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Christ, by the Evangell." K-^-K^, S pages, " To The Right Excellent, High And
Mightie Prince, Tames The Sixt, King Of Scottes, Grace And Peace, Ss'c", 'The
Episle Dedicatorie,' signed "At Marchistoun the 29 daye of lanuar, IS93- • • • lohn
Napeir, Fear of Marchistoun.'" As^-Ay^ $ pages, " To the Godly and Christian
Reader." A8\ " The booke this bill settds to the Beast, \
Craning amendment now in
heast,\' with 26 lines following, then " Faults escaped.", i61ines. M?,"A Tableofthe
Conclusions introductiue to the Reuelation, andproued in thefirst Treatise. " Bl*-F3S
pp. 1-69, " Tlie First And Introdvctory Treatise, conteining a searching of the true
meaning of the Reuelation, beginning the discouerie thereof at the places fnost easie, and
most euidentlie knowne, and so proceeding from the knovme, to the proouing of the
vnknowne, vntill fnallie, the whole groundes thereof bee brought to light, after the
manner of Propositions." , 36 Propositions and Conclusion. F3'', p. 70, "A Table
Definitive Arid Diuisiue of the whole Revelation." 'S^-'Ss'j'; pp. 71-269, "The Second
And Principal Treatis, wherein (by theformer grounds) the whole Apocalyps or Reuelation
of S. lohn, is paraphrasticallie expounded, historicallie applied, and temporallie
dated, with notes on euery difficulHe, and arguments on each Chapter "; at the beginning
of each chapter is " The Argument.", then follow " Tlie Text.", " Paraphrastical
exposition.", "Anno Christi.", and " Historical application." , the four subjects being
arranged in parallel columns (in chapters I to 5, and 7, 10, 15, 18, 19, 21, and 22,
there is no Historical application, in which case the columns for it and also for Anno
Christi are omitted), at the end of each chapter "Notes, Reasons, and Amplifications."
are added. S/^-SS^, 3 pages, " To the misliking Reader whosoeuer." Tl'-T4^, 8
pages, "Hereafter Followeth Certaine Notable Prophecies agreable to our purpose,
extrcut out of the books of Sibylla, whose authorities neither being so authentik, that
hitherto we could cite any of them in matters of scriptures, neither so prophane that
altogether we could omit them : We haue therefore thought very meet, seuerally and apart
to insert the same here, after the end of this worke of holy scripture, because of thefamous
antiquitie, approued veritie, and harmonicall consentment thereof with the scriptures of
God, and specially with the 1 8. chapter of this holy Revelation."
Signatures. A to S in eights H-T in four = 148 leaves.
Paging. l6 H- 269 numbered -H I = 296 pages.
Errors in Paging. Page 26 numbered 62, and page 229 numbered 239.
The outside sheet (leaves i, 2, 7, 8) of Signature B was set up a
second time, with slight differences in the spelling and occasionally in
the division into lines. Consequently copies may be found in which
the title of the First treatise does not agree exactly with that given
above. The Advocates' Library in Edinburgh has copies of the two
varieties.
The following extract explains the circumstances under which this
first work of Napier's was published. The passage begins at the second
last line in the second page of the address To the Godly and Christian
'
Reader.' (In the edition of 16 11 the passage begins on line 7 of the
third page.)
After