But however we may deale _pro_ or _con_ in Philosophy, yet we must not jest with divine truths, or bring Scripture to patronize any fancy of our owne, though, perhaps, it be truth. For the better proofe of this proposition, I might here cite the testimony of _Diodorus_, who thought the Moone to bee full of rugged places, _vel ut terrestribus tumulis superciliosam_, but he erred much in some circumstances of this opinion, especially where he saies, there is an Iland amongst the _Hyperboreans_, wherein those hils may to the eye bee plainely discovered, and for this reason. [1]*_Cælius_ calls him a fabulous Writer, but you may see more expresse authority for the proofe of this in the opinions of _Anaxagoras_ and _Democritus_,[2] who held that this Planet was full of champion grounds, mountains and vallies, and this seemed likewise probable unto _Augustinus Nifus_, whose words are these: _Forsitan non est remotum dicere, lunæ partes esse diversas, veluti sunt partes terræ, quarum aliæ sunt vallosæ, aliæ montosæ, ex quarum differentia effici potest facies illa lunæ; nec est rationi dissonum, nam luna est corpus imperfectè Sphæricum, cum sit corpus ab ultimo cœlo elongatum, ut supra dixit Aristoteles._ “Perhaps, it would not be amisse to say that the parts of the Moone were divers, as the parts of this earth, whereof some are vallies, and some mountaines, from the difference of which, some spots in the Moone may proceed, nor is this against reason, for that Planet cannot be perfectly sphericall, since ’tis so remote a body from the first orbe, as _Aristotle_ had said before.”