Early English Printed Sermons


The spirit of bondage and adoption: largely and practically handled, with reference to the way and manner of working both those effects; and the proper cases of conscience belonging to them both. In two treatises. Whereunto is added, a discourse concerning the duty of prayer in an afflicted condition, by way of supplement in some cases relating to the second treatise. / By SImon Ford B.D. and minister of the Gospel in Reading.

Ford, Simon, 1619?-1699
Publisher: Printed by T Maxey for Sa Gellibrand at the Ball in Pauls Church Yard
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1655
Approximate Era: Interregnum
TCP ID: A84690 ESTC ID: R209479 STC ID: F1503
Subject Headings: Christian life; Prayer;
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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 10.8% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 8.7% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 86.2% 100.0%
Foreign Percentage of units with foreign text 0.2% -inf%
NonLatinAlphabet Percentage of units with a NonLatinAlphabet placeholder 0.9% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 12.4% -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 0.7% -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) 5.6% -inf%
foreign_cited Percentage of units with QP, foreign text, and an adjacent citation 0.2% -inf%
foreign_cited_exact Percentage of units with QP, foreign text, and an adjacent matching citation 0.2% -inf%
foreign_italicized Percentage of units with QP and foreign italicized text 0.2% -inf%
foreign_italicized_cited Percentage of units with QP, italicized foreign text, and an adjacent citation 0.2% -inf%
foreign_italicized_cited_exact Percentage of units with QP, italicized foreign text, and an adjacent matching citation 0.2% -inf%
foreign_latin Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP and foreign text 0.2% -inf%
foreign_latin_cited Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP, foreign text, and an adjacent citation 0.2% -inf%
foreign_latin_cited_exact Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP, foreign text, and an adjacent matching citation 0.2% -inf%
foreign_latin_italicized Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP and italicized foreign text 0.2% -inf%
foreign_latin_italicized_cited Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP, an adjacent citation, and italicized foreign text 0.2% -inf%
foreign_latin_italicized_cited_exact Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP, an adjacent matching citation, 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: 0.875
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Old Testament (ODRV) 6.131
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 3.948
Old Testament (Geneva) 2.565
New Testament (Tyndale) 2.478
New Testament (Geneva) 1.442
New Testament (ODRV) 1.362
Old Testament (AKJV) 0.454
New Testament (AKJV) 0.072
Diversity: 0.966
Evenness: 0.994
Book Prominence
Isaiah (Douay-Rheims) 5.185
Psalms (AKJV) 3.279
Hosea (Geneva) 2.842
Lamentations (Geneva) 2.808
Lamentations (AKJV) 2.712
James (Geneva) 2.608
1 Timothy (Geneva) 2.509
Job (Douay-Rheims) 2.453
James (AKJV) 2.385
Job (Geneva) 2.331
1 Timothy (AKJV) 2.323
Hebrews (Geneva) 2.288
Ecclesiastes (AKJV) 2.282
Ephesians (Geneva) 2.228
Proverbs (Douay-Rheims) 2.222
2 Corinthians (AKJV) 2.135
Genesis (AKJV) 2.132
Proverbs (Geneva) 2.1
Ephesians (AKJV) 2.079
Luke (ODRV) 2.038
Job (AKJV) 2.037
Hebrews (AKJV) 2.003
John (ODRV) 1.975
Matthew (Tyndale) 1.945
Luke (AKJV) 1.832
Psalms (ODRV) 1.82
Isaiah (AKJV) 1.748
Matthew (AKJV) 1.516
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 1.462
Psalms (Geneva) 1.215
Romans (AKJV) 1.188
Diversity: 0.984
Evenness: 0.995
Chapter Prominence
Job 6 (Douay-Rheims) 2.806
Isaiah 49 (Douay-Rheims) 2.792
Psalms 102 (AKJV) 2.774
Psalms 51 (AKJV) 2.719
Psalms 142 (Geneva) 1.406
Psalms 87 (Geneva) 1.405
Psalms 89 (ODRV) 1.401
Job 11 (Douay-Rheims) 1.401
Psalms 6 (ODRV) 1.401
Hosea 5 (Geneva) 1.398
Psalms 86 (Geneva) 1.398
Psalms 43 (ODRV) 1.398
Psalms 88 (AKJV) 1.395
Job 11 (Geneva) 1.393
Psalms 6 (AKJV) 1.392
Ecclesiastes 4 (AKJV) 1.392
Lamentations 5 (Geneva) 1.391
Psalms 31 (Geneva) 1.391
Job 6 (Geneva) 1.39
Psalms 39 (Geneva) 1.39
Psalms 87 (AKJV) 1.388
Psalms 102 (Geneva) 1.388
Genesis 42 (AKJV) 1.386
Job 33 (Geneva) 1.384
Psalms 68 (Geneva) 1.383
Job 11 (AKJV) 1.383
Psalms 40 (AKJV) 1.382
Proverbs 6 (Douay-Rheims) 1.381
Psalms 66 (Geneva) 1.381
Proverbs 27 (Geneva) 1.38
Isaiah 63 (AKJV) 1.38
Isaiah 38 (AKJV) 1.379
Psalms 50 (ODRV) 1.378
Job 33 (AKJV) 1.378
Psalms 69 (AKJV) 1.375
Hebrews 5 (AKJV) 1.372
Psalms 32 (AKJV) 1.366
Psalms 66 (AKJV) 1.366
James 5 (Geneva) 1.365
Lamentations 5 (AKJV) 1.362
Matthew 27 (Tyndale) 1.36
Psalms 46 (AKJV) 1.353
Luke 11 (AKJV) 1.348
Psalms 27 (AKJV) 1.347
1 Timothy 4 (Geneva) 1.337
James 5 (AKJV) 1.336
Psalms 50 (AKJV) 1.336
Psalms 9 (AKJV) 1.334
James 1 (Geneva) 1.333
Luke 18 (ODRV) 1.333
2 Corinthians 1 (AKJV) 1.331
Psalms 126 (AKJV) 1.331
Job 5 (AKJV) 1.329
1 Timothy 4 (AKJV) 1.329
Ephesians 6 (Geneva) 1.325
Psalms 145 (AKJV) 1.325
Luke 6 (AKJV) 1.319
Matthew 22 (AKJV) 1.319
Ephesians 6 (AKJV) 1.318
Psalms 34 (AKJV) 1.315
John 3 (ODRV) 1.309
Psalms 44 (AKJV) 1.299
Hebrews 12 (Geneva) 1.298
Lamentations 3 (AKJV) 1.295
Isaiah 57 (AKJV) 1.263
Romans 12 (AKJV) 1.208
1 Corinthians 10 (AKJV) 1.107
Diversity: 0.985
Evenness: 0.996
Verse Prominence
Psalms 102.4 (AKJV) 2.631
Job 6.3 (Douay-Rheims) 2.63
Psalms 51.14 (AKJV) 2.626
Isaiah 49.15 (Douay-Rheims) 2.622
Psalms 88.12 (AKJV) 1.316
Psalms 6.4 (ODRV) 1.316
Psalms 50.15 (ODRV) 1.315
Proverbs 27.17 (Geneva) 1.315
Psalms 86.15 (Geneva) 1.315
Lamentations 5.1 (Geneva) 1.315
Lamentations 5.1 (AKJV) 1.315
Psalms 69.13 (AKJV) 1.315
Psalms 88.10 (AKJV) 1.315
Psalms 102.24 (Geneva) 1.315
Psalms 142.7 (Geneva) 1.315
Job 33.28 (Geneva) 1.315
Job 11.18 (Douay-Rheims) 1.315
Psalms 31.12 (Geneva) 1.315
Job 11.13 (Geneva) 1.315
Job 11.13 (AKJV) 1.315
Job 11.15 (Douay-Rheims) 1.315
Psalms 39.3 (Geneva) 1.315
Psalms 66.17 (Geneva) 1.315
2 Corinthians 1.11 (AKJV) 1.314
Hosea 5.15 (Geneva) 1.314
Psalms 87.7 (Geneva) 1.314
Isaiah 63.15 (AKJV) 1.314
Proverbs 6.27 (Douay-Rheims) 1.314
Psalms 89.4 (ODRV) 1.314
Job 33.27 (AKJV) 1.314
Job 6.3 (Geneva) 1.314
Psalms 40.12 (AKJV) 1.314
Isaiah 38.14 (AKJV) 1.314
Ecclesiastes 4.11 (AKJV) 1.314
Psalms 87.7 (AKJV) 1.313
Psalms 51.13 (AKJV) 1.313
Romans 12.14 (AKJV) 1.313
Psalms 43.25 (ODRV) 1.313
Psalms 9.20 (AKJV) 1.312
Hebrews 5.8 (AKJV) 1.312
Psalms 6.5 (AKJV) 1.312
Psalms 32.6 (AKJV) 1.312
Isaiah 57.16 (AKJV) 1.312
Matthew 22.12 (AKJV) 1.312
Job 5.8 (AKJV) 1.311
James 1.5 (Geneva) 1.311
1 Timothy 4.5 (Geneva) 1.311
Luke 6.28 (AKJV) 1.31
Hebrews 12.17 (Geneva) 1.31
Matthew 27.46 (Tyndale) 1.31
Ephesians 6.18 (Geneva) 1.309
Psalms 68.20 (Geneva) 1.309
Psalms 145.18 (AKJV) 1.309
Psalms 66.16 (AKJV) 1.309
James 5.13 (Geneva) 1.308
James 5.13 (AKJV) 1.308
Ephesians 6.13 (AKJV) 1.308
Psalms 126.5 (AKJV) 1.308
Psalms 66.18 (Geneva) 1.308
1 Timothy 4.5 (AKJV) 1.307
John 3.8 (ODRV) 1.307
Genesis 42.21 (AKJV) 1.306
Job 5.7 (AKJV) 1.304
Psalms 50.15 (AKJV) 1.303
Luke 11.13 (AKJV) 1.303
Psalms 27.14 (AKJV) 1.301
Psalms 34.19 (AKJV) 1.298
Luke 18.13 (ODRV) 1.296
Psalms 46.1 (AKJV) 1.295
Lamentations 3.33 (AKJV) 1.294
1 Corinthians 10.31 (AKJV) 1.27
Psalms 44.21 (AKJV) 1.263
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: 0.32
Evenness: 0.722
Part Prominence
Old Testament 32.666
New Testament -28.195
Diversity: 0.959
Evenness: 0.969
Book Prominence
Hosea 6.303
Psalms 4.828
Jonah 4.601
James 3.492
Hebrews 2.214
1 Chronicles 1.891
Amos 1.823
Lamentations 1.807
1 Corinthians 1.71
Zechariah 1.58
1 Thessalonians 1.422
2 Chronicles 1.264
1 Kings 1.023
Ezekiel 0.896
2 Samuel 0.886
Philippians 0.752
1 Samuel 0.717
1 Timothy 0.662
1 Peter 0.469
Ephesians 0.338
Jeremiah 0.258
Job 0.257
2 Corinthians 0.198
Genesis -0.125
Proverbs -0.548
Acts -0.703
John -0.706
Luke -0.718
Isaiah -0.882
Romans -1.455
Matthew -1.68
Diversity: 0.99
Evenness: 0.99
Chapter Prominence
Psalms 50 3.083
Hosea 5 2.445
Psalms 142 1.648
Jonah 1 1.625
Psalms 32 1.574
James 1 1.388
1 Corinthians 10 1.341
Hebrews 12 1.263
1 Chronicles 7 0.832
1 Samuel 21 0.814
Jeremiah 11 0.809
Psalms 125 0.806
Psalms 136 0.806
Psalms 87 0.805
Psalms 88 0.804
Jonah 2 0.802
2 Chronicles 7 0.8
Psalms 138 0.8
Psalms 143 0.798
Lamentations 2 0.792
Genesis 42 0.787
Jeremiah 14 0.786
Hosea 7 0.784
1 Kings 11 0.782
Psalms 41 0.781
Job 33 0.78
Job 11 0.779
Psalms 38 0.776
Genesis 20 0.773
Job 15 0.773
Psalms 24 0.773
Psalms 40 0.772
2 Samuel 16 0.77
Ezekiel 20 0.77
Isaiah 27 0.77
Psalms 46 0.769
Psalms 66 0.768
Isaiah 37 0.767
Amos 3 0.765
Job 10 0.763
Psalms 102 0.763
Lamentations 1 0.76
Psalms 69 0.758
Psalms 105 0.753
Jeremiah 4 0.753
Psalms 23 0.749
Isaiah 43 0.748
Psalms 91 0.745
2 Samuel 1 0.745
Isaiah 59 0.744
Psalms 112 0.742
Psalms 6 0.74
Psalms 77 0.74
Isaiah 63 0.739
Psalms 30 0.739
Psalms 25 0.739
Isaiah 38 0.738
Zechariah 12 0.737
Jeremiah 7 0.732
Psalms 27 0.729
Proverbs 6 0.728
Psalms 68 0.724
Ezekiel 16 0.723
Psalms 116 0.718
Job 5 0.716
Jeremiah 31 0.707
Psalms 39 0.707
Luke 21 0.705
Psalms 34 0.7
Lamentations 3 0.7
Hebrews 5 0.7
Isaiah 49 0.695
Psalms 78 0.689
Matthew 27 0.687
Psalms 10 0.685
Genesis 2 0.683
James 5 0.676
Psalms 4 0.674
Luke 11 0.673
Luke 18 0.672
Isaiah 53 0.671
2 Corinthians 12 0.67
Job 1 0.665
Acts 8 0.663
2 Corinthians 1 0.66
Proverbs 1 0.652
Psalms 73 0.651
Psalms 37 0.642
1 Peter 5 0.64
1 Thessalonians 5 0.63
Psalms 9 0.629
Psalms 51 0.629
Isaiah 57 0.624
Luke 1 0.609
Philippians 4 0.604
1 Timothy 1 0.603
Ephesians 6 0.589
Philippians 1 0.585
Matthew 22 0.573
Matthew 11 0.553
Hebrews 10 0.54
Acts 2 0.532
Isaiah 1 0.518
Matthew 26 0.502
John 3 0.5
1 Corinthians 1 0.496
Psalms 119 0.437
Ephesians 4 0.369
Romans 8 0.231
Diversity: 0.993
Evenness: 0.991
Verse Prominence
Psalms 50.15 2.332
Hosea 5.15 1.76
Psalms 142.7 1.182
Psalms 51.15 1.181
Lamentations 3.8 1.181
Jonah 1.6 1.179
Psalms 51.13 1.179
Psalms 32.6 1.178
Isaiah 38.14 1.177
James 1.4 1.176
Psalms 51.14 1.176
Hebrews 12.11 1.166
1 Corinthians 10.13 1.15
1 Chronicles 7.13 0.592
1 Kings 11.23 0.591
Job 5.8 0.591
Hosea 5.3 0.591
Ezekiel 20.38 0.591
Luke 21.31 0.591
1 Chronicles 7.14 0.591
Lamentations 1.20 0.591
Psalms 41.6 0.591
Psalms 41.7 0.591
Isaiah 37.14 0.591
Psalms 143.7 0.591
Psalms 88.10 0.591
Psalms 88.11 0.591
Job 33.28 0.591
Job 11.13 0.591
Job 33.15 0.59
Psalms 34.20 0.59
1 Samuel 21.13 0.59
Lamentations 2.20 0.59
Psalms 41.5 0.59
Isaiah 37.15 0.59
Psalms 69.13 0.59
Psalms 143.4 0.59
Psalms 30.9 0.59
Psalms 88.12 0.59
Proverbs 6.27 0.59
Job 33.27 0.59
Psalms 6.3 0.59
Psalms 25.6 0.59
Job 33.17 0.589
Psalms 105.18 0.589
2 Chronicles 7.13 0.589
Psalms 34.5 0.589
Lamentations 3.28 0.589
Lamentations 3.29 0.589
Job 10.17 0.589
Ezekiel 20.37 0.589
Psalms 91.14 0.589
Psalms 37.40 0.589
Matthew 26.69 0.589
Isaiah 63.15 0.589
Ezekiel 16.4 0.589
Lamentations 3.1 0.589
Job 15.4 0.589
Jeremiah 11.14 0.589
Jeremiah 14.11 0.589
1 Kings 11.11 0.588
1 Kings 11.14 0.588
Psalms 34.4 0.588
Psalms 34.6 0.588
Psalms 73.6 0.588
Ezekiel 16.5 0.588
Psalms 136.23 0.588
Psalms 102.24 0.588
Psalms 77.4 0.588
Job 11.14 0.588
Psalms 25.2 0.588
Psalms 39.3 0.588
Psalms 138.6 0.588
2 Samuel 16.11 0.587
Isaiah 57.16 0.587
Psalms 73.5 0.587
Psalms 9.20 0.587
Psalms 23.3 0.587
Job 5.19 0.587
Psalms 125.3 0.587
Isaiah 38.11 0.587
Lamentations 1.9 0.587
1 Corinthians 1.11 0.587
Job 33.16 0.586
Psalms 23.2 0.586
Philippians 1.19 0.586
Psalms 116.11 0.586
Luke 1.48 0.586
Isaiah 38.18 0.586
Proverbs 1.27 0.586
Psalms 24.6 0.586
Jonah 2.4 0.586
Hebrews 5.8 0.585
Psalms 91.15 0.585
Jeremiah 4.19 0.585
Isaiah 38.19 0.585
Psalms 32.5 0.585
Psalms 40.12 0.585
Romans 8.27 0.585
Zechariah 12.3 0.585
Job 5.6 0.584
2 Samuel 1.26 0.584
Philippians 1.20 0.583
Psalms 10.17 0.583
Psalms 78.36 0.583
Acts 2.24 0.582
Lamentations 3.27 0.582
James 5.11 0.582
Psalms 6.5 0.582
Jeremiah 7.16 0.582
Isaiah 59.1 0.582
Jeremiah 31.20 0.581
Ezekiel 16.6 0.581
1 Timothy 1.16 0.581
Psalms 68.20 0.58
2 Chronicles 7.14 0.58
Hosea 7.14 0.58
Isaiah 27.9 0.58
1 Thessalonians 5.17 0.579
2 Corinthians 1.11 0.579
Genesis 42.21 0.579
Lamentations 3.40 0.579
Proverbs 1.26 0.579
Hebrews 12.17 0.579
Job 5.7 0.578
1 Peter 5.6 0.578
Psalms 51.12 0.578
Matthew 22.12 0.578
Matthew 27.46 0.578
Psalms 34.19 0.577
Luke 18.13 0.577
Psalms 46.1 0.576
Hebrews 10.36 0.576
Philippians 4.6 0.576
Lamentations 3.33 0.576
Isaiah 49.15 0.575
Psalms 66.18 0.575
James 1.5 0.574
John 3.8 0.574
Isaiah 53.10 0.573
Isaiah 1.5 0.573
1 Peter 5.3 0.572
Isaiah 43.2 0.57
Romans 8.15 0.57
Amos 3.6 0.569
Ephesians 4.30 0.569
Luke 11.13 0.568
2 Corinthians 12.9 0.565
Romans 8.26 0.561
Job 1.21 0.559
Psalms 23.4 0.55
Zechariah 12.10 0.548
Matthew 11.28 0.532
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase