Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon of the credibility of the mysteries of the Christian religion preached before a learned audience / by Tho. Smith ...

Smith, Thomas, 1638-1710
Publisher: Printed by Tho Roycroft for Ric Davis
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1675
Approximate Era: CharlesII
TCP ID: A60586 ESTC ID: R10064 STC ID: S4250
Subject Headings: Apologetics; Apologetics -- History -- 17th century; Bible. -- N.T. -- Timothy, 1st, III; Faith;
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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 2.6% 5.9%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 1.4% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 92.8% 94.1%
Foreign Percentage of units with foreign text -inf% 5.9%
NonLatinAlphabet Percentage of units with a NonLatinAlphabet placeholder 0.5% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 5.8% 5.9%
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 0.6% -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) 1.9% 5.9%
foreign_cited Percentage of units with QP, foreign text, and an adjacent citation -inf% 5.9%
foreign_italicized Percentage of units with QP and foreign italicized text -inf% 5.9%
foreign_italicized_cited Percentage of units with QP, italicized foreign text, and an adjacent citation -inf% 5.9%
foreign_latin Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP and foreign text -inf% 5.9%
foreign_latin_cited Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP, foreign text, and an adjacent citation -inf% 5.9%
foreign_latin_italicized Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP and italicized foreign text -inf% 5.9%
foreign_latin_italicized_cited Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP, an adjacent citation, and italicized foreign text -inf% 5.9%



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: 0.889
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
New Testament (Wycliffe) 9.49
New Testament (Vulgate) 6.303
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 2.559
Old Testament (Geneva) 1.177
New Testament (Tyndale) 1.09
New Testament (Geneva) 0.053
New Testament (ODRV) -0.027
Old Testament (AKJV) -0.935
New Testament (AKJV) -1.317
Diversity: 0.953
Evenness: 0.985
Book Prominence
1 Timothy (AKJV) 10.831
John (Wycliffe) 3.671
2 Timothy (Tyndale) 3.635
2 Thessalonians (AKJV) 3.594
Matthew (Vulgate) 3.573
1 John (Tyndale) 3.398
1 John (Geneva) 3.386
Ephesians (ODRV) 3.195
2 Corinthians (Geneva) 3.098
Philippians (AKJV) 3.084
Ephesians (Geneva) 3.044
Isaiah (Douay-Rheims) 2.97
John (Tyndale) 2.969
2 Corinthians (AKJV) 2.951
Isaiah (Geneva) 2.94
Romans (Tyndale) 2.859
John (AKJV) 2.662
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 2.656
Romans (ODRV) 2.596
Romans (Geneva) 2.386
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 2.278
Psalms (Geneva) 2.031
Romans (AKJV) 2.004
Psalms (AKJV) 1.065
Diversity: 0.961
Evenness: 0.988
Chapter Prominence
1 Timothy 3 (AKJV) 9.591
Matthew 28 (Vulgate) 3.218
John 9 (Wycliffe) 3.213
2 Timothy 2 (Tyndale) 3.197
Psalms 147 (Geneva) 3.196
Isaiah 55 (Geneva) 3.195
1 Corinthians 4 (ODRV) 3.188
Isaiah 55 (Douay-Rheims) 3.182
2 Timothy 1 (Tyndale) 3.181
2 Thessalonians 3 (AKJV) 3.178
2 Corinthians 10 (AKJV) 3.174
Romans 14 (Tyndale) 3.168
Romans 11 (ODRV) 3.167
John 10 (AKJV) 3.167
Romans 11 (Geneva) 3.163
John 9 (AKJV) 3.161
1 John 5 (Geneva) 3.139
Romans 14 (ODRV) 3.131
2 Corinthians 4 (Geneva) 3.127
1 Corinthians 2 (AKJV) 3.119
Romans 11 (AKJV) 3.115
John 3 (Tyndale) 3.091
1 John 4 (Tyndale) 3.09
2 Corinthians 4 (AKJV) 3.085
Psalms 118 (AKJV) 3.082
1 Corinthians 1 (AKJV) 3.08
Ephesians 4 (ODRV) 3.061
Philippians 2 (AKJV) 3.006
Ephesians 4 (Geneva) 2.967
Diversity: 0.967
Evenness: 0.99
Verse Prominence
1 Timothy 3.16 (AKJV) 8.54
2 Timothy 2.18 (Tyndale) 2.856
Isaiah 55.8 (Geneva) 2.856
John 3.2 (Tyndale) 2.856
John 9.33 (AKJV) 2.856
John 10.38 (AKJV) 2.856
John 9.33 (Wycliffe) 2.855
Romans 11.10 (AKJV) 2.854
2 Corinthians 4.4 (Geneva) 2.854
Ephesians 4.14 (Geneva) 2.854
1 John 5.10 (Geneva) 2.854
2 Thessalonians 3.17 (AKJV) 2.854
1 John 4.9 (Tyndale) 2.854
1 Corinthians 1.22 (AKJV) 2.853
Romans 14.12 (Tyndale) 2.853
Matthew 28.19 (Vulgate) 2.853
1 Corinthians 1.23 (AKJV) 2.852
2 Corinthians 4.3 (AKJV) 2.85
2 Corinthians 4.4 (AKJV) 2.849
Psalms 147.5 (Geneva) 2.849
Isaiah 55.8 (Douay-Rheims) 2.847
1 Corinthians 4.1 (ODRV) 2.846
2 Corinthians 4.3 (Geneva) 2.845
1 Corinthians 2.7 (AKJV) 2.844
Ephesians 4.14 (ODRV) 2.844
Romans 11.33 (Geneva) 2.843
Romans 14.12 (ODRV) 2.842
2 Corinthians 10.5 (AKJV) 2.842
Romans 11.33 (ODRV) 2.836
2 Timothy 1.10 (Tyndale) 2.829
Philippians 2.8 (AKJV) 2.822
Romans 11.33 (AKJV) 2.82
Psalms 118.23 (AKJV) 2.796
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: 0.833
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
2 Timothy 15.224
2 Corinthians 14.364
John 13.461
1 Corinthians 13.376
Isaiah 13.285
Romans 12.712
Diversity: 0.923
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Isaiah 8 7.576
John 9 7.568
2 Corinthians 3 7.546
John 20 7.538
John 7 7.513
Romans 11 7.487
2 Corinthians 4 7.463
1 Corinthians 3 7.433
2 Timothy 3 7.396
John 1 7.395
John 3 7.359
1 Corinthians 1 7.354
1 Corinthians 11 7.324
Diversity: 0.889
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
1 Corinthians 11.7 11.101
John 3.2 11.1
1 Corinthians 3.18 11.1
1 Corinthians 1.22 11.098
John 9.16 11.097
1 Corinthians 1.23 11.094
2 Timothy 3.8 11.093
John 20.29 11.084
Romans 11.33 11.077
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase