Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon preach'd at the funeral of John Melford ... who dyed (aged eighteen years) the 21st day of June, through the sad occasion of a fall from a horse, and was buried ... the 27th day of the same month, 1692 / by Tho. Easton ...

Easton, Thomas, b. 1661 or 2
Publisher: Printed for Tho Bennet
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1692
Approximate Era: WilliamAndMary
TCP ID: A37568 ESTC ID: R19705 STC ID: E107
Subject Headings: Funeral sermons; Melford, John, 1673 or 4-1692; 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 3.6% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 1.8% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 91.1% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 7.6% -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) 2.3% -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: 0.875
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Old Testament (ODRV) 6.131
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: 0.94
Evenness: 0.988
Book Prominence
Job (AKJV) 9.006
Proverbs (AKJV) 8.597
1 Thessalonians (Geneva) 4.684
Colossians (ODRV) 4.586
1 Timothy (AKJV) 4.292
Proverbs (Douay-Rheims) 4.192
Acts (AKJV) 4.166
John (Tyndale) 4.123
2 Corinthians (AKJV) 4.105
Hebrews (AKJV) 3.972
John (ODRV) 3.945
Psalms (ODRV) 3.79
Romans (ODRV) 3.75
Isaiah (AKJV) 3.717
Matthew (ODRV) 3.587
Psalms (Geneva) 3.185
Romans (AKJV) 3.157
Psalms (AKJV) 2.219
Diversity: 0.958
Evenness: 0.989
Chapter Prominence
Job 7 (AKJV) 6.852
Psalms 103 (Geneva) 6.849
Proverbs 23 (AKJV) 6.819
Acts 21 (AKJV) 3.431
Psalms 102 (ODRV) 3.429
Psalms 90 (Geneva) 3.423
Job 10 (AKJV) 3.423
John 12 (Tyndale) 3.414
Colossians 4 (ODRV) 3.413
Proverbs 23 (Douay-Rheims) 3.411
John 9 (ODRV) 3.406
John 11 (Tyndale) 3.401
John 12 (ODRV) 3.39
Proverbs 22 (AKJV) 3.386
Isaiah 40 (AKJV) 3.379
Matthew 26 (ODRV) 3.376
Job 14 (AKJV) 3.374
John 11 (ODRV) 3.373
Job 5 (AKJV) 3.369
1 Thessalonians 4 (Geneva) 3.362
Psalms 103 (AKJV) 3.352
1 Timothy 6 (AKJV) 3.293
Romans 13 (ODRV) 3.29
2 Corinthians 5 (AKJV) 3.289
Hebrews 11 (AKJV) 3.275
Romans 8 (AKJV) 3.117
Diversity: 0.928
Evenness: 0.925
Verse Prominence
Psalms 103.15 (AKJV) 21.612
Proverbs 23.13 (AKJV) 5.402
Psalms 103.15 (Geneva) 5.402
Job 7.10 (AKJV) 5.401
John 12.27 (Tyndale) 2.702
Matthew 26.39 (ODRV) 2.702
Psalms 103.16 (AKJV) 2.701
John 12.27 (ODRV) 2.701
Psalms 102.15 (ODRV) 2.701
Romans 8.12 (AKJV) 2.701
Job 10.5 (AKJV) 2.7
Psalms 90.6 (Geneva) 2.699
2 Corinthians 5.3 (AKJV) 2.699
John 11.24 (Tyndale) 2.699
Hebrews 11.10 (AKJV) 2.699
John 9.2 (ODRV) 2.697
Acts 21.13 (AKJV) 2.697
John 11.24 (ODRV) 2.697
Colossians 4.6 (ODRV) 2.696
Isaiah 40.6 (AKJV) 2.696
Proverbs 23.30 (Douay-Rheims) 2.695
Job 14.2 (AKJV) 2.693
Job 5.7 (AKJV) 2.691
Romans 13.11 (ODRV) 2.691
1 Timothy 6.8 (AKJV) 2.69
Proverbs 22.6 (AKJV) 2.686
1 Thessalonians 4.13 (Geneva) 2.684
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: 0.875
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
1 Samuel 10.717
1 Timothy 10.662
Job 10.257
Hebrews 9.714
Proverbs 9.452
Acts 9.297
Matthew 8.32
Psalms 7.328
Diversity: 0.941
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Acts 21 5.818
Psalms 102 5.812
Proverbs 13 5.805
Psalms 15 5.8
Job 9 5.794
Proverbs 22 5.777
Job 5 5.765
Psalms 90 5.763
Psalms 39 5.756
Proverbs 23 5.749
Proverbs 14 5.72
1 Samuel 2 5.708
1 Timothy 5 5.7
Psalms 16 5.696
Matthew 6 5.555
Matthew 26 5.551
Hebrews 11 5.436
Diversity: 0.917
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Job 9.2 8.33
1 Samuel 2.29 8.33
Psalms 102.24 8.329
Matthew 6.29 8.326
Psalms 90.10 8.321
Job 5.7 8.32
Acts 21.13 8.316
Hebrews 11.10 8.314
Matthew 26.39 8.31
1 Timothy 5.8 8.307
Psalms 39.5 8.303
Proverbs 22.6 8.3
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase