Early English Printed Sermons


Real comforts, extracted from moral and spiritual principles. Presented in a sermon, preached at the funeral of that reverend divine Mr. Thomas Ball late minister of Gods Word at Northampton, upon the 21. day of June, A.D. 1659. With a narrative of his life and death. By John Howes, M.A. rector of Abington near Northampton.

Howes, John, 1613-1685
Publisher: printed by S Griffin for R Royston and are to sold sic at the Angel in Ivy lane
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1660
Approximate Era: CharlesII
TCP ID: A86645 ESTC ID: R202554 STC ID: H3149
Subject Headings: Ball, Thomas, 1589 or 90-1659; Funeral sermons; 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 9.1% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 4.0% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 87.2% 99.6%
NonLatinAlphabet Percentage of units with a NonLatinAlphabet placeholder 0.8% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 10.4% -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) 4.7% -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: 0.876
Evenness: 0.958
Part Prominence
New Testament (AKJV) 10.649
Apocrypha (Douay-Rheims) 4.289
Old Testament (AKJV) 3.339
Apocrypha (AKJV) 3.134
New Testament (Vulgate) 2.884
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) -0.86
Old Testament (Geneva) -2.242
New Testament (Tyndale) -2.329
New Testament (Geneva) -3.366
New Testament (ODRV) -3.446
Diversity: 0.972
Evenness: 0.986
Book Prominence
1 Thessalonians (AKJV) 6.072
Isaiah (Geneva) 3.442
1 Corinthians (Geneva) 3.076
Isaiah (AKJV) 3.065
1 Thessalonians (Vulgate) 2.147
2 Corinthians (Vulgate) 2.071
1 Chronicles (AKJV) 2.042
Titus (Geneva) 1.962
1 Kings (Douay-Rheims) 1.898
1 Thessalonians (ODRV) 1.881
Hosea (AKJV) 1.863
Colossians (Geneva) 1.796
Ecclesiastes (Douay-Rheims) 1.76
Philippians (Geneva) 1.756
1 Samuel (AKJV) 1.755
1 John (ODRV) 1.707
2 Timothy (AKJV) 1.642
1 Peter (Geneva) 1.592
1 John (AKJV) 1.574
Psalms (AKJV) 1.567
Ecclesiasticus (AKJV) 1.534
Ephesians (ODRV) 1.522
Ecclesiasticus (Douay-Rheims) 1.496
Job (Geneva) 1.474
1 Timothy (AKJV) 1.466
2 Corinthians (Geneva) 1.426
Philippians (AKJV) 1.412
Acts (AKJV) 1.34
1 Corinthians (Tyndale) 1.301
Isaiah (Douay-Rheims) 1.298
2 Corinthians (AKJV) 1.279
Ephesians (AKJV) 1.223
Job (AKJV) 1.18
John (AKJV) 0.99
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 0.984
Proverbs (AKJV) 0.771
Romans (Geneva) 0.714
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 0.606
Psalms (Geneva) 0.359
Romans (AKJV) 0.331
Diversity: 0.981
Evenness: 0.985
Chapter Prominence
1 Thessalonians 4 (AKJV) 4.008
1 Corinthians 15 (ODRV) 3.793
Isaiah 26 (Geneva) 2.708
Isaiah 28 (AKJV) 2.707
Psalms 42 (AKJV) 2.703
1 Thessalonians 4 (ODRV) 2.703
Isaiah 57 (AKJV) 2.594
1 Corinthians 10 (Geneva) 2.557
1 Corinthians 15 (Geneva) 2.478
1 Kings 3 (Douay-Rheims) 1.367
2 Corinthians 4 (Vulgate) 1.366
1 Samuel 30 (AKJV) 1.364
1 Chronicles 21 (AKJV) 1.363
1 Thessalonians 4 (Vulgate) 1.361
Ecclesiasticus 6 (AKJV) 1.361
Psalms 133 (Geneva) 1.36
Job 13 (Geneva) 1.359
Isaiah 38 (Douay-Rheims) 1.358
Isaiah 66 (Geneva) 1.358
Isaiah 13 (Geneva) 1.357
Ecclesiasticus 22 (Douay-Rheims) 1.354
Hosea 10 (AKJV) 1.354
Psalms 6 (AKJV) 1.353
Psalms 87 (AKJV) 1.349
Job 19 (Geneva) 1.347
Job 19 (AKJV) 1.344
Psalms 23 (AKJV) 1.341
Job 17 (AKJV) 1.34
John 20 (AKJV) 1.333
1 Corinthians 4 (ODRV) 1.332
2 Corinthians 12 (Geneva) 1.331
Acts 20 (AKJV) 1.327
Proverbs 19 (AKJV) 1.323
Proverbs 30 (AKJV) 1.321
1 Corinthians 13 (ODRV) 1.32
Ecclesiastes 7 (Douay-Rheims) 1.318
2 Corinthians 9 (AKJV) 1.318
Psalms 16 (Geneva) 1.312
Romans 7 (Geneva) 1.31
1 Corinthians 2 (Tyndale) 1.304
1 John 2 (ODRV) 1.292
Titus 2 (Geneva) 1.289
1 Corinthians 1 (Geneva) 1.278
Colossians 1 (Geneva) 1.272
Romans 1 (Geneva) 1.267
Psalms 90 (AKJV) 1.266
1 Peter 1 (Geneva) 1.262
Romans 1 (AKJV) 1.258
1 John 2 (AKJV) 1.258
1 Thessalonians 5 (ODRV) 1.256
Philippians 2 (Geneva) 1.248
1 Timothy 2 (AKJV) 1.244
Ephesians 2 (AKJV) 1.232
2 Timothy 2 (AKJV) 1.23
Ephesians 5 (ODRV) 1.213
1 Thessalonians 5 (AKJV) 1.202
Ephesians 5 (AKJV) 1.184
Romans 6 (Geneva) 1.183
Romans 12 (AKJV) 1.17
Romans 6 (AKJV) 1.167
Philippians 2 (AKJV) 1.15
1 Corinthians 10 (AKJV) 1.068
Diversity: 0.983
Evenness: 0.981
Verse Prominence
1 Thessalonians 4.18 (AKJV) 4.643
1 Thessalonians 4.14 (AKJV) 3.467
1 Corinthians 15.42 (ODRV) 3.441
1 Thessalonians 5.11 (AKJV) 2.324
1 Thessalonians 4.18 (ODRV) 2.324
Psalms 42.11 (AKJV) 2.319
Isaiah 28.20 (AKJV) 2.319
Isaiah 26.19 (Geneva) 2.318
1 Thessalonians 4.17 (AKJV) 2.305
Isaiah 57.1 (AKJV) 2.271
1 Corinthians 15.42 (Geneva) 2.268
1 Corinthians 10.16 (Geneva) 2.241
1 Kings 3.20 (Douay-Rheims) 1.163
Psalms 6.2 (AKJV) 1.162
Isaiah 38.21 (Douay-Rheims) 1.162
1 Samuel 30.4 (AKJV) 1.162
Job 13.15 (Geneva) 1.162
Romans 7.2 (Geneva) 1.162
Ecclesiasticus 6.7 (AKJV) 1.162
Ecclesiastes 7.29 (Douay-Rheims) 1.162
1 Chronicles 21.27 (AKJV) 1.162
Psalms 90.14 (AKJV) 1.161
John 20.23 (AKJV) 1.161
Isaiah 66.7 (Geneva) 1.161
Proverbs 19.14 (AKJV) 1.161
Acts 20.32 (AKJV) 1.161
2 Corinthians 4.12 (Vulgate) 1.161
Proverbs 30.8 (AKJV) 1.16
Job 19.27 (AKJV) 1.16
Titus 2.10 (Geneva) 1.16
1 Corinthians 15.37 (ODRV) 1.16
Philippians 2.1 (AKJV) 1.159
1 Thessalonians 5.11 (ODRV) 1.159
Ephesians 5.1 (AKJV) 1.159
Job 17.12 (AKJV) 1.159
Psalms 87.6 (AKJV) 1.159
Hosea 10.1 (AKJV) 1.159
1 Thessalonians 5.13 (AKJV) 1.158
Isaiah 13.10 (Geneva) 1.158
1 Thessalonians 4.13 (Vulgate) 1.157
Psalms 133.3 (Geneva) 1.157
2 Timothy 2.15 (AKJV) 1.157
1 Corinthians 1.18 (Geneva) 1.156
Job 19.25 (Geneva) 1.156
2 Corinthians 9.8 (AKJV) 1.156
Romans 1.19 (Geneva) 1.155
1 Thessalonians 5.12 (AKJV) 1.154
Ecclesiasticus 22.12 (Douay-Rheims) 1.154
Romans 1.1 (AKJV) 1.154
1 John 2.2 (ODRV) 1.153
1 Thessalonians 4.13 (AKJV) 1.152
1 Corinthians 4.1 (ODRV) 1.152
1 Corinthians 13.13 (ODRV) 1.152
Job 19.26 (Geneva) 1.151
Ephesians 2.18 (AKJV) 1.151
1 Timothy 2.6 (AKJV) 1.15
Psalms 23.4 (AKJV) 1.149
Romans 1.4 (AKJV) 1.149
Ephesians 5.8 (ODRV) 1.147
Colossians 1.18 (Geneva) 1.147
1 Corinthians 2.9 (Tyndale) 1.145
2 Corinthians 12.9 (Geneva) 1.145
Philippians 2.1 (Geneva) 1.143
1 John 2.2 (AKJV) 1.137
Psalms 16.11 (Geneva) 1.136
Romans 6.7 (AKJV) 1.128
Romans 6.7 (Geneva) 1.128
1 Peter 1.4 (Geneva) 1.122
Romans 12.5 (AKJV) 1.116
1 Corinthians 10.16 (AKJV) 1.076
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: 0.974
Evenness: 0.997
Book Prominence
Jeremiah 2.758
Habakkuk 2.024
1 Chronicles 1.891
Lamentations 1.807
Micah 1.716
Malachi 1.703
Titus 1.423
1 Thessalonians 1.422
Hosea 1.303
Mark 1.194
2 Kings 1.182
Daniel 1.165
Colossians 1.115
Numbers 1.071
1 John 1.066
2 Timothy 1.057
James 0.992
2 Samuel 0.886
Philippians 0.752
1 Samuel 0.717
1 Timothy 0.662
Ecclesiastes 0.544
1 Peter 0.469
Exodus 0.385
Revelation 0.374
Ephesians 0.338
Job 0.257
2 Corinthians 0.198
Genesis -0.125
Hebrews -0.286
Proverbs -0.548
Acts -0.703
John -0.706
Luke -0.718
1 Corinthians -0.79
Isaiah -0.882
Romans -1.455
Matthew -1.68
Psalms -2.672
Diversity: 0.993
Evenness: 0.997
Chapter Prominence
Revelation 13 1.247
Matthew 2 1.232
Revelation 20 1.226
Jeremiah 2 1.219
1 John 2 1.114
1 Timothy 4 1.092
Matthew 13 1.061
Numbers 8 0.651
1 Samuel 19 0.642
Numbers 30 0.637
Psalms 87 0.634
1 Samuel 20 0.631
Psalms 99 0.629
1 Samuel 30 0.624
Exodus 10 0.622
Hosea 10 0.62
1 Samuel 18 0.618
Exodus 16 0.613
1 Samuel 7 0.613
1 Samuel 1 0.611
Job 6 0.609
Isaiah 50 0.609
Job 4 0.609
Jeremiah 12 0.606
Jeremiah 15 0.604
Genesis 25 0.603
Genesis 8 0.601
2 Kings 6 0.598
Acts 21 0.598
Habakkuk 1 0.598
Mark 6 0.597
Jeremiah 18 0.596
Job 19 0.596
Genesis 12 0.595
Acts 28 0.594
Acts 27 0.593
Isaiah 61 0.592
2 Kings 2 0.591
Job 13 0.59
Genesis 28 0.586
Psalms 23 0.578
Psalms 31 0.577
Daniel 5 0.576
Job 2 0.575
Exodus 18 0.574
Luke 3 0.573
1 Chronicles 29 0.573
Hosea 6 0.572
Ecclesiastes 3 0.572
Psalms 6 0.569
Numbers 23 0.569
Exodus 15 0.568
Matthew 14 0.562
Exodus 14 0.561
Isaiah 45 0.559
Isaiah 28 0.558
Proverbs 18 0.557
Job 3 0.557
Acts 14 0.556
Mark 9 0.555
Proverbs 19 0.551
2 Samuel 12 0.551
Daniel 12 0.549
2 Corinthians 2 0.546
Psalms 89 0.544
Psalms 90 0.543
Isaiah 30 0.543
Jeremiah 3 0.54
1 John 1 0.54
Revelation 12 0.537
Micah 6 0.536
Jeremiah 31 0.536
Proverbs 20 0.53
Acts 26 0.529
Lamentations 3 0.528
Proverbs 30 0.525
Genesis 6 0.524
Revelation 22 0.518
Isaiah 26 0.517
Matthew 9 0.517
2 Corinthians 3 0.516
1 John 5 0.515
Acts 1 0.514
2 Corinthians 7 0.513
John 20 0.508
Psalms 18 0.506
1 Timothy 3 0.504
Ephesians 3 0.502
Genesis 1 0.498
Job 1 0.494
1 John 4 0.492
Romans 4 0.492
2 Corinthians 1 0.489
Luke 13 0.489
Acts 7 0.487
Proverbs 24 0.486
1 Corinthians 4 0.485
Revelation 21 0.484
Psalms 1 0.481
Psalms 73 0.48
Psalms 16 0.476
Titus 1 0.475
John 11 0.474
Ecclesiastes 8 0.474
Revelation 14 0.47
Malachi 3 0.467
Ecclesiastes 12 0.461
1 Thessalonians 5 0.459
Isaiah 57 0.453
Luke 19 0.451
1 Corinthians 14 0.449
1 Thessalonians 4 0.448
Acts 4 0.447
Matthew 18 0.441
Ephesians 1 0.436
Colossians 1 0.436
Luke 22 0.435
1 Corinthians 13 0.431
2 Timothy 2 0.424
Ecclesiastes 7 0.423
Romans 3 0.42
1 Corinthians 2 0.42
1 Timothy 2 0.409
Acts 20 0.408
1 Corinthians 3 0.403
1 Timothy 6 0.403
John 5 0.402
John 14 0.384
James 1 0.383
Romans 5 0.376
John 1 0.365
Colossians 3 0.346
Acts 17 0.34
1 Corinthians 10 0.336
1 Peter 1 0.336
Philippians 2 0.334
1 Corinthians 1 0.324
Romans 12 0.307
Hebrews 13 0.301
Matthew 25 0.292
2 Corinthians 5 0.288
1 Corinthians 15 0.228
Romans 1 0.22
Ephesians 4 0.198
Diversity: 0.994
Evenness: 0.997
Verse Prominence
Matthew 2.18 1.03
1 Corinthians 2.7 1.029
Acts 17.32 1.026
Jeremiah 2.13 1.026
Romans 1.19 1.026
1 Timothy 4.14 1.015
1 John 2.2 1.011
Matthew 13.43 1.009
Romans 1.21 1.003
Luke 3.18 0.518
Acts 28.20 0.517
Psalms 90.14 0.517
Job 6.25 0.517
Acts 27.25 0.517
Habakkuk 1.2 0.517
Habakkuk 1.3 0.517
1 John 4.14 0.517
Matthew 14.20 0.517
Proverbs 24.26 0.517
Genesis 1.6 0.517
1 Samuel 20.41 0.517
1 Samuel 19.16 0.517
Jeremiah 15.18 0.517
Psalms 87.6 0.516
Ecclesiastes 7.28 0.516
2 Kings 2.14 0.516
Genesis 8.1 0.516
Psalms 18.28 0.516
Psalms 31.7 0.516
Micah 6.13 0.516
Matthew 14.19 0.516
Job 2.13 0.516
2 Samuel 12.22 0.516
Genesis 12.10 0.516
1 Samuel 1.28 0.516
Exodus 18.26 0.516
2 Corinthians 7.6 0.515
Isaiah 28.20 0.515
Proverbs 19.14 0.515
Exodus 14.16 0.515
Psalms 73.16 0.515
2 Kings 6.27 0.515
Exodus 10.23 0.515
1 Samuel 30.4 0.515
Jeremiah 18.6 0.515
Acts 21.14 0.515
Exodus 18.25 0.515
Exodus 15.23 0.514
John 5.7 0.514
Romans 1.15 0.514
1 Thessalonians 4.18 0.513
1 Thessalonians 5.11 0.513
Jeremiah 3.23 0.513
Acts 27.20 0.513
Acts 1.1 0.513
Romans 1.14 0.513
Job 3.18 0.513
Revelation 22.5 0.513
1 Samuel 18.9 0.513
Psalms 99.6 0.513
Psalms 6.2 0.512
Isaiah 50.11 0.512
John 5.4 0.512
1 Corinthians 1.18 0.512
Ephesians 3.5 0.512
Genesis 6.7 0.512
1 Samuel 7.15 0.512
Matthew 9.36 0.511
Psalms 73.17 0.511
Isaiah 57.19 0.511
Isaiah 30.22 0.511
1 Chronicles 29.12 0.511
Hosea 10.1 0.511
1 Corinthians 15.33 0.51
John 11.36 0.51
Hosea 6.2 0.51
Revelation 22.2 0.51
1 Chronicles 29.11 0.51
Ecclesiastes 3.11 0.51
2 Samuel 12.23 0.51
Isaiah 61.2 0.51
1 Corinthians 14.32 0.51
Genesis 25.22 0.509
Isaiah 45.9 0.509
Acts 14.23 0.509
1 Corinthians 2.6 0.509
Acts 7.22 0.509
1 Timothy 2.6 0.509
1 John 5.7 0.509
Luke 13.7 0.509
Isaiah 26.19 0.508
Romans 1.31 0.508
Hebrews 13.3 0.508
2 Timothy 2.17 0.508
Isaiah 50.10 0.507
Isaiah 30.21 0.507
Jeremiah 31.19 0.507
Romans 1.2 0.507
Romans 1.22 0.507
Romans 4.17 0.507
2 Corinthians 1.3 0.506
1 Corinthians 15.57 0.506
Job 6.4 0.506
1 Corinthians 4.15 0.506
John 20.23 0.505
Daniel 5.6 0.505
Ecclesiastes 3.1 0.505
1 Thessalonians 5.12 0.504
1 Corinthians 3.9 0.504
John 11.35 0.504
Malachi 3.6 0.504
Matthew 18.18 0.504
Ephesians 1.18 0.504
1 Corinthians 15.53 0.503
Titus 1.12 0.502
1 Corinthians 10.4 0.502
Job 13.15 0.502
Job 4.19 0.502
Colossians 1.18 0.502
1 Thessalonians 5.23 0.502
Proverbs 30.8 0.501
1 Samuel 30.6 0.501
Acts 21.13 0.501
John 14.26 0.501
Acts 17.27 0.501
Acts 17.18 0.501
Romans 5.2 0.501
Hosea 6.1 0.5
Proverbs 20.27 0.5
1 Corinthians 15.54 0.5
John 14.16 0.499
Job 19.25 0.499
Genesis 28.20 0.499
Luke 19.41 0.498
1 Timothy 6.15 0.498
1 John 1.9 0.498
Daniel 12.2 0.498
1 Corinthians 15.20 0.498
1 Corinthians 14.33 0.497
Luke 22.19 0.497
Lamentations 3.22 0.496
John 1.9 0.496
Ecclesiastes 12.7 0.496
Matthew 25.21 0.495
Philippians 2.2 0.494
Psalms 89.48 0.494
Acts 4.12 0.494
Romans 12.11 0.493
Romans 3.25 0.493
Genesis 1.26 0.493
1 Thessalonians 4.14 0.493
Acts 26.18 0.493
1 Thessalonians 4.16 0.492
Colossians 1.12 0.492
Isaiah 61.1 0.491
2 Corinthians 2.16 0.49
1 Corinthians 4.1 0.49
1 Corinthians 2.8 0.49
Revelation 21.4 0.49
Luke 19.42 0.488
Job 3.17 0.488
1 Thessalonians 4.13 0.487
1 Timothy 3.16 0.487
Philippians 2.1 0.486
1 Corinthians 14.40 0.486
Colossians 3.16 0.486
2 Corinthians 3.18 0.486
Job 1.21 0.485
John 14.6 0.483
Psalms 16.11 0.482
Matthew 25.34 0.479
1 Peter 1.4 0.479
Psalms 23.4 0.477
Psalms 1.3 0.477
Acts 17.28 0.474
Proverbs 18.14 0.473
1 Corinthians 13.12 0.469
Ephesians 4.11 0.468
Daniel 12.3 0.467
Jeremiah 12.1 0.466
James 1.17 0.466
Acts 20.28 0.464
2 Corinthians 5.1 0.458
Revelation 14.13 0.409
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase