Early English Printed Sermons


A vindication of Dr. Sherlock's sermon concerning The danger of corrupting the faith by philosophy in answer to some Socinian remarks / by William Sherlock ...

Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707
Publisher: Printed for W Rogers
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1697
Approximate Era: WilliamAndMary
TCP ID: A59900 ESTC ID: R21027 STC ID: S3371
Subject Headings: Faith; Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707. -- Danger of corrupting the faith by philosophy; Socinianism;
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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 1.6% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 0.8% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 90.8% 100.0%
NonLatinAlphabet Percentage of units with a NonLatinAlphabet placeholder 0.3% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 5.3% -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) 1.9% -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: 0.793
Evenness: 0.934
Part Prominence
New Testament (Tyndale) 17.251
New Testament (Geneva) 16.214
New Testament (AKJV) 5.754
Apocrypha (Douay-Rheims) 5.687
New Testament (Vulgate) 4.282
New Testament (ODRV) -2.047
Diversity: 0.928
Evenness: 0.958
Book Prominence
1 Corinthians (Tyndale) 11.127
Matthew (Tyndale) 10.914
1 Corinthians (Geneva) 10.728
1 Timothy (AKJV) 7.292
Galatians (Vulgate) 3.905
John (Vulgate) 3.781
1 John (Tyndale) 3.551
1 John (ODRV) 3.533
Galatians (Geneva) 3.517
Ephesians (Tyndale) 3.516
Acts (Geneva) 3.456
Galatians (AKJV) 3.328
Ecclesiasticus (Douay-Rheims) 3.322
John (Geneva) 3.13
John (Tyndale) 3.123
John (ODRV) 2.945
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 2.81
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 2.432
Diversity: 0.944
Evenness: 0.953
Chapter Prominence
1 Corinthians 2 (Tyndale) 10.745
1 Corinthians 8 (Tyndale) 8.077
Matthew 26 (Tyndale) 8.01
1 Corinthians 2 (ODRV) 8.006
1 Corinthians 2 (Geneva) 8.002
Acts 17 (Geneva) 5.379
1 Timothy 2 (AKJV) 5.28
Galatians 4 (Vulgate) 2.696
Ecclesiasticus 39 (Douay-Rheims) 2.689
John 1 (Vulgate) 2.672
Acts 2 (Geneva) 2.667
1 Corinthians 1 (Tyndale) 2.646
1 John 2 (Tyndale) 2.643
1 Corinthians 1 (ODRV) 2.634
Galatians 3 (Geneva) 2.627
Ephesians 4 (Tyndale) 2.62
1 John 5 (ODRV) 2.612
John 6 (Geneva) 2.601
Galatians 3 (AKJV) 2.598
1 Corinthians 2 (AKJV) 2.596
John 6 (Tyndale) 2.591
John 6 (ODRV) 2.559
1 Corinthians 1 (AKJV) 2.557
1 Corinthians 11 (AKJV) 2.517
Diversity: 0.969
Evenness: 0.961
Verse Prominence
1 Corinthians 2.14 (AKJV) 7.556
1 Corinthians 2.14 (Tyndale) 6.05
1 Corinthians 8.6 (Tyndale) 4.535
1 Corinthians 2.11 (ODRV) 4.527
1 Corinthians 2.14 (Geneva) 4.515
Matthew 26.26 (Tyndale) 4.514
Acts 17.18 (Geneva) 3.028
1 Corinthians 1.22 (AKJV) 3.027
1 Corinthians 2.13 (ODRV) 3.026
1 Corinthians 1.17 (AKJV) 3.024
1 Corinthians 1.20 (AKJV) 3.02
1 Timothy 2.5 (AKJV) 3.016
1 Corinthians 2.10 (AKJV) 3.016
1 Corinthians 1.21 (AKJV) 1.515
1 Corinthians 1.22 (Tyndale) 1.515
Galatians 4.4 (Vulgate) 1.514
Acts 2.8 (Geneva) 1.514
Ecclesiasticus 39.30 (Douay-Rheims) 1.514
Ephesians 4.5 (Tyndale) 1.513
1 Corinthians 2.4 (ODRV) 1.513
Galatians 3.5 (Geneva) 1.513
Galatians 3.5 (AKJV) 1.513
1 John 2.23 (Tyndale) 1.512
1 Corinthians 2.7 (Geneva) 1.512
1 Corinthians 2.5 (Geneva) 1.51
1 Corinthians 2.9 (AKJV) 1.51
1 Corinthians 2.12 (AKJV) 1.509
1 Corinthians 2.4 (Tyndale) 1.509
1 Corinthians 2.11 (Geneva) 1.508
John 6.53 (Geneva) 1.508
1 Corinthians 2.10 (ODRV) 1.508
1 Corinthians 1.20 (ODRV) 1.507
1 John 5.7 (ODRV) 1.506
1 Corinthians 2.8 (AKJV) 1.506
1 Corinthians 2.4 (Geneva) 1.504
1 Corinthians 2.14 (ODRV) 1.503
John 6.52 (ODRV) 1.502
1 Corinthians 2.10 (Geneva) 1.502
1 Corinthians 2.7 (AKJV) 1.502
John 1.14 (Vulgate) 1.501
John 6.55 (Tyndale) 1.499
1 Corinthians 2.11 (AKJV) 1.497
1 Corinthians 2.9 (Tyndale) 1.497
1 Corinthians 11.24 (AKJV) 1.492
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: 0.0
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
New Testament 51.805
Diversity: 0.5
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Acts 46.797
1 Corinthians 46.71
Diversity: 0.625
Evenness: 0.946
Chapter Prominence
1 Corinthians 1 49.662
Acts 18 24.912
1 Corinthians 2 24.758
Diversity: 0.72
Evenness: 0.961
Verse Prominence
1 Corinthians 1.22 39.987
1 Corinthians 1.20 19.983
1 Corinthians 1.21 19.976
1 Corinthians 2.14 19.956
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase