Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon preach'd at White-Hall on Sunday, September 8, 1695 being the day of thanksgiving for the taking of Namur, and the safety of His Majesty's person / by J. Adams ...

Adams, John, 1662-1720
Publisher: Printed for Thomas Bennet
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1695
Approximate Era: WilliamAndMary
TCP ID: A26337 ESTC ID: R20047 STC ID: A485
Subject Headings: God -- Worship and love; 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 3.3% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 1.2% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 87.3% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 9.8% -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) 5.3% -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: 0.81
Evenness: 0.911
Part Prominence
Old Testament (AKJV) 24.318
Apocrypha (Douay-Rheims) 5.687
New Testament (Vulgate) 4.282
Old Testament (Geneva) -0.844
New Testament (Tyndale) -0.931
New Testament (Geneva) -1.967
New Testament (ODRV) -2.047
New Testament (AKJV) -3.337
Diversity: 0.867
Evenness: 0.935
Book Prominence
Psalms (AKJV) 25.79
Acts (Vulgate) 7.095
Habakkuk (AKJV) 7.017
Zechariah (AKJV) 6.946
Galatians (Tyndale) 6.728
Ecclesiasticus (Douay-Rheims) 6.465
1 Corinthians (Geneva) 5.871
Proverbs (AKJV) 5.74
Matthew (ODRV) 5.73
Psalms (Geneva) 5.328
Romans (AKJV) 5.3
Diversity: 0.934
Evenness: 0.966
Chapter Prominence
Psalms 33 (AKJV) 17.324
Acts 7 (Vulgate) 4.343
Zechariah 9 (AKJV) 4.338
Psalms 28 (Geneva) 4.334
Habakkuk 1 (AKJV) 4.331
Ecclesiasticus 2 (Douay-Rheims) 4.331
Habakkuk 3 (AKJV) 4.328
Psalms 63 (AKJV) 4.323
Psalms 64 (AKJV) 4.322
Psalms 33 (Geneva) 4.316
Psalms 91 (Geneva) 4.314
Psalms 65 (AKJV) 4.313
Galatians 1 (Tyndale) 4.306
Psalms 94 (AKJV) 4.292
Proverbs 29 (AKJV) 4.281
Romans 15 (AKJV) 4.277
Psalms 50 (AKJV) 4.275
Matthew 12 (ODRV) 4.27
1 Corinthians 1 (Geneva) 4.256
Psalms 118 (AKJV) 4.204
Diversity: 0.957
Evenness: 0.978
Verse Prominence
Psalms 33.1 (AKJV) 12.492
Zechariah 9.17 (AKJV) 3.124
Acts 7.50 (Vulgate) 3.124
Habakkuk 3.12 (AKJV) 3.124
Psalms 63.3 (AKJV) 3.123
Psalms 118.28 (AKJV) 3.123
Psalms 118.29 (AKJV) 3.123
Matthew 12.16 (ODRV) 3.123
Psalms 33.13 (AKJV) 3.123
Proverbs 29.20 (AKJV) 3.123
1 Corinthians 1.31 (Geneva) 3.123
Psalms 65.11 (AKJV) 3.122
Psalms 33.1 (Geneva) 3.121
Habakkuk 1.16 (AKJV) 3.121
Psalms 33.5 (Geneva) 3.121
Psalms 65.13 (AKJV) 3.121
Psalms 94.1 (AKJV) 3.121
Psalms 50.17 (AKJV) 3.12
Psalms 63.1 (AKJV) 3.12
Psalms 64.10 (AKJV) 3.12
Psalms 33.18 (AKJV) 3.12
Psalms 63.5 (AKJV) 3.119
Psalms 91.6 (Geneva) 3.118
Psalms 28.5 (Geneva) 3.118
Psalms 50.16 (AKJV) 3.118
Ecclesiasticus 2.23 (Douay-Rheims) 3.118
Psalms 33.16 (AKJV) 3.113
Romans 15.6 (AKJV) 3.113
Galatians 1.5 (Tyndale) 3.105
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: 0.5
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Deuteronomy 47.869
Psalms 44.828
Diversity: 0.667
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Deuteronomy 8 33.267
Psalms 33 33.224
Psalms 50 33.083
Diversity: 0.667
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Deuteronomy 8.14 33.325
Psalms 33.1 33.31
Psalms 50.16 33.307
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase