^6 The ^aturalland Moral! 



Indies. And for thatwccmeane hccrcaftcr to intrcat 

 briefly ofthisfubieft, itfliallbcfit now tovnderftand 

 what the holy DocSor Auguftine difputes vppon this 

 ^ matter in his bookes of the cittic'of God ^Jt is no point 



til. i6.c*}.9 tKat we ought to belecve(as fomeaffirme} that there Are An 

 tipodes, that is to fay, men which inhabite that other fart 

 of the earth, in whofi region the Sunne rifeth when itfets with 

 <us , and that their Jteppes be oppofite and ccntrarie to ours, 

 feeing they affirwe not this by atiy certaine revelation which 

 * X they have , but onelj by A PbiiefophicaltiiffcoHrfe they makc^ 

 whereby they conclude, that the earth being in the middeft 

 of the world , invironed of all parts and covered equallie 

 with the heaven , ofnecefiitiejhatnwft be in the low ft f lace 

 which uin thsjnidjTofthe v^rld . . After wardes hcc con, 

 tinues in theft words , 'fMtylic Scripture doth not erre, 

 neither is deceived in anie fort : the truth whereof is will 

 proved in that which it propoutfdeth of things which are 

 faffed , for as much as that which bqth bene fore-told, hath 

 fucceded in every point, as we fee: Anditisathingvoideef 

 all fen fe, to fay, that men could pajfe from this continent 

 to the newfound world & cut through the Vaft Ocean, feeing 

 it wereimpofsible for mentopajfeinto thofe parts any other 

 way, being mojl certain that at men defied from thefrft man. 

 Wherein we fee 5 thatall the difficultie S. Attgutiine hath 

 found, was nothing elfe but the incomparable greatncs 

 of this vaft Ocean. Gregorie Nazianzene was of the fame 

 opinion^ aflfuring (as a matter without any doubt) that 

 itwasnotpoflible to faile beyond the Straights of Gi- 

 braltar : and vpon this fubied he writes in an Epiftle of 

 his : I agree well with the faying 0/Tindarus , That pajl 

 Cadiz, that Sea if not nauigable. And hee himfelfe in the 

 funerall Sermon he made for faint Baji-l faith : It WAS 

 mt tollerabk for anie one failing on the Sea , to paffe the 



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