Early English Printed Sermons


The folly and unreasonableness of atheism demonstrated from the advantage and pleasure of a religious life, the faculties of humane souls, the structure of animate bodies, & the origin and frame of the world : in eight sermons preached at the lecture founded by ... Robert BOyle, Esquire, in the first year MDCXCII / by Richard Bentley ...

Bentley, Richard, 1662-1742
Publisher: Printed by J H for H Mortlock
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1699
Approximate Era: WilliamAndMary
TCP ID: A27428 ESTC ID: R21357 STC ID: B1931
Subject Headings: Atheism; Christianity and atheism; Deism; Sermons, English -- 17th century;
View the Full Text of Relevant Sections



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 2.1% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 1.5% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 94.7% 100.0%
NonLatinAlphabet Percentage of units with a NonLatinAlphabet placeholder 0.3% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 4.1% -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 0.8% -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) 1.2% -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: 0.857
Evenness: 0.931
Part Prominence
New Testament (AKJV) 16.144
New Testament (Wycliffe) 5.522
New Testament (Geneva) 3.227
Apocrypha (AKJV) 2.585
Old Testament (ODRV) 0.774
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) -1.409
Old Testament (Geneva) -2.792
New Testament (Tyndale) -2.879
New Testament (ODRV) -3.995
Old Testament (AKJV) -4.903
Diversity: 0.965
Evenness: 0.948
Book Prominence
Acts (Tyndale) 12.702
Acts (AKJV) 5.048
1 Timothy (Geneva) 2.42
Acts (Geneva) 2.397
Acts (ODRV) 2.253
Hebrews (AKJV) 1.914
Psalms (ODRV) 1.731
John (Wycliffe) 1.295
Mark (AKJV) 1.258
Titus (ODRV) 1.248
Daniel (AKJV) 1.227
2 Esdras (AKJV) 1.206
Ezekiel (Geneva) 1.192
1 Timothy (Tyndale) 1.183
Exodus (ODRV) 1.137
2 Peter (Geneva) 1.076
Philippians (Tyndale) 1.059
Colossians (AKJV) 0.963
1 Timothy (ODRV) 0.947
Genesis (ODRV) 0.924
Revelation (ODRV) 0.917
Deuteronomy (AKJV) 0.903
Job (Douay-Rheims) 0.894
1 Peter (Geneva) 0.888
Exodus (AKJV) 0.887
1 John (AKJV) 0.871
Ecclesiasticus (AKJV) 0.83
Jeremiah (AKJV) 0.818
Hebrews (Geneva) 0.728
Philippians (ODRV) 0.721
2 Corinthians (ODRV) 0.716
1 Peter (AKJV) 0.683
Ephesians (Geneva) 0.669
Proverbs (Douay-Rheims) 0.663
John (Geneva) 0.601
1 Corinthians (Tyndale) 0.598
Genesis (AKJV) 0.572
Luke (Geneva) 0.572
Luke (ODRV) 0.478
John (ODRV) 0.415
Matthew (Geneva) 0.309
John (AKJV) 0.286
Luke (AKJV) 0.273
Romans (ODRV) 0.22
Proverbs (AKJV) 0.067
Matthew (ODRV) 0.057
Romans (Geneva) 0.01
Matthew (AKJV) -0.044
1 Corinthians (AKJV) -0.097
Psalms (Geneva) -0.344
Romans (AKJV) -0.372
Psalms (AKJV) -1.311
Diversity: 0.981
Evenness: 0.956
Chapter Prominence
Acts 17 (Tyndale) 7.337
Acts 17 (ODRV) 4.883
Psalms 14 (AKJV) 4.862
Acts 14 (AKJV) 3.255
Psalms 52 (ODRV) 1.63
Acts 14 (ODRV) 1.628
Acts 14 (Geneva) 1.623
Psalms 145 (ODRV) 1.62
1 Timothy 1 (Geneva) 1.563
Hebrews 10 (AKJV) 1.462
Psalms 140 (ODRV) 0.816
Ecclesiasticus 49 (AKJV) 0.814
Acts 25 (AKJV) 0.813
Psalms 146 (ODRV) 0.813
Acts 25 (Tyndale) 0.812
Job 11 (Douay-Rheims) 0.812
Proverbs 26 (Douay-Rheims) 0.811
Job 26 (Douay-Rheims) 0.811
Psalms 14 (Geneva) 0.81
Mark 6 (AKJV) 0.81
Psalms 114 (AKJV) 0.808
John 9 (Wycliffe) 0.807
Exodus 16 (AKJV) 0.807
Psalms 32 (ODRV) 0.807
Exodus 16 (ODRV) 0.803
Job 38 (Douay-Rheims) 0.803
Deuteronomy 33 (AKJV) 0.802
Genesis 5 (AKJV) 0.801
Psalms 148 (Geneva) 0.8
2 Esdras 8 (AKJV) 0.8
Jeremiah 51 (AKJV) 0.8
Psalms 136 (Geneva) 0.796
Acts 17 (Geneva) 0.793
Psalms 135 (Geneva) 0.793
Psalms 94 (Geneva) 0.792
Luke 24 (AKJV) 0.791
Daniel 2 (AKJV) 0.79
Acts 24 (Tyndale) 0.79
Luke 8 (AKJV) 0.789
Ezekiel 18 (Geneva) 0.787
Luke 18 (Geneva) 0.786
Luke 5 (AKJV) 0.784
Acts 7 (Geneva) 0.781
Hebrews 1 (Geneva) 0.78
Matthew 26 (Geneva) 0.777
2 Corinthians 13 (ODRV) 0.776
Revelation 20 (ODRV) 0.769
Acts 7 (ODRV) 0.767
Philippians 4 (Tyndale) 0.765
Ecclesiasticus 33 (AKJV) 0.763
John 18 (ODRV) 0.762
Romans 5 (Geneva) 0.76
John 18 (AKJV) 0.758
Matthew 12 (Geneva) 0.757
Genesis 1 (ODRV) 0.756
Genesis 1 (AKJV) 0.756
1 Corinthians 2 (Tyndale) 0.753
Acts 17 (AKJV) 0.752
Matthew 10 (Geneva) 0.752
Luke 6 (Geneva) 0.752
Luke 23 (ODRV) 0.752
1 Timothy 2 (Tyndale) 0.752
Romans 10 (Geneva) 0.748
1 Timothy 1 (ODRV) 0.747
Psalms 19 (AKJV) 0.745
Matthew 23 (ODRV) 0.743
Matthew 12 (ODRV) 0.742
Romans 3 (Geneva) 0.734
Titus 2 (ODRV) 0.734
Matthew 13 (AKJV) 0.732
Luke 6 (AKJV) 0.73
Romans 9 (AKJV) 0.729
2 Peter 3 (Geneva) 0.724
Proverbs 3 (AKJV) 0.724
John 3 (AKJV) 0.721
John 6 (Geneva) 0.718
John 6 (AKJV) 0.714
Luke 12 (AKJV) 0.714
Hebrews 10 (Geneva) 0.714
Matthew 16 (ODRV) 0.711
1 John 2 (AKJV) 0.708
Ephesians 5 (Geneva) 0.701
Colossians 1 (AKJV) 0.696
Romans 3 (AKJV) 0.69
1 Peter 1 (AKJV) 0.687
Philippians 3 (ODRV) 0.685
Colossians 3 (AKJV) 0.681
1 Peter 2 (Geneva) 0.681
1 Corinthians 14 (AKJV) 0.681
Matthew 10 (AKJV) 0.678
John 6 (ODRV) 0.676
Romans 13 (ODRV) 0.662
Romans 2 (Geneva) 0.658
1 Corinthians 15 (AKJV) 0.617
Matthew 5 (ODRV) 0.603
Diversity: 0.987
Evenness: 0.962
Verse Prominence
Acts 17.28 (Tyndale) 5.467
Acts 17.27 (ODRV) 3.652
Psalms 14.1 (AKJV) 3.623
Acts 14.16 (AKJV) 2.434
Acts 14.15 (AKJV) 2.434
Acts 14.17 (AKJV) 2.433
Acts 14.16 (ODRV) 1.218
Acts 17.27 (AKJV) 1.218
Acts 14.16 (Geneva) 1.217
Proverbs 3.19 (AKJV) 1.217
Psalms 145.6 (ODRV) 1.216
Hebrews 10.39 (AKJV) 1.215
Psalms 52.2 (ODRV) 1.215
Acts 17.30 (AKJV) 1.214
1 Timothy 1.17 (Geneva) 1.212
Genesis 1.1 (ODRV) 1.202
Matthew 26.24 (Geneva) 0.61
Exodus 16.19 (AKJV) 0.61
Genesis 1.28 (AKJV) 0.61
Acts 24.13 (Tyndale) 0.61
Jeremiah 51.15 (AKJV) 0.61
Acts 14.10 (AKJV) 0.61
Luke 5.17 (AKJV) 0.61
Acts 14.14 (AKJV) 0.61
Acts 14.18 (AKJV) 0.61
Psalms 136.5 (Geneva) 0.61
John 6.52 (AKJV) 0.609
Acts 25.19 (Tyndale) 0.609
Psalms 14.1 (Geneva) 0.609
Romans 3.11 (AKJV) 0.609
Romans 3.11 (Geneva) 0.609
Acts 17.19 (AKJV) 0.609
Acts 17.20 (AKJV) 0.609
Acts 17.18 (ODRV) 0.609
Acts 25.14 (AKJV) 0.609
Acts 17.32 (ODRV) 0.609
Luke 24.11 (AKJV) 0.609
Exodus 16.19 (ODRV) 0.609
Genesis 1.22 (AKJV) 0.609
Psalms 146.8 (ODRV) 0.609
Acts 14.9 (ODRV) 0.609
Acts 17.17 (AKJV) 0.609
Acts 14.9 (AKJV) 0.609
Mark 6.5 (AKJV) 0.609
Luke 6.19 (Geneva) 0.609
Luke 6.19 (AKJV) 0.609
Matthew 16.1 (ODRV) 0.609
Luke 23.8 (ODRV) 0.609
Psalms 140.7 (ODRV) 0.609
Job 38.37 (Douay-Rheims) 0.609
Job 11.9 (Douay-Rheims) 0.609
Ecclesiasticus 49.14 (AKJV) 0.609
Deuteronomy 33.15 (AKJV) 0.609
John 9.33 (Wycliffe) 0.608
John 6.60 (ODRV) 0.608
Proverbs 26.4 (Douay-Rheims) 0.608
2 Corinthians 13.6 (ODRV) 0.608
Matthew 23.33 (ODRV) 0.608
Romans 5.6 (Geneva) 0.608
Romans 13.9 (ODRV) 0.608
Ezekiel 18.29 (Geneva) 0.608
Matthew 12.26 (Geneva) 0.608
Acts 17.24 (AKJV) 0.608
Acts 17.25 (Geneva) 0.608
Acts 17.26 (AKJV) 0.608
Acts 17.29 (AKJV) 0.608
Acts 17.18 (AKJV) 0.608
Acts 17.32 (AKJV) 0.608
Genesis 1.11 (AKJV) 0.608
Psalms 114.8 (AKJV) 0.608
Luke 18.42 (Geneva) 0.608
Acts 17.31 (Geneva) 0.607
Acts 17.26 (Tyndale) 0.607
Job 26.7 (Douay-Rheims) 0.607
Genesis 1.12 (ODRV) 0.607
Psalms 32.9 (ODRV) 0.607
Luke 8.48 (AKJV) 0.607
1 Corinthians 14.18 (AKJV) 0.607
Daniel 2.38 (AKJV) 0.606
2 Esdras 8.58 (AKJV) 0.606
Acts 17.23 (Tyndale) 0.606
Acts 14.11 (AKJV) 0.606
Colossians 1.16 (AKJV) 0.606
Genesis 5.27 (AKJV) 0.606
John 6.66 (AKJV) 0.605
Matthew 12.26 (ODRV) 0.605
Matthew 13.58 (AKJV) 0.605
1 Corinthians 15.53 (AKJV) 0.604
Psalms 148.6 (Geneva) 0.604
Matthew 10.28 (Geneva) 0.604
Psalms 94.9 (Geneva) 0.604
Acts 17.31 (AKJV) 0.603
Romans 10.10 (Geneva) 0.603
John 6.53 (Geneva) 0.603
Acts 17.21 (AKJV) 0.603
Ephesians 5.13 (Geneva) 0.602
Luke 12.34 (AKJV) 0.601
Psalms 135.16 (Geneva) 0.601
Romans 9.20 (AKJV) 0.6
Acts 7.22 (ODRV) 0.6
Acts 7.22 (Geneva) 0.6
1 Peter 2.15 (Geneva) 0.6
1 Corinthians 2.14 (Tyndale) 0.599
Romans 2.4 (Geneva) 0.598
1 Timothy 2.3 (Tyndale) 0.598
Philippians 3.19 (ODRV) 0.597
1 Peter 1.4 (AKJV) 0.596
1 Timothy 1.15 (ODRV) 0.596
Acts 17.28 (AKJV) 0.596
Revelation 20.9 (ODRV) 0.596
Genesis 1.27 (ODRV) 0.594
Philippians 4.13 (Tyndale) 0.594
2 Peter 3.8 (Geneva) 0.59
Proverbs 3.17 (AKJV) 0.59
John 3.16 (AKJV) 0.588
Matthew 5.44 (ODRV) 0.587
Hebrews 1.1 (Geneva) 0.587
1 John 2.2 (AKJV) 0.584
John 18.36 (AKJV) 0.582
Psalms 19.1 (AKJV) 0.581
Matthew 10.28 (AKJV) 0.58
John 18.36 (ODRV) 0.577
Hebrews 10.31 (Geneva) 0.576
Hebrews 10.31 (AKJV) 0.576
Titus 2.12 (ODRV) 0.575
Ecclesiasticus 33.10 (AKJV) 0.574
Colossians 3.2 (AKJV) 0.551
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: 0.32
Evenness: 0.722
Part Prominence
New Testament 31.805
Old Testament -27.334
Diversity: 0.957
Evenness: 0.978
Book Prominence
Acts 9.297
Titus 2.048
Mark 1.819
2 Kings 1.807
Daniel 1.79
Numbers 1.696
1 John 1.691
2 Timothy 1.682
James 1.617
Philippians 1.377
Galatians 1.306
1 Timothy 1.287
1 Peter 1.094
Exodus 1.01
Deuteronomy 0.994
Ephesians 0.963
Jeremiah 0.883
Job 0.882
2 Corinthians 0.823
Genesis 0.5
Hebrews 0.339
Proverbs 0.077
John -0.081
Luke -0.093
1 Corinthians -0.165
Isaiah -0.257
Romans -0.83
Matthew -1.055
Psalms -2.047
Diversity: 0.985
Evenness: 0.989
Chapter Prominence
Acts 17 4.616
Acts 15 3.546
Matthew 17 2.343
Job 26 1.216
Numbers 13 1.206
Luke 5 1.188
Acts 25 1.188
Exodus 16 1.186
Psalms 148 1.186
Jeremiah 51 1.177
Genesis 8 1.174
Proverbs 26 1.173
2 Kings 5 1.169
Mark 6 1.169
Mark 14 1.166
Mark 8 1.164
Psalms 94 1.161
Daniel 5 1.148
Luke 8 1.145
Psalms 104 1.143
Deuteronomy 33 1.14
Isaiah 28 1.131
Acts 14 1.128
Mark 9 1.127
John 21 1.124
Acts 12 1.115
Psalms 8 1.111
Psalms 34 1.101
Hebrews 5 1.101
Psalms 139 1.1
Luke 24 1.09
1 John 5 1.088
Romans 15 1.087
Psalms 19 1.085
Luke 23 1.077
Romans 16 1.076
Galatians 2 1.076
Luke 18 1.073
2 Corinthians 12 1.071
Genesis 1 1.071
2 Timothy 1 1.065
John 7 1.055
Proverbs 3 1.053
Titus 2 1.031
Romans 9 1.03
2 Timothy 4 1.027
Luke 19 1.024
1 Corinthians 14 1.021
Acts 4 1.02
Ephesians 1 1.008
Luke 22 1.007
Philippians 4 1.006
2 Corinthians 4 1.005
1 Timothy 1 1.004
1 Timothy 4 1.002
1 Corinthians 2 0.993
John 6 0.987
Matthew 13 0.971
James 1 0.956
Matthew 11 0.954
Romans 5 0.948
Hebrews 10 0.942
Matthew 10 0.939
Acts 2 0.933
Matthew 16 0.927
1 Peter 1 0.909
Philippians 2 0.907
John 3 0.902
Romans 2 0.901
Romans 12 0.879
Philippians 3 0.862
Romans 1 0.793
Hebrews 11 0.789
Ephesians 4 0.77
Matthew 5 0.678
Diversity: 0.987
Evenness: 0.993
Verse Prominence
Acts 17.27 4.581
Matthew 17.15 2.293
Romans 15.11 1.149
Mark 14.2 1.149
2 Kings 5.6 1.149
Jeremiah 51.15 1.149
Luke 8.4 1.149
Deuteronomy 33.15 1.149
Luke 5.17 1.148
Job 26.7 1.148
Matthew 16.14 1.148
Mark 8.12 1.148
Matthew 17.22 1.148
Luke 22.51 1.148
1 Corinthians 14.18 1.148
Acts 4.26 1.148
Exodus 16.20 1.147
Acts 25.19 1.147
Isaiah 28.29 1.147
Psalms 148.5 1.147
Luke 18.42 1.147
Luke 23.8 1.147
2 Corinthians 12.12 1.147
Numbers 13.32 1.146
Acts 14.16 1.146
Luke 24.11 1.146
John 7.7 1.146
John 21.25 1.146
Acts 4.14 1.146
Proverbs 26.4 1.145
Acts 4.20 1.145
Romans 16.26 1.144
Psalms 34.9 1.144
Mark 8.34 1.144
1 John 5.14 1.144
Psalms 139.16 1.144
Matthew 13.58 1.144
Acts 4.17 1.144
2 Timothy 4.17 1.143
Luke 19.22 1.143
John 6.53 1.143
Mark 6.5 1.143
1 Timothy 4.10 1.142
Romans 1.5 1.141
Mark 9.24 1.141
Acts 4.5 1.141
Romans 5.6 1.14
Acts 4.27 1.14
Psalms 94.9 1.139
Galatians 2.14 1.139
Daniel 5.5 1.138
Genesis 1.28 1.136
Hebrews 10.27 1.135
Romans 9.20 1.135
1 John 5.3 1.134
Acts 12.23 1.134
Psalms 19.1 1.134
Acts 17.18 1.133
Ephesians 1.19 1.132
Hebrews 10.31 1.132
Matthew 11.30 1.131
James 1.12 1.13
2 Timothy 1.10 1.128
Hebrews 5.9 1.128
Romans 5.10 1.127
2 Corinthians 12.2 1.12
Philippians 2.12 1.12
Philippians 4.13 1.12
Proverbs 3.17 1.119
Matthew 10.28 1.119
1 Timothy 1.15 1.118
Philippians 3.19 1.117
Acts 17.30 1.115
Ephesians 4.14 1.113
1 Peter 1.4 1.111
1 Corinthians 2.9 1.097
Romans 2.4 1.096
2 Timothy 4.8 1.095
Titus 2.12 1.094
Matthew 5.44 1.093
2 Corinthians 4.17 1.092
Romans 12.1 1.079
John 3.16 1.065
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase