Early English Printed Sermons


Two sermons preach'd at St. Maries in Bury St. Edmunds, at the assizes the first upon the seventh of April 1698, before the Honourable Sir Thomas Rokeby, Kt. ... : the second upon the 16th of August 1698, before the Right, Honourable Sir Edward Ward, Kt. ... / by William Bedford ...

Bedford, William, b. 1652 or 3
Publisher: Printed for S Manship
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1698
Approximate Era: WilliamAndMary
TCP ID: A27244 ESTC ID: R5177 STC ID: B1671
Subject Headings: God -- Mercy; Justice -- Biblical teaching; 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 5.7% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 4.1% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 82.6% 100.0%
Foreign Percentage of units with foreign text 0.7% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 12.6% -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 0.7% -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) 4.4% -inf%
foreign_cited Percentage of units with QP, foreign text, and an adjacent citation 0.2% -inf%
foreign_cited_exact Percentage of units with QP, foreign text, and an adjacent matching citation 0.2% -inf%
foreign_italicized Percentage of units with QP and foreign italicized text 0.6% -inf%
foreign_italicized_cited Percentage of units with QP, italicized foreign text, and an adjacent citation 0.2% -inf%
foreign_italicized_cited_exact Percentage of units with QP, italicized foreign text, and an adjacent matching citation 0.2% -inf%
foreign_latin Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP and foreign text 0.2% -inf%
foreign_latin_italicized Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP and italicized foreign text 0.2% -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: 0.872
Evenness: 0.947
Part Prominence
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 14.978
Apocrypha (ODRV) 10.435
Apocrypha (Douay-Rheims) 8.361
Old Testament (Geneva) 1.83
Old Testament (AKJV) -0.281
Old Testament (ODRV) -0.487
New Testament (Tyndale) -4.139
New Testament (Geneva) -5.176
New Testament (ODRV) -5.255
New Testament (AKJV) -6.545
Diversity: 0.969
Evenness: 0.967
Book Prominence
Genesis (Geneva) 8.317
Zechariah (Douay-Rheims) 7.005
Baruch (ODRV) 3.461
Zechariah (Geneva) 3.445
Ecclesiasticus (Douay-Rheims) 2.893
Genesis (AKJV) 2.673
Matthew (AKJV) 2.057
Micah (Douay-Rheims) 1.696
Esther (AKJV) 1.69
Micah (Geneva) 1.673
Micah (AKJV) 1.623
Zechariah (AKJV) 1.588
Daniel (Geneva) 1.519
1 Kings (Douay-Rheims) 1.509
Deuteronomy (Geneva) 1.376
1 Samuel (AKJV) 1.367
Deuteronomy (Douay-Rheims) 1.366
1 John (Tyndale) 1.337
1 Thessalonians (AKJV) 1.335
1 John (ODRV) 1.319
Acts (Tyndale) 1.252
Genesis (ODRV) 1.239
Deuteronomy (AKJV) 1.218
Job (Douay-Rheims) 1.209
Exodus (AKJV) 1.203
Luke (Tyndale) 1.01
Proverbs (Douay-Rheims) 0.978
John (Geneva) 0.916
Isaiah (Douay-Rheims) 0.91
Proverbs (Geneva) 0.855
Luke (ODRV) 0.794
Job (AKJV) 0.792
Matthew (Tyndale) 0.7
Matthew (Geneva) 0.624
John (AKJV) 0.602
Psalms (ODRV) 0.575
Romans (ODRV) 0.535
1 Corinthians (Geneva) 0.514
Isaiah (AKJV) 0.503
Proverbs (AKJV) 0.383
Matthew (ODRV) 0.372
Psalms (Geneva) -0.029
Romans (AKJV) -0.057
Psalms (AKJV) -0.996
Diversity: 0.982
Evenness: 0.978
Chapter Prominence
Genesis 18 (Geneva) 5.92
Zechariah 7 (Douay-Rheims) 4.74
Zechariah 7 (Geneva) 2.373
Ecclesiasticus 7 (Douay-Rheims) 2.369
Genesis 18 (AKJV) 2.351
Baruch 6 (ODRV) 2.348
Genesis 4 (AKJV) 2.313
Matthew 13 (AKJV) 2.293
Romans 1 (AKJV) 2.269
Micah 2 (Douay-Rheims) 1.189
Micah 2 (Geneva) 1.185
1 Kings 7 (Douay-Rheims) 1.185
Ecclesiasticus 35 (Douay-Rheims) 1.184
Esther 7 (AKJV) 1.184
Deuteronomy 19 (AKJV) 1.183
Zechariah 8 (Geneva) 1.182
Ecclesiasticus 37 (Douay-Rheims) 1.18
Deuteronomy 27 (AKJV) 1.18
Micah 2 (AKJV) 1.179
1 Samuel 7 (AKJV) 1.179
Zechariah 7 (AKJV) 1.178
Isaiah 13 (Douay-Rheims) 1.178
Ecclesiasticus 27 (Douay-Rheims) 1.176
Psalms 101 (Geneva) 1.174
Genesis 18 (ODRV) 1.17
Isaiah 10 (AKJV) 1.169
Genesis 4 (ODRV) 1.168
Deuteronomy 1 (Geneva) 1.168
Job 29 (Douay-Rheims) 1.167
Exodus 18 (AKJV) 1.166
Psalms 36 (ODRV) 1.165
Proverbs 23 (Geneva) 1.165
Daniel 6 (Geneva) 1.164
Matthew 15 (Geneva) 1.162
Acts 24 (Tyndale) 1.161
Ecclesiasticus 10 (Douay-Rheims) 1.16
Job 29 (AKJV) 1.154
Psalms 85 (Geneva) 1.154
Luke 23 (Tyndale) 1.152
Proverbs 21 (Douay-Rheims) 1.152
Psalms 101 (AKJV) 1.151
John 7 (Geneva) 1.149
Deuteronomy 5 (Douay-Rheims) 1.147
Psalms 2 (Geneva) 1.14
Psalms 8 (AKJV) 1.138
Psalms 133 (AKJV) 1.138
Psalms 94 (AKJV) 1.135
Luke 6 (ODRV) 1.13
Matthew 12 (Geneva) 1.128
Proverbs 21 (AKJV) 1.127
Matthew 7 (Tyndale) 1.126
Proverbs 29 (AKJV) 1.124
Luke 23 (ODRV) 1.123
Matthew 13 (ODRV) 1.117
John 7 (AKJV) 1.113
Matthew 15 (AKJV) 1.113
John 8 (AKJV) 1.109
Matthew 7 (Geneva) 1.104
Romans 9 (AKJV) 1.1
1 John 5 (ODRV) 1.1
1 John 3 (Tyndale) 1.092
1 Corinthians 2 (Geneva) 1.084
Matthew 16 (ODRV) 1.081
Matthew 25 (ODRV) 1.079
Romans 3 (ODRV) 1.066
Psalms 82 (AKJV) 1.064
Romans 3 (AKJV) 1.061
Matthew 7 (AKJV) 1.058
1 Thessalonians 5 (AKJV) 1.022
Matthew 5 (ODRV) 0.974
Diversity: 0.984
Evenness: 0.979
Verse Prominence
Genesis 18.25 (Geneva) 5.044
Zechariah 7.10 (Douay-Rheims) 4.034
Zechariah 7.10 (Geneva) 3.029
Zechariah 7.9 (Geneva) 2.02
Genesis 4.14 (AKJV) 2.019
Ecclesiasticus 7.6 (Douay-Rheims) 2.019
Genesis 18.23 (AKJV) 2.018
Zechariah 7.9 (Douay-Rheims) 2.018
Romans 1.32 (AKJV) 2.012
Baruch 6.37 (ODRV) 2.011
Matthew 13.29 (AKJV) 2.009
Zechariah 7.9 (AKJV) 1.01
Matthew 25.33 (ODRV) 1.01
Ecclesiasticus 37.2 (Douay-Rheims) 1.01
Matthew 13.29 (ODRV) 1.01
Luke 23.18 (ODRV) 1.01
Deuteronomy 27.19 (AKJV) 1.01
Ecclesiasticus 10.6 (Douay-Rheims) 1.01
Zechariah 8.17 (Geneva) 1.01
1 Samuel 7.17 (AKJV) 1.01
Genesis 4.14 (ODRV) 1.009
Isaiah 13.15 (Douay-Rheims) 1.009
Genesis 18.23 (ODRV) 1.009
Ecclesiasticus 35.7 (Douay-Rheims) 1.009
Isaiah 10.1 (AKJV) 1.009
Micah 2.3 (Douay-Rheims) 1.009
Matthew 12.35 (Geneva) 1.009
Deuteronomy 19.16 (AKJV) 1.009
Daniel 6.24 (Geneva) 1.009
1 John 3.15 (Tyndale) 1.009
Ecclesiasticus 27.33 (Douay-Rheims) 1.009
Isaiah 10.2 (AKJV) 1.008
Matthew 7.12 (Tyndale) 1.008
Genesis 18.25 (AKJV) 1.008
Matthew 16.22 (ODRV) 1.008
1 Corinthians 2.12 (Geneva) 1.008
Deuteronomy 1.15 (Geneva) 1.008
Isaiah 10.3 (AKJV) 1.008
Micah 2.2 (Geneva) 1.008
Deuteronomy 19.19 (AKJV) 1.008
Esther 7.10 (AKJV) 1.008
1 Kings 7.15 (Douay-Rheims) 1.008
Proverbs 29.27 (AKJV) 1.007
Psalms 36.38 (ODRV) 1.007
Proverbs 23.11 (Geneva) 1.007
1 Samuel 7.16 (AKJV) 1.007
Psalms 94.6 (AKJV) 1.006
Matthew 15.19 (Geneva) 1.006
Genesis 18.20 (Geneva) 1.006
Psalms 101.8 (Geneva) 1.006
Proverbs 21.13 (Douay-Rheims) 1.006
Micah 2.1 (AKJV) 1.006
Matthew 12.34 (Geneva) 1.005
Romans 9.14 (AKJV) 1.005
Exodus 18.21 (AKJV) 1.005
Matthew 5.7 (ODRV) 1.005
Romans 3.6 (AKJV) 1.004
Luke 23.21 (Tyndale) 1.003
Job 29.13 (AKJV) 1.003
Matthew 15.19 (AKJV) 1.003
Matthew 7.1 (Geneva) 1.003
Psalms 101.1 (AKJV) 1.002
Matthew 7.2 (AKJV) 1.002
Job 29.17 (AKJV) 1.001
Romans 3.31 (ODRV) 1.001
Luke 6.31 (ODRV) 1.001
Luke 6.36 (ODRV) 1.001
Job 29.17 (Douay-Rheims) 1.001
Psalms 8.5 (AKJV) 1.0
Deuteronomy 5.20 (Douay-Rheims) 1.0
John 8.56 (AKJV) 0.999
Job 29.15 (AKJV) 0.997
Psalms 2.10 (Geneva) 0.996
Acts 24.25 (Tyndale) 0.995
John 7.24 (AKJV) 0.995
John 7.24 (Geneva) 0.995
1 John 5.17 (ODRV) 0.991
Proverbs 21.1 (AKJV) 0.988
Psalms 85.10 (Geneva) 0.985
1 Thessalonians 5.22 (AKJV) 0.98
Psalms 133.1 (AKJV) 0.975
Psalms 82.6 (AKJV) 0.926
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: 0.5
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Old Testament 2.666
New Testament 1.805
Diversity: 0.955
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Canticles 3.849
Micah 3.761
Joshua 3.67
Zechariah 3.625
Leviticus 3.57
2 Kings 3.227
1 John 3.111
1 Kings 3.069
Philippians 2.798
1 Samuel 2.763
Exodus 2.43
Revelation 2.419
Deuteronomy 2.415
Job 2.303
Genesis 1.921
Acts 1.342
John 1.34
Luke 1.327
Isaiah 1.164
Romans 0.591
Matthew 0.366
Psalms -0.626
Diversity: 0.972
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Joshua 6 2.747
2 Kings 13 2.747
Micah 2 2.742
Deuteronomy 19 2.741
Zechariah 7 2.737
2 Kings 10 2.734
1 Kings 20 2.729
1 Samuel 7 2.728
Genesis 7 2.725
1 Samuel 17 2.708
Job 29 2.706
Genesis 27 2.705
1 Kings 8 2.692
Exodus 18 2.69
Canticles 2 2.689
Psalms 101 2.686
Isaiah 10 2.684
Exodus 12 2.684
1 Kings 18 2.665
Leviticus 19 2.664
Acts 24 2.657
Isaiah 58 2.625
Genesis 18 2.621
Luke 23 2.62
Genesis 4 2.612
John 7 2.599
Psalms 1 2.596
Revelation 3 2.562
John 8 2.56
Matthew 12 2.553
Philippians 4 2.549
Romans 3 2.536
Matthew 13 2.514
John 1 2.481
1 John 3 2.452
Romans 1 2.336
Diversity: 0.977
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Genesis 7.13 2.325
1 Samuel 7.17 2.325
2 Kings 10.23 2.325
Micah 2.3 2.324
1 Kings 18.3 2.324
Genesis 27.22 2.324
Luke 23.41 2.324
Philippians 4.22 2.323
Matthew 13.29 2.323
1 Kings 8.66 2.323
Zechariah 7.10 2.323
Exodus 12.23 2.323
Zechariah 7.9 2.322
Isaiah 10.1 2.322
Isaiah 10.2 2.322
Deuteronomy 19.18 2.322
John 1.46 2.321
Micah 2.2 2.321
Deuteronomy 19.19 2.321
Psalms 1.4 2.321
1 Samuel 17.28 2.321
Psalms 101.8 2.32
Isaiah 10.3 2.32
Leviticus 19.16 2.32
1 Samuel 7.15 2.32
Job 29.12 2.319
1 Samuel 7.16 2.318
Micah 2.1 2.317
Revelation 3.4 2.317
Genesis 4.14 2.316
Matthew 13.25 2.316
1 John 3.15 2.315
Matthew 12.34 2.315
John 8.56 2.314
Romans 1.32 2.314
1 Kings 20.42 2.314
Canticles 2.2 2.309
Genesis 4.7 2.303
John 7.24 2.303
Isaiah 58.7 2.303
Genesis 18.25 2.296
Isaiah 58.6 2.288
Exodus 18.21 2.282
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase