states is best--that is to say, towards which of the said two states
authority should bend the present state, a just balance ought to be
made between the disadvantages from the plague, with the advantages
accruing from the other particulars above mentioned, unto which
balance a more exact account of the people, and a better rule for
the measure of its growth is necessary than what we have here given,
or are yet able to lay down.


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