22 JOHN NAPIEE'S WEEK EN. 



so liuerj by Saint I olm, as the mother of all spirituall whoredome, 

 that not onely bursted I out in continual reasoning against my said 

 familiar, but also from thenceforth, 1 determined with my selfe (by 

 the assistance of Gods spirit) to employ my studie and diligence 

 to search out the remanent mysteries of that holy book: as to this 

 houre (praised be the Lorde) 1 lia ue bin doing at al such times, 

 as conveniently I might hane occasion.... 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 incresing within this Hand doth so pitie our 

 hearts, seeing them put more trust in lesuites 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, leaning the Latine, to haste out in 

 English this present worke, almost vnripe, that hereby, the simple 

 of this Hand may be instructed, the godly continued, and the 

 proud and foolish expectations of the wicked beaten downe, [pur- 

 posing hereafter (Godwilling) to publish shortly, the other latin 

 editie- hereof, to the publike vtilitie of the whol church.] What- 

 soeuer therfore through hast, is here; rudely and in base language 

 set downe, I doubt not to be pardoned thereof by all good men." 



In de uitgaaf van 1 (i 1 1 zijn de woorden tusschen de vierkante 

 haken vervangen door: 



„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 Godwilling 1 minde to doe) to the 

 publike vtilitie of the whole Church. Hut vnderstanding on the 

 one part, that this work is now imprinted, & set out diucrse times 

 in the French & Dutch tongs, (beside these our English editions) 

 & fhcrby made publik to manic. As on the other part being 

 adnertised that our papistical, adversaries wcr to write larglie against 

 the said editions that are alreadie set out. Herefore ! hane as yet 

 deferred the Latine edition, till hauing first scene (he adneisaries 

 objections, I ma\ inserl in the Latin edition an apologie of that 

 which is rightly done, and an amends of whatsoeuer is amisse." 



Napier was dus in Kill nog van plan, een Latijnschc uitgaaf 

 van zijn werk te bezorgen Waarschijnlijk heeft hij zijn voornemen 

 moeten opgeven, omdat de samenstelling van zijn Wonderbaren 

 Canon der Logarithinen al zijn \ rijen tijd in beslag nam. 



