CATALOGUE. 111
After the which, although (greatly rejoycing in the Lord) I began to write thereof in Latine: yet, I purposed not to haue set out the same suddenly, and far lesse to haue written the same also in English, til that of late, this new insolencie of Papists arising about the 1588 year of God, and dayly increasing within this Iland doth so pitie our hearts, seeing them put more trust in Iesuites and seminarie Priests, then in the true scripturs of God, and in the Pope and King of Spaine, then in the King of Kings: that, to preuent the same, I was constrained of compassion, leauing the Latine, to haste out in English this present worke, almost vnripe, that hereby, the simple of this Iland may be instructed, the godly confirmed, and the proud and foolish expectations of the wicked beaten downe, [purposing hereafter (Godwilling) to publish shortly, the other latin editiö hereof, to the publike vtilitie of the whol Church.] Whatsoeuer therfore through hast, is here rudely and in base language set downe, I doubt not to be pardoned thereof by all good men.
The passage enclosed in square brackets is omitted in the edition of 1611 (also in that of 1645) and in its place is inserted the following passage.
And where as after the first edition of this booke in our English or Scottish tongue, I thought to haue published shortlie the same in Latine (as yet God- willing I minde to doe) to the publike vtilitie of the whole Church. But vnderstanding on the one part, that this work is now imprinted, & set out diuerse times in the French & Dutch tongs, (beside these our English editions) & therby made publik to manie. As on the other part being aduertised that our papistical, adversaries wer to write larglie against the said editions that are alreadie set out. Herefore I haue as yet deferred the Latine edition, till hauing first seene the aduersaries obiections, I may insert in the Latin edition an apologie of that which is rightly done, and an amends of whatsoeuer is amisse.
We see from the above that in 1611. Napier still had the intention of publishing a Latin edition, but this idea had, no doubt, to be given up owing to the demands made on him by his invention of Logarithms.
Libraries. Adv. Ed. (both varieties); Sig. Ed.; Un. Gl.; Mitchell Gl.; Un. Ab.; Un. St And.; Brit. Mus. Lon.; Bodl. Oxf.; Qu. Col. Oxf.; Un. Camb.; Trin. Col. Camb.;
A Plaine|Discoverie Of|The Whole Revelation Of|Saint Iohn: Set Down In Two|Treatises: The one searching and proving| the true interpretation thereof. The other|applying the same Paraphrastically|and Historicallie to the text|Set Forth By Iohn Napeir|L of Marchistovn younger.| Wherevnto Are Annexed
