Early English Printed Sermons


The doctrine of self-posing, or, a Christians duty of putting cases of difficulty to himself Being the summe of some sermons preached at Upton upon Seavern, in the county of Worcester. By B. Baxter, late minister of the gospel there, but now removed.

Baxter, Benjamin, Preacher of the Gospel
Publisher: printed for Peter Parker and are to be sold at his shop under Creed Church near Aldgate
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1666
Approximate Era: CharlesII
TCP ID: A76131 ESTC ID: R230135 STC ID: B1170A
Subject Headings: 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 11.2% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 7.7% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 82.6% 100.0%
Foreign Percentage of units with foreign text 0.2% -inf%
NonLatinAlphabet Percentage of units with a NonLatinAlphabet placeholder 0.2% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 13.8% -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) 5.3% -inf%
foreign_italicized Percentage of units with QP and foreign italicized text 0.2% -inf%
foreign_latin Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP and foreign text 0.2% -inf%
foreign_latin_italicized Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP and italicized foreign text 0.2% -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: 0.91
Part Prominence
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 22.698
Apocrypha (Douay-Rheims) 2.847
Old Testament (Geneva) 2.565
Apocrypha (AKJV) 1.692
New Testament (AKJV) 0.072
Old Testament (ODRV) -0.119
New Testament (Tyndale) -3.772
New Testament (Geneva) -4.808
New Testament (ODRV) -4.888
Old Testament (AKJV) -5.796
Diversity: 0.971
Evenness: 0.972
Book Prominence
Habakkuk (Douay-Rheims) 9.196
Habakkuk (AKJV) 5.43
Habakkuk (Geneva) 3.623
Isaiah (Douay-Rheims) 2.828
Matthew (AKJV) 2.189
1 Maccabees (Douay-Rheims) 1.764
Mark (Tyndale) 1.697
Amos (Geneva) 1.686
Hosea (Geneva) 1.663
Amos (AKJV) 1.653
Lamentations (Geneva) 1.63
2 Kings (AKJV) 1.619
1 Kings (AKJV) 1.571
1 Thessalonians (ODRV) 1.559
Lamentations (AKJV) 1.533
Ecclesiastes (Douay-Rheims) 1.438
1 Samuel (AKJV) 1.433
Hebrews (Tyndale) 1.401
Ecclesiastes (Geneva) 1.357
Revelation (Geneva) 1.34
Acts (Geneva) 1.308
Ecclesiasticus (AKJV) 1.211
Jeremiah (AKJV) 1.199
Acts (ODRV) 1.164
Job (Geneva) 1.152
Hebrews (ODRV) 1.14
Ecclesiastes (AKJV) 1.103
Acts (AKJV) 1.018
John (Geneva) 0.982
1 Corinthians (Tyndale) 0.979
John (Tyndale) 0.974
Genesis (AKJV) 0.953
Luke (Geneva) 0.953
Proverbs (Geneva) 0.921
Luke (ODRV) 0.86
Job (AKJV) 0.858
John (ODRV) 0.796
John (AKJV) 0.668
Psalms (ODRV) 0.641
Proverbs (AKJV) 0.449
Matthew (ODRV) 0.439
Romans (Geneva) 0.392
Psalms (Geneva) 0.037
Romans (AKJV) 0.009
Psalms (AKJV) -0.929
Diversity: 0.981
Evenness: 0.977
Chapter Prominence
Habakkuk 3 (Douay-Rheims) 5.867
Habakkuk 3 (AKJV) 3.51
Job 3 (AKJV) 3.492
Habakkuk 3 (Geneva) 2.337
Isaiah 10 (Douay-Rheims) 2.336
Matthew 8 (AKJV) 2.323
Psalms 10 (AKJV) 2.29
Psalms 73 (Geneva) 2.285
Matthew 26 (AKJV) 2.284
Job 5 (AKJV) 2.274
Psalms 104 (AKJV) 2.268
Psalms 78 (AKJV) 2.236
1 Maccabees 6 (Douay-Rheims) 1.174
Ecclesiasticus 24 (AKJV) 1.17
Mark 10 (Tyndale) 1.169
Psalms 7 (ODRV) 1.169
Psalms 3 (Geneva) 1.168
2 Kings 2 (AKJV) 1.167
Psalms 30 (Geneva) 1.166
Psalms 23 (Geneva) 1.165
Psalms 121 (AKJV) 1.165
Revelation 13 (Geneva) 1.165
Acts 21 (AKJV) 1.16
Amos 4 (Geneva) 1.16
1 Samuel 17 (AKJV) 1.16
Psalms 84 (ODRV) 1.158
John 9 (Tyndale) 1.158
Acts 15 (ODRV) 1.157
Hosea 6 (Geneva) 1.155
1 Kings 21 (AKJV) 1.155
Job 10 (Geneva) 1.154
Amos 6 (AKJV) 1.154
Job 31 (Geneva) 1.152
Genesis 22 (AKJV) 1.151
Hebrews 6 (ODRV) 1.143
Psalms 113 (AKJV) 1.142
Psalms 91 (Geneva) 1.142
Ecclesiastes 7 (Geneva) 1.141
Acts 2 (Geneva) 1.141
Ecclesiastes 3 (Douay-Rheims) 1.14
Jeremiah 8 (AKJV) 1.136
Job 13 (AKJV) 1.134
John 9 (Geneva) 1.134
Psalms 66 (AKJV) 1.134
Hebrews 12 (Tyndale) 1.133
Matthew 8 (ODRV) 1.126
Proverbs 10 (AKJV) 1.124
Ecclesiastes 7 (Douay-Rheims) 1.124
Luke 22 (ODRV) 1.122
1 Corinthians 1 (Tyndale) 1.12
Luke 21 (Geneva) 1.119
Proverbs 21 (Geneva) 1.117
Romans 5 (Geneva) 1.116
Proverbs 22 (AKJV) 1.114
Ecclesiastes 10 (AKJV) 1.113
John 9 (AKJV) 1.112
Psalms 34 (AKJV) 1.083
Lamentations 3 (Geneva) 1.083
John 1 (ODRV) 1.075
Matthew 16 (ODRV) 1.067
Lamentations 3 (AKJV) 1.063
1 Thessalonians 5 (ODRV) 1.062
Matthew 7 (ODRV) 1.057
Romans 3 (AKJV) 1.047
Matthew 7 (AKJV) 1.044
Matthew 10 (AKJV) 1.035
Romans 8 (Geneva) 0.989
Romans 8 (AKJV) 0.845
Diversity: 0.982
Evenness: 0.975
Verse Prominence
Habakkuk 3.17 (Douay-Rheims) 5.366
Habakkuk 3.18 (AKJV) 4.294
Job 3.25 (AKJV) 3.224
Habakkuk 3.17 (AKJV) 3.22
Psalms 10.6 (AKJV) 2.148
Psalms 78.9 (AKJV) 2.148
Isaiah 10.3 (Douay-Rheims) 2.147
Psalms 104.34 (AKJV) 2.146
Matthew 26.35 (AKJV) 2.146
Habakkuk 3.18 (Geneva) 2.144
Matthew 8.20 (AKJV) 2.141
Psalms 73.26 (Geneva) 2.141
Job 5.7 (AKJV) 2.139
Habakkuk 3.1 (AKJV) 1.075
Mark 10.39 (Tyndale) 1.075
Ecclesiastes 7.16 (Geneva) 1.075
1 Maccabees 6.3 (Douay-Rheims) 1.075
Psalms 7.11 (ODRV) 1.075
Acts 2.25 (Geneva) 1.075
Ecclesiastes 7.15 (Douay-Rheims) 1.075
2 Kings 2.5 (AKJV) 1.075
Job 10.21 (Geneva) 1.074
Job 31.14 (Geneva) 1.074
Proverbs 22.13 (AKJV) 1.074
Luke 22.33 (ODRV) 1.074
Ecclesiasticus 24.24 (AKJV) 1.074
Ecclesiastes 10.7 (AKJV) 1.074
Revelation 13.10 (Geneva) 1.074
Hebrews 6.12 (ODRV) 1.074
1 Thessalonians 5.16 (ODRV) 1.073
Psalms 3.6 (Geneva) 1.073
Psalms 91.2 (Geneva) 1.073
Matthew 10.18 (AKJV) 1.073
Matthew 8.19 (ODRV) 1.073
Hebrews 12.4 (Tyndale) 1.073
Matthew 7.27 (AKJV) 1.073
Matthew 16.22 (ODRV) 1.073
1 Kings 21.20 (AKJV) 1.073
Psalms 30.6 (Geneva) 1.073
Proverbs 10.15 (AKJV) 1.073
Psalms 66.12 (AKJV) 1.073
1 Samuel 17.39 (AKJV) 1.073
1 Corinthians 1.31 (Tyndale) 1.072
Genesis 22.10 (AKJV) 1.072
John 9.4 (Tyndale) 1.072
Jeremiah 8.15 (AKJV) 1.072
Psalms 84.9 (ODRV) 1.071
Ecclesiastes 3.19 (Douay-Rheims) 1.071
Psalms 23.4 (Geneva) 1.071
Proverbs 22.3 (AKJV) 1.07
Acts 15.26 (ODRV) 1.07
Romans 3.16 (AKJV) 1.07
Matthew 7.25 (AKJV) 1.07
Psalms 121.1 (AKJV) 1.07
Matthew 8.20 (ODRV) 1.069
Acts 21.13 (AKJV) 1.069
Proverbs 21.31 (Geneva) 1.069
Romans 5.3 (Geneva) 1.068
John 1.20 (ODRV) 1.068
Amos 4.12 (Geneva) 1.068
Amos 6.3 (AKJV) 1.067
Matthew 7.21 (ODRV) 1.067
Hosea 6.4 (Geneva) 1.066
Psalms 113.2 (AKJV) 1.065
Lamentations 3.27 (Geneva) 1.065
Lamentations 3.27 (AKJV) 1.065
Luke 21.19 (Geneva) 1.064
Romans 8.18 (AKJV) 1.063
Romans 8.18 (Geneva) 1.062
Job 13.15 (AKJV) 1.062
Psalms 34.19 (AKJV) 1.058
John 9.4 (Geneva) 1.057
John 9.4 (AKJV) 1.056
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: 0.958
Evenness: 0.989
Book Prominence
Amos 6.219
Job 4.654
Isaiah 3.515
Ruth 3.301
Habakkuk 2.972
Lamentations 2.755
Hosea 2.251
Mark 2.142
2 Kings 2.13
Ezekiel 1.844
Philippians 1.701
1 Samuel 1.666
1 Timothy 1.611
Ecclesiastes 1.492
Revelation 1.322
Jeremiah 1.207
2 Corinthians 1.146
Hebrews 0.663
Proverbs 0.401
Acts 0.245
John 0.242
Luke 0.23
1 Corinthians 0.158
Romans -0.506
Matthew -0.732
Psalms -1.723
Diversity: 0.982
Evenness: 0.991
Chapter Prominence
Luke 14 4.334
Amos 6 2.914
Isaiah 10 2.891
Job 5 2.868
Psalms 78 2.841
Ruth 4 1.478
Psalms 121 1.47
Ezekiel 21 1.469
Mark 15 1.465
Job 18 1.462
Ezekiel 1 1.462
Jeremiah 14 1.446
Job 20 1.441
Habakkuk 3 1.44
Amos 4 1.438
Isaiah 56 1.432
Psalms 46 1.429
Acts 21 1.428
2 Kings 6 1.428
Psalms 66 1.428
1 Samuel 17 1.423
2 Kings 2 1.421
Job 13 1.42
Job 29 1.42
Revelation 13 1.415
Psalms 23 1.408
Hosea 6 1.403
Job 31 1.402
Psalms 3 1.4
Psalms 30 1.398
Psalms 7 1.396
Psalms 27 1.388
Job 3 1.387
Proverbs 22 1.387
John 9 1.369
Proverbs 31 1.367
Lamentations 3 1.359
Proverbs 21 1.353
Isaiah 26 1.347
2 Corinthians 11 1.341
Jeremiah 5 1.339
Matthew 8 1.338
Proverbs 10 1.324
1 Samuel 2 1.318
Psalms 73 1.311
Luke 22 1.265
Philippians 4 1.264
2 Corinthians 4 1.263
Hebrews 6 1.263
Ecclesiastes 7 1.254
Acts 20 1.238
1 Timothy 6 1.234
Matthew 13 1.229
Acts 2 1.191
Luke 16 1.174
Matthew 7 1.13
Psalms 119 1.097
Hebrews 12 1.089
1 Corinthians 15 1.058
Hebrews 11 1.047
Romans 8 0.89
Diversity: 0.984
Evenness: 0.991
Verse Prominence
Luke 14.28 3.992
Job 3.25 2.664
Isaiah 10.2 2.663
Psalms 78.9 2.661
Amos 6.3 2.657
Job 5.7 2.653
Mark 15.22 1.333
Ruth 4.6 1.332
Luke 22.33 1.332
Job 20.13 1.332
Proverbs 22.13 1.331
2 Kings 6.15 1.331
1 Samuel 17.39 1.331
2 Kings 2.5 1.331
Acts 2.25 1.33
Jeremiah 14.19 1.33
2 Kings 2.3 1.33
Matthew 7.27 1.329
Job 29.18 1.329
Ezekiel 21.27 1.328
Psalms 46.3 1.328
Proverbs 10.15 1.328
Psalms 121.1 1.328
Revelation 13.10 1.328
Hebrews 11.39 1.327
1 Samuel 2.9 1.327
Psalms 66.12 1.327
Psalms 119.165 1.327
Matthew 8.20 1.326
1 Corinthians 15.3 1.325
Isaiah 56.12 1.325
Proverbs 21.31 1.325
Psalms 3.6 1.324
Psalms 27.3 1.324
Psalms 46.2 1.324
Lamentations 3.27 1.324
Amos 6.1 1.324
Habakkuk 3.18 1.323
Matthew 13.20 1.323
Luke 16.2 1.322
Psalms 73.26 1.322
Amos 4.12 1.322
Isaiah 26.20 1.322
Hebrews 6.12 1.322
Job 18.14 1.321
2 Corinthians 11.23 1.321
Jeremiah 5.31 1.321
1 Timothy 6.12 1.321
Psalms 23.1 1.32
Hebrews 11.36 1.319
Philippians 4.6 1.318
Job 13.15 1.318
Hosea 6.4 1.318
Psalms 46.1 1.318
Acts 20.24 1.317
Habakkuk 3.17 1.316
Philippians 4.4 1.316
Acts 21.13 1.316
Hebrews 11.35 1.315
Ecclesiastes 7.14 1.314
John 9.4 1.312
Job 31.14 1.31
Hebrews 11.37 1.306
Psalms 30.6 1.303
Proverbs 31.30 1.302
Romans 8.18 1.298
Psalms 23.4 1.292
2 Corinthians 4.17 1.276
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase