Verse 28. Ye which have followed me in the Regeneration]
As if our Saviour should have said, to forsake all is not enough 〈◊〉〈◊〉 ye be regenerate: So some sense it. Others by Regeneration un∣derstand the estate of the Gospel, called elswhere a new heaven, and a new earth, 2 Pet. 3. 13. the world to come, Heb. 2. 5. for God plants the heavens, and laies the foundation of the earth, that he may say to Zion, thou art my people. There are that un∣derstand by regeneration the generall resurrection (of which 〈◊〉〈◊〉 some think Plato had heard, and therefore held, that in the revolu∣tion of so many years men should be just in the same estate, where∣in they were before.) These that follow this latter sense, read the text thus by an alteration of points, Ye which have followed me, shall, in the regeneration (when the Son of man shall sit in his glo∣ry) fit upon twelve thrones, &c.
As so many Kings. Kings they are here but somewhat obscure ones, as Melchisedech was; but shall then appear with Christ in glory, far outshining* 1.1 the Sunne in his strength, higher then all the Kings of the earth.* 1.2 When Daniel had 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the greatnesse and glory of all the four Monarchies of the world, at last he comes to speak of a King∣dome, which is the greatest and mightiest under the whole heaven,* 1.3 and that is the Kingdom of the Saints of the most high. So glo∣rious is their estate even here: what 〈◊〉〈◊〉 it be then at that great