Early English Printed Sermons


The envious man's character a sermon preached at S. Mary's Church in Cambridge / by William Aspin ...

Aspin, William, 1635 or 6-1714
Publisher: Printed by B W for Ralph Smith
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1684
Approximate Era: CharlesII
TCP ID: A26041 ESTC ID: R217 STC ID: A4003
Subject Headings: Envy; 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 3.0% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 2.2% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 93.6% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 3.3% -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) 1.1% -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: 0.875
Evenness: 0.973
Part Prominence
Apocrypha (AKJV) 12.109
New Testament (ODRV) 5.529
Apocrypha (Douay-Rheims) 4.93
Old Testament (AKJV) 4.621
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) -0.219
Old Testament (Geneva) -1.601
New Testament (Tyndale) -1.688
New Testament (Geneva) -2.725
New Testament (AKJV) -4.094
Diversity: 0.92
Evenness: 0.981
Book Prominence
Ecclesiasticus (AKJV) 11.124
Ecclesiastes (AKJV) 11.016
Romans (ODRV) 10.514
1 Thessalonians (ODRV) 5.59
1 John (ODRV) 5.416
1 Timothy (Geneva) 5.361
James (AKJV) 5.237
Galatians (AKJV) 5.211
Ecclesiasticus (Douay-Rheims) 5.204
Luke (Tyndale) 5.107
Proverbs (Douay-Rheims) 5.074
Proverbs (AKJV) 4.479
Psalms (Geneva) 4.067
Psalms (AKJV) 3.101
Diversity: 0.942
Evenness: 0.986
Chapter Prominence
Ecclesiastes 4 (AKJV) 9.075
Ecclesiasticus 14 (AKJV) 9.075
Romans 12 (ODRV) 9.013
Ecclesiasticus 27 (Douay-Rheims) 4.531
Proverbs 19 (Douay-Rheims) 4.518
Proverbs 13 (AKJV) 4.504
Proverbs 19 (AKJV) 4.498
Proverbs 14 (Douay-Rheims) 4.498
Psalms 49 (Geneva) 4.494
1 Timothy 4 (Geneva) 4.474
Luke 16 (Tyndale) 4.474
Proverbs 23 (AKJV) 4.468
1 Timothy 6 (Geneva) 4.461
James 3 (AKJV) 4.441
1 John 3 (ODRV) 4.44
1 Thessalonians 5 (ODRV) 4.431
Psalms 73 (AKJV) 4.418
Romans 13 (ODRV) 4.387
Galatians 5 (AKJV) 4.378
Diversity: 0.945
Evenness: 0.986
Verse Prominence
Ecclesiastes 4.4 (AKJV) 8.694
Ecclesiasticus 14.6 (AKJV) 8.694
Romans 12.15 (ODRV) 8.682
Ecclesiasticus 27.28 (Douay-Rheims) 4.346
Proverbs 19.15 (Douay-Rheims) 4.346
Proverbs 13.4 (AKJV) 4.345
Proverbs 19.15 (AKJV) 4.345
Galatians 5.21 (AKJV) 4.344
1 Timothy 6.10 (Geneva) 4.344
1 Thessalonians 5.15 (ODRV) 4.343
Proverbs 14.30 (Douay-Rheims) 4.342
Proverbs 23.21 (AKJV) 4.342
Romans 13.8 (ODRV) 4.34
1 Timothy 6.8 (Geneva) 4.335
Psalms 49.20 (Geneva) 4.334
Psalms 73.3 (AKJV) 4.334
1 John 3.15 (ODRV) 4.331
Luke 16.23 (Tyndale) 4.33
James 3.16 (AKJV) 4.318
1 Timothy 4.8 (Geneva) 4.315
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: 0.929
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Numbers 5.714
James 5.635
1 Samuel 5.36
Galatians 5.324
1 Timothy 5.305
1 Peter 5.112
Job 4.9
Proverbs 4.095
Acts 3.939
Luke 3.925
1 Corinthians 3.853
Romans 3.188
Matthew 2.963
Psalms 1.971
Diversity: 0.948
Evenness: 0.994
Chapter Prominence
Matthew 27 9.377
Job 35 4.745
1 Samuel 19 4.742
1 Samuel 18 4.718
Psalms 38 4.705
Proverbs 13 4.684
Matthew 20 4.63
Psalms 139 4.628
Numbers 16 4.608
James 3 4.607
Proverbs 14 4.6
Acts 7 4.587
Psalms 73 4.58
1 Corinthians 13 4.531
1 Timothy 6 4.503
Galatians 5 4.477
Luke 16 4.444
Acts 17 4.44
Romans 12 4.406
1 Peter 2 4.266
Diversity: 0.96
Evenness: 0.996
Verse Prominence
Matthew 27.18 7.403
1 Samuel 18.30 3.703
1 Samuel 18.29 3.702
Psalms 73.21 3.701
Luke 16.27 3.701
Proverbs 13.4 3.701
1 Samuel 19.1 3.701
Job 35.6 3.701
Psalms 38.20 3.7
Luke 16.11 3.7
Acts 17.5 3.699
1 Samuel 18.9 3.699
Acts 7.9 3.699
Proverbs 14.30 3.699
Psalms 73.3 3.698
Luke 16.28 3.698
Matthew 20.15 3.696
1 Corinthians 13.6 3.694
1 Peter 2.1 3.694
1 Timothy 6.4 3.693
James 3.16 3.691
Romans 12.15 3.69
1 Corinthians 13.4 3.69
Galatians 5.21 3.687
1 Timothy 6.10 3.683
Numbers 16.3 3.682
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase