Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon preached before the queen at White-Hall, on the fast, July 15. 1691. By R. Meggott, D.D. Dean of Winchester, and chaplain to Their Majesties. Published by her Majesties special command.

Meggott, Richard, d. 1692
Publisher: printed for Tho Bennet at the Half Moon in St Paul s Church yard
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1691
Approximate Era: WilliamAndMary
TCP ID: A50553 ESTC ID: R217896 STC ID: M1630A
Subject Headings: 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 12.6% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 8.4% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 77.2% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 16.7% -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) 9.3% -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 (ODRV) 6.131
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 3.948
Old Testament (Geneva) 2.565
New Testament (Geneva) 1.442
New Testament (ODRV) 1.362
Old Testament (AKJV) 0.454
New Testament (AKJV) 0.072
Diversity: 0.96
Evenness: 0.99
Book Prominence
Amos (AKJV) 6.468
Hosea (AKJV) 6.356
2 Samuel (AKJV) 6.29
Susanna (AKJV) 3.321
Nahum (AKJV) 3.302
Lamentations (ODRV) 3.226
1 Chronicles (AKJV) 3.202
Amos (Geneva) 3.167
4 Kings (Douay-Rheims) 3.118
2 Samuel (Geneva) 3.108
2 Kings (AKJV) 3.101
2 Kings (Douay-Rheims) 3.016
Ezekiel (AKJV) 2.963
Exodus (Geneva) 2.893
Jeremiah (Douay-Rheims) 2.841
Exodus (AKJV) 2.75
Genesis (Geneva) 2.722
Jeremiah (AKJV) 2.68
Hebrews (Geneva) 2.591
Isaiah (Geneva) 2.428
Hebrews (AKJV) 2.306
Isaiah (AKJV) 2.051
Proverbs (AKJV) 1.93
Matthew (ODRV) 1.92
Psalms (Geneva) 1.518
Romans (AKJV) 1.491
Psalms (AKJV) 0.552
Diversity: 0.97
Evenness: 0.993
Chapter Prominence
2 Samuel 24 (AKJV) 5.114
Amos 5 (AKJV) 5.09
Hosea 6 (AKJV) 5.08
Exodus 30 (AKJV) 2.561
Exodus 30 (Geneva) 2.561
2 Kings 19 (AKJV) 2.559
1 Chronicles 21 (AKJV) 2.557
Lamentations 4 (ODRV) 2.556
Susanna 1 (AKJV) 2.556
2 Samuel 24 (Geneva) 2.555
4 Kings 6 (Douay-Rheims) 2.554
2 Samuel 18 (Geneva) 2.554
Nahum 1 (AKJV) 2.553
2 Samuel 1 (Geneva) 2.553
Isaiah 13 (Geneva) 2.551
Jeremiah 4 (Douay-Rheims) 2.549
Isaiah 13 (AKJV) 2.548
Psalms 74 (Geneva) 2.548
Jeremiah 4 (AKJV) 2.546
Jeremiah 18 (AKJV) 2.543
Psalms 74 (AKJV) 2.543
Jeremiah 5 (Douay-Rheims) 2.54
Amos 5 (Geneva) 2.532
Genesis 1 (Geneva) 2.528
Psalms 83 (AKJV) 2.522
2 Kings 1 (Douay-Rheims) 2.52
Ezekiel 18 (AKJV) 2.514
Psalms 58 (AKJV) 2.511
Matthew 10 (ODRV) 2.481
Psalms 103 (AKJV) 2.468
Hebrews 10 (Geneva) 2.459
Psalms 119 (Geneva) 2.438
Romans 3 (AKJV) 2.435
Proverbs 14 (AKJV) 2.415
Hebrews 11 (AKJV) 2.391
Hebrews 10 (AKJV) 2.387
Diversity: 0.977
Evenness: 0.993
Verse Prominence
2 Samuel 24.14 (AKJV) 3.998
Amos 5.18 (AKJV) 3.995
Hosea 6.3 (AKJV) 3.995
Hosea 6.1 (AKJV) 3.987
Exodus 30.13 (AKJV) 2.0
2 Samuel 18.1 (Geneva) 2.0
Exodus 30.12 (Geneva) 2.0
Susanna 1.22 (AKJV) 2.0
Jeremiah 5.15 (Douay-Rheims) 2.0
Isaiah 13.15 (AKJV) 2.0
Jeremiah 4.19 (Douay-Rheims) 1.999
4 Kings 6.25 (Douay-Rheims) 1.999
Lamentations 4.10 (ODRV) 1.999
Exodus 30.12 (AKJV) 1.999
2 Samuel 24.10 (AKJV) 1.999
Isaiah 13.16 (Geneva) 1.999
Genesis 1.30 (Geneva) 1.999
Jeremiah 4.20 (AKJV) 1.999
Psalms 74.4 (Geneva) 1.999
Psalms 74.7 (AKJV) 1.999
2 Samuel 24.14 (Geneva) 1.998
2 Kings 19.35 (AKJV) 1.998
1 Chronicles 21.1 (AKJV) 1.998
Nahum 1.6 (AKJV) 1.998
2 Samuel 1.20 (Geneva) 1.998
Hebrews 11.32 (AKJV) 1.998
Psalms 119.72 (Geneva) 1.998
Psalms 58.4 (AKJV) 1.997
Psalms 74.8 (AKJV) 1.997
Hosea 6.2 (AKJV) 1.996
Ezekiel 18.20 (AKJV) 1.996
2 Kings 1.22 (Douay-Rheims) 1.996
Isaiah 13.18 (AKJV) 1.996
Amos 5.19 (Geneva) 1.996
Psalms 103.9 (AKJV) 1.995
Jeremiah 18.7 (AKJV) 1.995
Psalms 83.6 (AKJV) 1.994
Proverbs 14.28 (AKJV) 1.994
Matthew 10.28 (ODRV) 1.994
Jeremiah 18.8 (AKJV) 1.993
Romans 3.2 (AKJV) 1.991
Psalms 58.5 (AKJV) 1.988
Hebrews 11.36 (AKJV) 1.988
Hebrews 11.37 (AKJV) 1.988
Hebrews 10.31 (Geneva) 1.966
Hebrews 10.31 (AKJV) 1.966
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: 0.929
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Lamentations 6.45
Hosea 5.946
2 Kings 5.825
Numbers 5.714
Ezekiel 5.539
2 Samuel 5.529
1 Samuel 5.36
Exodus 5.028
Deuteronomy 5.012
Jeremiah 4.901
Hebrews 4.357
Proverbs 4.095
Isaiah 3.761
Psalms 1.971
Diversity: 0.957
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Numbers 1 4.334
1 Samuel 11 4.315
Psalms 79 4.313
Isaiah 13 4.311
Exodus 30 4.307
Psalms 74 4.301
2 Samuel 14 4.3
2 Kings 19 4.288
2 Kings 6 4.284
Jeremiah 18 4.282
2 Samuel 21 4.274
Jeremiah 4 4.267
Deuteronomy 1 4.265
2 Samuel 1 4.26
Hosea 6 4.258
Ezekiel 18 4.249
Lamentations 4 4.248
2 Samuel 15 4.242
Psalms 103 4.22
Lamentations 3 4.214
Jeremiah 5 4.194
Proverbs 14 4.185
Hebrews 11 3.902
Diversity: 0.966
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Numbers 1.19 3.448
Lamentations 4.10 3.447
2 Kings 19.30 3.447
Deuteronomy 1.37 3.447
Isaiah 13.16 3.447
2 Samuel 15.1 3.446
Jeremiah 4.20 3.446
2 Samuel 21.7 3.446
1 Samuel 11.8 3.445
Jeremiah 5.15 3.445
2 Kings 6.25 3.445
2 Samuel 1.22 3.445
Psalms 103.9 3.444
Ezekiel 18.20 3.444
Isaiah 13.15 3.444
Psalms 79.2 3.444
Proverbs 14.28 3.443
Exodus 30.13 3.441
Jeremiah 4.19 3.441
Hosea 6.2 3.44
Exodus 30.12 3.439
Hosea 6.3 3.439
Hebrews 11.36 3.434
Hebrews 11.32 3.434
Jeremiah 18.7 3.433
Jeremiah 18.8 3.433
Lamentations 3.33 3.432
Hosea 6.1 3.43
Hebrews 11.37 3.421
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase