Early English Printed Sermons


The shepherd, or, The pastoral charge and obedience due to it instituted by God as a necessary means to preserve the sheep from straying.

Laney, Benjamin, 1591-1675
Publisher: Printed for Timothy Garthwait
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1668
Approximate Era: CharlesII
TCP ID: A49481 ESTC ID: R7360 STC ID: L351
Subject Headings: Bishops -- England;
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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 12.1% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 8.2% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 85.4% 100.0%
Foreign Percentage of units with foreign text 0.3% -inf%
NonLatinAlphabet Percentage of units with a NonLatinAlphabet placeholder 0.6% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 11.8% -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) 4.6% -inf%
foreign_cited Percentage of units with QP, foreign text, and an adjacent citation 0.3% -inf%
foreign_cited_exact Percentage of units with QP, foreign text, and an adjacent matching citation 0.3% -inf%
foreign_italicized Percentage of units with QP and foreign italicized text 0.3% -inf%
foreign_italicized_cited Percentage of units with QP, italicized foreign text, and an adjacent citation 0.3% -inf%
foreign_italicized_cited_exact Percentage of units with QP, italicized foreign text, and an adjacent matching citation 0.3% -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: 0.875
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Apocrypha (AKJV) 7.942
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 3.948
Old Testament (Geneva) 2.565
New Testament (Tyndale) 2.478
New Testament (Geneva) 1.442
New Testament (ODRV) 1.362
Old Testament (AKJV) 0.454
New Testament (AKJV) 0.072
Diversity: 0.976
Evenness: 0.998
Book Prominence
1 Peter (Geneva) 3.963
Mark (AKJV) 2.06
Titus (ODRV) 2.051
Numbers (AKJV) 2.001
Ezekiel (Geneva) 1.994
Ezekiel (AKJV) 1.902
2 Peter (Geneva) 1.878
Ecclesiastes (Douay-Rheims) 1.859
Galatians (Tyndale) 1.857
2 Peter (AKJV) 1.853
Hebrews (Tyndale) 1.822
Galatians (Geneva) 1.789
Ecclesiastes (Geneva) 1.778
Acts (Geneva) 1.729
Job (Douay-Rheims) 1.696
Galatians (ODRV) 1.688
Ecclesiasticus (AKJV) 1.632
Galatians (AKJV) 1.601
Hebrews (Geneva) 1.531
Ecclesiastes (AKJV) 1.524
Luke (Tyndale) 1.497
1 Peter (AKJV) 1.485
Acts (AKJV) 1.439
John (Geneva) 1.403
John (Tyndale) 1.395
Luke (Geneva) 1.374
Ephesians (AKJV) 1.322
Hebrews (AKJV) 1.245
John (ODRV) 1.217
Matthew (Geneva) 1.111
John (AKJV) 1.089
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 1.083
Luke (AKJV) 1.075
Romans (ODRV) 1.022
1 Corinthians (Geneva) 1.001
Isaiah (AKJV) 0.99
Matthew (ODRV) 0.859
Romans (Geneva) 0.813
Matthew (AKJV) 0.758
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 0.705
Psalms (Geneva) 0.458
Romans (AKJV) 0.43
Psalms (AKJV) -0.509
Diversity: 0.98
Evenness: 0.997
Chapter Prominence
John 16 (AKJV) 3.554
1 Peter 2 (Geneva) 3.498
Numbers 30 (AKJV) 1.811
Ezekiel 33 (Geneva) 1.805
John 9 (Tyndale) 1.8
Matthew 9 (Geneva) 1.799
Job 20 (Douay-Rheims) 1.798
Mark 16 (AKJV) 1.796
Acts 15 (AKJV) 1.791
Acts 5 (Geneva) 1.789
Ezekiel 33 (AKJV) 1.789
Acts 10 (AKJV) 1.787
John 20 (Geneva) 1.787
1 Corinthians 5 (Geneva) 1.786
John 20 (Tyndale) 1.783
Ecclesiastes 3 (Douay-Rheims) 1.782
Hebrews 11 (Tyndale) 1.775
Ecclesiastes 1 (Geneva) 1.773
Matthew 18 (Geneva) 1.771
John 10 (Geneva) 1.77
Isaiah 53 (AKJV) 1.765
Ecclesiastes 1 (AKJV) 1.763
Matthew 15 (ODRV) 1.763
Ecclesiasticus 33 (AKJV) 1.762
John 10 (AKJV) 1.759
Ephesians 3 (AKJV) 1.757
Luke 16 (Tyndale) 1.746
Galatians 6 (Geneva) 1.74
Matthew 16 (AKJV) 1.738
John 10 (ODRV) 1.737
Galatians 5 (Tyndale) 1.734
Titus 2 (ODRV) 1.733
Luke 16 (AKJV) 1.73
Luke 12 (Geneva) 1.725
Hebrews 11 (Geneva) 1.715
Romans 1 (Geneva) 1.715
Galatians 5 (ODRV) 1.71
Romans 1 (AKJV) 1.706
Psalms 119 (Geneva) 1.692
Galatians 5 (Geneva) 1.69
1 Corinthians 11 (ODRV) 1.69
Matthew 7 (AKJV) 1.685
2 Peter 1 (Geneva) 1.682
2 Peter 1 (AKJV) 1.681
Matthew 22 (ODRV) 1.678
1 Peter 5 (AKJV) 1.656
Galatians 5 (AKJV) 1.65
Hebrews 11 (AKJV) 1.645
Romans 8 (ODRV) 1.632
1 Corinthians 15 (AKJV) 1.616
Psalms 119 (AKJV) 1.598
1 Corinthians 15 (Geneva) 1.557
Ephesians 4 (AKJV) 1.466
Diversity: 0.982
Evenness: 0.997
Verse Prominence
1 Peter 2.25 (Geneva) 3.443
John 16.13 (AKJV) 3.434
Galatians 5.2 (AKJV) 1.723
Galatians 5.2 (Geneva) 1.723
Hebrews 11.13 (Geneva) 1.723
Ephesians 3.5 (AKJV) 1.723
Matthew 9.36 (Geneva) 1.723
John 9.28 (Tyndale) 1.723
Acts 5.4 (Geneva) 1.723
Job 20.21 (Douay-Rheims) 1.723
Ezekiel 33.32 (AKJV) 1.722
Hebrews 11.14 (AKJV) 1.721
Hebrews 11.16 (Geneva) 1.721
Acts 10.12 (AKJV) 1.721
Ecclesiasticus 33.13 (AKJV) 1.721
Acts 15.28 (AKJV) 1.721
Ezekiel 33.32 (Geneva) 1.721
Ecclesiastes 1.8 (Geneva) 1.72
Ecclesiastes 3.19 (Douay-Rheims) 1.72
John 10.11 (AKJV) 1.72
Hebrews 11.16 (Tyndale) 1.719
1 Corinthians 5.5 (Geneva) 1.719
Ecclesiastes 1.8 (AKJV) 1.719
1 Corinthians 11.25 (ODRV) 1.719
Matthew 22.29 (ODRV) 1.719
Numbers 30.2 (AKJV) 1.719
Isaiah 53.6 (AKJV) 1.719
Romans 1.23 (AKJV) 1.718
Psalms 119.105 (AKJV) 1.718
1 Corinthians 15.53 (AKJV) 1.718
Romans 1.22 (Geneva) 1.718
Romans 1.22 (AKJV) 1.718
John 20.21 (Tyndale) 1.717
Matthew 15.24 (ODRV) 1.717
Galatians 5.1 (ODRV) 1.717
1 Peter 5.4 (AKJV) 1.717
Galatians 5.1 (Geneva) 1.717
John 10.11 (Geneva) 1.716
John 10.27 (ODRV) 1.716
John 20.23 (Geneva) 1.715
Matthew 7.15 (AKJV) 1.715
Galatians 6.5 (Geneva) 1.715
Mark 16.15 (AKJV) 1.713
Matthew 18.17 (Geneva) 1.713
Galatians 5.16 (Tyndale) 1.713
Psalms 119.105 (Geneva) 1.712
Luke 16.9 (Tyndale) 1.711
Luke 12.19 (Geneva) 1.711
Luke 16.9 (AKJV) 1.706
2 Peter 1.21 (AKJV) 1.703
2 Peter 1.21 (Geneva) 1.703
Matthew 16.26 (AKJV) 1.698
Ephesians 4.11 (AKJV) 1.697
Romans 8.14 (ODRV) 1.694
Titus 2.12 (ODRV) 1.689
1 Corinthians 15.53 (Geneva) 1.685
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: 0.936
Evenness: 0.988
Book Prominence
Numbers 9.098
Romans 6.572
Titus 4.187
2 Peter 3.979
Mark 3.957
Ezekiel 3.659
Galatians 3.444
1 Peter 3.232
Ephesians 3.101
2 Corinthians 2.961
Hebrews 2.477
Acts 2.06
John 2.057
Luke 2.045
1 Corinthians 1.973
Matthew 1.083
Psalms 0.092
Diversity: 0.97
Evenness: 0.988
Chapter Prominence
Numbers 30 4.626
1 Peter 5 4.457
John 16 4.449
Matthew 28 4.411
Romans 1 4.209
Ephesians 4 4.187
Mark 15 2.298
Ezekiel 33 2.212
1 Corinthians 5 2.199
Matthew 9 2.18
John 20 2.171
Acts 15 2.168
Ephesians 3 2.165
Hebrews 4 2.157
Luke 13 2.152
Acts 5 2.138
John 10 2.134
1 Peter 4 2.133
Galatians 3 2.128
Titus 2 2.122
Matthew 18 2.104
Matthew 22 2.065
2 Peter 1 2.052
Galatians 5 2.041
Luke 16 2.007
1 Peter 1 2.0
Matthew 6 1.999
1 Corinthians 1 1.988
Hebrews 13 1.965
Matthew 7 1.963
1 Corinthians 11 1.958
Luke 12 1.954
2 Corinthians 5 1.951
Psalms 119 1.93
1 Corinthians 15 1.891
Hebrews 11 1.88
1 Peter 2 1.83
Diversity: 0.973
Evenness: 0.992
Verse Prominence
Numbers 30.2 4.527
John 16.13 4.527
1 Peter 5.4 4.521
Matthew 28.19 4.48
Mark 15.24 2.272
Acts 15.7 2.269
Ephesians 3.5 2.267
Matthew 7.19 2.267
Luke 13.26 2.267
Hebrews 11.14 2.266
Matthew 9.36 2.266
Galatians 5.2 2.264
Galatians 3.3 2.263
1 Corinthians 1.3 2.263
John 10.27 2.261
Matthew 22.29 2.261
1 Peter 2.25 2.259
Romans 1.23 2.259
1 Corinthians 11.24 2.259
John 20.23 2.259
Matthew 6.9 2.259
2 Peter 1.21 2.259
1 Corinthians 5.4 2.258
John 10.11 2.258
Galatians 5.1 2.257
Acts 5.4 2.257
1 Peter 4.15 2.255
Matthew 18.17 2.254
1 Corinthians 15.54 2.254
John 20.21 2.253
1 Peter 1.12 2.25
Luke 12.19 2.246
Ezekiel 33.31 2.245
Psalms 119.105 2.244
Luke 16.9 2.243
Hebrews 4.12 2.233
Matthew 28.20 2.221
Titus 2.12 2.218
Hebrews 13.17 2.217
2 Corinthians 5.10 2.211
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase