The building, beautifying, or repairing of Churches, an act of religion A sermon preached in the parish church of St. Helens, London, on Sunday, August 8. 1697. At the first opening of that Church after it had been repair'd. By Tho. Willis, M.A. vicar of St. Helens.

Willis, Thomas, 1651 or 2-1701
Publisher: printed for John Southby at the Harrow in Cornhil
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1692
Approximate Era: WilliamAndMary
TCP ID: A66519 ESTC ID: R219576 STC ID: W2857
Subject Headings: 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 6.2% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 4.5% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 91.6% 100.0%
NonLatinAlphabet Percentage of units with a NonLatinAlphabet placeholder 0.6% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 6.7% -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) 1.7% -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: 0.816
Evenness: 0.976
Part Prominence
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 20.02
Old Testament (Geneva) 4.351
New Testament (Tyndale) 4.264
New Testament (Geneva) 3.227
Old Testament (AKJV) 2.24
New Testament (AKJV) 1.858
Diversity: 0.918
Evenness: 0.99
Book Prominence
Isaiah (Douay-Rheims) 13.41
1 Chronicles (AKJV) 7.011
Leviticus (Geneva) 6.969
1 Kings (AKJV) 6.862
2 Chronicles (AKJV) 6.793
Philippians (Geneva) 6.725
1 Peter (Tyndale) 6.654
1 Peter (AKJV) 6.355
Acts (AKJV) 6.309
John (AKJV) 5.959
Matthew (AKJV) 5.628
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 5.575
Psalms (AKJV) 4.362
Diversity: 0.924
Evenness: 0.991
Chapter Prominence
Isaiah 66 (Douay-Rheims) 13.311
2 Chronicles 6 (AKJV) 6.661
Leviticus 10 (Geneva) 6.658
1 Kings 8 (AKJV) 6.647
1 Chronicles 29 (AKJV) 6.639
Acts 7 (AKJV) 6.625
Philippians 1 (Geneva) 6.61
Acts 2 (AKJV) 6.604
Psalms 50 (AKJV) 6.594
1 Peter 1 (Tyndale) 6.587
John 4 (AKJV) 6.565
1 Peter 5 (AKJV) 6.505
Matthew 5 (AKJV) 6.486
1 Corinthians 11 (AKJV) 6.481
Diversity: 0.932
Evenness: 0.987
Verse Prominence
Isaiah 66.1 (Douay-Rheims) 11.107
Acts 7.48 (AKJV) 11.1
2 Chronicles 6.7 (AKJV) 5.555
Acts 7.50 (AKJV) 5.554
1 Chronicles 29.1 (AKJV) 5.554
1 Kings 8.18 (AKJV) 5.554
Acts 7.47 (AKJV) 5.553
1 Corinthians 11.5 (AKJV) 5.553
Matthew 5.35 (AKJV) 5.553
Leviticus 10.3 (Geneva) 5.551
Acts 2.46 (AKJV) 5.55
Philippians 1.11 (Geneva) 5.548
Psalms 50.23 (AKJV) 5.541
1 Peter 1.15 (Tyndale) 5.533
John 4.24 (AKJV) 5.501
1 Peter 5.11 (AKJV) 5.472
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: 0.875
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
1 Chronicles 11.891
Leviticus 11.525
1 Kings 11.023
2 Samuel 10.886
Acts 9.297
John 9.294
Matthew 8.32
Psalms 7.328
Diversity: 0.909
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
1 Chronicles 22 9.064
Leviticus 10 9.04
2 Samuel 7 9.022
1 Kings 8 9.005
1 Chronicles 29 9.002
Matthew 2 8.998
Acts 7 8.916
Matthew 21 8.904
John 4 8.885
Psalms 50 8.841
Acts 2 8.789
Diversity: 0.929
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
1 Kings 8.17 7.141
Acts 7.4 7.141
1 Chronicles 22.5 7.14
1 Chronicles 29.1 7.14
2 Samuel 7.7 7.14
Acts 7.49 7.14
1 Kings 8.18 7.139
Acts 7.48 7.138
Matthew 21.12 7.132
Leviticus 10.3 7.127
John 4.23 7.126
Acts 2.46 7.124
Matthew 21.13 7.121
Psalms 50.23 7.114
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase