Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon concerning the excellency and usefulness of the common prayer preached by William Beveridge ... 27th of November. 1681.

Beveridge, William, 1637-1708
Publisher: Printed by T James for Richard Northcott
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1682
Approximate Era: CharlesII
TCP ID: A27562 ESTC ID: R974 STC ID: B2100
Subject Headings: Bible. -- N.T. -- Corinthians, 1st, XIV, 26; Church of England. -- Book of common prayer; 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 2.3% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 1.4% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 92.9% 100.0%
Foreign Percentage of units with foreign text 0.4% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 5.0% -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 0.6% -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) 0.7% -inf%
foreign_italicized Percentage of units with QP and foreign italicized 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: 0.793
Evenness: 0.908
Part Prominence
New Testament (Tyndale) 26.342
New Testament (Geneva) 7.123
Old Testament (ODRV) 2.722
Old Testament (Geneva) -0.844
New Testament (ODRV) -2.047
Old Testament (AKJV) -2.955
New Testament (AKJV) -3.337
Diversity: 0.951
Evenness: 0.967
Book Prominence
1 Corinthians (Tyndale) 11.249
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 7.523
Ephesians (Geneva) 5.259
Lamentations (ODRV) 2.923
2 Peter (Tyndale) 2.772
2 Timothy (ODRV) 2.769
Jude (AKJV) 2.768
1 Timothy (Tyndale) 2.743
Hebrews (Tyndale) 2.579
Ephesians (Tyndale) 2.547
Colossians (AKJV) 2.523
1 Timothy (ODRV) 2.507
2 Timothy (AKJV) 2.499
Ephesians (ODRV) 2.379
2 Corinthians (Geneva) 2.282
Philippians (ODRV) 2.281
2 Corinthians (AKJV) 2.135
Isaiah (Geneva) 2.125
Ephesians (AKJV) 2.079
Romans (Tyndale) 2.043
Hebrews (AKJV) 2.003
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 1.841
Luke (AKJV) 1.832
1 Corinthians (Geneva) 1.759
Matthew (AKJV) 1.516
Psalms (Geneva) 1.215
Psalms (AKJV) 0.249
Diversity: 0.964
Evenness: 0.974
Chapter Prominence
1 Corinthians 14 (Tyndale) 9.5
1 Corinthians 14 (AKJV) 7.005
1 Corinthians 11 (AKJV) 4.576
Ephesians 4 (Geneva) 4.503
Isaiah 12 (Geneva) 2.375
Psalms 95 (Geneva) 2.358
Psalms 149 (AKJV) 2.351
2 Timothy 4 (ODRV) 2.348
2 Corinthians 8 (Geneva) 2.344
Lamentations 3 (ODRV) 2.342
1 Corinthians 8 (Geneva) 2.339
1 Corinthians 14 (ODRV) 2.338
Hebrews 12 (Tyndale) 2.337
2 Timothy 1 (AKJV) 2.336
2 Corinthians 9 (AKJV) 2.329
Luke 19 (AKJV) 2.321
Ephesians 3 (Tyndale) 2.315
1 Timothy 2 (Tyndale) 2.314
2 Peter 3 (Tyndale) 2.311
1 Timothy 1 (ODRV) 2.308
Philippians 4 (ODRV) 2.306
2 Timothy 3 (ODRV) 2.305
Romans 12 (Tyndale) 2.303
2 Timothy 4 (AKJV) 2.299
Ephesians 4 (Tyndale) 2.298
Colossians 2 (AKJV) 2.287
Ephesians 2 (Geneva) 2.258
Ephesians 2 (AKJV) 2.243
Philippians 1 (ODRV) 2.226
2 Timothy 3 (AKJV) 2.22
Ephesians 4 (ODRV) 2.216
Matthew 6 (AKJV) 2.21
Hebrews 10 (AKJV) 2.204
Jude 1 (AKJV) 2.199
Philippians 2 (ODRV) 2.164
Diversity: 0.964
Evenness: 0.974
Verse Prominence
1 Corinthians 14.26 (Tyndale) 9.519
1 Corinthians 14.26 (AKJV) 7.139
Ephesians 4.29 (Geneva) 4.756
1 Corinthians 11.26 (AKJV) 4.73
Isaiah 12.4 (Geneva) 2.38
Hebrews 12.28 (Tyndale) 2.38
1 Timothy 1.4 (ODRV) 2.379
Psalms 149.1 (AKJV) 2.379
2 Timothy 4.22 (ODRV) 2.379
Psalms 95.1 (Geneva) 2.378
2 Timothy 4.22 (AKJV) 2.378
1 Corinthians 14.26 (ODRV) 2.377
Ephesians 3.12 (Tyndale) 2.377
1 Timothy 2.1 (Tyndale) 2.377
Philippians 2.11 (ODRV) 2.376
Lamentations 3.41 (ODRV) 2.376
2 Corinthians 9.15 (AKJV) 2.375
Colossians 2.7 (AKJV) 2.375
Romans 12.1 (Tyndale) 2.375
2 Corinthians 8.7 (Geneva) 2.374
1 Corinthians 8.1 (Geneva) 2.373
Jude 1.20 (AKJV) 2.373
2 Timothy 1.13 (AKJV) 2.372
Luke 19.46 (AKJV) 2.37
Ephesians 4.13 (Tyndale) 2.368
Ephesians 2.20 (AKJV) 2.363
Ephesians 2.20 (Geneva) 2.363
Matthew 6.9 (AKJV) 2.362
2 Timothy 3.16 (ODRV) 2.361
Hebrews 10.23 (AKJV) 2.359
Ephesians 4.13 (ODRV) 2.357
2 Timothy 3.16 (AKJV) 2.356
2 Peter 3.18 (Tyndale) 2.348
Philippians 1.29 (ODRV) 2.346
Philippians 4.20 (ODRV) 2.337
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
Apocrypha 45.529
New Testament 1.805
Diversity: 0.889
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
1 Maccabees 11.096
2 Timothy 9.668
1 Timothy 9.274
Ephesians 8.949
Acts 7.908
John 7.905
Luke 7.893
1 Corinthians 7.821
Matthew 6.931
Diversity: 0.917
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
1 Maccabees 4 8.331
Acts 21 8.269
1 Corinthians 8 8.223
Luke 11 8.173
2 Timothy 1 8.164
John 10 8.142
Luke 22 8.106
1 Timothy 1 8.103
2 Timothy 3 8.037
Ephesians 2 8.034
Ephesians 4 7.869
Matthew 5 7.777
Diversity: 0.941
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
1 Maccabees 4.59 5.881
Acts 21.5 5.879
1 Timothy 1.4 5.877
Luke 22.41 5.877
Luke 11.2 5.875
John 10.22 5.872
Ephesians 4.29 5.872
Ephesians 4.16 5.87
Ephesians 2.19 5.865
2 Timothy 3.17 5.861
Ephesians 2.20 5.856
Ephesians 4.13 5.856
2 Timothy 1.13 5.853
1 Corinthians 8.1 5.851
Ephesians 4.12 5.849
2 Timothy 3.16 5.83
Matthew 5.44 5.826
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase