Early English Printed Sermons


An exhortation to youth to prepare for judgment A sermon occasion'd by the late repentance and funeral of a young man. Deceased September 29. 1681.

Shower, John, 1657-1715
Publisher: printed by J G for Benjamen Alsop at the Angel and Bible in the Poultry
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1681
Approximate Era: CharlesII
TCP ID: A60132 ESTC ID: R214018 STC ID: S3664
Subject Headings: Bible. -- O.T. -- Ecclesiastes XI, 9; Funeral sermons, English -- 17th century; Young men -- Conduct of life; Young women -- Conduct of life;
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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 3.0% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 1.1% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 89.6% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 7.2% -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 0.7% -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) 1.7% -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: 0.88
Evenness: 0.985
Part Prominence
Old Testament (AKJV) 7.954
Apocrypha (AKJV) 5.442
Old Testament (ODRV) 3.631
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 1.448
Old Testament (Geneva) 0.065
New Testament (Tyndale) -0.022
New Testament (Geneva) -1.058
New Testament (ODRV) -1.138
New Testament (AKJV) -2.428
Diversity: 0.958
Evenness: 0.969
Book Prominence
Ecclesiastes (Geneva) 12.663
Ecclesiastes (AKJV) 4.515
1 Thessalonians (ODRV) 2.339
1 Thessalonians (Geneva) 2.316
Deuteronomy (Geneva) 2.221
Ecclesiastes (Douay-Rheims) 2.218
Galatians (Tyndale) 2.216
Philippians (Geneva) 2.214
1 Thessalonians (AKJV) 2.181
1 Peter (Tyndale) 2.143
Job (Douay-Rheims) 2.055
Ecclesiasticus (AKJV) 1.991
Hebrews (ODRV) 1.92
2 Corinthians (Geneva) 1.883
Philippians (ODRV) 1.882
2 Corinthians (ODRV) 1.877
Philippians (AKJV) 1.87
1 Peter (AKJV) 1.844
Proverbs (Douay-Rheims) 1.824
John (Tyndale) 1.754
Luke (Geneva) 1.733
Isaiah (Geneva) 1.726
Proverbs (Geneva) 1.701
Romans (Tyndale) 1.644
Job (AKJV) 1.638
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 1.442
Luke (AKJV) 1.434
Psalms (ODRV) 1.421
Romans (ODRV) 1.381
1 Corinthians (Geneva) 1.36
Matthew (ODRV) 1.218
Psalms (Geneva) 0.817
Psalms (AKJV) -0.15
Diversity: 0.97
Evenness: 0.977
Chapter Prominence
Ecclesiastes 11 (Geneva) 9.939
Ecclesiastes 11 (AKJV) 3.954
Matthew 25 (ODRV) 3.888
Job 24 (Douay-Rheims) 1.993
Isaiah 65 (Geneva) 1.985
Psalms 69 (Geneva) 1.981
Job 27 (AKJV) 1.978
Ecclesiasticus 39 (AKJV) 1.978
Ecclesiasticus 5 (AKJV) 1.977
Ecclesiastes 11 (Douay-Rheims) 1.977
1 Peter 3 (Tyndale) 1.975
Psalms 36 (ODRV) 1.974
Psalms 64 (AKJV) 1.974
Proverbs 7 (Geneva) 1.971
Proverbs 3 (Douay-Rheims) 1.97
Psalms 38 (AKJV) 1.966
Isaiah 53 (Geneva) 1.963
Job 3 (AKJV) 1.963
Luke 10 (Geneva) 1.961
Ecclesiastes 9 (Geneva) 1.955
Matthew 19 (ODRV) 1.954
Psalms 81 (AKJV) 1.953
Deuteronomy 32 (Geneva) 1.948
Ecclesiastes 12 (Douay-Rheims) 1.945
Philippians 1 (Geneva) 1.944
Luke 10 (AKJV) 1.937
Galatians 3 (Tyndale) 1.937
Ecclesiastes 12 (Geneva) 1.935
Romans 15 (ODRV) 1.918
Galatians 5 (Tyndale) 1.916
Hebrews 4 (ODRV) 1.912
John 5 (Tyndale) 1.91
Ecclesiastes 12 (AKJV) 1.909
2 Corinthians 4 (Geneva) 1.901
1 Thessalonians 5 (Geneva) 1.898
1 Thessalonians 5 (ODRV) 1.886
1 Peter 4 (AKJV) 1.875
1 Corinthians 10 (ODRV) 1.86
Romans 13 (Tyndale) 1.834
1 Thessalonians 5 (AKJV) 1.832
Philippians 4 (AKJV) 1.826
2 Corinthians 5 (ODRV) 1.8
Philippians 2 (ODRV) 1.783
1 Corinthians 15 (Geneva) 1.739
Diversity: 0.973
Evenness: 0.978
Verse Prominence
Ecclesiastes 11.9 (Geneva) 9.405
Ecclesiastes 11.9 (AKJV) 3.766
Matthew 25.41 (ODRV) 3.74
Ecclesiastes 11.9 (Douay-Rheims) 1.886
Proverbs 3.2 (Douay-Rheims) 1.886
Psalms 69.28 (Geneva) 1.886
John 5.47 (Tyndale) 1.886
Psalms 69.21 (Geneva) 1.885
Ecclesiastes 9.7 (Geneva) 1.885
1 Peter 3.14 (Tyndale) 1.885
Job 3.16 (AKJV) 1.885
Matthew 19.24 (ODRV) 1.884
Deuteronomy 32.3 (Geneva) 1.884
Philippians 1.22 (Geneva) 1.884
Psalms 36.6 (ODRV) 1.884
Job 24.17 (Douay-Rheims) 1.884
Ecclesiastes 11.10 (AKJV) 1.883
Ecclesiastes 12.14 (AKJV) 1.883
Isaiah 65.20 (Geneva) 1.883
Ecclesiasticus 5.2 (AKJV) 1.882
Job 27.8 (AKJV) 1.882
Psalms 64.10 (AKJV) 1.882
Luke 10.20 (Geneva) 1.881
Ecclesiasticus 39.27 (AKJV) 1.881
Psalms 38.4 (AKJV) 1.881
1 Corinthians 10.13 (ODRV) 1.88
Galatians 5.25 (Tyndale) 1.879
1 Thessalonians 5.25 (Geneva) 1.879
1 Thessalonians 5.25 (AKJV) 1.879
Luke 10.20 (AKJV) 1.878
Philippians 4.4 (AKJV) 1.878
Isaiah 53.3 (Geneva) 1.877
2 Corinthians 5.21 (ODRV) 1.876
Proverbs 7.27 (Geneva) 1.875
1 Peter 4.5 (AKJV) 1.875
Galatians 3.10 (Tyndale) 1.873
1 Thessalonians 5.2 (AKJV) 1.872
Romans 13.14 (Tyndale) 1.871
Ecclesiastes 12.1 (Geneva) 1.869
Psalms 81.12 (AKJV) 1.869
1 Thessalonians 5.2 (ODRV) 1.868
Romans 15.13 (ODRV) 1.864
Ecclesiastes 12.1 (Douay-Rheims) 1.854
2 Corinthians 4.17 (Geneva) 1.85
1 Corinthians 15.55 (Geneva) 1.845
Hebrews 4.16 (ODRV) 1.841
Philippians 2.8 (ODRV) 1.776
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: 0.923
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
2 Peter 6.408
James 6.185
Ecclesiastes 5.736
1 Peter 5.661
Deuteronomy 5.562
Jeremiah 5.451
Job 5.45
Proverbs 4.645
Luke 4.474
1 Corinthians 4.402
Romans 3.738
Matthew 3.512
Psalms 2.521
Diversity: 0.952
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Psalms 64 4.728
Job 16 4.727
Job 27 4.724
Deuteronomy 30 4.697
Jeremiah 13 4.697
Psalms 27 4.657
Psalms 90 4.642
Proverbs 23 4.629
Luke 6 4.62
Jeremiah 9 4.619
Romans 16 4.603
Matthew 4 4.602
2 Peter 3 4.568
Ecclesiastes 12 4.56
Luke 10 4.543
James 1 4.483
Matthew 16 4.454
1 Corinthians 10 4.436
1 Peter 1 4.436
Romans 12 4.406
Romans 13 4.073
Diversity: 0.955
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Psalms 27.6 4.544
Deuteronomy 30.20 4.542
Jeremiah 9.5 4.541
Matthew 4.5 4.541
Job 16.22 4.541
Psalms 64.10 4.54
Romans 12.14 4.54
Jeremiah 13.16 4.54
Romans 12.13 4.539
Proverbs 23.29 4.539
Psalms 90.4 4.537
Luke 6.25 4.536
Job 27.8 4.535
Romans 16.20 4.531
James 1.2 4.531
2 Peter 3.10 4.53
Luke 10.20 4.529
Matthew 16.24 4.527
Romans 13.14 4.525
Ecclesiastes 12.14 4.522
1 Peter 1.24 4.519
1 Corinthians 10.13 4.512
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase