Early English Printed Sermons


The beauty of magistracy with other observations concerning government, represented in an assize-sermon preach'd in St. Mary's Church in Leicester, the 26th day of March, 1697 / by John Foxcroft.

Foxcroft, John
Publisher: Printed by J D for Jonathan Robinson
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1697
Approximate Era: WilliamAndMary
TCP ID: A40363 ESTC ID: R37837 STC ID: F2033
Subject Headings: Bible. -- N.T. -- Romans XIII, 4; Church and state; 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 8.2% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 6.1% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 82.8% 100.0%
NonLatinAlphabet Percentage of units with a NonLatinAlphabet placeholder 0.4% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 14.0% -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 0.8% -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) 6.4% -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: 0.685
Evenness: 0.764
Part Prominence
New Testament (AKJV) 40.513
Apocrypha (Douay-Rheims) 2.479
New Testament (Tyndale) 1.743
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) -2.669
Old Testament (Geneva) -4.052
New Testament (Geneva) -5.176
New Testament (ODRV) -5.255
Old Testament (AKJV) -6.164
Diversity: 0.917
Evenness: 0.911
Book Prominence
Romans (AKJV) 22.482
Hebrews (Tyndale) 4.955
1 Timothy (AKJV) 4.698
1 Maccabees (Douay-Rheims) 2.614
Micah (AKJV) 2.54
2 Peter (ODRV) 2.479
Ezekiel (Douay-Rheims) 2.363
1 Samuel (AKJV) 2.284
1 Timothy (Geneva) 2.181
1 Timothy (ODRV) 2.179
1 John (AKJV) 2.103
Hebrews (ODRV) 1.991
2 Corinthians (ODRV) 1.948
Philippians (AKJV) 1.941
Luke (Tyndale) 1.927
Genesis (AKJV) 1.804
Isaiah (Geneva) 1.797
Romans (Tyndale) 1.715
Luke (ODRV) 1.711
Hebrews (AKJV) 1.675
John (ODRV) 1.647
Matthew (Tyndale) 1.617
Romans (ODRV) 1.452
Isaiah (AKJV) 1.42
Matthew (ODRV) 1.289
Romans (Geneva) 1.243
Psalms (AKJV) -0.079
Diversity: 0.936
Evenness: 0.926
Chapter Prominence
Romans 13 (AKJV) 20.569
Hebrews 10 (Tyndale) 4.599
1 Timothy 2 (AKJV) 4.526
Isaiah 6 (Geneva) 2.316
1 Maccabees 14 (Douay-Rheims) 2.316
Isaiah 6 (AKJV) 2.303
Ezekiel 18 (Douay-Rheims) 2.291
2 Corinthians 1 (ODRV) 2.283
Luke 18 (Tyndale) 2.283
Micah 6 (AKJV) 2.28
1 Samuel 12 (AKJV) 2.28
Genesis 9 (AKJV) 2.277
Hebrews 10 (ODRV) 2.276
Luke 12 (ODRV) 2.271
John 18 (ODRV) 2.268
Matthew 26 (ODRV) 2.254
Romans 10 (Geneva) 2.254
1 Timothy 1 (ODRV) 2.253
2 Peter 1 (ODRV) 2.251
Isaiah 1 (Geneva) 2.244
Matthew 22 (Tyndale) 2.243
1 Timothy 1 (AKJV) 2.236
1 Timothy 2 (Geneva) 2.209
1 Timothy 2 (ODRV) 2.208
Isaiah 1 (AKJV) 2.2
Psalms 82 (AKJV) 2.2
Psalms 107 (AKJV) 2.176
Romans 13 (ODRV) 2.168
Romans 13 (Tyndale) 2.16
1 John 3 (AKJV) 2.156
Philippians 4 (AKJV) 2.151
Hebrews 10 (AKJV) 2.148
Romans 13 (Geneva) 2.001
Diversity: 0.955
Evenness: 0.943
Verse Prominence
Romans 13.4 (AKJV) 16.586
Hebrews 10.29 (Tyndale) 3.692
1 Timothy 2.2 (AKJV) 3.662
1 Timothy 2.2 (ODRV) 3.657
Matthew 22.17 (Tyndale) 1.851
1 Timothy 1.10 (AKJV) 1.851
1 Timothy 1.10 (ODRV) 1.851
Luke 12.10 (ODRV) 1.851
Isaiah 6.13 (Geneva) 1.85
Micah 6.3 (AKJV) 1.85
2 Corinthians 1.10 (ODRV) 1.85
Hebrews 10.29 (ODRV) 1.85
Isaiah 6.13 (AKJV) 1.849
Hebrews 10.28 (AKJV) 1.848
1 Timothy 2.8 (ODRV) 1.847
Romans 13.6 (Geneva) 1.847
1 Samuel 12.3 (AKJV) 1.846
Romans 10.16 (Geneva) 1.846
Matthew 26.52 (ODRV) 1.845
Ezekiel 18.5 (Douay-Rheims) 1.845
Luke 18.30 (Tyndale) 1.845
1 Maccabees 14.12 (Douay-Rheims) 1.844
2 Peter 1.19 (ODRV) 1.843
1 Timothy 1.9 (AKJV) 1.843
Philippians 4.6 (AKJV) 1.841
Psalms 107.43 (AKJV) 1.841
Isaiah 1.26 (Geneva) 1.839
Romans 13.6 (AKJV) 1.838
Romans 13.4 (Geneva) 1.837
1 John 3.8 (AKJV) 1.835
Genesis 9.6 (AKJV) 1.828
Isaiah 1.26 (AKJV) 1.828
Romans 13.4 (ODRV) 1.828
Romans 13.3 (AKJV) 1.826
1 Timothy 2.1 (AKJV) 1.825
John 18.36 (ODRV) 1.819
1 Timothy 2.1 (Geneva) 1.816
Romans 13.5 (AKJV) 1.805
Romans 13.1 (Tyndale) 1.783
Psalms 82.6 (AKJV) 1.768
Romans 13.5 (Geneva) 1.767
Romans 13.1 (AKJV) 1.736
Romans 13.1 (Geneva) 1.701
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: 0.918
Evenness: 0.99
Book Prominence
1 Timothy 12.448
Micah 6.359
Judges 6.045
2 Peter 5.858
Philippians 5.395
1 Samuel 5.36
Exodus 5.028
Genesis 4.518
Hebrews 4.357
Isaiah 3.761
Romans 3.188
Matthew 2.963
Psalms 1.971
Diversity: 0.953
Evenness: 0.995
Chapter Prominence
1 Timothy 2 8.442
Judges 18 4.307
Psalms 72 4.292
Exodus 19 4.279
Judges 17 4.277
Genesis 9 4.254
Psalms 107 4.237
Isaiah 6 4.237
1 Samuel 12 4.236
Micah 6 4.222
Exodus 20 4.214
Psalms 106 4.21
Isaiah 49 4.209
Psalms 82 4.175
Matthew 12 4.123
Philippians 4 4.119
1 Timothy 1 4.118
2 Peter 2 4.092
Matthew 22 4.088
Hebrews 10 4.055
Isaiah 1 4.032
Romans 13 3.659
Diversity: 0.961
Evenness: 0.986
Verse Prominence
1 Timothy 2.2 9.287
1 Timothy 2.1 6.182
Psalms 72.15 3.122
Isaiah 6.13 3.121
Matthew 22.17 3.12
Matthew 12.31 3.118
Judges 18.1 3.118
Psalms 107.43 3.117
Psalms 106.3 3.117
Matthew 12.32 3.116
Micah 6.3 3.115
1 Timothy 1.10 3.114
Hebrews 10.28 3.113
2 Peter 2.19 3.113
Genesis 9.6 3.11
Philippians 4.6 3.109
1 Timothy 1.9 3.107
Isaiah 1.26 3.104
Romans 13.6 3.104
Hebrews 10.29 3.099
1 Samuel 12.3 3.096
Isaiah 49.23 3.088
Romans 13.7 3.081
Judges 17.6 3.077
Romans 13.5 3.062
Matthew 22.21 3.037
Psalms 82.6 3.015
Romans 13.4 2.979
Romans 13.1 2.893
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase