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., about five
times the number of the quick and the dead which should arise at the
last day, in case the same had been in the year 1682.

3. Now, if there may be place for five times as many graves in
Ireland as are sufficient for all that ever died, and if the earth
of one grave weigh five times as much as the body interred therein,
then a turf less than a foot thick pared off from a fifth part of
the surface of Ireland, will be equivalent in bulk and weight to all
the bodies that ever were buried, and may serve as well for that
purpose as the two mountains aforementioned in the body of this
discourse. From all which it is plain how madly they were mistaken
who did so petulantly vilify what the Holy Scriptures have
delivered.