POSTSCRIPT.
It was not very pertinent to a discourse concerning the growth of
the city of London to thrust in considerations of the time when the
whole world will be fully peopled; and how to justify the Scriptures
concerning the number of people mentioned in them; and concerning
the number of the quick and the dead that may rise at the last day,
&c. Nevertheless, since some friends, liking the said digressions
and impertinences (perhaps as sauce to a dry discourse) have desired
that the same might be explained and made out, I, therefore, say as
followeth:-
1. If the number of acres in the habitable part of the earth be
under 50,000,000,000; if 20,000,000,000 of people are more than the
said number of acres will feed (few or no countries being so fully
peopled), and for that in six doublings (which will be in 2,000
years) the present 320,000,000 will exceed the said 20,000,000,000.
2. That the number of all those who have died since the Flood is
the sum of all the products made by multiplying the number of the
doubling periods mentioned in the first column of the last table, by
the number of people respectively affixed to them in the third
column of the same table, the said sum being divided by 40 (one
dying out of 40 per annum out of the whole mass of mankind), which
quotient is 12,570,000,000; whereunto may be added, for those that
died before the Flood, enough to make the last-mentioned number
20,000,000,000, as the full number of all that died from the
beginning of the world to the year 1682, unto which, if 320,000,000,
the number of those who are now alive, be added, the total of the
quick and the dead will amount but unto one fifth part of the graves
which the surface of Ireland will afford, without ever putting two
bodies into any one grave; for there be in Ireland 28,000 square
English miles, each whereof will afford about 4,000,000 of graves,
and consequently above 114,000,000,000 of graves, viz.
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