of the blessed shall be without the convex of the orb of the fixed
stars, if that the whole system of the world was made for the use of
our earth's men.



THE PRINCIPAL POINTS OF THIS DISCOURSE



1. That London doubles in forty years, and all England in three
hundred and sixty years.

2. That there be, A.D. 1682, about 670,000 souls in London, and
about 7,400,000 in all England and Wales, and about 28,000,000 of
acres of profitable land.

3. That the periods of doubling the people are found to be, in all
degrees, from between ten to twelve hundred years.

4. That the growth of London must stop of itself before the year
1800.

5. A table helping to understand the Scriptures, concerning the
number of people mentioned in them.

6. That the world will be fully peopled within the next two
thousand years.

7. Twelve ways whereby to try any proposal pretended for the public