Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon preach'd before the House of Lords at the Abbey-Church of St. Peters Westminster, on Wednesday, 11th of December, 1695 : being the day appointed for a solemn fast and humiliation / by the Right Reverend Father in God James, Lord Bishop of London.

Gardiner, James, 1637-1705
Publisher: Printed for John Everingham
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1695
Approximate Era: WilliamAndMary
TCP ID: A42362 ESTC ID: R8142 STC ID: G227
Subject Headings: Church of England; Fast-day sermons; 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 3.5% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 1.7% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 82.2% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 16.5% -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) 7.4% -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: 0.857
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Old Testament (ODRV) 7.917
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 5.734
Old Testament (Geneva) 4.351
New Testament (Geneva) 3.227
New Testament (ODRV) 3.148
Old Testament (AKJV) 2.24
New Testament (AKJV) 1.858
Diversity: 0.95
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
2 Kings (Geneva) 4.832
4 Kings (Douay-Rheims) 4.785
2 Kings (AKJV) 4.767
2 Peter (Geneva) 4.605
Deuteronomy (Douay-Rheims) 4.58
Exodus (Geneva) 4.56
Jeremiah (Douay-Rheims) 4.507
Deuteronomy (AKJV) 4.432
1 John (AKJV) 4.4
Jeremiah (AKJV) 4.347
1 Timothy (AKJV) 4.292
Isaiah (Douay-Rheims) 4.124
Isaiah (Geneva) 4.094
Hebrews (AKJV) 3.972
Matthew (Geneva) 3.838
Psalms (ODRV) 3.79
Romans (ODRV) 3.75
Matthew (AKJV) 3.485
Psalms (Geneva) 3.185
Psalms (AKJV) 2.219
Diversity: 0.957
Evenness: 0.975
Chapter Prominence
Psalms 79 (AKJV) 11.734
Psalms 135 (Geneva) 5.856
Psalms 66 (AKJV) 5.84
2 Kings 25 (AKJV) 2.94
2 Kings 19 (Geneva) 2.939
Jeremiah 38 (Douay-Rheims) 2.937
Isaiah 36 (Douay-Rheims) 2.937
4 Kings 19 (Douay-Rheims) 2.937
Isaiah 37 (Geneva) 2.934
Jeremiah 16 (AKJV) 2.932
Psalms 43 (ODRV) 2.931
Psalms 79 (Geneva) 2.93
Isaiah 33 (Geneva) 2.924
Exodus 14 (Geneva) 2.924
Psalms 68 (Geneva) 2.916
Deuteronomy 4 (Douay-Rheims) 2.911
Psalms 103 (Geneva) 2.893
Psalms 89 (Geneva) 2.888
Deuteronomy 5 (AKJV) 2.882
Psalms 9 (AKJV) 2.867
Psalms 89 (AKJV) 2.858
Romans 1 (ODRV) 2.849
2 Peter 3 (Geneva) 2.846
Hebrews 9 (AKJV) 2.842
Matthew 6 (Geneva) 2.842
1 Timothy 6 (AKJV) 2.786
1 John 3 (AKJV) 2.772
Matthew 6 (AKJV) 2.77
Psalms 119 (AKJV) 2.721
Diversity: 0.968
Evenness: 0.981
Verse Prominence
Psalms 79.9 (AKJV) 9.299
Psalms 135.7 (Geneva) 4.65
Psalms 66.2 (AKJV) 4.64
Psalms 89.49 (AKJV) 2.325
Psalms 89.3 (Geneva) 2.325
Psalms 89.3 (AKJV) 2.325
Psalms 89.4 (AKJV) 2.325
Hebrews 9.2 (AKJV) 2.325
Jeremiah 38.28 (Douay-Rheims) 2.325
Psalms 89.39 (AKJV) 2.325
2 Kings 25.7 (AKJV) 2.325
Psalms 89.50 (AKJV) 2.325
Exodus 14.4 (Geneva) 2.325
Isaiah 36.4 (Douay-Rheims) 2.325
2 Kings 19.15 (Geneva) 2.325
4 Kings 19.16 (Douay-Rheims) 2.325
4 Kings 19.19 (Douay-Rheims) 2.325
Deuteronomy 5.6 (AKJV) 2.325
Psalms 103.6 (Geneva) 2.325
Psalms 68.6 (Geneva) 2.325
Psalms 43.26 (ODRV) 2.325
Isaiah 37.3 (Geneva) 2.324
Isaiah 33.10 (Geneva) 2.324
Psalms 89.38 (AKJV) 2.324
Romans 1.2 (ODRV) 2.324
Jeremiah 16.14 (AKJV) 2.324
Psalms 79.2 (Geneva) 2.323
1 Timothy 6.15 (AKJV) 2.323
Jeremiah 16.15 (AKJV) 2.323
Psalms 79.1 (AKJV) 2.322
Psalms 119.126 (AKJV) 2.322
Psalms 89.51 (AKJV) 2.32
Psalms 9.9 (AKJV) 2.32
Deuteronomy 4.24 (Douay-Rheims) 2.318
Matthew 6.11 (Geneva) 2.313
Matthew 6.11 (AKJV) 2.311
2 Peter 3.18 (Geneva) 2.304
1 John 3.4 (AKJV) 2.298
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
Old Testament 52.666
Diversity: 0.75
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
2 Kings 23.682
2 Samuel 23.386
Jeremiah 22.758
Psalms 19.828
Diversity: 0.857
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Jeremiah 16 14.259
2 Kings 19 14.226
2 Samuel 7 14.217
Psalms 3 14.194
Psalms 68 14.177
Psalms 12 14.175
Psalms 103 14.158
Diversity: 0.875
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
2 Samuel 7.16 12.496
Jeremiah 16.14 12.496
Jeremiah 16.15 12.496
2 Kings 19.16 12.494
Psalms 3.4 12.492
Psalms 68.5 12.492
2 Kings 19.15 12.488
Psalms 12.5 12.486
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase