Early English Printed Sermons


The blessednesse of being bountifull, or, Our blessed Saviours usual proverb, opened, asserted, and practically improved by Simon Ford.

Ford, Simon, 1619?-1699
Publisher: Printed for James Collins
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1674
Approximate Era: CharlesII
TCP ID: A39905 ESTC ID: R5927 STC ID: F1477
Subject Headings: Bible. -- N.T. -- Acts XX, 35;
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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 7.0% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 5.3% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 91.8% 100.0%
Foreign Percentage of units with foreign text 0.1% -inf%
NonLatinAlphabet Percentage of units with a NonLatinAlphabet placeholder 0.2% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 7.8% -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) 1.5% -inf%
foreign_cited Percentage of units with QP, foreign text, and an adjacent citation 0.1% -inf%
foreign_cited_exact Percentage of units with QP, foreign text, and an adjacent matching citation 0.1% -inf%
foreign_italicized Percentage of units with QP and foreign italicized text 0.1% -inf%
foreign_italicized_cited Percentage of units with QP, italicized foreign text, and an adjacent citation 0.1% -inf%
foreign_italicized_cited_exact Percentage of units with QP, italicized foreign text, and an adjacent matching citation 0.1% -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: 0.9
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Apocrypha (Douay-Rheims) 6.597
New Testament (Vulgate) 5.191
Old Testament (ODRV) 3.631
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 1.448
Old Testament (Geneva) 0.065
New Testament (Tyndale) -0.022
New Testament (Geneva) -1.058
New Testament (ODRV) -1.138
Old Testament (AKJV) -2.046
New Testament (AKJV) -2.428
Diversity: 0.974
Evenness: 0.995
Book Prominence
1 Timothy (AKJV) 4.054
Titus (Vulgate) 2.363
Ephesians (Vulgate) 2.282
James (Tyndale) 2.143
Psalms (AKJV) 1.981
2 Peter (AKJV) 1.962
Hebrews (Tyndale) 1.93
Titus (AKJV) 1.927
Ephesians (Tyndale) 1.897
Galatians (Geneva) 1.897
Colossians (AKJV) 1.874
Acts (Tyndale) 1.847
Genesis (ODRV) 1.834
Galatians (AKJV) 1.709
Ecclesiasticus (Douay-Rheims) 1.703
2 Corinthians (Geneva) 1.633
2 Corinthians (ODRV) 1.626
Philippians (AKJV) 1.619
Luke (Tyndale) 1.605
Proverbs (Douay-Rheims) 1.573
Acts (AKJV) 1.547
John (Geneva) 1.511
Isaiah (Douay-Rheims) 1.505
2 Corinthians (AKJV) 1.486
Luke (Geneva) 1.482
Isaiah (Geneva) 1.475
Proverbs (Geneva) 1.45
Hebrews (AKJV) 1.353
John (ODRV) 1.326
Matthew (Tyndale) 1.295
Matthew (Geneva) 1.219
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 1.191
Luke (AKJV) 1.183
Psalms (ODRV) 1.171
Isaiah (AKJV) 1.098
Proverbs (AKJV) 0.978
Romans (Geneva) 0.921
Matthew (AKJV) 0.866
Psalms (Geneva) 0.566
Romans (AKJV) 0.538
Diversity: 0.983
Evenness: 0.997
Chapter Prominence
Psalms 41 (AKJV) 3.191
1 Timothy 6 (AKJV) 3.071
Psalms 108 (ODRV) 1.608
Isaiah 24 (Douay-Rheims) 1.606
Titus 2 (Vulgate) 1.604
Proverbs 8 (Douay-Rheims) 1.599
Ecclesiasticus 23 (Douay-Rheims) 1.599
2 Corinthians 8 (ODRV) 1.586
Proverbs 19 (Geneva) 1.585
Luke 21 (Tyndale) 1.585
Acts 20 (Tyndale) 1.584
Isaiah 33 (AKJV) 1.584
2 Corinthians 9 (ODRV) 1.584
Isaiah 58 (Geneva) 1.583
Psalms 19 (Geneva) 1.583
Psalms 91 (Geneva) 1.579
Ephesians 4 (Vulgate) 1.579
Psalms 65 (AKJV) 1.578
Isaiah 32 (AKJV) 1.577
2 Corinthians 8 (Geneva) 1.576
Hebrews 6 (Tyndale) 1.575
Proverbs 10 (Douay-Rheims) 1.575
2 Corinthians 12 (Geneva) 1.574
John 12 (Geneva) 1.574
Isaiah 58 (AKJV) 1.572
Acts 20 (AKJV) 1.57
Matthew 13 (Tyndale) 1.567
Psalms 113 (ODRV) 1.564
Psalms 112 (AKJV) 1.564
2 Corinthians 9 (AKJV) 1.561
Luke 17 (Geneva) 1.558
Psalms 49 (AKJV) 1.556
James 2 (Tyndale) 1.554
Genesis 1 (ODRV) 1.549
Acts 17 (AKJV) 1.545
Hebrews 4 (AKJV) 1.544
Romans 10 (Geneva) 1.542
Galatians 6 (Geneva) 1.535
Matthew 25 (Tyndale) 1.531
Ephesians 4 (Tyndale) 1.53
Psalms 145 (AKJV) 1.529
Psalms 37 (Geneva) 1.529
Proverbs 11 (AKJV) 1.527
2 Peter 3 (AKJV) 1.525
Luke 16 (AKJV) 1.525
Luke 6 (AKJV) 1.523
Proverbs 3 (AKJV) 1.517
Matthew 26 (Tyndale) 1.514
Romans 10 (AKJV) 1.514
Matthew 6 (Geneva) 1.514
Titus 3 (AKJV) 1.502
Matthew 23 (AKJV) 1.5
Colossians 1 (AKJV) 1.49
Galatians 6 (AKJV) 1.471
John 6 (ODRV) 1.469
Matthew 5 (Geneva) 1.468
Psalms 37 (AKJV) 1.458
Philippians 4 (AKJV) 1.439
2 Corinthians 5 (ODRV) 1.413
1 Corinthians 15 (ODRV) 1.296
Diversity: 0.985
Evenness: 0.998
Verse Prominence
Psalms 41.3 (AKJV) 2.764
1 Timothy 6.19 (AKJV) 2.746
Ephesians 4.32 (Vulgate) 1.389
Acts 20.34 (AKJV) 1.389
2 Peter 3.2 (AKJV) 1.388
Acts 17.25 (AKJV) 1.388
Psalms 65.8 (AKJV) 1.388
Isaiah 24.7 (Douay-Rheims) 1.388
Matthew 13.29 (Tyndale) 1.388
Psalms 108.16 (ODRV) 1.388
Ephesians 4.28 (Tyndale) 1.388
2 Corinthians 9.2 (ODRV) 1.388
Matthew 6.2 (Geneva) 1.388
2 Corinthians 9.5 (AKJV) 1.388
Acts 20.35 (Tyndale) 1.387
Isaiah 58.8 (Geneva) 1.387
Proverbs 8.31 (Douay-Rheims) 1.387
Psalms 113.24 (ODRV) 1.387
Psalms 145.16 (AKJV) 1.387
Isaiah 58.10 (AKJV) 1.387
Proverbs 10.12 (Douay-Rheims) 1.387
Genesis 1.12 (ODRV) 1.386
Isaiah 58.11 (AKJV) 1.386
John 12.3 (Geneva) 1.386
2 Corinthians 8.3 (Geneva) 1.386
Luke 17.10 (Geneva) 1.386
Proverbs 3.28 (AKJV) 1.386
2 Corinthians 9.6 (ODRV) 1.386
Isaiah 32.8 (AKJV) 1.385
Psalms 91.12 (Geneva) 1.385
Psalms 65.13 (AKJV) 1.385
Psalms 112.3 (AKJV) 1.385
Isaiah 33.16 (AKJV) 1.385
Proverbs 11.24 (AKJV) 1.385
Ecclesiasticus 23.36 (Douay-Rheims) 1.385
2 Corinthians 12.10 (Geneva) 1.384
Proverbs 19.17 (Geneva) 1.384
Psalms 37.26 (AKJV) 1.384
Luke 21.2 (Tyndale) 1.384
Luke 6.35 (AKJV) 1.384
Titus 2.10 (Vulgate) 1.384
Titus 3.5 (AKJV) 1.384
Psalms 19.5 (Geneva) 1.383
Romans 10.16 (AKJV) 1.383
Romans 10.16 (Geneva) 1.383
2 Corinthians 8.9 (ODRV) 1.382
Isaiah 58.7 (AKJV) 1.382
Psalms 37.16 (AKJV) 1.382
2 Corinthians 9.8 (AKJV) 1.382
Psalms 37.25 (Geneva) 1.382
Hebrews 6.10 (Tyndale) 1.382
Proverbs 11.25 (AKJV) 1.381
Psalms 49.20 (AKJV) 1.381
James 2.13 (Tyndale) 1.38
Colossians 1.10 (AKJV) 1.38
Matthew 26.13 (Tyndale) 1.379
Matthew 25.40 (Tyndale) 1.379
Matthew 5.45 (Geneva) 1.379
Philippians 4.6 (AKJV) 1.378
Hebrews 4.15 (AKJV) 1.377
Luke 17.33 (Geneva) 1.377
2 Corinthians 9.11 (AKJV) 1.376
Galatians 6.9 (Geneva) 1.374
Galatians 6.8 (AKJV) 1.37
Luke 16.9 (AKJV) 1.37
1 Timothy 6.18 (AKJV) 1.369
Matthew 23.9 (AKJV) 1.366
1 Corinthians 15.41 (ODRV) 1.36
John 6.55 (ODRV) 1.35
2 Corinthians 5.1 (ODRV) 1.328
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: 0.969
Evenness: 0.994
Book Prominence
Galatians 3.737
2 Corinthians 3.253
Haggai 2.515
Apocalypse 2.381
Jonah 2.379
Titus 1.701
1 Thessalonians 1.7
Judges 1.68
2 Kings 1.46
Daniel 1.442
Colossians 1.392
1 John 1.343
1 Kings 1.301
James 1.27
2 Samuel 1.164
Philippians 1.03
1 Samuel 0.995
1 Timothy 0.94
Ecclesiastes 0.821
1 Peter 0.747
Deuteronomy 0.647
Ephesians 0.615
Jeremiah 0.536
Genesis 0.153
Hebrews -0.008
Proverbs -0.27
Acts -0.426
John -0.428
Luke -0.44
1 Corinthians -0.513
Isaiah -0.604
Romans -1.177
Matthew -1.402
Psalms -2.394
Diversity: 0.991
Evenness: 0.993
Chapter Prominence
Proverbs 11 2.225
2 Corinthians 9 1.512
Psalms 112 1.484
Psalms 49 1.465
Isaiah 58 1.422
Proverbs 16 1.396
Galatians 6 1.255
Matthew 6 1.248
Hebrews 13 1.214
Deuteronomy 26 0.765
Ecclesiastes 6 0.765
Apocalypse 12 0.764
Psalms 52 0.749
Apocalypse 14 0.744
Luke 5 0.741
Psalms 109 0.738
Jonah 4 0.738
1 Kings 17 0.736
Psalms 41 0.735
Psalms 81 0.733
Haggai 1 0.733
Psalms 72 0.732
Proverbs 9 0.731
Judges 9 0.727
2 Kings 6 0.723
Psalms 65 0.719
Isaiah 32 0.719
Psalms 102 0.717
Isaiah 61 0.717
Psalms 115 0.715
Genesis 27 0.714
Jeremiah 4 0.707
Psalms 17 0.707
2 Samuel 24 0.7
1 Samuel 25 0.699
Psalms 91 0.699
Psalms 104 0.696
Proverbs 15 0.695
2 Corinthians 8 0.694
Psalms 145 0.694
2 Samuel 18 0.694
Isaiah 10 0.693
Daniel 9 0.69
Matthew 14 0.688
Proverbs 29 0.68
John 21 0.676
Proverbs 19 0.676
Luke 17 0.673
2 Corinthians 2 0.671
Luke 21 0.659
Proverbs 20 0.655
Matthew 20 0.655
Psalms 34 0.654
Proverbs 23 0.654
Daniel 4 0.652
Ecclesiastes 11 0.65
Luke 6 0.645
Psalms 19 0.638
John 20 0.633
Luke 11 0.627
Hebrews 1 0.626
Isaiah 53 0.625
1 Corinthians 9 0.624
Genesis 1 0.624
2 Corinthians 12 0.624
Proverbs 10 0.619
Acts 10 0.609
John 7 0.608
Proverbs 3 0.606
1 Timothy 5 0.605
Hebrews 2 0.602
Psalms 16 0.601
James 2 0.6
Psalms 37 0.596
1 Peter 4 0.595
Matthew 19 0.587
Proverbs 8 0.586
Titus 3 0.586
Titus 2 0.584
Romans 11 0.582
1 John 2 0.577
Acts 4 0.573
1 Thessalonians 4 0.573
John 8 0.569
Matthew 18 0.566
Colossians 1 0.561
Colossians 2 0.559
Philippians 4 0.558
Hebrews 6 0.558
Ecclesiastes 7 0.549
John 6 0.54
Psalms 50 0.538
1 Timothy 2 0.534
Acts 20 0.533
1 Timothy 6 0.528
James 1 0.509
John 14 0.509
Romans 6 0.496
Hebrews 10 0.494
Matthew 10 0.492
John 1 0.491
Ephesians 2 0.488
Ephesians 5 0.483
Colossians 3 0.471
Luke 16 0.469
Acts 17 0.465
Philippians 2 0.459
Matthew 26 0.456
1 Corinthians 1 0.45
Matthew 7 0.425
Matthew 25 0.417
Luke 12 0.415
2 Corinthians 5 0.413
Hebrews 12 0.384
Ephesians 4 0.323
1 Peter 2 0.292
Matthew 5 0.231
Diversity: 0.994
Evenness: 0.995
Verse Prominence
Proverbs 11.24 1.45
2 Corinthians 9.10 0.972
Psalms 49.17 0.969
Matthew 6.1 0.963
Galatians 6.9 0.963
2 Corinthians 8.3 0.962
Psalms 112.9 0.961
Isaiah 58.7 0.953
Proverbs 16.7 0.952
Galatians 6.7 0.946
Luke 16.9 0.946
Hebrews 13.16 0.939
Galatians 6.10 0.902
Proverbs 9.16 0.488
Isaiah 10.14 0.487
Genesis 1.25 0.487
John 7.5 0.487
Psalms 65.8 0.487
Judges 9.11 0.487
Jeremiah 4.28 0.487
Jeremiah 4.12 0.487
Deuteronomy 26.11 0.487
2 Corinthians 9.3 0.487
Psalms 109.11 0.487
Psalms 109.12 0.487
Psalms 109.14 0.487
Psalms 109.15 0.487
2 Corinthians 8.10 0.487
2 Corinthians 9.5 0.487
1 Corinthians 9.12 0.486
Psalms 72.9 0.486
Genesis 1.10 0.486
Genesis 1.12 0.486
Genesis 1.18 0.486
Genesis 1.21 0.486
Proverbs 8.30 0.486
John 7.4 0.486
Luke 5.14 0.486
Daniel 9.21 0.486
Judges 9.13 0.486
Psalms 102.9 0.486
Psalms 109.13 0.486
Luke 21.3 0.486
Matthew 26.11 0.486
Proverbs 9.18 0.486
Isaiah 61.8 0.486
Genesis 27.12 0.486
2 Corinthians 9.11 0.486
Daniel 4.36 0.486
Psalms 72.10 0.485
Luke 16.12 0.485
Apocalypse 12.7 0.485
1 Corinthians 9.15 0.485
Judges 9.9 0.485
Psalms 65.13 0.485
Isaiah 58.9 0.485
Isaiah 58.11 0.485
Proverbs 20.17 0.485
1 Kings 17.16 0.485
Matthew 14.19 0.485
Psalms 109.10 0.485
2 Samuel 24.23 0.485
John 8.37 0.485
Jonah 4.7 0.485
Proverbs 29.15 0.485
Psalms 72.8 0.484
Psalms 115.16 0.484
Hebrews 10.7 0.484
Luke 5.8 0.484
Isaiah 58.10 0.484
2 Corinthians 9.9 0.484
2 Samuel 18.18 0.484
Psalms 37.26 0.484
Psalms 49.13 0.484
Proverbs 9.17 0.484
2 Corinthians 9.13 0.484
1 Timothy 2.10 0.484
Daniel 4.34 0.484
Romans 11.35 0.483
Psalms 145.16 0.483
Psalms 81.10 0.483
Proverbs 8.31 0.483
John 6.15 0.483
Luke 12.50 0.483
Hebrews 6.20 0.483
Psalms 91.12 0.483
Luke 12.18 0.483
Isaiah 58.8 0.483
Psalms 37.16 0.483
Philippians 4.17 0.483
Proverbs 3.28 0.483
Psalms 52.1 0.483
Psalms 112.3 0.482
Psalms 41.3 0.482
Matthew 10.41 0.482
Matthew 7.26 0.482
Proverbs 10.12 0.482
1 Samuel 25.11 0.481
Hebrews 2.5 0.48
Hebrews 10.5 0.48
Psalms 19.5 0.48
Haggai 1.9 0.48
Proverbs 20.25 0.48
Matthew 20.15 0.48
Acts 4.34 0.479
2 Corinthians 8.9 0.479
2 Corinthians 2.14 0.479
Proverbs 10.22 0.479
Ephesians 4.28 0.479
James 2.18 0.479
Titus 2.10 0.479
Ecclesiastes 11.6 0.479
Proverbs 3.27 0.478
Hebrews 1.6 0.478
Jeremiah 4.4 0.478
Matthew 6.19 0.478
Ecclesiastes 6.2 0.478
Apocalypse 14.13 0.478
Hebrews 2.17 0.477
Matthew 19.29 0.477
1 Corinthians 1.24 0.476
Genesis 1.31 0.476
Luke 11.41 0.476
Matthew 25.40 0.476
2 Corinthians 9.12 0.476
1 Peter 4.8 0.476
2 Kings 6.17 0.475
Matthew 18.10 0.475
Proverbs 11.25 0.475
Psalms 16.2 0.475
2 Corinthians 9.6 0.475
Matthew 5.7 0.474
John 1.18 0.474
Hebrews 2.4 0.474
Philippians 2.10 0.474
Proverbs 15.8 0.474
Psalms 34.7 0.474
Psalms 37.25 0.474
Isaiah 53.1 0.474
Acts 20.35 0.473
Hebrews 2.15 0.472
Philippians 4.6 0.472
2 Corinthians 12.10 0.472
Luke 12.33 0.472
Galatians 6.8 0.472
Luke 6.35 0.472
1 Peter 2.3 0.471
Ephesians 5.16 0.471
Matthew 6.2 0.471
Proverbs 8.16 0.47
Matthew 5.45 0.47
Isaiah 53.10 0.469
Hebrews 2.9 0.469
Psalms 91.11 0.469
Colossians 2.15 0.468
Colossians 1.10 0.468
Luke 17.10 0.468
Hebrews 6.10 0.467
Daniel 4.27 0.467
Colossians 3.14 0.467
Hebrews 2.10 0.466
Acts 10.38 0.466
Psalms 17.14 0.465
Isaiah 32.8 0.465
James 2.13 0.465
2 Corinthians 8.12 0.464
Psalms 104.24 0.463
Proverbs 19.17 0.463
1 Timothy 6.19 0.463
Philippians 2.7 0.462
Ephesians 2.12 0.462
1 Timothy 5.8 0.462
1 John 2.2 0.462
Titus 3.5 0.462
Hebrews 1.14 0.461
Ecclesiastes 7.1 0.461
Matthew 26.13 0.461
Acts 17.23 0.46
1 Timothy 6.18 0.46
Proverbs 23.5 0.457
1 Thessalonians 4.13 0.456
John 14.2 0.454
Psalms 50.15 0.453
Hebrews 1.3 0.452
Matthew 25.34 0.449
Matthew 5.16 0.448
1 Timothy 6.17 0.447
Romans 6.23 0.445
James 1.17 0.435
Hebrews 12.2 0.434
2 Corinthians 5.1 0.428
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase