Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon preached in the Colledge Church of St. Katharin's, Februaey [sic] the 13th 1698. / By Josia Povey, Brother and Minister there.

Povey, Josia
Publisher: Printed by J Mayes
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1698
Approximate Era: WilliamAndMary
TCP ID: A90885 ESTC ID: R181978 STC ID: P3041
Subject Headings: Bible. -- O.T. -- Psalms CXIX, 1; 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 1.3% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 0.6% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 89.6% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 5.4% -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) 2.8% -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: 0.776
Evenness: 0.852
Part Prominence
Old Testament (AKJV) 30.811
Apocrypha (Douay-Rheims) 3.739
Apocrypha (AKJV) 2.585
Old Testament (ODRV) 0.774
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) -1.409
Old Testament (Geneva) -2.792
New Testament (Tyndale) -2.879
New Testament (Geneva) -3.916
New Testament (ODRV) -3.995
Diversity: 0.93
Evenness: 0.943
Book Prominence
Psalms (AKJV) 17.908
Joel (Douay-Rheims) 3.375
1 Maccabees (AKJV) 3.366
Joshua (AKJV) 3.306
Numbers (Geneva) 3.265
1 Timothy (Tyndale) 3.161
Philippians (Geneva) 3.03
Exodus (Geneva) 3.008
Hebrews (Tyndale) 2.997
James (ODRV) 2.99
Galatians (ODRV) 2.864
Ecclesiasticus (AKJV) 2.808
Ecclesiasticus (Douay-Rheims) 2.77
Job (Geneva) 2.749
Hebrews (ODRV) 2.737
Ecclesiastes (AKJV) 2.7
Proverbs (Douay-Rheims) 2.64
Genesis (AKJV) 2.55
Proverbs (Geneva) 2.518
Job (AKJV) 2.455
Psalms (ODRV) 2.238
Isaiah (AKJV) 2.166
Proverbs (AKJV) 2.045
Psalms (Geneva) 1.633
Diversity: 0.951
Evenness: 0.958
Chapter Prominence
Psalms 119 (AKJV) 15.996
Psalms 127 (Geneva) 2.696
Joshua 10 (AKJV) 2.695
Psalms 36 (Geneva) 2.692
Numbers 23 (Geneva) 2.691
1 Maccabees 2 (AKJV) 2.691
Ecclesiasticus 18 (Douay-Rheims) 2.689
Isaiah 34 (AKJV) 2.689
Hebrews 1 (Tyndale) 2.687
Ecclesiasticus 18 (AKJV) 2.686
Psalms 48 (ODRV) 2.685
Exodus 17 (Geneva) 2.684
1 Timothy 4 (Tyndale) 2.681
Job 10 (AKJV) 2.678
Joel 2 (Douay-Rheims) 2.676
Proverbs 4 (Geneva) 2.676
Job 29 (Geneva) 2.676
Hebrews 1 (ODRV) 2.675
Proverbs 7 (Geneva) 2.674
Job 14 (Geneva) 2.67
Job 29 (AKJV) 2.667
Proverbs 10 (Douay-Rheims) 2.665
Proverbs 10 (AKJV) 2.651
Ecclesiastes 1 (AKJV) 2.647
Psalms 49 (AKJV) 2.646
Genesis 3 (AKJV) 2.645
Proverbs 23 (AKJV) 2.625
James 1 (ODRV) 2.625
Philippians 3 (Geneva) 2.611
Galatians 6 (ODRV) 2.587
Psalms 106 (AKJV) 2.567
Proverbs 14 (AKJV) 2.554
Diversity: 0.951
Evenness: 0.958
Verse Prominence
Psalms 119.1 (AKJV) 16.206
Proverbs 10.2 (Douay-Rheims) 2.702
Job 10.21 (AKJV) 2.702
1 Maccabees 2.63 (AKJV) 2.702
Job 29.6 (Geneva) 2.702
Exodus 17.8 (Geneva) 2.702
Joel 2.31 (Douay-Rheims) 2.701
Psalms 48.17 (ODRV) 2.701
Ecclesiasticus 18.8 (Douay-Rheims) 2.701
Job 14.10 (Geneva) 2.701
Job 29.6 (AKJV) 2.701
Psalms 127.2 (Geneva) 2.701
Psalms 106.4 (AKJV) 2.7
Proverbs 10.2 (AKJV) 2.7
Proverbs 4.9 (Geneva) 2.7
Joshua 10.13 (AKJV) 2.7
Psalms 36.9 (Geneva) 2.7
Psalms 49.17 (AKJV) 2.699
Ecclesiasticus 18.9 (AKJV) 2.699
Hebrews 1.4 (Tyndale) 2.699
Numbers 23.10 (Geneva) 2.698
1 Timothy 4.8 (Tyndale) 2.698
Hebrews 1.4 (ODRV) 2.697
Isaiah 34.4 (AKJV) 2.697
Genesis 3.18 (AKJV) 2.696
Ecclesiastes 1.18 (AKJV) 2.693
Proverbs 7.27 (Geneva) 2.69
James 1.27 (ODRV) 2.689
Proverbs 14.13 (AKJV) 2.686
Philippians 3.14 (Geneva) 2.686
Galatians 6.14 (ODRV) 2.677
Proverbs 23.5 (AKJV) 2.676
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: 0.8
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
1 Timothy 18.162
Deuteronomy 17.869
John 16.794
Isaiah 16.618
Psalms 14.828
Diversity: 0.857
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Deuteronomy 28 14.186
John 2 14.169
Isaiah 3 14.149
Psalms 73 14.104
1 Timothy 4 14.053
John 3 13.953
Psalms 119 13.89
Diversity: 0.667
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Isaiah 3.19 33.326
Isaiah 3.20 33.326
1 Timothy 4.8 33.277
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase