Early English Printed Sermons


A fruitful and Godly sermon containing necessary and profitable doctrine, for the reformation of our sinfull and wicked liues, but especially for the comfort of a troubled conscience in all distresses. By M. Richard Greenham pastor of Drayton.

Greenham, Richard
Publisher: printed by Robert Walde graue printer to the Kings Majestie
Place of Publication: Edinburgh
Publication Year: 1595
Approximate Era: Elizabeth
TCP ID: A72208 ESTC ID: S124961 STC ID: 12319
Subject Headings: Conscience -- Religious aspects; Spiritual life;
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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 0.4% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 92.2% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 1.5% -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 0.7% -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) 0.9% -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: 0.864
Evenness: 0.983
Part Prominence
Old Testament (AKJV) 10.176
Apocrypha (AKJV) 6.553
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 2.559
Old Testament (Geneva) 1.177
New Testament (Tyndale) 1.09
New Testament (Geneva) 0.053
New Testament (ODRV) -0.027
New Testament (AKJV) -1.317
Diversity: 0.972
Evenness: 0.988
Book Prominence
Proverbs (Geneva) 5.888
James (AKJV) 3.9
Proverbs (AKJV) 3.142
Baruch (AKJV) 2.186
2 Kings (AKJV) 2.04
Philippians (Tyndale) 1.861
Colossians (ODRV) 1.859
Galatians (Tyndale) 1.857
James (Geneva) 1.85
James (ODRV) 1.814
Ephesians (Tyndale) 1.789
Ecclesiasticus (AKJV) 1.632
Job (Geneva) 1.573
1 Timothy (AKJV) 1.565
Hebrews (Geneva) 1.531
Philippians (ODRV) 1.523
2 Corinthians (ODRV) 1.518
Philippians (AKJV) 1.511
Luke (Tyndale) 1.497
Ephesians (Geneva) 1.471
Isaiah (Douay-Rheims) 1.397
John (Tyndale) 1.395
2 Corinthians (AKJV) 1.378
Luke (Geneva) 1.374
Isaiah (Geneva) 1.367
Romans (Tyndale) 1.285
Luke (ODRV) 1.281
Job (AKJV) 1.279
Matthew (Geneva) 1.111
John (AKJV) 1.089
Romans (ODRV) 1.022
1 Corinthians (Geneva) 1.001
Isaiah (AKJV) 0.99
Matthew (ODRV) 0.859
Romans (Geneva) 0.813
Matthew (AKJV) 0.758
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 0.705
Psalms (Geneva) 0.458
Romans (AKJV) 0.43
Psalms (AKJV) -0.509
Diversity: 0.979
Evenness: 0.99
Chapter Prominence
Proverbs 18 (Geneva) 5.145
Psalms 139 (Geneva) 3.403
Proverbs 18 (AKJV) 3.378
James 1 (AKJV) 3.303
Isaiah 46 (Geneva) 1.722
2 Kings 21 (AKJV) 1.721
Job 13 (Geneva) 1.714
Ecclesiasticus 26 (AKJV) 1.714
Baruch 1 (AKJV) 1.712
Luke 5 (Tyndale) 1.711
Psalms 130 (Geneva) 1.704
Job 1 (Geneva) 1.701
Hebrews 6 (Geneva) 1.691
Isaiah 53 (Geneva) 1.687
Luke 7 (ODRV) 1.686
Isaiah 53 (Douay-Rheims) 1.682
John 16 (Tyndale) 1.681
Job 1 (AKJV) 1.678
John 19 (AKJV) 1.677
Job 9 (AKJV) 1.677
Psalms 103 (Geneva) 1.676
Psalms 25 (AKJV) 1.673
2 Corinthians 3 (ODRV) 1.671
Isaiah 53 (AKJV) 1.671
Galatians 2 (Tyndale) 1.671
Philippians 4 (Tyndale) 1.669
Proverbs 21 (Geneva) 1.665
Romans 11 (Geneva) 1.661
Romans 6 (Tyndale) 1.661
Luke 22 (Geneva) 1.66
Psalms 22 (AKJV) 1.658
Romans 15 (AKJV) 1.653
Matthew 26 (ODRV) 1.652
Romans 4 (Geneva) 1.651
James 1 (Geneva) 1.648
Ephesians 5 (Tyndale) 1.646
James 1 (ODRV) 1.646
John 16 (AKJV) 1.642
1 Corinthians 12 (Geneva) 1.635
Psalms 103 (AKJV) 1.628
Matthew 6 (Geneva) 1.625
1 Corinthians 11 (Geneva) 1.616
Romans 11 (AKJV) 1.614
Romans 6 (ODRV) 1.613
1 Timothy 2 (AKJV) 1.599
Colossians 3 (ODRV) 1.584
Philippians 3 (AKJV) 1.573
2 Corinthians 5 (AKJV) 1.565
Matthew 6 (AKJV) 1.553
Philippians 4 (AKJV) 1.55
1 Corinthians 11 (AKJV) 1.538
Philippians 2 (ODRV) 1.508
Ephesians 4 (Geneva) 1.466
Diversity: 0.98
Evenness: 0.991
Verse Prominence
Proverbs 18.14 (Geneva) 5.074
James 1.3 (AKJV) 3.38
Psalms 139.7 (Geneva) 3.38
Proverbs 18.14 (AKJV) 3.362
Ecclesiasticus 26.10 (AKJV) 1.695
Isaiah 46.2 (Geneva) 1.694
Matthew 26.38 (ODRV) 1.694
Colossians 3.6 (ODRV) 1.694
2 Kings 21.10 (AKJV) 1.694
Job 1.3 (AKJV) 1.693
Isaiah 53.4 (Geneva) 1.693
John 19.30 (AKJV) 1.693
Psalms 103.10 (Geneva) 1.693
Job 1.21 (Geneva) 1.692
Job 13.26 (Geneva) 1.692
Romans 6.18 (Tyndale) 1.692
Ephesians 4.19 (Geneva) 1.692
Hebrews 6.11 (Geneva) 1.692
John 16.8 (Tyndale) 1.691
James 1.20 (Geneva) 1.691
Luke 5.31 (Tyndale) 1.691
2 Corinthians 3.3 (ODRV) 1.69
Romans 11.8 (Geneva) 1.69
Romans 11.8 (AKJV) 1.69
Psalms 25.7 (AKJV) 1.69
Job 9.20 (AKJV) 1.69
Baruch 1.17 (AKJV) 1.689
Philippians 4.7 (Tyndale) 1.689
Romans 6.21 (ODRV) 1.689
Romans 15.13 (AKJV) 1.689
Psalms 103.10 (AKJV) 1.688
2 Corinthians 5.9 (AKJV) 1.688
Romans 6.3 (ODRV) 1.688
Romans 4.24 (Geneva) 1.688
James 1.3 (ODRV) 1.688
Isaiah 53.4 (AKJV) 1.687
Luke 22.44 (Geneva) 1.687
1 Corinthians 12.25 (Geneva) 1.687
Galatians 2.16 (Tyndale) 1.687
John 16.8 (AKJV) 1.687
Luke 7.48 (ODRV) 1.687
Philippians 2.13 (ODRV) 1.686
Psalms 130.4 (Geneva) 1.685
Philippians 4.12 (AKJV) 1.685
Ephesians 5.21 (Tyndale) 1.682
1 Timothy 2.6 (AKJV) 1.682
Proverbs 21.3 (Geneva) 1.681
Philippians 3.9 (AKJV) 1.681
Matthew 6.22 (Geneva) 1.68
Psalms 22.1 (AKJV) 1.677
Matthew 6.22 (AKJV) 1.676
Isaiah 53.5 (Douay-Rheims) 1.676
1 Corinthians 11.31 (Geneva) 1.665
1 Corinthians 11.31 (AKJV) 1.665
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: 0.0
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Old Testament 52.666
Diversity: 0.5
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Proverbs 46.952
Psalms 44.828
Diversity: 0.5
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Psalms 25 49.906
Proverbs 18 49.895
Diversity: 0.5
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Psalms 25.7 49.985
Proverbs 18.14 49.955
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase