2.152
Matthew 21 (ODRV) 2.15
Luke 2 (Tyndale) 2.143
John 17 (Geneva) 2.139
Genesis 1 (Geneva) 2.138
Proverbs 14 (Geneva) 2.136
Matthew 27 (AKJV) 2.127
Proverbs 10 (Geneva) 2.127
John 8 (Geneva) 2.122
1 Peter 5 (Tyndale) 2.116
Matthew 7 (Tyndale) 2.11
Ecclesiastes 10 (AKJV) 2.11
Acts 17 (AKJV) 2.106
John 17 (AKJV) 2.104
Matthew 23 (Geneva) 2.099
Galatians 6 (Geneva) 2.096
Romans 2 (Tyndale) 2.094
John 8 (AKJV) 2.093
1 Peter 1 (ODRV) 2.086
John 8 (ODRV) 2.083
Romans 1 (ODRV) 2.082
2 Peter 3 (Geneva) 2.079
1 John 3 (Tyndale) 2.076
John 1 (AKJV) 2.073
Hebrews 11 (Geneva) 2.071
John 1 (Tyndale) 2.064
Romans 1 (AKJV) 2.062
Philippians 3 (Tyndale) 2.052
Philippians 3 (ODRV) 2.039
2 Peter 1 (AKJV) 2.037
Colossians 3 (ODRV) 2.034
Galatians 5 (AKJV) 2.006
Matthew 6 (AKJV) 2.003
1 Corinthians 15 (ODRV) 1.857
Romans 8 (AKJV) 1.842
Diversity: 0.976
Evenness: 0.996
Verse Prominence
Acts 17.11 (Geneva) 4.346
Romans 9.4 (AKJV) 4.341
Proverbs 25.11 (Geneva) 2.173
John 1.27 (AKJV) 2.173
Ezekiel 3.3 (Douay-Rheims) 2.173
Genesis 13.16 (ODRV) 2.173
Genesis 1.13 (Geneva) 2.173
Esther 6.6 (Douay-Rheims) 2.173
Proverbs 14.35 (Geneva) 2.173
2 Peter 3.1 (Geneva) 2.173
Ecclesiasticus 22.10 (AKJV) 2.172
Acts 22.3 (ODRV) 2.172
Matthew 21.9 (ODRV) 2.172
1 John 3.1 (Tyndale) 2.172
Colossians 3.16 (ODRV) 2.172
Galatians 6.15 (Geneva) 2.171
Matthew 7.19 (Tyndale) 2.171
Luke 2.52 (Tyndale) 2.17
Romans 1.3 (AKJV) 2.17
Ezekiel 16.49 (Douay-Rheims) 2.169
Psalms 67.1 (AKJV) 2.169
John 8.39 (Geneva) 2.168
1 Peter 5.4 (Tyndale) 2.167
Hebrews 11.24 (Geneva) 2.167
Romans 1.16 (ODRV) 2.166
Matthew 27.57 (AKJV) 2.166
John 17.4 (Geneva) 2.166
John 17.4 (AKJV) 2.166
Acts 17.11 (AKJV) 2.165
John 8.39 (ODRV) 2.165
Romans 2.28 (Tyndale) 2.165
John 8.56 (AKJV) 2.163
John 1.9 (Tyndale) 2.162
1 Peter 1.23 (ODRV) 2.161
Matthew 23.9 (Geneva) 2.16
2 Peter 1.15 (AKJV) 2.157
Proverbs 10.7 (Geneva) 2.156
Matthew 6.9 (AKJV) 2.155
Romans 8.15 (AKJV) 2.151
Ecclesiastes 10.17 (AKJV) 2.147
1 Corinthians 15.41 (ODRV) 2.145
Galatians 5.22 (AKJV) 2.143
Philippians 3.8 (Tyndale) 2.136
Philippians 3.20 (ODRV) 2.113
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
i
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: 0.0
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Old Testament 52.666
Diversity: 0.0
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Proverbs 96.952
Diversity: 0.0
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Proverbs 25 99.889
Diversity: 0.0
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Proverbs 25.11 99.97
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase