Early English Printed Sermons


A confutation of atheism from the origin and frame of the world. Part II a sermon preached at St. Martin's in the Fields, November the 7th, 1692 : being the seventh of the lecture founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle ... / by Richard Bentley ...

Bentley, Richard, 1662-1742
Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691
Publisher: Printed for H Mortlock
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1692
Approximate Era: WilliamAndMary
TCP ID: A69557 ESTC ID: R15263 STC ID: B1917
Subject Headings: Atheism; Atheism -- Controversial literature; Christianity and atheism; Nature -- Religious aspects; Religion and science; 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 0.8% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 0.8% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 98.7% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 0.5% -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 0.8% -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) 0.5% -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: 0.667
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Old Testament (Geneva) 23.399
Old Testament (AKJV) 21.287
New Testament (AKJV) 20.906
Diversity: 0.667
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Acts (AKJV) 32.499
Psalms (Geneva) 31.518
Psalms (AKJV) 30.552
Diversity: 0.667
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Psalms 148 (Geneva) 33.314
Acts 14 (AKJV) 33.31
Psalms 8 (AKJV) 33.28
Diversity: 0.8
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Acts 14.16 (AKJV) 19.995
Acts 14.15 (AKJV) 19.995
Acts 14.17 (AKJV) 19.994
Psalms 148.6 (Geneva) 19.994
Psalms 8.3 (AKJV) 19.993
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: 0.5
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Acts 46.797
Psalms 44.828
Diversity: 0.667
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Psalms 148 33.285
Psalms 8 33.21
Acts 15 33.176
Diversity:
Evenness:
Verse Prominence
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase