Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon preached on the first of January 1698 in the parish church of St. Nicholas Cole-Abby being a New-Years-gift to the society of Christians united there to worship God in a more solemn manner after the way of the Church of England / by Robert Howson.

Howson, Robert
Publisher: Printed by W Downing for the author
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1698
Approximate Era: WilliamAndMary
TCP ID: A44819 ESTC ID: R27121 STC ID: H3198
Subject Headings: Bible. -- N.T. -- John XIII, 34; 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 25.1% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 16.2% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 53.6% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 33.0% -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) 21.2% -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: 0.876
Evenness: 0.977
Part Prominence
New Testament (Wycliffe) 7.47
New Testament (Geneva) 7.123
Old Testament (AKJV) 6.136
Old Testament (ODRV) 2.722
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 0.539
Old Testament (Geneva) -0.844
New Testament (Tyndale) -0.931
New Testament (ODRV) -2.047
New Testament (AKJV) -3.337
Diversity: 0.978
Evenness: 0.989
Book Prominence
James (ODRV) 2.99
1 John (AKJV) 2.849
Isaiah (Geneva) 2.543
John (AKJV) 2.264
Isaiah (AKJV) 2.166
Romans (Geneva) 1.988
Romans (AKJV) 1.606
John (Wycliffe) 1.549
Hosea (Geneva) 1.535
Leviticus (Douay-Rheims) 1.509
Canticles (AKJV) 1.483
2 Thessalonians (AKJV) 1.472
Colossians (Tyndale) 1.47
Exodus (ODRV) 1.39
2 Peter (AKJV) 1.305
Deuteronomy (Douay-Rheims) 1.305
1 John (Tyndale) 1.276
1 John (Geneva) 1.264
Galatians (Geneva) 1.241
Ephesians (Tyndale) 1.24
Colossians (AKJV) 1.217
Revelation (AKJV) 1.189
James (AKJV) 1.078
Ephesians (ODRV) 1.073
Galatians (AKJV) 1.052
Hebrews (Geneva) 0.982
2 Corinthians (Geneva) 0.976
Philippians (ODRV) 0.974
Philippians (AKJV) 0.962
1 Peter (AKJV) 0.937
John (Geneva) 0.854
John (Tyndale) 0.847
2 Corinthians (AKJV) 0.829
Luke (Geneva) 0.825
Proverbs (Geneva) 0.794
Ephesians (AKJV) 0.773
Luke (ODRV) 0.732
Hebrews (AKJV) 0.697
John (ODRV) 0.669
Psalms (AKJV) 0.667
Matthew (Tyndale) 0.639
Matthew (Geneva) 0.562
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 0.534
Romans (ODRV) 0.474
1 Corinthians (Geneva) 0.453
Proverbs (AKJV) 0.321
Matthew (ODRV) 0.311
Matthew (AKJV) 0.21
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 0.156
Psalms (Geneva) -0.091
Diversity: 0.986
Evenness: 0.992
Chapter Prominence
Isaiah 58 (Geneva) 2.243
1 John 1 (AKJV) 2.217
James 3 (ODRV) 2.203
Romans 4 (Geneva) 2.199
John 15 (AKJV) 2.195
Romans 4 (AKJV) 2.192
Isaiah 1 (Geneva) 2.191
Isaiah 1 (AKJV) 2.147
Psalms 119 (AKJV) 2.053
Leviticus 15 (Douay-Rheims) 1.135
John 6 (Wycliffe) 1.132
Hosea 11 (Geneva) 1.125
Revelation 4 (AKJV) 1.12
Proverbs 24 (Geneva) 1.117
2 Corinthians 13 (Geneva) 1.108
Deuteronomy 4 (Douay-Rheims) 1.106
Psalms 30 (AKJV) 1.105
Ephesians 3 (ODRV) 1.103
Luke 11 (Geneva) 1.102
Canticles 1 (AKJV) 1.101
John 13 (ODRV) 1.094
Exodus 20 (ODRV) 1.093
John 15 (ODRV) 1.089
Psalms 16 (AKJV) 1.089
2 Thessalonians 3 (AKJV) 1.088
Psalms 4 (AKJV) 1.088
Psalms 34 (Geneva) 1.086
John 4 (Geneva) 1.086
Psalms 16 (Geneva) 1.078
Colossians 1 (Tyndale) 1.077
Luke 10 (ODRV) 1.076
Ephesians 3 (AKJV) 1.075
Ephesians 3 (Tyndale) 1.07
John 14 (ODRV) 1.066
Romans 15 (AKJV) 1.065
Matthew 26 (ODRV) 1.064
Psalms 19 (AKJV) 1.061
Galatians 6 (Geneva) 1.059
1 John 4 (Geneva) 1.059
Romans 15 (ODRV) 1.054
Matthew 22 (Tyndale) 1.054
Proverbs 11 (AKJV) 1.051
1 John 5 (Geneva) 1.05
James 4 (AKJV) 1.047
Matthew 22 (AKJV) 1.047
Ephesians 6 (AKJV) 1.046
1 Peter 3 (AKJV) 1.046
Proverbs 3 (AKJV) 1.041
Matthew 6 (Geneva) 1.037
Matthew 25 (AKJV) 1.036
John 4 (AKJV) 1.035
Hebrews 11 (Geneva) 1.034
John 6 (Tyndale) 1.025
Matthew 25 (ODRV) 1.025
1 John 4 (AKJV) 1.024
Romans 14 (Geneva) 1.024
1 John 2 (AKJV) 1.024
Colossians 1 (AKJV) 1.013
Galatians 5 (Geneva) 1.008
Hebrews 12 (AKJV) 1.008
1 Corinthians 3 (AKJV) 1.004
Philippians 3 (ODRV) 1.002
1 John 4 (Tyndale) 1.0
2 Peter 1 (AKJV) 0.999
Matthew 22 (ODRV) 0.996
2 Corinthians 4 (AKJV) 0.996
Psalms 37 (AKJV) 0.981
Romans 13 (ODRV) 0.978
Galatians 5 (AKJV) 0.969
1 John 3 (AKJV) 0.967
Hebrews 11 (AKJV) 0.963
Philippians 4 (AKJV) 0.962
Romans 8 (ODRV) 0.95
Romans 8 (Geneva) 0.949
Romans 12 (AKJV) 0.936
1 Corinthians 15 (AKJV) 0.934
1 Corinthians 15 (Geneva) 0.875
1 Corinthians 15 (ODRV) 0.82
Romans 8 (AKJV) 0.805
Diversity: 0.989
Evenness: 0.994
Verse Prominence
Isaiah 1.14 (AKJV) 1.902
Isaiah 58.13 (Geneva) 1.902
Isaiah 1.11 (Geneva) 1.901
Romans 4.15 (AKJV) 1.896
Romans 4.15 (Geneva) 1.896
John 15.19 (AKJV) 1.896
Psalms 119.103 (AKJV) 1.895
1 John 1.3 (AKJV) 1.887
James 3.15 (ODRV) 1.876
John 6.44 (Wycliffe) 0.952
Deuteronomy 4.17 (Douay-Rheims) 0.952
Leviticus 15.5 (Douay-Rheims) 0.952
Colossians 1.8 (Tyndale) 0.952
Hosea 11.4 (Geneva) 0.951
Proverbs 24.13 (Geneva) 0.951
Luke 10.27 (ODRV) 0.951
Psalms 16.2 (AKJV) 0.951
Ephesians 6.2 (AKJV) 0.951
1 John 5.2 (Geneva) 0.951
2 Peter 1.3 (AKJV) 0.95
Romans 8.5 (ODRV) 0.95
Psalms 16.2 (Geneva) 0.95
Canticles 1.3 (AKJV) 0.95
John 4.34 (AKJV) 0.95
Galatians 5.23 (AKJV) 0.95
Isaiah 1.12 (AKJV) 0.95
Revelation 4.10 (AKJV) 0.95
Matthew 25.37 (ODRV) 0.95
Matthew 25.40 (AKJV) 0.95
1 Corinthians 15.48 (Geneva) 0.949
1 Corinthians 15.47 (ODRV) 0.949
John 15.12 (ODRV) 0.949
Romans 14.17 (Geneva) 0.949
Galatians 6.15 (Geneva) 0.949
Matthew 22.40 (AKJV) 0.949
Proverbs 11.17 (AKJV) 0.949
Psalms 19.11 (AKJV) 0.949
1 John 2.5 (AKJV) 0.949
Matthew 26.11 (ODRV) 0.949
Ephesians 3.8 (ODRV) 0.948
1 John 4.21 (AKJV) 0.948
John 15.19 (ODRV) 0.948
2 Thessalonians 3.2 (AKJV) 0.948
James 4.2 (AKJV) 0.948
Isaiah 1.13 (AKJV) 0.948
Matthew 6.20 (Geneva) 0.948
1 Corinthians 15.47 (AKJV) 0.947
Psalms 16.3 (AKJV) 0.947
1 Corinthians 3.4 (AKJV) 0.947
1 John 4.20 (Geneva) 0.947
Romans 8.1 (Geneva) 0.946
Isaiah 1.11 (AKJV) 0.946
Matthew 22.38 (AKJV) 0.945
Romans 8.2 (AKJV) 0.945
Luke 11.2 (Geneva) 0.945
Matthew 22.37 (ODRV) 0.945
Psalms 34.8 (Geneva) 0.944
Psalms 37.4 (AKJV) 0.944
Matthew 25.35 (ODRV) 0.944
John 13.34 (ODRV) 0.944
John 14.15 (ODRV) 0.944
Psalms 4.7 (AKJV) 0.944
1 Peter 3.8 (AKJV) 0.944
Ephesians 3.18 (AKJV) 0.943
2 Peter 1.4 (AKJV) 0.943
1 John 3.14 (AKJV) 0.943
2 Corinthians 13.11 (Geneva) 0.943
John 4.24 (Geneva) 0.942
Psalms 4.6 (AKJV) 0.942
John 6.44 (Tyndale) 0.941
Romans 15.5 (AKJV) 0.941
1 John 4.16 (Tyndale) 0.94
1 John 4.20 (AKJV) 0.94
Hebrews 11.26 (Geneva) 0.939
Romans 12.11 (AKJV) 0.939
Romans 13.7 (ODRV) 0.939
Psalms 30.5 (AKJV) 0.939
Hebrews 12.23 (AKJV) 0.938
Galatians 5.25 (AKJV) 0.937
Galatians 5.25 (Geneva) 0.937
2 Corinthians 4.6 (AKJV) 0.937
Colossians 1.12 (AKJV) 0.936
Romans 8.9 (AKJV) 0.934
Exodus 20.8 (ODRV) 0.933
Proverbs 3.17 (AKJV) 0.933
James 4.1 (AKJV) 0.93
Matthew 25.34 (ODRV) 0.929
Romans 15.13 (ODRV) 0.929
Philippians 4.7 (AKJV) 0.928
Matthew 22.39 (ODRV) 0.927
Ephesians 3.19 (Tyndale) 0.927
Hebrews 11.1 (AKJV) 0.925
Galatians 5.22 (AKJV) 0.922
Matthew 22.37 (Tyndale) 0.922
John 4.24 (AKJV) 0.898
Philippians 3.20 (ODRV) 0.892
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
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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: 0.938
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Canticles 5.553
2 Thessalonians 5.458
Leviticus 5.275
Hosea 5.053
2 Peter 4.966
Colossians 4.865
1 John 4.816
James 4.742
Galatians 4.431
Hebrews 3.464
John 3.044
1 Corinthians 2.96
Isaiah 2.868
Romans 2.295
Matthew 2.07
Psalms 1.078
Diversity: 0.968
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Hosea 11 3.162
Psalms 110 3.158
Canticles 1 3.15
Psalms 30 3.131
2 Thessalonians 3 3.122
Leviticus 19 3.112
Psalms 19 3.077
Isaiah 58 3.073
Psalms 4 3.067
Isaiah 53 3.064
1 John 4 3.055
Psalms 16 3.039
James 4 3.029
John 13 3.021
John 4 3.02
1 John 2 3.016
John 15 3.005
Colossians 1 2.999
Romans 14 2.994
1 Corinthians 3 2.966
Matthew 22 2.966
2 Peter 1 2.952
Galatians 5 2.941
John 1 2.929
Isaiah 1 2.91
Romans 12 2.87
Hebrews 13 2.865
Matthew 25 2.856
1 Corinthians 15 2.791
Hebrews 11 2.78
Romans 8 2.623
Diversity: 0.978
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
1 John 2.10 2.221
Colossians 1.8 2.221
Isaiah 58.14 2.219
1 John 2.5 2.219
Colossians 1.7 2.219
1 John 4.21 2.218
Matthew 22.40 2.217
Isaiah 1.14 2.217
Hebrews 13.1 2.216
2 Thessalonians 3.1 2.216
Isaiah 1.13 2.215
Psalms 19.11 2.215
James 4.2 2.214
2 Peter 1.3 2.214
Leviticus 19.18 2.212
2 Thessalonians 3.2 2.212
Isaiah 1.12 2.212
Isaiah 58.13 2.212
Psalms 19.10 2.212
1 Corinthians 3.4 2.211
Matthew 22.38 2.21
Matthew 22.39 2.21
Psalms 16.2 2.209
Canticles 1.3 2.209
Isaiah 1.11 2.209
Hosea 11.4 2.208
John 1.4 2.205
John 13.34 2.204
Psalms 16.3 2.204
John 15.19 2.203
Isaiah 53.10 2.203
Romans 8.9 2.202
Matthew 22.37 2.202
Psalms 110.3 2.201
John 4.24 2.198
Romans 12.11 2.197
Psalms 4.7 2.197
John 1.3 2.192
Romans 14.17 2.19
Psalms 4.6 2.188
James 4.1 2.185
Matthew 25.34 2.183
Galatians 5.22 2.18
Hebrews 11.1 2.177
2 Peter 1.4 2.175
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase