Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon preach'd before the Queen at White-Hall, March the 8th, 1688/9 by John Tillotson ...

Tillotson, John, 1630-1694
Publisher: Printed for Brabazon Aylmer and Will Rogers
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1689
Approximate Era: WilliamAndMary
TCP ID: A62600 ESTC ID: R4814 STC ID: T1237
Subject Headings: Bible. -- N.T. -- Matthew V, 44; Church of England; 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 3.3% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 2.8% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 89.5% 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 0.8% -inf%
cross_score Average cross encoder score of top Bible verse predictions per unit 0.8% -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) 3.9% -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: 0.826
Evenness: 0.949
Part Prominence
New Testament (Tyndale) 17.251
New Testament (Geneva) 7.123
New Testament (ODRV) 7.044
Apocrypha (AKJV) 4.533
New Testament (Vulgate) 4.282
Old Testament (AKJV) -2.955
New Testament (AKJV) -3.337
Diversity: 0.944
Evenness: 0.978
Book Prominence
Matthew (Tyndale) 10.914
Matthew (Geneva) 6.838
Matthew (ODRV) 6.587
1 Esdras (AKJV) 3.921
Ephesians (Vulgate) 3.901
1 Thessalonians (ODRV) 3.707
1 John (Tyndale) 3.551
James (ODRV) 3.541
Ecclesiasticus (AKJV) 3.36
2 Corinthians (ODRV) 3.245
Luke (Geneva) 3.101
Ephesians (AKJV) 3.049
Romans (Tyndale) 3.013
Job (AKJV) 3.006
Luke (AKJV) 2.802
1 Corinthians (Geneva) 2.728
Proverbs (AKJV) 2.597
Romans (Geneva) 2.54
Matthew (AKJV) 2.485
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 2.432
Romans (AKJV) 2.157
Diversity: 0.957
Evenness: 0.983
Chapter Prominence
Matthew 5 (Tyndale) 9.574
Matthew 5 (Geneva) 6.307
Matthew 5 (ODRV) 6.235
1 Esdras 8 (AKJV) 3.216
Ephesians 5 (Vulgate) 3.213
Ecclesiasticus 28 (AKJV) 3.212
2 Corinthians 10 (ODRV) 3.186
Matthew 18 (ODRV) 3.18
Job 22 (AKJV) 3.178
Luke 17 (Geneva) 3.171
Luke 17 (AKJV) 3.17
Romans 7 (Tyndale) 3.168
Matthew 18 (AKJV) 3.149
Matthew 6 (Geneva) 3.127
James 2 (ODRV) 3.123
Matthew 6 (ODRV) 3.121
Proverbs 16 (AKJV) 3.114
1 Thessalonians 5 (ODRV) 3.112
Romans 12 (Geneva) 3.111
1 John 4 (Tyndale) 3.09
Proverbs 14 (AKJV) 3.077
Matthew 6 (AKJV) 3.055
Matthew 5 (AKJV) 3.045
1 Corinthians 10 (Geneva) 3.043
Romans 12 (AKJV) 3.026
1 Corinthians 10 (AKJV) 2.924
Ephesians 4 (AKJV) 2.873
Diversity: 0.964
Evenness: 0.978
Verse Prominence
Matthew 5.44 (Geneva) 7.489
Matthew 5.44 (Tyndale) 7.474
Ecclesiasticus 28.4 (AKJV) 4.999
Matthew 5.24 (Geneva) 4.995
Matthew 5.44 (ODRV) 4.977
Ephesians 5.1 (Vulgate) 2.5
Luke 17.3 (Geneva) 2.499
Ecclesiasticus 28.2 (AKJV) 2.499
Matthew 18.15 (ODRV) 2.498
Matthew 18.35 (AKJV) 2.498
Matthew 5.44 (AKJV) 2.498
Matthew 5.23 (AKJV) 2.498
Matthew 6.15 (AKJV) 2.497
Luke 17.4 (AKJV) 2.497
1 Esdras 8.75 (AKJV) 2.497
Proverbs 14.29 (AKJV) 2.497
Romans 12.17 (Geneva) 2.496
Proverbs 16.32 (AKJV) 2.496
2 Corinthians 10.13 (ODRV) 2.495
Matthew 6.12 (ODRV) 2.493
1 Thessalonians 5.25 (ODRV) 2.491
Matthew 6.14 (Geneva) 2.491
Matthew 6.12 (Geneva) 2.49
Job 22.12 (AKJV) 2.49
Matthew 5.45 (Geneva) 2.49
Romans 7.12 (Tyndale) 2.489
Matthew 5.48 (AKJV) 2.488
James 2.13 (ODRV) 2.485
Ephesians 4.32 (AKJV) 2.475
Romans 12.18 (AKJV) 2.467
1 John 4.11 (Tyndale) 2.45
1 Corinthians 10.16 (Geneva) 2.415
1 Corinthians 10.16 (AKJV) 2.414
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: 0.833
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Ecclesiastes 14.71
Ephesians 14.504
Proverbs 13.619
Luke 13.449
Romans 12.712
Matthew 12.487
Diversity: 0.923
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Ecclesiastes 4 7.629
Ecclesiastes 2 7.607
Ecclesiastes 3 7.602
Ecclesiastes 1 7.596
Luke 17 7.578
Proverbs 14 7.53
Proverbs 16 7.513
Matthew 18 7.471
Ecclesiastes 7 7.453
Matthew 6 7.365
Romans 12 7.337
Ephesians 4 7.228
Matthew 5 7.136
Diversity: 0.909
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Ecclesiastes 7.9 9.086
Luke 17.4 9.086
Proverbs 14.29 9.085
Matthew 18.23 9.085
Luke 17.3 9.084
Matthew 6.15 9.083
Ephesians 4.32 9.079
Matthew 6.14 9.079
Romans 12.17 9.078
Proverbs 16.32 9.076
Matthew 5.44 9.035
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase