Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon preached at St. Lawrence Church in Reading, in the county of Berks on the 3d of October, 1692 being the day on which the mayor was sworn / by John Griffyth ... ; printed at the request of the mayor and aldermen.

Griffyth, John
Publisher: Printed for William Rogers
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1693
Approximate Era: WilliamAndMary
TCP ID: A42156 ESTC ID: R34922 STC ID: G2020
Subject Headings: Bible. -- N.T. -- Thessalonians, 1st, IV, 11; Sermons, English -- 17th century;
View the Full Text of Relevant Sections



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 9.7% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 6.0% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 81.0% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 14.1% -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) 5.6% -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: 0.864
Evenness: 0.983
Part Prominence
New Testament (AKJV) 9.794
Apocrypha (Douay-Rheims) 7.708
Apocrypha (AKJV) 6.553
Old Testament (Geneva) 1.177
New Testament (Tyndale) 1.09
New Testament (Geneva) 0.053
New Testament (ODRV) -0.027
Old Testament (AKJV) -0.935
Diversity: 0.965
Evenness: 0.994
Book Prominence
1 Thessalonians (AKJV) 5.8
Romans (AKJV) 4.407
Titus (ODRV) 2.903
James (Tyndale) 2.887
2 Thessalonians (AKJV) 2.873
Jude (AKJV) 2.863
Numbers (AKJV) 2.853
1 Thessalonians (ODRV) 2.832
1 Thessalonians (Geneva) 2.809
Philippians (Tyndale) 2.713
James (Geneva) 2.703
1 John (Tyndale) 2.676
Titus (AKJV) 2.671
James (ODRV) 2.666
Galatians (ODRV) 2.54
Ecclesiasticus (AKJV) 2.485
James (AKJV) 2.479
Ecclesiasticus (Douay-Rheims) 2.447
Acts (ODRV) 2.437
1 Timothy (AKJV) 2.417
Acts (AKJV) 2.291
Proverbs (Geneva) 2.194
Luke (AKJV) 1.927
1 Corinthians (Geneva) 1.853
Proverbs (AKJV) 1.722
Romans (Geneva) 1.665
Matthew (AKJV) 1.61
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 1.557
Psalms (Geneva) 1.31
Psalms (AKJV) 0.344
Diversity: 0.973
Evenness: 0.99
Chapter Prominence
Psalms 137 (AKJV) 4.391
Proverbs 22 (AKJV) 4.382
Romans 15 (AKJV) 4.373
1 Thessalonians 4 (AKJV) 4.343
Romans 12 (AKJV) 4.244
Acts 21 (ODRV) 2.214
Acts 18 (ODRV) 2.211
Ecclesiasticus 28 (AKJV) 2.208
Proverbs 26 (Geneva) 2.2
Ecclesiasticus 28 (Douay-Rheims) 2.198
Acts 15 (AKJV) 2.195
James 3 (Tyndale) 2.191
Proverbs 20 (Geneva) 2.189
Numbers 16 (AKJV) 2.188
1 Thessalonians 4 (ODRV) 2.186
Psalms 85 (Geneva) 2.186
2 Thessalonians 3 (AKJV) 2.174
Titus 3 (ODRV) 2.174
Psalms 34 (Geneva) 2.172
Proverbs 10 (AKJV) 2.17
Ecclesiasticus 33 (AKJV) 2.166
1 Timothy 5 (AKJV) 2.163
James 4 (ODRV) 2.159
Matthew 12 (AKJV) 2.157
James 3 (Geneva) 2.141
Titus 2 (ODRV) 2.137
1 Thessalonians 4 (Geneva) 2.136
Proverbs 11 (AKJV) 2.136
1 Corinthians 7 (Geneva) 2.135
Philippians 1 (Tyndale) 2.132
James 4 (AKJV) 2.132
James 3 (AKJV) 2.118
Galatians 5 (ODRV) 2.114
Luke 2 (AKJV) 2.112
Titus 3 (AKJV) 2.112
1 Corinthians 7 (AKJV) 2.112
Romans 12 (Geneva) 2.107
Psalms 144 (AKJV) 2.095
1 John 4 (Tyndale) 2.086
Jude 1 (AKJV) 2.04
Diversity: 0.978
Evenness: 0.991
Verse Prominence
Proverbs 22.29 (AKJV) 3.633
Psalms 137.6 (AKJV) 3.625
1 Thessalonians 4.11 (AKJV) 3.624
Romans 15.2 (AKJV) 3.622
1 Thessalonians 4.11 (Geneva) 3.615
Romans 12.18 (AKJV) 3.603
Proverbs 11.13 (AKJV) 1.818
Ecclesiasticus 28.17 (Douay-Rheims) 1.818
Acts 15.27 (AKJV) 1.818
Proverbs 26.16 (Geneva) 1.817
Acts 21.30 (ODRV) 1.817
Acts 18.1 (ODRV) 1.817
Ecclesiasticus 28.13 (AKJV) 1.817
1 Thessalonians 4.9 (Geneva) 1.816
Ecclesiasticus 33.27 (AKJV) 1.816
James 3.8 (AKJV) 1.816
Philippians 1.9 (Tyndale) 1.816
1 Timothy 5.13 (AKJV) 1.816
2 Thessalonians 3.12 (AKJV) 1.816
Proverbs 20.3 (Geneva) 1.816
1 Thessalonians 4.4 (ODRV) 1.815
2 Thessalonians 3.11 (AKJV) 1.815
Romans 12.17 (Geneva) 1.815
Proverbs 10.4 (AKJV) 1.815
Romans 12.17 (AKJV) 1.814
Psalms 144.11 (AKJV) 1.814
Titus 3.2 (ODRV) 1.813
James 3.17 (Geneva) 1.813
2 Thessalonians 3.10 (AKJV) 1.812
1 Thessalonians 4.3 (ODRV) 1.811
1 Corinthians 7.20 (Geneva) 1.811
Psalms 34.14 (Geneva) 1.811
Psalms 144.12 (AKJV) 1.811
Galatians 5.22 (ODRV) 1.81
1 Corinthians 7.20 (AKJV) 1.81
Matthew 12.25 (AKJV) 1.809
James 3.17 (Tyndale) 1.807
Titus 2.9 (ODRV) 1.805
Psalms 137.5 (AKJV) 1.805
Numbers 16.3 (AKJV) 1.803
James 4.1 (ODRV) 1.803
Luke 2.14 (AKJV) 1.799
James 4.1 (AKJV) 1.796
Psalms 85.10 (Geneva) 1.793
James 3.16 (Geneva) 1.79
Jude 1.8 (AKJV) 1.789
Titus 3.1 (AKJV) 1.776
1 John 4.11 (Tyndale) 1.768
Psalms 144.15 (AKJV) 1.764
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: 0.667
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Apocrypha 28.862
Old Testament -14.001
New Testament -14.862
Diversity: 0.938
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Ecclesiasticus 6.05
2 Thessalonians 5.458
Leviticus 5.275
Titus 5.173
Numbers 4.821
James 4.742
2 Samuel 4.636
1 Timothy 4.412
1 Peter 4.219
2 Corinthians 3.948
Proverbs 3.202
Acts 3.047
1 Corinthians 2.96
Romans 2.295
Matthew 2.07
Psalms 1.078
Diversity: 0.955
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Ecclesiasticus 28 4.542
Psalms 131 4.525
2 Samuel 20 4.496
Proverbs 26 4.483
2 Corinthians 8 4.452
2 Thessalonians 3 4.442
Leviticus 19 4.432
Proverbs 20 4.413
Proverbs 11 4.409
Numbers 16 4.392
James 3 4.391
1 Corinthians 9 4.382
Proverbs 10 4.377
1 Timothy 5 4.363
Titus 1 4.358
1 Peter 4 4.353
James 4 4.348
Titus 3 4.344
Matthew 12 4.321
Acts 17 4.224
Romans 12 4.19
Romans 1 4.103
Diversity: 0.955
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Proverbs 11.13 4.544
Ecclesiasticus 28.14 4.544
2 Samuel 20.19 4.544
James 3.8 4.542
Proverbs 20.3 4.542
2 Thessalonians 3.8 4.541
Acts 17.5 4.541
Proverbs 26.16 4.541
Leviticus 19.16 4.54
1 Timothy 5.13 4.54
1 Corinthians 9.20 4.538
Titus 3.2 4.535
Proverbs 10.4 4.533
Romans 12.17 4.532
Titus 1.12 4.529
1 Peter 4.15 4.528
Numbers 16.3 4.524
Romans 12.18 4.509
James 4.1 4.508
Matthew 12.25 4.506
James 3.17 4.499
Titus 3.1 4.488
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase