Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon preach'd to the societies for reformation of manners, in the cities of London and Westminster, Nov. 15, 1697 by John Shower.

Shower, John, 1657-1715
Publisher: Printed for John Lawrence
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1698
Approximate Era: WilliamAndMary
TCP ID: A60152 ESTC ID: R17773 STC ID: S3689
Subject Headings: Bible. -- O.T. -- Isaiah LIX, 4; 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 1.8% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 0.9% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 92.7% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 3.3% -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) 1.6% -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: 0.857
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 5.734
Old Testament (Geneva) 4.351
New Testament (Tyndale) 4.264
New Testament (Geneva) 3.227
New Testament (ODRV) 3.148
Old Testament (AKJV) 2.24
New Testament (AKJV) 1.858
Diversity: 0.972
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Jude (Tyndale) 2.714
Nehemiah (Geneva) 2.709
Titus (Geneva) 2.565
Jude (AKJV) 2.516
Ezekiel (AKJV) 2.407
James (Geneva) 2.356
Exodus (Geneva) 2.338
Colossians (AKJV) 2.271
2 Timothy (AKJV) 2.246
Job (Douay-Rheims) 2.201
1 Peter (Geneva) 2.196
Exodus (AKJV) 2.195
1 John (AKJV) 2.178
Jeremiah (AKJV) 2.125
Galatians (AKJV) 2.106
Ecclesiastes (AKJV) 2.029
Philippians (ODRV) 2.028
Philippians (AKJV) 2.016
Ephesians (Geneva) 1.976
Isaiah (Douay-Rheims) 1.902
Luke (Geneva) 1.879
Isaiah (Geneva) 1.872
Proverbs (Geneva) 1.847
Ephesians (AKJV) 1.827
Luke (ODRV) 1.786
Matthew (Geneva) 1.616
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 1.588
Luke (AKJV) 1.58
Isaiah (AKJV) 1.495
Proverbs (AKJV) 1.375
Matthew (ODRV) 1.364
Romans (Geneva) 1.318
Matthew (AKJV) 1.263
Psalms (Geneva) 0.963
Romans (AKJV) 0.935
Psalms (AKJV) -0.004
Diversity: 0.978
Evenness: 0.998
Chapter Prominence
Matthew 12 (AKJV) 4.19
Nehemiah 12 (Geneva) 2.126
Job 15 (Douay-Rheims) 2.115
Isaiah 54 (Douay-Rheims) 2.115
Ezekiel 22 (AKJV) 2.111
Isaiah 22 (Geneva) 2.106
Psalms 94 (Geneva) 2.1
Proverbs 19 (Geneva) 2.1
Isaiah 59 (Geneva) 2.093
Luke 11 (Geneva) 2.093
Proverbs 29 (Geneva) 2.093
Isaiah 22 (AKJV) 2.091
Jude 1 (Tyndale) 2.091
Exodus 20 (Geneva) 2.085
Exodus 20 (AKJV) 2.082
Jeremiah 5 (AKJV) 2.077
Psalms 25 (AKJV) 2.076
James 2 (Geneva) 2.073
Matthew 12 (Geneva) 2.065
Proverbs 8 (AKJV) 2.065
Proverbs 21 (AKJV) 2.064
Proverbs 29 (AKJV) 2.061
Luke 23 (ODRV) 2.06
Luke 6 (Geneva) 2.06
Philippians 4 (ODRV) 2.053
1 Peter 4 (Geneva) 2.052
Ecclesiastes 9 (AKJV) 2.051
Matthew 12 (ODRV) 2.05
Titus 2 (Geneva) 2.047
Luke 6 (AKJV) 2.038
1 John 4 (AKJV) 2.015
Romans 14 (Geneva) 2.015
Matthew 7 (AKJV) 1.995
Colossians 3 (AKJV) 1.989
2 Timothy 2 (AKJV) 1.988
Galatians 6 (AKJV) 1.986
Philippians 3 (AKJV) 1.977
Romans 14 (AKJV) 1.96
Matthew 5 (AKJV) 1.947
Jude 1 (AKJV) 1.946
Matthew 5 (ODRV) 1.911
Psalms 119 (AKJV) 1.907
Ephesians 4 (Geneva) 1.869
1 Corinthians 15 (ODRV) 1.811
Romans 13 (Geneva) 1.803
Ephesians 4 (AKJV) 1.775
Diversity: 0.979
Evenness: 0.998
Verse Prominence
Matthew 12.30 (AKJV) 4.074
Nehemiah 12.1 (Geneva) 2.04
James 2.4 (Geneva) 2.04
Isaiah 59.4 (Geneva) 2.04
Job 15.10 (Douay-Rheims) 2.04
Proverbs 19.25 (Geneva) 2.04
Proverbs 21.11 (AKJV) 2.04
Luke 23.20 (ODRV) 2.04
Isaiah 54.17 (Douay-Rheims) 2.04
Isaiah 22.25 (Geneva) 2.04
Isaiah 22.25 (AKJV) 2.04
Psalms 25.3 (AKJV) 2.04
Psalms 119.51 (AKJV) 2.04
Ecclesiastes 9.18 (AKJV) 2.039
1 Peter 4.14 (Geneva) 2.039
Ezekiel 22.30 (AKJV) 2.039
Psalms 94.16 (Geneva) 2.038
Proverbs 21.21 (AKJV) 2.038
Proverbs 8.36 (AKJV) 2.037
Romans 14.16 (Geneva) 2.036
Matthew 7.12 (AKJV) 2.035
Luke 6.28 (AKJV) 2.035
Jude 1.21 (Tyndale) 2.035
1 John 4.11 (AKJV) 2.034
Jude 1.22 (AKJV) 2.034
Luke 11.2 (Geneva) 2.033
Romans 14.13 (AKJV) 2.033
Matthew 12.30 (ODRV) 2.033
Matthew 12.30 (Geneva) 2.033
Matthew 5.11 (AKJV) 2.031
Colossians 3.6 (AKJV) 2.031
Jeremiah 5.1 (AKJV) 2.031
Proverbs 29.2 (Geneva) 2.03
Proverbs 29.2 (AKJV) 2.024
Matthew 5.13 (ODRV) 2.023
Exodus 20.8 (AKJV) 2.021
Exodus 20.8 (Geneva) 2.021
2 Timothy 2.26 (AKJV) 2.019
Philippians 3.16 (AKJV) 2.018
Ephesians 4.32 (AKJV) 2.016
Luke 6.31 (Geneva) 2.012
Titus 2.12 (Geneva) 2.001
1 Corinthians 15.56 (ODRV) 2.0
Philippians 4.20 (ODRV) 1.997
Galatians 6.10 (AKJV) 1.987
Romans 13.5 (Geneva) 1.956
Ephesians 4.3 (AKJV) 1.928
Ephesians 4.3 (Geneva) 1.928
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
Ezra 10.697
Colossians 9.726
Ezekiel 9.507
Jeremiah 8.87
Job 8.869
Proverbs 8.064
Isaiah 7.729
Matthew 6.931
Psalms 5.94
Diversity: 0.909
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Ezra 9 9.037
Isaiah 54 9.028
Ezekiel 22 9.024
Isaiah 59 9.001
Proverbs 25 8.98
Psalms 116 8.975
Job 14 8.938
Jeremiah 5 8.937
Matthew 12 8.866
Colossians 2 8.862
Psalms 119 8.695
Diversity: 0.833
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Psalms 119.51 16.663
Isaiah 59.4 16.661
Psalms 116.9 16.66
Jeremiah 5.5 16.658
Matthew 12.30 16.656
Isaiah 54.17 16.656
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase