Early English Printed Sermons


Ta proz eirenen, the things that belong unto peace, or, A seasonable discourse for these factious times delivered lately in a sermon before the judges at St. Maries in Nottingham at the assizes there, and now printed at the command of some persons of honour ; to which is annexed A short and modest apology for the author and book of the several weighty considerations, humbly recommended to the serious perusal of all, but more especially to the Roman Catholicks of England, by Thomas Sheppey ...

Sheppey, Thomas
Publisher: Printed for Henry Mortlock
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1682
Approximate Era: CharlesII
TCP ID: A59749 ESTC ID: R33738 STC ID: S3221
Subject Headings: Bible. -- N.T. -- Thessalonians, 1st, IV, 10-11; Sermons, English -- 17th century; Sheppey, Thomas. -- Several weighty considerations;
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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 4.7% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 2.0% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 82.1% 100.0%
Foreign Percentage of units with foreign text 0.3% -inf%
NonLatinAlphabet Percentage of units with a NonLatinAlphabet placeholder 0.3% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 11.5% -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 0.8% -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) 7.1% -inf%
foreign_italicized Percentage of units with QP and foreign italicized text 0.3% -inf%
foreign_latin Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP and foreign text 0.3% -inf%
foreign_latin_italicized Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP and italicized foreign text 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: 0.888
Evenness: 0.964
Part Prominence
New Testament (AKJV) 10.649
Apocrypha (Douay-Rheims) 4.289
Apocrypha (AKJV) 3.134
New Testament (Vulgate) 2.884
Old Testament (ODRV) 1.323
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) -0.86
Old Testament (Geneva) -2.242
New Testament (Tyndale) -2.329
New Testament (Geneva) -3.366
New Testament (ODRV) -3.446
Old Testament (AKJV) -4.354
Diversity: 0.969
Evenness: 0.989
Book Prominence
1 Thessalonians (AKJV) 7.242
1 Thessalonians (Geneva) 4.812
Jude (Geneva) 2.49
1 John (Vulgate) 2.418
1 Corinthians (Vulgate) 2.318
Jude (AKJV) 2.302
2 Peter (AKJV) 2.145
James (ODRV) 2.105
Galatians (Geneva) 2.081
Galatians (ODRV) 1.979
Ecclesiasticus (AKJV) 1.924
James (AKJV) 1.918
Ephesians (ODRV) 1.913
Galatians (AKJV) 1.892
Ecclesiasticus (Douay-Rheims) 1.886
Job (Geneva) 1.865
1 Timothy (AKJV) 1.857
2 Corinthians (ODRV) 1.809
Philippians (AKJV) 1.802
Ephesians (Geneva) 1.762
Proverbs (Douay-Rheims) 1.756
John (Geneva) 1.694
Isaiah (Douay-Rheims) 1.688
Genesis (AKJV) 1.666
Luke (Geneva) 1.665
Ephesians (AKJV) 1.613
Romans (Tyndale) 1.577
Hebrews (AKJV) 1.536
Matthew (Geneva) 1.402
Psalms (ODRV) 1.354
Romans (ODRV) 1.314
Isaiah (AKJV) 1.282
Proverbs (AKJV) 1.161
Romans (Geneva) 1.104
Romans (AKJV) 0.721
Psalms (AKJV) -0.217
Diversity: 0.976
Evenness: 0.992
Chapter Prominence
1 Thessalonians 4 (AKJV) 6.021
1 Thessalonians 4 (Geneva) 3.996
1 Corinthians 9 (Vulgate) 2.037
Psalms 63 (ODRV) 2.031
Psalms 140 (AKJV) 2.029
Ecclesiasticus 21 (AKJV) 2.026
1 John 4 (Vulgate) 2.026
Isaiah 9 (Douay-Rheims) 2.019
Ecclesiasticus 40 (AKJV) 2.013
Ecclesiasticus 21 (Douay-Rheims) 2.013
1 Corinthians 12 (Vulgate) 2.012
John 13 (Geneva) 2.005
Luke 2 (Geneva) 2.0
Psalms 7 (AKJV) 2.0
Proverbs 6 (AKJV) 1.995
Jude 1 (Geneva) 1.995
Job 5 (Geneva) 1.99
Galatians 4 (Geneva) 1.989
Proverbs 24 (Douay-Rheims) 1.986
Genesis 2 (AKJV) 1.976
Psalms 19 (AKJV) 1.966
Romans 12 (Tyndale) 1.963
James 1 (ODRV) 1.963
2 Peter 2 (AKJV) 1.957
Ephesians 2 (ODRV) 1.956
Romans 3 (Geneva) 1.955
Hebrews 6 (AKJV) 1.955
2 Peter 3 (AKJV) 1.953
1 Timothy 1 (AKJV) 1.951
Galatians 5 (ODRV) 1.933
Ephesians 2 (Geneva) 1.918
Romans 3 (ODRV) 1.917
Galatians 5 (Geneva) 1.913
Romans 3 (AKJV) 1.912
2 Peter 1 (AKJV) 1.904
Matthew 5 (Geneva) 1.896
James 1 (AKJV) 1.896
Isaiah 57 (AKJV) 1.895
Philippians 3 (AKJV) 1.89
Galatians 5 (AKJV) 1.873
Philippians 4 (AKJV) 1.867
Jude 1 (AKJV) 1.859
2 Corinthians 5 (ODRV) 1.841
Philippians 2 (AKJV) 1.821
Ephesians 4 (Geneva) 1.782
Ephesians 4 (AKJV) 1.688
Diversity: 0.981
Evenness: 0.992
Verse Prominence
1 Thessalonians 4.11 (AKJV) 4.988
Ecclesiasticus 21.25 (AKJV) 3.332
1 Thessalonians 4.11 (Geneva) 3.312
Ecclesiasticus 21.24 (AKJV) 1.666
Ecclesiasticus 40.18 (AKJV) 1.666
1 Corinthians 9.27 (Vulgate) 1.666
Proverbs 6.11 (AKJV) 1.666
Ecclesiasticus 21.25 (Douay-Rheims) 1.666
Ecclesiasticus 21.22 (AKJV) 1.666
Isaiah 9.6 (Douay-Rheims) 1.665
2 Peter 2.11 (AKJV) 1.665
1 Thessalonians 4.1 (AKJV) 1.664
Ephesians 2.14 (ODRV) 1.664
1 John 4.21 (Vulgate) 1.664
Psalms 140.2 (AKJV) 1.664
Job 5.7 (Geneva) 1.664
Genesis 2.15 (AKJV) 1.664
Proverbs 24.34 (Douay-Rheims) 1.664
2 Peter 3.1 (AKJV) 1.664
Psalms 19.5 (AKJV) 1.663
2 Peter 3.18 (AKJV) 1.663
Psalms 7.14 (AKJV) 1.663
Romans 12.7 (Tyndale) 1.663
Jude 1.10 (Geneva) 1.663
Romans 3.16 (AKJV) 1.662
Hebrews 6.9 (AKJV) 1.662
Jude 1.10 (AKJV) 1.662
Ephesians 2.14 (Geneva) 1.661
James 1.26 (ODRV) 1.661
James 1.26 (AKJV) 1.661
Galatians 4.26 (Geneva) 1.66
Luke 2.14 (Geneva) 1.66
1 Corinthians 12.14 (Vulgate) 1.66
John 13.34 (Geneva) 1.66
Psalms 63.4 (ODRV) 1.66
Romans 3.13 (Geneva) 1.659
Philippians 3.12 (AKJV) 1.659
Romans 3.17 (ODRV) 1.657
Philippians 3.13 (AKJV) 1.657
2 Corinthians 5.20 (ODRV) 1.657
2 Peter 1.6 (AKJV) 1.656
Matthew 5.44 (Geneva) 1.655
Philippians 2.4 (AKJV) 1.65
Isaiah 57.20 (AKJV) 1.649
2 Peter 2.10 (AKJV) 1.649
Philippians 4.20 (AKJV) 1.643
2 Peter 1.7 (AKJV) 1.64
2 Peter 1.5 (AKJV) 1.639
Jude 1.8 (AKJV) 1.638
1 Timothy 1.17 (AKJV) 1.638
Galatians 5.17 (ODRV) 1.636
Philippians 2.21 (AKJV) 1.635
Galatians 5.17 (AKJV) 1.631
Galatians 5.17 (Geneva) 1.629
Ephesians 4.3 (AKJV) 1.554
Ephesians 4.3 (Geneva) 1.554
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: 0.667
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Apocrypha 28.862
Old Testament -14.001
New Testament -14.862
Diversity: 0.8
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Ecclesiasticus 19.8
2 Peter 18.716
Philippians 18.252
Proverbs 16.952
Psalms 14.828
Diversity: 0.857
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Ecclesiasticus 21 14.278
Psalms 20 14.241
Proverbs 6 14.18
Psalms 19 14.137
2 Peter 2 14.03
Philippians 2 13.958
Philippians 3 13.913
Diversity: 0.857
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Ecclesiasticus 21.22 14.283
2 Peter 2.11 14.281
Proverbs 6.11 14.28
Psalms 19.5 14.278
Philippians 2.4 14.265
Philippians 3.13 14.26
2 Peter 2.10 14.254
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase