We did (not long since) assist a worthy divine, writing against some sceptics, who would have baffled our belief of the resurrection, by saying, that the whole globe of the earth could not furnish matter enough for all the bodies that must rise at the last day, much less would the surface of the earth furnish footing for so vast a number; whereas we did (by the method afore mentioned) assert the number of men now living, and also of those that had died since the beginning of the world, and did withal show, that half the island of Ireland would afford them all, not only footing to stand upon, but graves to lie down in, for that whole number; and that two mountains in that country were as weighty as all the bodies that had ever been from the beginning of the world to the year 1680, when this dispute happened.  For which purpose I have digressed from my intended purpose to insert this matter, intending to prosecute this hint further upon some more proper occasion.

A TABLE SHOWING HOW THE PEOPLE MIGHT HAVE DOUBLED IN THE SEVERAL AGES OF THE WORLD.

A.D., after the Flood. 
Periods of       {    1                        8 persons.
doubling         {   10                       16
{   20                       32
{   30                       64
{   40                      128
In 10 years   {   50                      256
{   60                      512
{   70                    1,024
{   80                    2,048
{   90                    4,096
{  100                    8,000 and more.
{   120 years after
In 20 years  {       the Flood.        16,000
{   140                   32,000
{  170                   64,000
30         {
{  200                  128,000
40            240                  256,000
50            290                  512,000
60            350                1,000,000 and more.
70            420                2,000,000
100            520                4,000,000
190            710                8,000,000
290          1,000               16,000,000 in Moses’ time.
400          1,400               32,000,000 about David’s time.
550          1,950               64,000,000
750          2,700              128,000,000 about the birth of
Christ.
1,000          3,700              256,000,000
300       {
In             {  4,000              320,000,000
1,200       {

It is here to be noted, that in this table we have assigned a different number of years for the time of doubling the people in the several ages of the world, and might have done the same for the several countries of the world, and therefore the said several periods assigned to the whole world in the lump may well enough consist with the 360 years especially assigned to England, between this day and the Norman Conquest; and the said 360 years may well enough serve for a supposition between this time and that of the world’s being fully peopled; nor do we lay any stress upon one or the other in this disquisition concerning the growth of the city of London.