Early English Printed Sermons


No penalty, no peace in a sermon preached at the assizes held at Leicester, August the 10th, 1682 / by Thomas Ashenden ...

Ashenden, Thomas, 1648 or 9-1723
Publisher: Printed for John Smith
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1682
Approximate Era: CharlesII
TCP ID: B17254 ESTC ID: None STC ID: A3973
Subject Headings: Political science; Sermons, English -- 17th century; State, The;
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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 1.5% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 0.8% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 92.1% 100.0%
Foreign Percentage of units with foreign text 0.4% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 5.7% -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) 2.3% -inf%
foreign_italicized Percentage of units with QP and foreign italicized text 0.4% -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: 0.843
Evenness: 0.948
Part Prominence
Old Testament (AKJV) 15.227
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 9.63
Apocrypha (Douay-Rheims) 5.687
Old Testament (ODRV) 2.722
Old Testament (Geneva) -0.844
New Testament (Tyndale) -0.931
New Testament (ODRV) -2.047
New Testament (AKJV) -3.337
Diversity: 0.925
Evenness: 0.973
Book Prominence
Judges (AKJV) 15.551
Judges (Douay-Rheims) 10.398
Tobit (Douay-Rheims) 5.193
2 Paralipomenon (Douay-Rheims) 5.092
2 Timothy (Tyndale) 5.052
2 Thessalonians (AKJV) 5.011
2 Timothy (ODRV) 5.002
2 Peter (AKJV) 4.844
Exodus (Geneva) 4.823
2 Timothy (AKJV) 4.731
Genesis (ODRV) 4.717
Acts (AKJV) 4.429
Romans (ODRV) 4.013
Isaiah (AKJV) 3.981
Proverbs (AKJV) 3.86
Psalms (AKJV) 2.482
Diversity: 0.93
Evenness: 0.975
Chapter Prominence
Judges 21 (AKJV) 14.958
Judges 18 (Douay-Rheims) 9.987
Tobit 11 (Douay-Rheims) 4.998
2 Paralipomenon 14 (Douay-Rheims) 4.997
Genesis 27 (ODRV) 4.988
Judges 17 (AKJV) 4.985
Exodus 32 (Geneva) 4.982
Isaiah 55 (AKJV) 4.958
Acts 7 (AKJV) 4.958
2 Timothy 3 (Tyndale) 4.956
Proverbs 20 (AKJV) 4.927
2 Timothy 3 (ODRV) 4.924
2 Thessalonians 2 (AKJV) 4.914
2 Peter 3 (AKJV) 4.913
Romans 3 (ODRV) 4.876
Psalms 106 (AKJV) 4.865
2 Timothy 3 (AKJV) 4.839
Diversity: 0.934
Evenness: 0.976
Verse Prominence
Judges 21.25 (AKJV) 14.251
Judges 18.31 (Douay-Rheims) 9.514
Psalms 106.20 (AKJV) 4.761
2 Paralipomenon 14.3 (Douay-Rheims) 4.761
Acts 7.40 (AKJV) 4.761
Tobit 11.13 (Douay-Rheims) 4.761
Genesis 27.22 (ODRV) 4.76
Judges 17.5 (AKJV) 4.759
Exodus 32.16 (Geneva) 4.759
2 Peter 3.16 (AKJV) 4.759
Isaiah 55.2 (AKJV) 4.755
Judges 17.6 (AKJV) 4.753
Romans 3.17 (ODRV) 4.752
2 Timothy 3.7 (Tyndale) 4.752
Proverbs 20.8 (AKJV) 4.752
2 Timothy 3.6 (ODRV) 4.751
2 Thessalonians 2.11 (AKJV) 4.746
2 Timothy 3.5 (AKJV) 4.715
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: 0.667
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Apocrypha 28.862
Old Testament -14.001
New Testament -14.862
Diversity: 0.9
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Wisdom 9.778
Malachi 9.203
Judges 8.902
2 Chronicles 8.764
2 Kings 8.682
1 Samuel 8.217
1 Peter 7.969
Proverbs 6.952
John 6.794
Isaiah 6.618
Diversity: 0.929
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Wisdom 7 7.138
Judges 2 7.113
2 Chronicles 26 7.113
Isaiah 19 7.111
2 Chronicles 33 7.107
1 Samuel 4 7.079
2 Kings 17 7.074
2 Chronicles 20 7.046
Isaiah 2 7.031
Proverbs 20 7.011
Malachi 3 6.947
John 5 6.883
Isaiah 1 6.827
1 Peter 2 6.647
Diversity: 0.9
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
2 Kings 17.17 9.998
Judges 2.3 9.997
2 Chronicles 33.6 9.996
2 Kings 17.18 9.996
2 Chronicles 20.21 9.995
2 Chronicles 26.16 9.994
1 Samuel 4.18 9.986
1 Peter 2.16 9.986
Malachi 3.14 9.982
Proverbs 20.8 9.973
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase