Early English Printed Sermons


Of the perspicuity of Scripture, and rules for interpretation of it a sermon preached at St. Martins in the Fields, Mar. 2, 1695/6, being the third of the lecture for this present year, founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esquire / by John Williams ...

Williams, John, 1636?-1709
Publisher: Printed for Ri Chiswell and Tho Cockerill Senr Junr
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1696
Approximate Era: WilliamAndMary
TCP ID: A66404 ESTC ID: R38654 STC ID: W2712
Subject Headings: Bible. -- N.T. -- Acts XVII, 11-12; 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 6.6% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 3.8% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 87.4% 100.0%
NonLatinAlphabet Percentage of units with a NonLatinAlphabet placeholder 0.6% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 8.5% -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) 3.5% -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: 0.973
Part Prominence
New Testament (Wycliffe) 15.046
New Testament (Geneva) 5.608
New Testament (AKJV) 4.239
New Testament (Vulgate) 3.525
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) -0.219
Old Testament (Geneva) -1.601
New Testament (Tyndale) -1.688
New Testament (ODRV) -2.804
Old Testament (AKJV) -3.713
Diversity: 0.962
Evenness: 0.985
Book Prominence
John (Wycliffe) 5.539
1 John (Geneva) 5.254
1 John (AKJV) 5.115
Hebrews (ODRV) 5.003
Acts (AKJV) 4.88
Hebrews (AKJV) 4.687
Hosea (Douay-Rheims) 2.67
Romans (Vulgate) 2.619
Daniel (AKJV) 2.613
1 Corinthians (Vulgate) 2.611
1 Timothy (ODRV) 2.333
Acts (Geneva) 2.313
Genesis (Geneva) 2.246
Galatians (AKJV) 2.185
Hebrews (Geneva) 2.115
Ephesians (Geneva) 2.055
John (Geneva) 1.987
Isaiah (Douay-Rheims) 1.981
John (Tyndale) 1.98
Genesis (AKJV) 1.959
Ephesians (AKJV) 1.906
Luke (ODRV) 1.865
Job (AKJV) 1.863
John (ODRV) 1.802
Matthew (Tyndale) 1.772
John (AKJV) 1.673
Romans (ODRV) 1.607
Isaiah (AKJV) 1.575
Romans (Geneva) 1.397
Diversity: 0.969
Evenness: 0.988
Chapter Prominence
John 4 (Wycliffe) 4.745
Hebrews 5 (AKJV) 4.726
Hebrews 9 (ODRV) 4.699
Acts 17 (AKJV) 4.694
1 John 4 (Geneva) 4.684
1 John 4 (AKJV) 4.649
Daniel 8 (AKJV) 2.377
1 Corinthians 2 (Vulgate) 2.375
Genesis 26 (Geneva) 2.369
Isaiah 13 (Douay-Rheims) 2.368
Isaiah 66 (AKJV) 2.366
Genesis 26 (AKJV) 2.365
Acts 15 (Geneva) 2.362
Hosea 6 (Douay-Rheims) 2.361
Isaiah 2 (AKJV) 2.36
Luke 24 (ODRV) 2.356
Acts 17 (Geneva) 2.354
John 10 (Tyndale) 2.351
Luke 13 (ODRV) 2.351
Luke 2 (ODRV) 2.34
Genesis 2 (Geneva) 2.335
Romans 8 (Vulgate) 2.332
Job 38 (AKJV) 2.33
John 20 (ODRV) 2.33
Galatians 4 (AKJV) 2.308
Romans 4 (Geneva) 2.308
Ephesians 6 (Geneva) 2.298
Matthew 26 (Tyndale) 2.282
John 1 (ODRV) 2.28
John 6 (Geneva) 2.279
Hebrews 10 (Geneva) 2.276
John 6 (AKJV) 2.275
1 Timothy 2 (ODRV) 2.264
Ephesians 2 (AKJV) 2.243
John 6 (ODRV) 2.237
Romans 8 (ODRV) 2.195
Diversity: 0.97
Evenness: 0.987
Verse Prominence
1 John 4.3 (Geneva) 4.54
1 John 4.2 (AKJV) 4.54
1 John 4.3 (AKJV) 4.539
Hebrews 5.14 (AKJV) 4.539
Acts 17.11 (AKJV) 4.537
John 4.24 (Wycliffe) 4.535
Hebrews 9.28 (ODRV) 4.529
Acts 17.13 (Geneva) 2.272
John 6.4 (AKJV) 2.272
Isaiah 2.2 (AKJV) 2.272
Isaiah 66.23 (AKJV) 2.272
Genesis 2.4 (Geneva) 2.272
Daniel 8.10 (AKJV) 2.272
Ephesians 6.24 (Geneva) 2.272
Genesis 26.24 (AKJV) 2.271
1 Corinthians 2.11 (Vulgate) 2.271
Genesis 26.24 (Geneva) 2.27
John 10.42 (Tyndale) 2.27
Hebrews 10.12 (Geneva) 2.27
Luke 2.41 (ODRV) 2.27
Job 38.2 (AKJV) 2.269
Acts 15.21 (Geneva) 2.269
Romans 8.3 (Vulgate) 2.269
Isaiah 13.10 (Douay-Rheims) 2.268
Luke 24.45 (ODRV) 2.268
Luke 13.10 (ODRV) 2.268
Hosea 6.6 (Douay-Rheims) 2.266
Galatians 4.4 (AKJV) 2.266
1 Timothy 2.9 (ODRV) 2.266
John 6.27 (Geneva) 2.264
John 1.3 (ODRV) 2.263
John 20.22 (ODRV) 2.263
Romans 4.25 (Geneva) 2.261
Ephesians 2.18 (AKJV) 2.261
John 6.52 (ODRV) 2.259
Romans 8.3 (ODRV) 2.259
Matthew 26.26 (Tyndale) 2.241
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: 0.947
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Leviticus 4.288
1 Thessalonians 4.185
Hosea 4.066
2 Peter 3.979
Daniel 3.928
1 John 3.829
Ezekiel 3.659
1 Peter 3.232
Revelation 3.137
Job 3.021
2 Corinthians 2.961
Genesis 2.638
Hebrews 2.477
Acts 2.06
John 2.057
1 Corinthians 1.973
Isaiah 1.882
Romans 1.308
Matthew 1.083
Diversity: 0.967
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Ezekiel 32 3.323
Leviticus 4 3.321
Daniel 8 3.316
Revelation 8 3.299
Isaiah 13 3.297
Genesis 37 3.282
Job 38 3.256
Acts 11 3.253
Hosea 6 3.243
Isaiah 66 3.242
Isaiah 2 3.221
Acts 12 3.213
Hebrews 5 3.2
Matthew 9 3.188
Isaiah 53 3.171
1 John 4 3.163
Acts 8 3.163
2 Peter 3 3.14
1 Thessalonians 4 3.119
1 Peter 3 3.109
Acts 13 3.107
Hebrews 9 3.101
John 6 3.086
John 5 3.073
Matthew 22 3.073
Hebrews 10 3.04
1 Corinthians 10 3.007
1 Corinthians 11 2.965
2 Corinthians 5 2.959
Romans 8 2.731
Diversity: 0.969
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Leviticus 4.8 3.124
Ezekiel 32.7 3.124
Hebrews 10.8 3.123
Acts 8.30 3.123
Leviticus 4.3 3.123
Isaiah 13.10 3.123
Isaiah 13.4 3.123
Daniel 8.10 3.123
Genesis 37.9 3.123
Job 38.2 3.122
Isaiah 66.23 3.122
Revelation 8.12 3.122
Acts 13.27 3.121
1 John 4.3 3.119
1 John 4.2 3.118
Acts 8.31 3.118
Matthew 22.32 3.116
Hebrews 5.14 3.114
2 Peter 3.13 3.113
Hebrews 5.12 3.113
Isaiah 2.2 3.112
Isaiah 2.3 3.112
Hebrews 9.28 3.111
Hosea 6.6 3.11
1 Peter 3.13 3.109
Romans 8.3 3.106
Isaiah 53.10 3.106
1 Thessalonians 4.11 3.102
Matthew 9.13 3.101
2 Corinthians 5.21 3.096
John 6.27 3.076
2 Peter 3.16 3.057
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase