“May it not with more or equal strength be argued: New
Jerusalem is not the same with Jerusalem; but as Jerusalem was
to the westward of Babylon, so New Jerusalem must be to the
westward of Rome, to avoid disturbance in the order of these
mysteries?”[313]
Then quoting Latin verses of Cowley[314] and English verses of
Herbert,[315] he says: “Not doubting but that these authorities, being
brought to the king’s scales, will be over weight.”[316]
Afterwards he adduces “learned Mr. Nicholas Fuller,” who “would fain
have it believed that America was first peopled by the posterity of
our great-grandfather Japheth, though he will not be very strict with
us as to the particular branch of that wide family.”[317] The extract
from this new authority is remarkable for its vindication to Columbus
of the name of the new continent: “Quam passim _Americam_ dicunt, vere
ac merito _Columbinam_ potius dicerent, a magnanimo heroë Christophoro
Columbo Genuensi, primo terrarum illarum investigatore atque inventore
plane divinitus constituto.”[318] This designation Fuller adopts: thus,
“Hinc ergo _Columbina_ primum”; and again, “Multo is quidem propior
est _Columbinæ_”; then again, “America, seu verius _Columbina_”; and
yet again, “Repertam fuisse _Columbinam_.”[319] This effort draws from
our prophet a comment:--
“But why should a learned man make all this _Dirige_ for
Columbus’s name? What matter is it how America be called? For
Flavio of Malphi in Naples hath in great measure applied the
virtues of the loadstone to the mariner’s compass in vain,
the Portugals have found the length of Africa’s foot in vain,
the Spaniards sent out the Italian dove in vain, Sir Francis
Drake hath sailed round the world and made thorow lights to
it in vain, and Hakluyt and Purchas have with endless labor
acquainted Englishmen with these things in vain, if, after
all, we go about to turn the American Euphrates into a Stygian
Lake. The breaking of this one instrument spoils us of the
long-expected and much-desired consort of music.”[320]
Very soon thereafter he breaks forth in words printed in large Italic
type and made prophetic:--
“_Lift up your heads, O ye Gates_ [of Columbina], _and be ye
lift up, ye Everlasting Doors, and the KING of Glory shall come
in_.”[321]