Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon preach'd before the Honourable House of Commons, at St. Margaret's Westminster, January the 30th, 1695/6 by Gregory Hascard.

Hascard, Gregory
Publisher: Printed for Daniel Brown
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1696
Approximate Era: WilliamAndMary
TCP ID: A43065 ESTC ID: R25418 STC ID: H1117
Subject Headings: Bible. -- O.T. -- Micah VII, 2; Church of England; 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 2.4% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 1.5% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 93.0% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 4.0% -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 0.7% -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) 1.2% -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: 0.815
Evenness: 0.941
Part Prominence
Old Testament (AKJV) 21.287
Apocrypha (Douay-Rheims) 7.708
Apocrypha (AKJV) 6.553
Old Testament (Geneva) 1.177
New Testament (Tyndale) 1.09
New Testament (ODRV) -0.027
New Testament (AKJV) -1.317
Diversity: 0.938
Evenness: 0.978
Book Prominence
Micah (AKJV) 13.473
Psalms (AKJV) 6.31
Esther (AKJV) 4.45
2 Chronicles (Geneva) 4.382
2 Samuel (Geneva) 4.321
James (Tyndale) 4.308
1 Thessalonians (Tyndale) 4.3
Philippians (Tyndale) 4.134
Ecclesiastes (Geneva) 4.051
2 Timothy (AKJV) 4.014
Ecclesiasticus (AKJV) 3.905
James (AKJV) 3.9
Ecclesiasticus (Douay-Rheims) 3.868
Genesis (AKJV) 3.647
John (ODRV) 3.49
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 3.356
Isaiah (AKJV) 3.263
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 2.978
Psalms (Geneva) 2.731
Diversity: 0.947
Evenness: 0.981
Chapter Prominence
Micah 7 (AKJV) 11.978
Psalms 12 (AKJV) 7.966
2 Chronicles 9 (Geneva) 3.996
2 Samuel 11 (Geneva) 3.994
Esther 5 (AKJV) 3.993
Ecclesiasticus 15 (AKJV) 3.991
Psalms 14 (Geneva) 3.99
Ecclesiasticus 15 (Douay-Rheims) 3.986
Ecclesiasticus 19 (Douay-Rheims) 3.982
Genesis 37 (AKJV) 3.98
1 Thessalonians 1 (Tyndale) 3.976
James 3 (Tyndale) 3.969
Ecclesiastes 7 (Geneva) 3.964
Psalms 58 (AKJV) 3.947
Psalms 14 (AKJV) 3.944
James 4 (AKJV) 3.91
Philippians 1 (Tyndale) 3.91
John 1 (ODRV) 3.899
1 Corinthians 11 (ODRV) 3.872
Isaiah 57 (AKJV) 3.854
2 Timothy 3 (AKJV) 3.839
1 Corinthians 10 (AKJV) 3.698
Diversity: 0.947
Evenness: 0.981
Verse Prominence
Micah 7.2 (AKJV) 11.996
Psalms 12.1 (AKJV) 7.987
2 Chronicles 9.20 (Geneva) 3.999
Genesis 37.33 (AKJV) 3.998
Psalms 14.3 (AKJV) 3.998
2 Samuel 11.11 (Geneva) 3.998
Esther 5.13 (AKJV) 3.997
Ecclesiasticus 19.19 (Douay-Rheims) 3.997
Ecclesiasticus 15.20 (AKJV) 3.997
Ecclesiastes 7.22 (Geneva) 3.996
Psalms 14.3 (Geneva) 3.996
Ecclesiasticus 15.21 (Douay-Rheims) 3.996
1 Thessalonians 1.4 (Tyndale) 3.992
Philippians 1.27 (Tyndale) 3.991
John 1.47 (ODRV) 3.989
James 3.17 (Tyndale) 3.989
Psalms 58.11 (AKJV) 3.982
1 Corinthians 11.20 (ODRV) 3.978
James 4.1 (AKJV) 3.978
1 Corinthians 10.11 (AKJV) 3.966
2 Timothy 3.5 (AKJV) 3.953
Isaiah 57.1 (AKJV) 3.945
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: 0.8
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Micah 19.216
2 Timothy 18.557
1 Corinthians 16.71
Isaiah 16.618
Psalms 14.828
Diversity: 0.8
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Psalms 12 19.89
Micah 7 19.874
Isaiah 57 19.791
1 Corinthians 6 19.714
2 Timothy 3 19.703
Diversity: 0.857
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Psalms 12.2 14.275
Psalms 12.1 14.27
1 Corinthians 6.11 14.262
2 Timothy 3.2 14.255
1 Corinthians 6.10 14.244
1 Corinthians 6.9 14.241
Isaiah 57.1 14.236
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase