Early English Printed Sermons


The Christians blessed choice, or, The godly mans resolution to cleave fast to God and his truth, notwithstanding trials, troubles, and persecutions very seasonable for these times / by J.H.

Hart, John, D.D
Publisher: Printed by J W for Eliz Andrews
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1668
Approximate Era: CharlesII
TCP ID: A45703 ESTC ID: R40135 STC ID: H932
Subject Headings: Bible. -- N.T. -- Hebrews XI, 25-26; Christian life; Faith; 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 13.9% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 8.6% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 68.4% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 19.8% -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) 10.7% -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
Old Testament (AKJV) 10.176
New Testament (Vulgate) 6.303
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 2.559
Old Testament (Geneva) 1.177
New Testament (Tyndale) 1.09
New Testament (Geneva) 0.053
New Testament (ODRV) -0.027
New Testament (AKJV) -1.317
Diversity: 0.982
Evenness: 0.991
Book Prominence
James (Tyndale) 2.703
Daniel (AKJV) 2.698
2 Timothy (ODRV) 2.68
Colossians (Geneva) 2.564
1 Peter (ODRV) 2.507
John (AKJV) 1.757
Romans (Geneva) 1.481
Joshua (Douay-Rheims) 1.369
Luke (Vulgate) 1.341
Mark (Geneva) 1.296
2 Timothy (Tyndale) 1.259
Lamentations (Geneva) 1.249
Daniel (Geneva) 1.204
1 Thessalonians (Geneva) 1.155
2 Timothy (Geneva) 1.128
James (Geneva) 1.048
1 John (Tyndale) 1.022
Hebrews (Tyndale) 1.02
1 Thessalonians (AKJV) 1.02
1 John (Geneva) 1.01
Colossians (AKJV) 0.963
Revelation (Geneva) 0.958
2 Timothy (AKJV) 0.939
Acts (Tyndale) 0.937
Revelation (AKJV) 0.936
Deuteronomy (AKJV) 0.903
1 Peter (Geneva) 0.888
1 John (AKJV) 0.871
Galatians (AKJV) 0.799
Acts (ODRV) 0.783
Job (Geneva) 0.771
1 Timothy (AKJV) 0.763
Hebrews (ODRV) 0.759
Hebrews (Geneva) 0.728
Philippians (ODRV) 0.721
2 Corinthians (ODRV) 0.716
1 Peter (AKJV) 0.683
Proverbs (Douay-Rheims) 0.663
Acts (AKJV) 0.636
1 Corinthians (Tyndale) 0.598
2 Corinthians (AKJV) 0.576
Luke (Geneva) 0.572
Genesis (AKJV) 0.572
Proverbs (Geneva) 0.54
Romans (Tyndale) 0.483
Luke (ODRV) 0.478
Job (AKJV) 0.477
Hebrews (AKJV) 0.443
John (ODRV) 0.415
Matthew (Tyndale) 0.385
Matthew (Geneva) 0.309
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 0.281
Luke (AKJV) 0.273
Isaiah (AKJV) 0.188
Psalms (AKJV) 0.16
Proverbs (AKJV) 0.067
Matthew (ODRV) 0.057
Matthew (AKJV) -0.044
Psalms (Geneva) -0.344
Romans (AKJV) -0.372
Diversity: 0.987
Evenness: 0.986
Chapter Prominence
Matthew 19 (ODRV) 3.692
John 3 (AKJV) 2.705
James 5 (Tyndale) 1.859
Daniel 3 (AKJV) 1.839
Revelation 2 (AKJV) 1.828
1 Peter 3 (ODRV) 1.822
Colossians 3 (Geneva) 1.796
2 Timothy 3 (ODRV) 1.793
John 15 (AKJV) 1.792
Psalms 34 (AKJV) 1.775
Romans 14 (Geneva) 1.757
Matthew 10 (AKJV) 1.727
Luke 16 (Vulgate) 0.926
Genesis 39 (AKJV) 0.918
Psalms 11 (Geneva) 0.917
Joshua 24 (Douay-Rheims) 0.917
Luke 14 (ODRV) 0.916
1 Thessalonians 2 (Geneva) 0.916
Matthew 21 (Geneva) 0.913
Daniel 3 (Geneva) 0.91
Acts 5 (ODRV) 0.908
Mark 16 (Geneva) 0.908
Revelation 2 (Geneva) 0.907
Proverbs 12 (Geneva) 0.905
Proverbs 3 (Douay-Rheims) 0.905
Proverbs 12 (AKJV) 0.904
Acts 4 (Tyndale) 0.904
Job 20 (AKJV) 0.904
Acts 5 (AKJV) 0.901
Job 17 (Geneva) 0.901
Luke 17 (ODRV) 0.899
1 Thessalonians 2 (AKJV) 0.899
John 16 (ODRV) 0.894
Revelation 1 (AKJV) 0.893
Acts 5 (Tyndale) 0.892
Hebrews 12 (Tyndale) 0.891
James 5 (Geneva) 0.891
Hebrews 11 (Tyndale) 0.891
2 Timothy 3 (Tyndale) 0.89
Job 1 (AKJV) 0.888
John 15 (ODRV) 0.887
Romans 1 (Tyndale) 0.883
Isaiah 53 (AKJV) 0.882
Psalms 11 (AKJV) 0.881
Acts 4 (AKJV) 0.88
Luke 9 (ODRV) 0.88
Proverbs 1 (Douay-Rheims) 0.877
Proverbs 3 (Geneva) 0.874
Matthew 10 (Tyndale) 0.872
Luke 16 (Geneva) 0.867
Matthew 10 (Geneva) 0.867
2 Timothy 2 (Geneva) 0.866
1 Corinthians 3 (Tyndale) 0.864
1 John 2 (Geneva) 0.861
1 Corinthians 3 (ODRV) 0.861
Job 14 (AKJV) 0.86
1 Peter 4 (Geneva) 0.859
Matthew 16 (AKJV) 0.854
Matthew 10 (ODRV) 0.852
Deuteronomy 32 (AKJV) 0.852
Matthew 24 (Geneva) 0.852
Hebrews 11 (ODRV) 0.85
1 Peter 1 (ODRV) 0.847
Lamentations 3 (Geneva) 0.841
1 John 3 (Tyndale) 0.836
John 3 (ODRV) 0.835
Matthew 6 (Geneva) 0.835
Matthew 25 (AKJV) 0.834
John 4 (AKJV) 0.833
Hebrews 11 (Geneva) 0.832
Hebrews 13 (Geneva) 0.832
Galatians 3 (AKJV) 0.83
Luke 12 (AKJV) 0.829
1 Peter 1 (Geneva) 0.826
Matthew 16 (ODRV) 0.825
1 John 2 (AKJV) 0.823
1 John 3 (Geneva) 0.815
1 Peter 4 (AKJV) 0.81
1 Peter 1 (AKJV) 0.802
Colossians 3 (AKJV) 0.796
2 Timothy 2 (AKJV) 0.795
2 Corinthians 4 (AKJV) 0.794
Matthew 22 (ODRV) 0.794
1 Timothy 6 (AKJV) 0.779
Hebrews 13 (AKJV) 0.779
Matthew 6 (AKJV) 0.764
Hebrews 11 (AKJV) 0.761
Matthew 5 (AKJV) 0.754
Romans 6 (Geneva) 0.748
2 Corinthians 5 (ODRV) 0.735
Romans 6 (AKJV) 0.732
Philippians 2 (ODRV) 0.718
Diversity: 0.99
Evenness: 0.987
Verse Prominence
Matthew 19.29 (ODRV) 2.896
Hebrews 11.37 (AKJV) 2.162
John 3.36 (AKJV) 2.161
James 5.1 (Tyndale) 1.449
1 Peter 3.17 (ODRV) 1.445
Daniel 3.18 (AKJV) 1.443
John 15.19 (AKJV) 1.44
Revelation 2.10 (AKJV) 1.44
Colossians 3.4 (Geneva) 1.439
Hebrews 11.26 (Geneva) 1.436
2 Timothy 2.12 (AKJV) 1.436
Psalms 34.19 (AKJV) 1.432
2 Timothy 3.12 (ODRV) 1.431
Romans 14.23 (Geneva) 1.429
Hebrews 11.6 (ODRV) 1.422
Matthew 10.28 (AKJV) 1.419
1 Timothy 6.6 (AKJV) 1.406
Acts 5.27 (ODRV) 0.725
Luke 16.22 (Vulgate) 0.724
Daniel 3.13 (Geneva) 0.724
Acts 5.29 (AKJV) 0.724
Acts 5.42 (AKJV) 0.724
John 15.21 (ODRV) 0.724
Hebrews 13.13 (Geneva) 0.724
Psalms 11.5 (Geneva) 0.724
Matthew 21.22 (Geneva) 0.723
Acts 4.18 (Tyndale) 0.723
John 15.18 (AKJV) 0.723
1 Thessalonians 2.12 (AKJV) 0.723
1 Thessalonians 2.12 (Geneva) 0.723
Hebrews 11.3 (ODRV) 0.722
Acts 4.19 (AKJV) 0.722
1 Timothy 6.15 (AKJV) 0.722
Deuteronomy 32.9 (AKJV) 0.722
1 Corinthians 3.22 (Tyndale) 0.722
Isaiah 53.3 (AKJV) 0.722
James 5.1 (Geneva) 0.722
Hebrews 11.26 (Tyndale) 0.722
Luke 14.14 (ODRV) 0.722
Proverbs 1.27 (Douay-Rheims) 0.722
Acts 5.41 (ODRV) 0.721
Luke 17.33 (ODRV) 0.721
1 John 2.19 (Geneva) 0.721
Hebrews 12.29 (Tyndale) 0.721
Luke 9.23 (ODRV) 0.721
1 Corinthians 3.22 (ODRV) 0.721
Proverbs 3.15 (Douay-Rheims) 0.721
Hebrews 11.10 (AKJV) 0.721
2 Timothy 3.12 (Tyndale) 0.721
Hebrews 13.5 (AKJV) 0.721
Luke 16.20 (Geneva) 0.72
John 15.19 (ODRV) 0.72
Hebrews 11.25 (AKJV) 0.72
Daniel 3.17 (AKJV) 0.72
Hebrews 11.33 (AKJV) 0.72
Matthew 10.33 (Tyndale) 0.72
Revelation 2.10 (Geneva) 0.72
Lamentations 3.24 (Geneva) 0.72
Psalms 34.9 (AKJV) 0.72
Proverbs 3.10 (Geneva) 0.719
1 John 2.19 (AKJV) 0.719
Proverbs 12.26 (AKJV) 0.719
Matthew 10.28 (ODRV) 0.719
Matthew 5.10 (AKJV) 0.719
Matthew 24.13 (Geneva) 0.719
Matthew 10.28 (Geneva) 0.719
John 16.22 (ODRV) 0.719
Hebrews 11.24 (Geneva) 0.718
Hebrews 11.7 (AKJV) 0.718
1 Peter 4.17 (Geneva) 0.718
Job 20.5 (AKJV) 0.718
Proverbs 12.26 (Geneva) 0.717
1 Peter 1.9 (Geneva) 0.717
Genesis 39.9 (AKJV) 0.717
Isaiah 53.4 (AKJV) 0.717
John 3.18 (ODRV) 0.717
Matthew 6.21 (AKJV) 0.717
Matthew 6.21 (Geneva) 0.717
Job 1.22 (AKJV) 0.716
Psalms 11.6 (AKJV) 0.716
1 John 3.16 (Tyndale) 0.716
Hebrews 11.25 (ODRV) 0.715
Matthew 5.11 (AKJV) 0.715
1 Peter 4.18 (AKJV) 0.715
2 Timothy 2.7 (Geneva) 0.714
1 John 3.8 (Tyndale) 0.714
Joshua 24.15 (Douay-Rheims) 0.714
2 Timothy 2.7 (AKJV) 0.713
Hebrews 11.36 (AKJV) 0.713
Matthew 10.24 (Geneva) 0.713
Matthew 10.24 (AKJV) 0.713
1 Peter 1.5 (AKJV) 0.712
Philippians 2.15 (ODRV) 0.712
1 Peter 1.9 (ODRV) 0.711
Matthew 5.12 (AKJV) 0.71
Revelation 1.6 (AKJV) 0.71
1 Peter 1.4 (AKJV) 0.71
Luke 12.20 (AKJV) 0.71
Galatians 3.26 (AKJV) 0.709
Romans 1.17 (Tyndale) 0.708
1 John 3.16 (Geneva) 0.708
Mark 16.16 (Geneva) 0.707
Matthew 25.46 (AKJV) 0.706
Matthew 22.30 (ODRV) 0.702
Job 17.16 (Geneva) 0.701
Matthew 16.26 (AKJV) 0.698
Hebrews 11.1 (AKJV) 0.697
Acts 5.29 (Tyndale) 0.696
Job 14.14 (AKJV) 0.695
Matthew 16.26 (ODRV) 0.685
2 Corinthians 4.17 (AKJV) 0.682
Romans 6.23 (Geneva) 0.677
Romans 6.23 (AKJV) 0.676
John 4.24 (AKJV) 0.67
Colossians 3.2 (AKJV) 0.666
2 Corinthians 5.1 (ODRV) 0.664
Philippians 2.8 (ODRV) 0.614
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: 0.95
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Joshua 4.125
1 Thessalonians 3.922
Daniel 3.665
2 Timothy 3.557
James 3.492
1 Timothy 3.162
1 Peter 2.969
Revelation 2.874
Ephesians 2.838
2 Corinthians 2.698
Genesis 2.375
Hebrews 2.214
Proverbs 1.952
John 1.794
Luke 1.782
1 Corinthians 1.71
Isaiah 1.618
Romans 1.045
Matthew 0.82
Psalms -0.172
Diversity: 0.971
Evenness: 0.997
Chapter Prominence
Matthew 19 5.355
Genesis 39 2.714
Joshua 24 2.705
1 Thessalonians 2 2.7
Psalms 23 2.694
Proverbs 15 2.685
Daniel 6 2.682
Psalms 11 2.662
Luke 7 2.655
Psalms 34 2.644
Luke 9 2.635
Revelation 1 2.626
James 5 2.621
Isaiah 53 2.616
Matthew 21 2.591
Psalms 16 2.591
John 16 2.576
Psalms 9 2.574
Revelation 3 2.562
2 Corinthians 4 2.549
John 17 2.542
2 Timothy 2 2.539
1 Timothy 6 2.519
1 Corinthians 3 2.518
Romans 5 2.491
Romans 6 2.486
2 Timothy 3 2.481
Ephesians 2 2.478
Matthew 16 2.47
1 Peter 1 2.452
John 3 2.445
Romans 2 2.444
Hebrews 13 2.417
Hebrews 11 2.332
Matthew 5 2.221
Diversity: 0.98
Evenness: 0.998
Verse Prominence
Matthew 19.29 3.835
John 17.18 1.922
Daniel 6.14 1.922
Daniel 6.15 1.922
Proverbs 15.26 1.922
Luke 7.50 1.921
Daniel 6.16 1.92
James 5.5 1.92
1 Thessalonians 2.12 1.92
2 Timothy 3.11 1.919
Matthew 21.22 1.918
John 17.19 1.916
James 5.2 1.916
Revelation 3.10 1.916
James 5.1 1.915
James 5.3 1.915
James 5.4 1.915
1 Peter 1.9 1.914
2 Timothy 2.12 1.91
Luke 9.23 1.909
Isaiah 53.7 1.909
Psalms 34.19 1.909
Psalms 23.1 1.909
2 Timothy 2.3 1.908
Psalms 9.17 1.908
John 16.22 1.908
Revelation 1.6 1.906
1 Corinthians 3.21 1.906
Romans 5.2 1.906
Psalms 16.3 1.905
Psalms 11.6 1.905
Matthew 5.12 1.904
Hebrews 11.25 1.903
Hebrews 11.26 1.903
2 Timothy 3.12 1.903
John 3.36 1.903
1 Timothy 6.15 1.902
John 3.18 1.902
Isaiah 53.3 1.901
Hebrews 13.13 1.901
Matthew 5.11 1.901
Romans 2.7 1.899
Joshua 24.15 1.896
Hebrews 13.5 1.895
Ephesians 2.8 1.892
Genesis 39.9 1.888
Matthew 16.26 1.881
Romans 6.23 1.88
Romans 5.1 1.867
2 Corinthians 4.17 1.866
Hebrews 11.6 1.866
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase