Early English Printed Sermons


A New-Years gift for youth being the substance of a sermon, preached at the funeral of Mrs. Elizabeth Bell, (aged sixteen years, odd months) at St. M. Overies, in Southwark, Decemb. 1. 1686. upon those words (chosen by her) of Solomons / by Samuel Peck ...

Peck, Samuel
Publisher: Printed by Alex Milbourn for J Blare
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1687
Approximate Era: JamesII
TCP ID: A53925 ESTC ID: R40070 STC ID: P1036
Subject Headings: Bell, Elizabeth, d. 1686; Funeral sermons; 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 8.6% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 5.3% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 72.8% 100.0%
NonLatinAlphabet Percentage of units with a NonLatinAlphabet placeholder 0.7% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 22.5% -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) 5.3% -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: 0.805
Evenness: 0.886
Part Prominence
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 29.91
Old Testament (Vulgate) 6.01
New Testament (Vulgate) 2.884
Old Testament (ODRV) 1.323
Old Testament (Geneva) -2.242
New Testament (Geneva) -3.366
New Testament (ODRV) -3.446
Old Testament (AKJV) -4.354
New Testament (AKJV) -4.735
Diversity: 0.95
Evenness: 0.963
Book Prominence
Ecclesiastes (Douay-Rheims) 14.292
Ecclesiastes (Geneva) 5.388
Ecclesiastes (AKJV) 5.134
Psalms (Vulgate) 2.776
Titus (Geneva) 2.729
Titus (ODRV) 2.719
Matthew (Vulgate) 2.668
Hosea (AKJV) 2.63
2 Timothy (Geneva) 2.599
Colossians (Geneva) 2.564
1 Peter (ODRV) 2.507
Jeremiah (Geneva) 2.492
Titus (AKJV) 2.487
Deuteronomy (AKJV) 2.373
Jeremiah (AKJV) 2.288
Philippians (ODRV) 2.192
2 Corinthians (ODRV) 2.186
Philippians (AKJV) 2.179
John (Geneva) 2.071
2 Corinthians (AKJV) 2.046
Luke (Geneva) 2.042
Isaiah (Geneva) 2.035
Proverbs (Geneva) 2.011
John (ODRV) 1.886
Matthew (Geneva) 1.779
Psalms (ODRV) 1.731
Proverbs (AKJV) 1.538
Matthew (ODRV) 1.528
Diversity: 0.96
Evenness: 0.969
Chapter Prominence
Ecclesiastes 12 (Douay-Rheims) 12.14
Ecclesiastes 11 (Geneva) 4.817
Ecclesiastes 12 (Geneva) 4.813
Ecclesiastes 9 (AKJV) 4.801
Psalms 4 (Vulgate) 2.434
Deuteronomy 10 (AKJV) 2.43
Proverbs 9 (Geneva) 2.428
Deuteronomy 8 (AKJV) 2.427
Psalms 148 (ODRV) 2.426
Jeremiah 13 (Geneva) 2.421
Proverbs 2 (Geneva) 2.42
Jeremiah 13 (AKJV) 2.415
Matthew 20 (ODRV) 2.415
Isaiah 55 (Geneva) 2.408
Proverbs 2 (AKJV) 2.408
Luke 18 (Geneva) 2.405
1 Peter 5 (ODRV) 2.402
Matthew 6 (Vulgate) 2.399
Hosea 6 (AKJV) 2.391
John 8 (Geneva) 2.387
2 Corinthians 6 (AKJV) 2.383
Proverbs 3 (Geneva) 2.379
Proverbs 22 (AKJV) 2.377
2 Timothy 3 (Geneva) 2.371
2 Corinthians 6 (ODRV) 2.37
Philippians 4 (ODRV) 2.364
Titus 2 (Geneva) 2.359
Matthew 11 (Geneva) 2.357
Colossians 2 (Geneva) 2.356
Titus 2 (ODRV) 2.354
John 8 (ODRV) 2.348
Proverbs 3 (AKJV) 2.343
Titus 2 (AKJV) 2.282
Philippians 4 (AKJV) 2.265
Diversity: 0.963
Evenness: 0.97
Verse Prominence
Ecclesiastes 12.1 (Douay-Rheims) 11.595
Ecclesiastes 9.12 (AKJV) 4.644
Ecclesiastes 12.1 (Geneva) 4.633
Ecclesiastes 11.9 (Geneva) 4.622
Matthew 20.27 (ODRV) 2.325
Proverbs 2.2 (Geneva) 2.324
Proverbs 9.17 (Geneva) 2.324
Deuteronomy 8.11 (AKJV) 2.324
Psalms 4.8 (Vulgate) 2.324
Psalms 148.12 (ODRV) 2.323
Deuteronomy 10.13 (AKJV) 2.322
Luke 18.30 (Geneva) 2.322
Isaiah 55.7 (Geneva) 2.321
2 Timothy 3.15 (Geneva) 2.321
Titus 2.6 (AKJV) 2.32
Colossians 2.6 (Geneva) 2.319
John 8.44 (Geneva) 2.319
Proverbs 2.4 (AKJV) 2.318
2 Corinthians 6.2 (AKJV) 2.318
2 Corinthians 6.2 (ODRV) 2.318
Ecclesiastes 12.3 (Douay-Rheims) 2.318
Jeremiah 13.23 (Geneva) 2.317
Proverbs 3.15 (Geneva) 2.317
Hosea 6.4 (AKJV) 2.317
1 Peter 5.8 (ODRV) 2.316
Jeremiah 13.23 (AKJV) 2.314
John 8.24 (ODRV) 2.313
Matthew 11.30 (Geneva) 2.312
Proverbs 22.6 (AKJV) 2.309
Proverbs 3.16 (AKJV) 2.307
Ecclesiastes 9.10 (AKJV) 2.306
Philippians 4.7 (AKJV) 2.301
Matthew 6.33 (Vulgate) 2.299
Titus 2.12 (ODRV) 2.291
Titus 2.12 (Geneva) 2.286
Philippians 4.20 (ODRV) 2.281
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: 0.444
Evenness: 0.918
Part Prominence
New Testament 18.472
Old Testament -14.001
Diversity: 0.88
Evenness: 0.985
Book Prominence
Titus 18.923
Ecclesiastes 8.044
1 Peter 7.969
Deuteronomy 7.869
Jeremiah 7.758
Proverbs 6.952
Isaiah 6.618
Romans 6.045
Psalms 4.828
Diversity: 0.911
Evenness: 0.989
Chapter Prominence
Titus 2 15.181
Psalms 148 7.644
Jeremiah 13 7.628
Deuteronomy 8 7.626
Proverbs 6 7.587
Isaiah 55 7.561
Ecclesiastes 11 7.555
Ecclesiastes 9 7.527
Proverbs 1 7.511
1 Peter 5 7.499
Ecclesiastes 12 7.491
Romans 12 7.337
Diversity: 0.93
Evenness: 0.992
Verse Prominence
Titus 2.6 12.494
Proverbs 6.10 6.243
Proverbs 1.10 6.241
Psalms 148.12 6.241
Deuteronomy 8.11 6.238
1 Peter 5.9 6.238
Ecclesiastes 9.12 6.238
Isaiah 55.7 6.23
Jeremiah 13.23 6.227
Romans 12.2 6.219
1 Peter 5.8 6.212
Ecclesiastes 9.10 6.202
Ecclesiastes 12.1 6.201
Ecclesiastes 11.9 6.196
Romans 12.1 6.179
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase