The Western Wonder; or, O Brazeel, an inchanted island discovered with a… (1674)

New discoveries of late, are as much admired as Miracles of old, and as difficultly believed, not withstanding the variety of apparent proofs which demonstrate their undoubted Veracity; and without question this Incredulity proceeds from no other cause, than the abuse of Belief, occasioned by such monstrous fictions as the Isle of Pines, A New World in the Moon, with the like Lunatick Stories, by which the credulous World hath been misguided into a Faith wholly preposterously erroneous and ridiculous.