Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon, called Gods new yeeres-guift sent vnto England. Conteined in these wordes. So God loued the worlde, that he hath giuen his onely begotten sonne, that whosoeuer beleeueth in him, should not perish but should haue life euerlasting. Ioh. 3. 16.

Nicholson, Samuel, fl. 1600-1602
Publisher: Printed by W White and are to be sold by Y James at his shop without Criple gate
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1602
Approximate Era: Elizabeth
TCP ID: A68502 ESTC ID: S114555 STC ID: 18547
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 0.6% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 0.6% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 88.0% 100.0%
Foreign Percentage of units with foreign text 1.2% -inf%
NonLatinAlphabet Percentage of units with a NonLatinAlphabet placeholder 0.3% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 8.6% -inf%
sim_score Average cosine similarity score of top Bible verse predictions per unit 0.7% -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) 1.8% -inf%
foreign_italicized Percentage of units with QP and foreign italicized text 1.2% -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: 0.844
Evenness: 0.98
Part Prominence
New Testament (Geneva) 13.942
New Testament (Vulgate) 7.691
Old Testament (Geneva) 2.565
New Testament (Tyndale) 2.478
New Testament (ODRV) 1.362
Old Testament (AKJV) 0.454
New Testament (AKJV) 0.072
Diversity: 0.957
Evenness: 0.983
Book Prominence
Hebrews (AKJV) 8.65
1 John (ODRV) 5.985
John (Geneva) 5.582
1 John (Vulgate) 3.08
2 Samuel (Geneva) 3.001
James (Geneva) 2.804
1 John (Tyndale) 2.777
Acts (Geneva) 2.682
1 Peter (Geneva) 2.644
Ephesians (ODRV) 2.574
2 Corinthians (Geneva) 2.477
Luke (Tyndale) 2.45
Ephesians (Geneva) 2.424
1 Corinthians (Tyndale) 2.353
John (Tyndale) 2.348
2 Corinthians (AKJV) 2.331
Proverbs (Geneva) 2.295
Ephesians (AKJV) 2.275
Job (AKJV) 2.232
John (ODRV) 2.17
Matthew (Tyndale) 2.14
Matthew (Geneva) 2.064
John (AKJV) 2.042
Luke (AKJV) 2.028
Matthew (AKJV) 1.711
Psalms (Geneva) 1.411
Psalms (AKJV) 0.445
Diversity: 0.967
Evenness: 0.986
Chapter Prominence
Hebrews 11 (AKJV) 7.721
1 John 4 (ODRV) 5.192
John 3 (Geneva) 5.155
2 Samuel 18 (Geneva) 2.622
Proverbs 5 (Geneva) 2.62
Acts 17 (Geneva) 2.605
Job 36 (AKJV) 2.601
1 John 2 (Vulgate) 2.599
Psalms 85 (Geneva) 2.596
2 Corinthians 12 (Geneva) 2.593
John 15 (ODRV) 2.584
Luke 10 (Tyndale) 2.579
2 Corinthians 12 (AKJV) 2.575
John 13 (AKJV) 2.572
Psalms 115 (AKJV) 2.565
Matthew 13 (Geneva) 2.56
1 Peter 4 (Geneva) 2.556
James 1 (Geneva) 2.556
Matthew 15 (AKJV) 2.554
Ephesians 2 (ODRV) 2.547
John 1 (Geneva) 2.545
1 Corinthians 10 (Tyndale) 2.545
John 5 (Tyndale) 2.542
Matthew 26 (Tyndale) 2.533
Matthew 6 (Geneva) 2.532
John 3 (ODRV) 2.532
John 1 (ODRV) 2.531
Matthew 25 (AKJV) 2.531
Luke 2 (AKJV) 2.522
Ephesians 2 (Geneva) 2.508
John 3 (Tyndale) 2.497
1 John 4 (Tyndale) 2.496
Ephesians 4 (Geneva) 2.373
Ephesians 4 (AKJV) 2.279
Diversity: 0.97
Evenness: 0.987
Verse Prominence
Hebrews 11.17 (AKJV) 7.297
John 3.16 (Geneva) 4.871
1 John 4.19 (ODRV) 4.869
Proverbs 5.2 (Geneva) 2.439
Acts 17.21 (Geneva) 2.437
John 3.10 (Tyndale) 2.437
Matthew 6.23 (Geneva) 2.437
Job 36.26 (AKJV) 2.437
John 13.20 (AKJV) 2.437
Matthew 13.12 (Geneva) 2.436
1 John 2.25 (Vulgate) 2.436
John 1.5 (ODRV) 2.435
2 Samuel 18.33 (Geneva) 2.435
John 15.12 (ODRV) 2.435
Matthew 25.35 (AKJV) 2.434
1 Peter 4.10 (Geneva) 2.433
Luke 10.41 (Tyndale) 2.433
Psalms 115.7 (AKJV) 2.433
1 John 4.21 (Tyndale) 2.432
John 3.16 (ODRV) 2.429
Ephesians 2.4 (ODRV) 2.429
Luke 2.30 (AKJV) 2.427
James 1.17 (Geneva) 2.427
Ephesians 2.7 (Geneva) 2.426
John 5.39 (Tyndale) 2.421
2 Corinthians 12.9 (Geneva) 2.421
John 1.9 (Geneva) 2.42
2 Corinthians 12.9 (AKJV) 2.419
Matthew 15.14 (AKJV) 2.418
Psalms 85.10 (Geneva) 2.414
1 Corinthians 10.24 (Tyndale) 2.412
Ephesians 2.8 (Geneva) 2.411
Matthew 26.26 (Tyndale) 2.407
1 John 4.11 (Tyndale) 2.389
John 3.13 (Tyndale) 2.384
Ephesians 4.3 (Geneva) 2.326
Ephesians 4.3 (AKJV) 2.326
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: 0.444
Evenness: 0.918
Part Prominence
New Testament 18.472
Old Testament -14.001
Diversity: 0.72
Evenness: 0.961
Book Prominence
John 36.794
2 Samuel 18.386
Genesis 17.375
Acts 16.797
Diversity: 0.72
Evenness: 0.961
Chapter Prominence
John 3 39.667
Genesis 37 19.949
2 Samuel 18 19.906
Acts 8 19.829
Diversity: 0.0
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
John 3.16 99.916
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase