Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, November 5, 1689 by P. Birch ...

Birch, Peter, 1652?-1710
Publisher: Printed by E Jones and are to be sold by W Nutt and R Taylor
Place of Publication: London in the Savoy
Publication Year: 1689
Approximate Era: WilliamAndMary
TCP ID: A28181 ESTC ID: R19813 STC ID: B2938
Subject Headings: Church of England; Sermons, English;
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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 3.2% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 2.4% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 87.6% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 6.8% -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) 2.4% -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: 0.875
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Apocrypha (AKJV) 7.942
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 3.948
Old Testament (Geneva) 2.565
New Testament (Tyndale) 2.478
New Testament (Geneva) 1.442
New Testament (ODRV) 1.362
Old Testament (AKJV) 0.454
New Testament (AKJV) 0.072
Diversity: 0.955
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
2 Peter (Tyndale) 4.288
2 Peter (AKJV) 4.126
2 Corinthians (Tyndale) 4.102
Acts (Tyndale) 4.012
Job (Douay-Rheims) 3.968
Ecclesiasticus (AKJV) 3.905
Ephesians (ODRV) 3.894
Acts (ODRV) 3.857
1 Timothy (AKJV) 3.838
Ephesians (Geneva) 3.743
Acts (AKJV) 3.711
John (Geneva) 3.675
Isaiah (Geneva) 3.64
Ephesians (AKJV) 3.594
Matthew (Geneva) 3.384
John (AKJV) 3.361
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 3.356
1 Corinthians (Geneva) 3.274
Matthew (AKJV) 3.031
Psalms (Geneva) 2.731
Romans (AKJV) 2.703
Psalms (AKJV) 1.764
Diversity: 0.964
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Acts 9 (Tyndale) 3.563
Job 8 (Douay-Rheims) 3.558
2 Corinthians 10 (Tyndale) 3.552
Ecclesiasticus 10 (AKJV) 3.545
Acts 10 (ODRV) 3.543
Acts 5 (AKJV) 3.538
Isaiah 59 (Geneva) 3.537
Acts 26 (AKJV) 3.531
Psalms 104 (Geneva) 3.529
Psalms 77 (AKJV) 3.523
John 8 (Geneva) 3.52
2 Peter 1 (Tyndale) 3.514
Acts 2 (AKJV) 3.509
Psalms 10 (AKJV) 3.508
Matthew 12 (AKJV) 3.506
John 8 (AKJV) 3.49
John 16 (AKJV) 3.489
1 Timothy 1 (AKJV) 3.482
1 Corinthians 12 (Geneva) 3.482
Matthew 23 (AKJV) 3.458
1 Corinthians 11 (ODRV) 3.443
Romans 3 (AKJV) 3.442
2 Peter 1 (AKJV) 3.435
Matthew 5 (Geneva) 3.427
Ephesians 4 (ODRV) 3.407
Matthew 5 (AKJV) 3.391
Ephesians 4 (Geneva) 3.313
Ephesians 4 (AKJV) 3.219
Diversity: 0.969
Evenness: 0.997
Verse Prominence
John 16.1 (AKJV) 5.88
Ecclesiasticus 10.18 (AKJV) 2.941
Acts 5.17 (AKJV) 2.941
Acts 9.23 (Tyndale) 2.941
Matthew 12.9 (AKJV) 2.94
Acts 5.18 (AKJV) 2.94
John 8.27 (Geneva) 2.94
John 8.27 (AKJV) 2.94
Acts 2.43 (AKJV) 2.94
2 Corinthians 10.15 (Tyndale) 2.94
Psalms 104.19 (Geneva) 2.939
John 16.3 (AKJV) 2.938
Matthew 5.17 (Geneva) 2.938
Acts 10.35 (ODRV) 2.938
1 Timothy 1.13 (AKJV) 2.937
1 Corinthians 12.21 (Geneva) 2.937
Psalms 77.11 (AKJV) 2.937
Matthew 5.18 (AKJV) 2.936
Job 8.9 (Douay-Rheims) 2.936
2 Peter 1.20 (Tyndale) 2.935
Acts 26.9 (AKJV) 2.935
Psalms 77.19 (AKJV) 2.934
Isaiah 59.1 (Geneva) 2.934
Romans 3.2 (AKJV) 2.932
Matthew 23.2 (AKJV) 2.93
Romans 3.8 (AKJV) 2.929
Ephesians 4.18 (ODRV) 2.929
2 Peter 1.15 (AKJV) 2.925
1 Corinthians 11.19 (ODRV) 2.925
Ephesians 4.5 (Geneva) 2.919
Ephesians 4.13 (ODRV) 2.917
Psalms 10.4 (AKJV) 2.905
Ephesians 4.5 (AKJV) 2.905
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
New Testament 51.805
Diversity: 0.8
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
1 Timothy 18.162
Acts 16.797
John 16.794
Romans 16.045
Matthew 15.82
Diversity: 0.857
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Acts 26 14.152
Matthew 15 14.125
Acts 5 14.098
John 16 14.084
1 Timothy 1 14.055
Romans 3 14.044
Matthew 5 13.729
Diversity: 0.667
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
John 16.3 33.325
1 Timothy 1.13 33.29
Romans 3.8 33.274
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase