Early English Printed Sermons


The excellence of the order of the Church of England, under Episcopal government set forth in a sermon at the visitation at Blandford, Anno 1640 / by William Sherley ...

Sherley, William
Publisher: Printed for Tho Robinson
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1662
Approximate Era: CharlesII
TCP ID: A59764 ESTC ID: R21422 STC ID: S3240
Subject Headings: Bible. -- N.T. -- Corinthians, 1st, XII, 3-4; Church of England -- Government; Sermons, English -- 17th century; Visitation sermons;
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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 1.8% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 1.3% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 94.6% 100.0%
Foreign Percentage of units with foreign text 0.3% -inf%
NonLatinAlphabet Percentage of units with a NonLatinAlphabet placeholder 0.8% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 3.9% -inf%
sim_score Average cosine similarity score of top Bible verse predictions per unit 0.7% -inf%
cross_score Average cross encoder score of top Bible verse predictions per unit 0.6% -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) 0.8% -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: 0.833
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 8.115
Old Testament (Geneva) 6.732
New Testament (Geneva) 5.608
New Testament (ODRV) 5.529
Old Testament (AKJV) 4.621
New Testament (AKJV) 4.239
Diversity: 0.938
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Canticles (Douay-Rheims) 6.129
Jude (AKJV) 5.988
2 Timothy (Geneva) 5.908
1 Thessalonians (AKJV) 5.8
Titus (AKJV) 5.796
Ecclesiastes (Geneva) 5.755
2 Timothy (AKJV) 5.718
Job (Douay-Rheims) 5.673
Acts (ODRV) 5.562
Philippians (ODRV) 5.5
Genesis (AKJV) 5.352
Matthew (Geneva) 5.088
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 5.06
Matthew (AKJV) 4.735
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 4.682
Psalms (AKJV) 3.469
Diversity: 0.952
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Canticles 4 (Douay-Rheims) 4.754
Acts 18 (ODRV) 4.751
Job 19 (Douay-Rheims) 4.75
Acts 1 (ODRV) 4.746
Matthew 9 (Geneva) 4.742
Genesis 28 (AKJV) 4.735
Matthew 21 (AKJV) 4.729
Psalms 95 (AKJV) 4.727
Genesis 3 (AKJV) 4.704
Ecclesiastes 11 (Geneva) 4.701
2 Timothy 4 (AKJV) 4.679
Titus 1 (AKJV) 4.679
Matthew 13 (AKJV) 4.674
2 Timothy 4 (Geneva) 4.668
1 Thessalonians 4 (AKJV) 4.661
1 Corinthians 7 (AKJV) 4.652
1 Corinthians 11 (ODRV) 4.633
1 Corinthians 14 (AKJV) 4.624
Jude 1 (AKJV) 4.58
1 Corinthians 11 (AKJV) 4.576
Philippians 2 (ODRV) 4.545
Diversity: 0.955
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Acts 18.11 (ODRV) 4.545
Matthew 9.35 (Geneva) 4.545
Matthew 21.14 (AKJV) 4.545
Matthew 13.27 (AKJV) 4.544
1 Corinthians 7.25 (AKJV) 4.544
1 Corinthians 11.16 (ODRV) 4.544
1 Corinthians 11.34 (AKJV) 4.543
Acts 1.25 (ODRV) 4.543
2 Timothy 4.12 (AKJV) 4.543
2 Timothy 4.12 (Geneva) 4.543
Genesis 3.8 (AKJV) 4.543
Canticles 4.12 (Douay-Rheims) 4.543
Job 19.24 (Douay-Rheims) 4.543
Genesis 28.17 (AKJV) 4.54
Philippians 2.11 (ODRV) 4.54
Genesis 28.12 (AKJV) 4.538
Ecclesiastes 11.7 (Geneva) 4.536
Psalms 95.6 (AKJV) 4.534
1 Thessalonians 4.16 (AKJV) 4.531
Titus 1.5 (AKJV) 4.522
Jude 1.25 (AKJV) 4.483
1 Corinthians 14.40 (AKJV) 4.481
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: 0.889
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
1 Thessalonians 10.033
1 Samuel 9.328
1 Peter 9.08
2 Corinthians 8.809
Genesis 8.486
Acts 7.908
Luke 7.893
1 Corinthians 7.821
Matthew 6.931
Diversity: 0.909
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Genesis 28 9.015
Luke 24 8.946
Matthew 9 8.946
Acts 1 8.942
2 Corinthians 11 8.94
1 Samuel 2 8.916
1 Thessalonians 4 8.876
Luke 1 8.866
Genesis 3 8.823
1 Corinthians 11 8.723
1 Peter 2 8.595
Diversity: 0.909
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Luke 24.51 9.087
Matthew 9.35 9.087
Acts 1.20 9.086
Luke 1.78 9.085
1 Corinthians 11.34 9.084
Genesis 28.17 9.083
2 Corinthians 11.28 9.08
1 Peter 2.25 9.078
Genesis 3.8 9.076
1 Peter 2.12 9.068
1 Thessalonians 4.16 9.065
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase