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to intestine parties and factions, I suppose that 4,690,000 people
united within this great city could easily govern half the said
number scattered without it, and that a few men in arms within the
said city and wall could also easily govern the rest unarmed, or
armed in such a manner as the Sovereign shall think fit. 3. As to
uniformity in religion, I conceive, that if St. Martin's parish (may
as it doth) consist of about 40,000 souls, that this great city also
may as well be made but as one parish, with seven times 130 chapels,
in which might not only be an uniformity of common prayer, but in
preaching also; for that a thousand copies of one judiciously and
authentically composed sermon might be every week read in each of
the said chapels without any subsequent repetition of the same, as
in the case of homilies. Whereas in England (wherein are near
10,000 parishes, in each of which upon Sundays, holy days, and other
extraordinary occasions there should be about 100 sermons annum,
making about a million of sermons per annum in the whole) it were a
miracle, if a million of sermons composed by so many men, and of so
many minds and methods, should produce uniformity upon the
discomposed understandings of about 8,000,000 of hearers.
4. As to the administration of justice. If in this great city
shall dwell the owners of all the lands, and other valuable things
in England; if within it shall be all the traders, and all the
courts, offices, records, juries, and witnesses; then it follows
that justice may be done with speed and ease.
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