But _Pliny_, _Cicero_, and _Virgil_, the best in their kind of Latin Writers, concur, That there may be a habitable World under our _Horizon_, in the temperate Southern _Zone_, beyond the extream heat, and on this side of the _Antartick_ colds. [Sidenote: _In Comment. super_ Obad. v. 19, 20, 21.] [Sidenote: _And they of the south shall possess the mount of_ Elau, _and they of the plain, the_ Philistines: _and they shall possess the fields of_ Ephraim, _and the fields of_ Samaria, _and_ Benjamin _shall possess_ Gilead. _And the captivity of this host of the children of_ Israel _shall possess that of the_ Canaanites, _even unto_ Zarephath, _and the captivity of_ Jerusalem, _which is in_ Sepharad, _shall possess the Cities of the south. And saviors shall come upon mount_ Zion, _to judge the mount of_ Esau, _and the kingdom shall be the LORDS_.] But what signifies all this to the Discovery of _America_, which lies not onely under the scorching Heats of the _Equinox_, but under the Frosts and Snows of the _Artick_ and _Antartick-Poles_? Yet less probable is that which _Lodowick Leo_, an _Augustine_ Frier takes out of _Obadiah_; as if that Prophet in the three last Verses of his _Prophecy_ should speak of the _Spaniards_, which should not onely discover and Conquer _America_, but also Convert the Inhabitants to the _Christian Faith_, because those that are in _Sepharad_, should Inherit and Possess the Cities of the South, _And Saviours shall arise from the Mountains of_ Zion, _to judge the Mount and Wealth of_ Esau. [Sidenote: If _America_ is known in the Scripture.] But certainly, _Obadiah_ meant no other than the Restauration of the _Jews_ from the Captivity of _Babylon_, who after their return, should grow more powerful than ever, and they, led by their _Messias_, obtain the height of all felicity, who would send his _Evangelists_ and _Apostles_ to declare Salvation to the utmost Borders of the Earth. It is true, that the _Rabins_ Expound _Sepharad_ to be _Spain_, and therefore he concludes, that _Obadiah_ Prophesi’d of the _Spaniard_, and their Conquests in _America_; so they would prove, that _America_ was long known before Christ. [Sidenote: _Solomon_’s Fleet sail’d not to _Peru_.] And lastly, It signifies as little what _Pineda_ and _Levinus Lemnius_ drive at, That _Solomon_ first finding the use of the Compass, Rigg’d a Navy at _Ezion-Geber_, which from the _Red-Sea_ had no indirect Course to the _Straights_ of _Magellan_; from whence he might Lade his Vessels with the Gold of _Peru_. In whose Description it shall be manifested, that _Peru_ is not _Ophir_, as some without any shew of Reason or Truth would make us believe. [Sidenote: _Solomon_ did not find the Compass.]