although it should all be burned insomuch that it 's needful to say That the other Stars whose body is so great in comparison of this our little Globe did furnish it with matter Chap. IV. Proving the multiplicity of the Worlds by a reason drawn from the conformity of the Moon with the Earth ALL Philosophers and Astrologers are agreed That the Earth and Moon have this commune between them that they both are thick grosse dark and solid bodies able to receive and refresh the light of the Sun this being granted What is easier than to conclude That the Earth reverberating the beams of the Sun would appear lightsome to them who should be raised high towards Heaven that it would seem so little and small by its far distance from us that it would be almost like the Moon both in light and bignesse and that it would even have its spots because of the waters which bury and smother the Sun beams and do not reverberate them We might discover in it by prospective glasses some of the chiefest Mountains whereby we might soon be perswaded to believe that those Seas and Mountains are inhabited and filled with living Creatures And if we turn what we have said of the Earth to the Moon shall we not say the same of it Wherein we discover those spots that by Galileus's prospective-glasses helps us so naisty to distinguish that we see in it as in a Table and Mapp some Seas some straights some Lakes some Rivers and some Islands some Rocks and Mountains that are perceived to swell out especially at the new Moon And if it be true of the Moon can it not be true also of the other Stars but their far distance stealing from our eyes their spots we must judge of it by the Moon which though lesser is nearer to us and appears greater to our eyes and that we may not think that the same things that are seen in the Moon cannot appear in the other Stars the Telescope sheweth us a Mountain in Mars some spots in other Stars and that Venus increaseth and diminisheth even as the Moon Chap. V. Wherein is proved this Opinion of divers Worlds in that the Earth is a Starre as the others THe foregoing Chapter declaring to us how the Earth would appear lightsome to us if we were once high raised up from it because it reflects the beams of the Sun which according to the divers places by it inlightned would cause it to increase and decrease considering also that Mountains seen from far are bright and shining and that as Milchius saith the fields adjacent to mount Hesperides shine at night as the Stars and seeing also that the Earth is moveable as hereafter we shall prove it that it is situated in the Ayr and weighed and counterpois'd in its proper weight and that the Ayr is the Heavens as the Holy Scriptures do sufficiently prove it when at every moment they confound the Ayr with the Heavens Shall we not then say That the Earth is a Star situated in Heaven as well as the other Starres That this at the first sight will amuse the Readers but they shall be pleased to yield That the yolk of an egg is in its shell neither can they deny that the Earth is in Heaven which wraps and compasses it on every side as an egg-shell and that the infinite spaces of the Aires which are the Heavens do not contain divers bodies far distant one from the other and so consequently the earth seeming from on high little and lightsome may be a Star inhabited But if the Earth be a Star inhabited the others may be Earths inhabited being they as well as the Earth seem and appear to be great and lightsome bodies to those who are far remote from them And that no Man may object that the Heaven is a place coloured solid and separated from their aire I beseech him to consider that things far remote from us appear as the Skie even the Mountains and Seas seen from far seem blewish so that this skie-colour'd Heaven that we see is not a solid and reall thing but the limit of our sight in a certain place of the infinite spaces of the Aire which are the common place wherein are lodged an infinite number of great globes of divers natures or inhabited by several living creatures which the Sun being in the middle equally inlightens as a great Torch set in the midst of a Chamber shines in every corner of it with the brightnesse of its light Chap. VI Proving the same by the great number of the Stars and by their noblenesse THose who imagine that the infinite number of the heavenly bodies are created for the globe of the earth and for the advantage of its Inhabitants are much mistaken for natural reason doth sufficiently disswade us to believe that the greater things serve the lesser and that those that are the noblest serve the vilest and that are of lesse consequence and moment Is it not very like that every Globe makes a World or a particular Earth and that this great number is suspended in the Air whereof the vast space conjoyns them all as so many dependances from the everlasting and divine Empire the greatnesse and bignesse of the whole World is composed of divers creatures which though far remote and differing one from the other as well by their nature as by their place do notwithstanding so well agree in a mutual love that they compose and make up a perfect harmony in the World where the Heaven or the Air is their common space and the Sea whereof the Earths or Stars are the Islands which doth so joyn and separate them and therefore is this Ayr purest near the perfectest bodies neverthelesse this spiritual body of the Air equally receives the influences and operations of every Globe and communicates with great speed to every one those of all the others Chap. VII Wherein the same is proved by a reason drawn from the bignesse of the Stars PYthagoras did often call the Earth a Moon and all well considered What hinders that the Earth be not as well reckoned in the number of the Stars as the Moon seeing that as we have said the body of both of them is of a thick dark and heavy matter that both do borrow their light from the Sun that they are both solid and reverberate the beams of this light of the World that both produce vertues and spirits of themselves and that both are heng'd and suspended each in its aire or heaven and upon its center and having all these things common together may not the Moon and so consequently the other Stars infinitely bigger then it self have Inhabitants And indeed this exceeds all belief that so great bodies as the Stars which many times over exceed the Earth in bignesse should be so idle and barren that no creature should dwell in them and that their motions labours and actions should onely redound to the advantage of this Terrestriall Globe alone
and that there are Elias and Enoch those Antients were not far from my opinion seeing the inconveniencies that would follow if we did seat it in this our World for if to believe that this Paradise was upon this Earth it 's a very hard thing for it 's of no moment to rely upon the names of the Rivers and Countreys that are named in the translation of the Holy Scripture considering that the Hebrew names in it are not conforme and that the Translators do yeild that they have Interpreted them but by conjecture and as nigh as they could guesse Again this Paradise can no more be found on the Earth nor those Rivers that are said to be those whom Moses doth mention do not issue from one and the same Spring as it 's recorded of those of Paradise And lastly it would be a ridiculous thing to believe that God hath driven his people from that place which he suffers the Turks and other Infidels to enjoy it being that whole Country apprehended to have been this Earthly Paradise of delight Before I conclude this Chapter I will here alledge two notable things The first is that as there is no Book though never so bad but there is also some good in it Neither is there any Religion but hath some good Maxims The Chineans and the Turks being perswaded by appearances do not at all doubt but that after death they go to inhabit the World of the Moon The second is that there are already divers bodies in Hell and also in Paradise In Hell are those who have yeilded up their bodies to the unclean spirits and Daemons but in Paradise are Elias and Enoch which both places to hold up those bodies must needs be solid which solidity cannot be but in some Stars or Star where God doth manifest himself more clearly and visibly and where are those Rocks of eternity whereof it 's spoken by Moses whereunto we must desire to go and there to dwell exchanging this Valley of misery to the great advantage and comfort of our glorious bodies Chap. XXXVII Proving the Worlds plurality by an Answer made by the Daemons IF any Creature can know the pure and naked truth of things and that may decide and resolve this question to the full certainly the evil spirits may but how may we enquire of them about it Thus it may be done for it 's very certain that Pans Sylvaines and other gods who in former Ages did appear to men were wicked spirits and Daemons who required worship from men but a certain Silenus who was one of that nature suffering Marsias to take possession of him told him That there were other Worlds where men lived as old again as we and were of higher and greater shape and stature And in the History of Faustus the Magician it 's said that his spirits did walk him amongst the Starres for the space of eight dayes and that he was carried 80000 miles high far from us and that ascending up very high he did perceive from far off this Earth the Cities and other things in it contained but this his relation is but in brief Chap. XXXVIII Proving the same by a Reason drawn from the unprofitablenesse of the light of the Sun and others IF there were no Globes inhabited above the Sun for what use would that light be which the Sun casts above him It would be altogether unprofitable and uselesse if it was lost in the Air It is then cast upon those bodies that have need of it which cannot be any thing else but the Starres which of their nature are dark and obscure and earthly as the earth that we inhabit for otherwise they would have no need of the Sun's light Shall not so many Reasons suffice for to overcome that obstinacy and Preoccupation Great Alexander may break the Ice and shew us the way who having heard Anaxarch the Philosopher discoursing upon this subject matter did believe him and fell a weeping because that there being other Worlds he had yet conquered but one Chap. XXXIX Proving the same by the Suns mutual ravishments betwixt the Earth and the Moon and by their equal qualities and by other notable Reasons WE may say That the time spoken by Seneca in his Medea is come now Quae Typhis novos deteget orbes Wherein we may learn things unheard viz. the discovery of new Worlds Et tabula pictos ediscere mundos We may say it with better ground then he seeing he onely spoke of the Indies and we speak of Worlds distinct and separated and prove it by so many Arguments as if we could not come to an end of them for it may yet be proved in that the Earth and the Moon deprive each other mutually of the Sun which deed doth testifie their conformity and that both may suffer Eclipses also by their mutual communications cold qualities solidity and roughnesse that help us to see it for many think that we should scarcc see it were it not for its irregularities which cause its light better to reverberate the beames of the Sun I shall add to this That if God who could make many Worlds had not made them his power might be said in some respects to have been idle unprofitable and limited for though it ayms not so much to the works as to the end of them yet it being for his greater glory though he doth not whatsoever he can we cannot assert That he was not willing to make many Worlds as we cannot deny but he had the power to make them Thirdly the common and general opinion grants the four Elements to be in Heaven for it believed that there is the Empyred Heaven that is the Heaven of fire the crystal Heaven that is of a waterish nature the Heaven of the Stars which is solid and by consequence of an earthly nature and the Air is apprehended to be amongst those Stars the four Elements then are in Heaven and why may not there be also mixt and composed bodies and why not the effects as well as the causes which compose them are in it and why could they not act as well within themselves as in things far remote Fourthly the Creation of the world or of many worlds is a thing that wholly depends from the free Will of God neither can it be denyed by any natural reason for God acts not outwardly by necessity as to limit himself onely to this our World but on the contrary God willeth whatsoever implyeth not contradiction But many worlds do not imply contradiction neither from God nor from the thing created and it seems requisite that the object be the measure of the power but this World not being infinite as God is there must needs be an infinity of them Chap. XL Discoursing of those Stars discovered of late and of the Spots of the Sun HAving above mentioned the Spots of the Sun and some new Starres and thence having drawn some Arguments it may not be out of our purpose to speak of them
such variety and diversity as the Earth viz. Men Beasts Plants and whatsoever is seen here amongst us and the Pythagorians did believe and to which Copernicus agreeth Chap. XXVI Proving the same because otherwise it were to make God to act by necessity IF there were not many Worlds in this whole Fabrick God could not act so powerfully and freely but that by some certain necessity and constraint which would be a great impiety and blasphemy even to imagine it for God could assuredly not onely have made other Worlds but also much more perfect then this for his power is neither shortened nor exhausted neither the matter which he could create of nothing as well as that of this our Earth therefore as he hath created this World could he not also have created others Chap. XXVII How could we see the Earth if we were far distant from it SOme may ask If the Planets are so many Earths and the Earth a Planet how could we see the Earth if we were far remote from it Clavius in his Commentary upon Sacroboscus hath endeavoured some suppositions upon this question and hath found that if any one were in the Globe of the Moon and should look towards the Earth it would appear to him three times bigger then the Moon appears to us and somewhat more and if a man were in the Globe of the Sun it would appear to him twice bigger then Venus seems to us and in the Globe of Mars thence it would appear lightsome and would seem to be of the bignesse of one of the Stars of the sixth proportion and if he were in the highest heavens he could not see it at all And this is saith he the Astrologers common opinion Chap. XXVIII Of the number of the Worlds IT may also be asked What number of Worlds there is but though it is a thing not certainly known considering the infinite number of Stars to us perspicuous besides those that we cannot see by reason of our eyes weaknesse Yet I shall here alledge the Judgment of some Authors upon this question Baruck the Philosopher and Clemens a disciple of the Apostles as Origen saith do mention seven perhaps meaning the seven Planets An ancient Author according to Plutarch in his book touching the ceasing of miracles did believe that there were an hundred and eighty nine Worlds disposed in a triangle every side containing sixty three Petro of Sicily thought the same thing touching the plurality of Worlds But the Thalmudists going beyond say that there are nineteen thousand and Democritus did believe that they were infinite and innumerable Chap. XXIX Touching divers ancient Philosophers who have believed the plurality of Worlds Pythagoras who first called this Fabrick Worlds is also one of the chiefest who believed the plurality of them and hath had many disciples and Citators who have continued to establish and maintain this assertion for Socrates hath publickly asserted the Worlds to be infinite so did also his disciple Archelaus who perswaded it also to Xenophanes the Colophian who also did assert That there are many Moons and Suns in the world This same Axiome was believed by Melisseus of Samia Parmenides's disciple as also by his School-fellow Zeno of Elis and his disciple Lucippus of Elis also Item by Democritus of Miletum Pythagoras's hearer who saith That in these Worlds the Stars are more beautifull and bright which I think may be according to their proximity By reason of which opinion that King of the Abderitanes was esteemed by his ignorant people to be out of his wits and thereupon they sent for Hippocrates to cure him of his disease but Hippocrates found him very well in his mind and said nothing against his opinion which moved Democritus perpetually to laugh at them who were ignorant of the same Joubertus who hath composed a book concerning laughter in it hath set down Hippocrates's letter upon this subject Diogenes of Apollonia Anaximenes's disciple together with Seleucus hath also pronounced their assertion touching the plurality of the worlds Orpheus Origines and Baruck the Philosopher Anaxagoras and many Stoicks more do a vouch the same Plinius also seems to have been of this opinion but Anaximander Anaximenes Epicureus and others following Francis I. Picus Mirandulanus have fully asserted it Mahomet who though an Infidel wanted not wit and knowledg to establish his belief did believe the same thing and in his Alcoran mentions several Earths and Seas to be in Heaven and the four Elements and all that is amongst us to be in every one of the Stars Epicureus did say That these Worlds were some of them without Sun or Moon and some had greater then those that lighten us and that others had divers Suns and that some of them were without living creatures in them without Plants and without all moisture and that at the same that things are thus in our worlds as we see them so also are they in divers other worlds but had he seen how the Indians and we agree in severall things he would questionlesse have believed it more constantly Icetes the Pythagorian together with Philolaus did believe there were two Earths opposite one to the other and Picus Mirandula was forced to say That he thought that the Moon was an Earth like unto ours herein conforming himself to those Pythagorians who sometimes did call our Earth Moon and the Moon Earth Francastor Physitian at Zerona following Eudoxus and Calispus's Judgment together with divers others whom for brevity sake I shall omit did also believe the same But whereas so many Philosophers have asserted the Position of this opinion it will be answered That I am not the first author of 〈◊〉 To this I answer That it 's sufficient for me to renew it and plainly professe it the which hitherto was not yet publickly practised Chap. XXX Of those things that are in the Moon and other Planets THough the Ancients had not the help of Prospective-glasses as we have wherewith we see as new Linxes the Seas the Mountains and other things which are in the Moon yet they did inquire and speak of things more particular that are in the Stars as the Pythagorians and Orpheus who did believe that the Moon was not onely of the colour of the Earth but that it contained Men Beasts and Trees 15 times bigger then we or 50 times bigger as Herodotus who also asserts that in it are Towns and Cities Xenophanes did also think that there are men within the body of the Moon Anaxagoras and Democritus have also said That in it are contained Mountains Valleys and Fields Lucianus in his book of true history Aristoteles have both mentioned some particularities of what is in the Moon but we shall not take notice what the first saith because he relates it as a fable though for the composing of his work he hath made use of a great deal of those ancient Philosophers opinions Plutarch in his discourse of the Moon reasons pro and con whether the Moon is
inhabited and whether it is an Earth as ours and inclines sometimes to one sometimes to the other but at length it seems that he did believe it because he answers to divers objections that might be alledged against this opinion Bacon desires us seriously to cast our eyes upon the opinions of Pythagoras Philolaus Xenophanes Anaxagoras Parmenides Lucippus and of other ancient Philosophers indicating to us the truth thereof and wishes that some body would compose a book of their opinions this present discourse is part of it and therefore do we in some measure satisfie the desire of so rare a Person Lucretius whom we have here above quoted did confidently believe the same and hath testified it in divers places of his works and especially in these Verses besides those already alledged in the 18. Chapter Esse alios alibi terrarum in partibus orbes Et varias hominum gentes et saecla ferarum Huc accedit uti in summa res nulla sit una Unica quae gignatur et unica solaque crescat That is to say There are other new Worlds wherein is variety of Men and Beasts and of all other living creatures because that there is nothing groweth single and alone in this World nor in the earth nor in the Sea And in another place Praeterea cùn materies est multa parata Cùn loci est praeslò nec res nec causa moratur Ulla geri debet nimirum et confitier res Whereas there is store of matter and that the causes and the places do suffice this therefore ought to be declared and men must needs grant it so to be Paracelsus hath said That there are in Heaven some certain men called Tortelii and Penates for whom Christ did not die of whom some are without Soul and some not composed of the four Elements he yet names others never mentioned but by him Some of the Stoicks were of opinion not onely that there are people in the Moon but also in the body of the Sun And Campanella saith That those lively and bright habitations may have Inhabitants perhaps more wise and learned then we and better informed in those things that to us are incomprehensible But Galileus who in our Age hath perspicuously seen into the Moon hath observed That it may be inhabited seeing that there are Mountains in it c. for those parts in it that are the Plains and Valleys are obscure and dark and the Mountains are bright and clear For this cause have some said That the Stars do not shine but by reason of their irregularity asserting That we could not see them if they had not Mountains for to reflect and reverberate the light of the Sun Chap. XXXI Containing the Solution of some Objections that may be made against this Paradox of the World's Plurality BUt some may say There cannot be such Men as we in the Starres for they could not live there because men are divers even after the diversity of Countreys and those who ascend that high Mount Piracaca in the Indies dye there by reason of the too subtile ayr of the place To which I answer That those men must needs be different from us or indued with more robust and strong bodies then we or so well proportioned in the mixture of the Elements that that Ayr cannot be obnoxious and hurtful to them but that God hath so formed them that they may well live where he hath placed them but no where else And if we had never seen or heard of the Sea we could not be perswaded that Fishes could live in salt-water and that therein they could breed and grow for our food nor that those Countreys of the burning and frozen Zones could be inhabited So must we believe that God hath by prevention of inconvenience ordered all things for the best Here also might be objected the Incommodities and incongruences that might befall the Inhabitants of the Moon viz. the Meteors as the Clouds and other which would offend them and would hinder Plants to grow therein We answer to this That those Meteors are far enough from it and that rather they are lesse molested by them then we for Galileus did see with the telescope that it doth not rain upon the Earth of the Moon But it may be replyed How then do the plants grow To which I answer That they may grow in it not only by reason of the Moon 's natural humidity and moisture but also by the inundations of its Rivers as in Egypt where likewise no rain is seen I say farther That those Inhabitants of the Moon have no more ground to alledge these Objections being that when they look upon the Earth through the mists and clouds that incompass it they might doubt whether any creatures could be contained in it But hitherto we have answered none but weake objections Now come we to that with which our Opponents do arm themselves chiefly which is that of the Prince of the Aristotelists who as the Otthomans aymed to slay all his brothers that he might reign more securely viz. to beat down and suppresse all opinions contrary to his now this is his argument If there were many worlds the earth of those worlds would move towards our Earth or ours towards that of the other Worlds and so the other Elements of the other worlds would reach ours and so there would be nothing but a great tumult and Chaos This Argument is so weak that Magirus is constrained to speak in these terms when he alledges it not being himself able to find others because he maintains not the truth All these Reasons saith he and such like Philosophick Arguments cannot perspicuously demonstrate that there is but one World and Charles Rapineus speaks thus That it can but weakly be so perswaded Aristoteles could not comprehend what we have above said viz. That each world hath its center whereunto tend those heavy bodies that are in its sphere But he arguments upon a false foundation making the Earth to be the Center of all the worlds and allotting but one center for all his Argument would be good if his ground were good for what he saith was true it would be requisite that all heavy and ponderous things should tend towards our Center but there being many they also go into divers Centers for each Star hath its center that upholds it and though it be of a ponderous nature yet is it light in itself Having thus answered and so plainly and fully resolved the Objection of Aristoteles the grand Prince of Philosophers what may they expect who have not such pregnant Objections as his Chap. XXXII Continuing the Solution of divers Philosophers Objections against the Plurality of Worlds THese following Arguments are yet objected First That whereas there is but one principle and first Mover or but one God and first cause and that the world ought to answer in likenesse to its Architype there also ought to be but one World But we have here above shewed the contrary
because that God is infinite so also ought the Worlds to be infinite For a second Argument it 's objected That if there were more then one World the Divine Scriptures would have communicated it to us but speaking but of one onely it 's not likely there should be any more To this I answer That the holy Scripture speaks clearly of none but of ours though yet in severall places it agreeth in the plurality of Worlds as we shall hereafter demonstrate and that it speaks after the manner of men of all heavenly things condescending to our weaknesse and to the common opinion as when it saith That the Sun and Moon are the great Lights and yet the Moon is one of the smallest Stars and there are some others that are as bigg as the Sun as Canopus Starre and others and an infinite number bigger then the Moon Likewise the Scripture saith That God is angry and doth repent though he is immutable and unchangeable and therefore might the Scripture do the like concerning the motion of the Earth and the plurality of Worlds For a third Argument Plato speaks thus The matter requisite for the composition of the world is but one and heaped up together into one lump or body alone and the Heaven contains within it self all the simple bodies so that no part of the matter can remain for therewith to compose and frame other Worlds To this I answer That it 's not necessary that all the matter be exhausted and spent in the Creation of this our Earth alone yea rather in the Creation of the whole Fabrick but and if it had been all spent at the creation alone of this our Earth God could yet create some new And last of all concedo totum I grant the whole Argument it proving nothing against my assertion for I comprehend all the Worlds or Earths to be in Heaven Plato saith farther against this opinion That the World would be imperfect if it should not contain all and secondly would not be like its pattern if it were not single and onely one and that it would not be incorruptible if there was any thing out of it But we have already answered the Objection touching Unity where we have discovered That God being infinite there must also be infinite Worlds for as Sextus Empiricus saith There is nothing one alone of all whatsoever is numbred in the World And as for the last Plutarch answers it saying thus That it hinders not the World's perfection that there are other Worlds besides for man is perfect and yet contains not every thing And to this answer I adde That by this word World Plato did understand the whole Fabrick of all these Earths or Worlds which make up but one whole world his Arguments cannot at all overthrow my Position Timplerus forms yet this Argument If there were divers Worlds they would have been made in vain and to no purpose because no use of them can be shewed This his Reason is so weak that it will suffice to say for to confute it That though we may not know for what use they are made yet they are not made for nothing for by this same reason the Indies from whence we receive great advantage and profit and the Northern Countreys that yet are unknown to us would also have been created in vain Again there are some who object That if the Stars were inhabited they would have need of the influence of other Stars and Heavens usque ad infinitum without number To this I answer That I am not much perswaded that the Starres are advantageous to us the Sun and Moon excepted it 's not possible that the Stars communicate and serve one another mutually and therefore there is no need of an infinite number of Heavens Last of all Zabarella arguments thus If there were other Worlds what in them should be contained would be either like to what is in this our World or differing from it if it were like it in vain would individuals be multiplyed if differing it could not be found out how it 's disposed To this Objection I answer That men and other things in the Indies would also have been created in vain if his Reason was valid and that though we knew not what was in those new Lands and Countreys yet it was in them notwithstanding so likewise though we be ignorant of what is in the other Worlds yet this our ignorance excludes not their being Chap. XXXIII Answering Pacius's Argument against this Assertion IN this whole Fabrick considered at large may be observed divers Worlds contained within it as the individuals under the species but Pacius labours to oppose this Position thus That the World such as it is comprehends all and that all the matter was spent in the composition of it and that therefore there can be no other bodies out of it for if there were any they would be either simple or composed if simple it would be the Heaven or the Elements But they cannot be the Heaven considering it changes not fully its place but turns round upon it self Nor likewise can it be an Element because it would be beyond nature nor also a mixt body because that if there be not some simple bodies there can be no mixt ones To which I answer That as I have already said by Worlds is to be understood Earths onely and by the general word of World or whole Fabrick are by me understood All the things of the whole Fabrick in the frame and composition of which I yield that all the matter was spent and employed and that out of them there is no other Universe or generall World Chap. XXXIV Answering Melancthon's Objections together with others who say That this Doctrine tends to Introduce new Maxims against Religion BUt there may yet some stand up and say with Melancthon That God ceased from creating and rested himself but Moses in the second of Genesis speaks and meaneth onely the Creation of this our World and truly it 's more consonant that some end and others be created of new as Empedocles did believe it together with Democritus God hath limited his power and he is still the same for to create again as he was afore and as it 's said in the Book of Wisdome ch. 11. v. 18. he wanteth not means to create of new unknown wild beasts Therefore both this and the other Arguments alledged by Melancthon are weak against this our Position which he himself being forced to confesse he saith in his natural Physicks that though his arguments do not fully conclude yet they must be considered and weighed lest that if we believe that there are other worlds we also should believe other Religions and other natures of Men For my part I see no necessity that because there are more Worlds there must also be more Religions the increase of this World through the discovery of the Indies hath not caused any new Religion and it 's very unlike from being capable of introducing