The certainty of divine revelation A sermon preached at St. Martins in the Fields, Feb. 4. 1694/5. Being the second of the lecture for the ensuing year, founded by the honourable Robert Boyle, Esquire. By John Williams, D.D. chaplain in ordinary to His Majesty.

Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691
Williams, John, 1636?-1709
Publisher: printed for Ri Chiswell and Tho Cockerill at the Rose and Crown in St Paul s Church yard and at the Three Legs in the Poultrey
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1696
Approximate Era: WilliamAndMary
TCP ID: A66386 ESTC ID: R220000 STC ID: W2695A
Subject Headings: Bible. -- N.T -- Hebrews I, 1-2; Salvation; 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 1.6% -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 94.6% 100.0%
NonLatinAlphabet Percentage of units with a NonLatinAlphabet placeholder 0.3% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 4.3% -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) 0.8% -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: 0.875
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Old Testament (ODRV) 6.131
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 3.948
Old Testament (Geneva) 2.565
New Testament (Tyndale) 2.478
New Testament (Geneva) 1.442
New Testament (ODRV) 1.362
Old Testament (AKJV) 0.454
New Testament (AKJV) 0.072
Diversity: 0.929
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Numbers (Douay-Rheims) 6.954
Colossians (Tyndale) 6.889
Colossians (Geneva) 6.765
Genesis (ODRV) 6.596
Genesis (Geneva) 6.531
Hebrews (ODRV) 6.431
Hebrews (Geneva) 6.401
Genesis (AKJV) 6.244
Luke (AKJV) 5.945
Matthew (ODRV) 5.73
Romans (Geneva) 5.683
Psalms (Geneva) 5.328
Romans (AKJV) 5.3
Psalms (AKJV) 4.362
Diversity: 0.944
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Numbers 28 (Douay-Rheims) 5.554
Hebrews 1 (ODRV) 5.528
Hebrews 1 (Geneva) 5.516
Hebrews 4 (Geneva) 5.513
Psalms 50 (Geneva) 5.512
Genesis 2 (Geneva) 5.509
Genesis 3 (Geneva) 5.497
Colossians 3 (Tyndale) 5.491
Genesis 2 (AKJV) 5.49
Genesis 4 (AKJV) 5.488
Genesis 2 (ODRV) 5.484
Matthew 13 (ODRV) 5.482
Colossians 2 (Geneva) 5.472
Luke 1 (AKJV) 5.467
Hebrews 10 (Geneva) 5.45
Psalms 107 (AKJV) 5.406
Romans 2 (Geneva) 5.394
Romans 2 (AKJV) 5.385
Diversity: 0.95
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Genesis 2.5 (Geneva) 4.999
Numbers 28.25 (Douay-Rheims) 4.999
Colossians 3.7 (Tyndale) 4.998
Genesis 4.22 (AKJV) 4.998
Genesis 2.9 (AKJV) 4.997
Genesis 2.3 (ODRV) 4.997
Psalms 50.13 (Geneva) 4.997
Hebrews 10.4 (Geneva) 4.997
Luke 1.70 (AKJV) 4.997
Matthew 13.12 (ODRV) 4.996
Genesis 2.2 (AKJV) 4.995
Hebrews 1.1 (ODRV) 4.992
Genesis 2.3 (AKJV) 4.992
Psalms 107.10 (AKJV) 4.991
Colossians 2.17 (Geneva) 4.99
Romans 2.15 (Geneva) 4.986
Genesis 3.15 (Geneva) 4.984
Hebrews 4.13 (Geneva) 4.984
Romans 2.14 (AKJV) 4.982
Hebrews 1.1 (Geneva) 4.977
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
2 Peter 9.827
2 Kings 9.793
Daniel 9.776
1 Kings 9.635
Genesis 8.486
Luke 7.893
Isaiah 7.729
Romans 7.156
Psalms 5.94
Diversity: 0.917
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
1 Kings 13 8.285
Genesis 14 8.279
2 Kings 23 8.269
Isaiah 44 8.254
Genesis 9 8.24
Daniel 9 8.236
Genesis 2 8.183
Genesis 4 8.167
Luke 1 8.109
Psalms 50 8.083
2 Peter 2 8.078
Romans 2 8.0
Diversity: 0.933
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Genesis 9.26 6.665
Genesis 2.2 6.664
Psalms 50.13 6.664
Genesis 4.25 6.664
Genesis 4.20 6.663
2 Kings 23.16 6.662
Daniel 9.4 6.662
Genesis 14.18 6.662
Daniel 9.2 6.661
Luke 1.70 6.661
Genesis 14.20 6.659
1 Kings 13.2 6.658
Isaiah 44.28 6.655
2 Peter 2.5 6.65
Romans 2.14 6.626
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase